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TO The last bullet

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1. Born into a family of cops Kamte, born on February 23, 1965, belonged to a family with a long line of police officers. With   Khakee  as a shade of his blood, Kamte was almost pre-destined to serve the nation as a police officer. An accomplished athlete, Kamte had even represented India at the junior power-lifting championship in Peru, 1978. Kamte made it to the headlines in 2007 when he arrested Ravikant Patil in Solapur. He was three time Member of the Legislative Assembly and his brother was a Shiva Sena leader but that didn’t let Kamte back down. “ Law is equal for all and nobody has the right to violate it” , Kamte would say. 3. A cop well known During the frequent communal violence of Mumbai, areas under the supervision of Kamte mostly remained free or trouble. Often compared to Bollywood heroes, Kamte was well known, popular and respected. More than 3000 people came to pay their respects on the day Kamte was cremated. 4. Kamte was needed on 26/11 Kamte
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Meet Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon, The Only Indian Air Force Officer To Win The Param Vir Chakra

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Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon was born in the village of Isewal Dakha in Ludhiana District of Punjab. Sekhon hailed from an army background as his father Tarlochan Singh Sekhon was a flight lieutenant. He was commissioned as a Flying Officer in the  Indian Air Force  in 1967. Pakistan Air Force, during the war of 1971, had decided on the strategy to neutralize Amritsar, Pathankot and Srinagar airfields as they were crucial to their plans at the time. No. 26 squadron, based at Peshawar, was assigned with the task to carry strikes on Srinagar Airfield.  Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon was on readiness duty with “The Flying Bullets” of IAF, flying the Folland Gnat fighter aircraft based at Srinagar. When his airfield was attacked by PAF’s Force F-86 Sabre jets, Sekhon rolled for take-off as the No. 2 behind his leader Flt. Lt. Ghumman in a two-Gnat formation.  The daily attacks by Sabres had caused damage to the runway but the repair gangs always ensured that the runway was never out of
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Brave IPS Officer who is a Nightmare for Militants in Assam

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16 militants have been killed since Sanjyukta Parashar, who is leading the charge against North-East insurgency, took over as Sonitpur SP in 2014. It's 3.30 AM and Sanjukta Parashar, Superintendent of Police in Sonitpur district of Assam, readies her jawans for a patrol inside the deep jungles. Armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, Parashar leads the charge. The scene of action is Maldang area, 80 km north of Tezpur, the district headquarters of Sonitpur. Assam Police commandos and members of the CoBRA battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) accompany her on the patrol. Mail Today accompanied the patrol to the Maldang area, where the police party was headed just two days after the attack on an Army convoy in Manipur which killed 18 men. Parashar and her team tasted success in Maldang just last month by arresting four militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland-Songbijit (NDFB-S). The thick forests in the region are hostile territ
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India's first commercial pilot Prem Mathur.

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ndian women, not withstanding many difficulties that they face in a tradition-bound society like India, time and now prove that their place is no longer  home and hearth, and they  can show their hidden talents in many fields that are dominated by men. They already started looking skyward and many Indian women  are working as pilots in the commercial sector as well as in the Air force. In the last several decades, they have made a long leap, achieving success  with hard work and indomitable spirit and no body could ever think of their sustained upward mobility in whatever field they are working with. Long ago there were not that many pilots in India, the reason being women were not encouraged to get in to that field, which was considered as  male's domain. But, nowadays numerous Indian women work as pilots both in the private  and public airline companies.  Initially women were working in the cabin, taking care of the passenger's needs. Today they made a big jump from the cabi
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A Hyderabad based Bengali beauty Smita Sabharwal of 2001 batch IAS officer cleared the UPSC Exam at 23 years of age and was among the toppers’ list being All India Ranked 4th in the country. Smita Sabharwal is popularly known as “Peoples Officer”. She has become the country’s first lady IAS officer to be appointed to Chief Minister’s Office. Smita Sabharwal is the current District Collector of Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. She became a collector for the first time in her career when she was posted to Karimnagar in April 2011. Smita Sabharwal have set an example before the youngsters to ensure success through hard work and devotion, and also assures to be a good human being.    Personal Life Smita Sabharwal was born in West Bengal. Her father Colonel Pranab Das served in the Defense Department and her mother Purabi Das is a housemaker Though, Smita Sabharwal never wanted to enter Civil Services till graduation, her father’s encouragement inspired her to join Civil Ser
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encounter specialist’ Daya Nayak

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Famed ‘encounter specialist’ Daya Nayak, who has 83 encounter killings to his credit, was reinstated by the Maharashtra government on Monday. Nayak was suspended in July 2015 for not reporting to duty and being on sick leave for a very long time. He was posted in Nagpur area at that time. The 1995 batch police officer had been suspended before in January 2006 after a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court ordered the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) to conduct an inquiry into his wealth. Here’s all you need to know about Nayak and four other encounter specialists of Mumbai Police: Daya Nayak: 1995 batch Age: 48 Encounters: 83, including that of Chhota Rajan’s gang members Current status: Reinstated Allegations against Nayak’s disproportionate assets had started as early as January 2002 when he inaugurated his Radhabhai Nayak School in Yennehole village at Karkala in Karnataka. A departmental inquiry, however, cleared Nayak of all allegations. A
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Meet Priya Jhingan, the Indian Army’s first female officer

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Until 1992, women were not allowed to join the Indian Army. This caused a fierce and determined lady, Priya Jhingan, to send a letter to the Chief of Army Staff, General Sunith Francis Rodrigues, urging him to open the gates for women. She then became the first woman to join the Indian Army as an officer.    Priya, who believes women are in no way inferior to men, is convinced they should be given an equal opportunity to serve the country. Being the daughter of a police officer, the idea of serving the country had been ingrained in her mind from childhood.   She once said that wearing the army uniform and serving the country was her dream. Therefore, she decided to send a detailed letter to the chief of army staff requesting for opportunities for women in the army. In response to her letter, Rodrigues said women would be able to join the army within the next two years. In 1992, there were newspaper advertisements urging women to apply to the army. With her hard work and determ
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