Indian Air Force( IAF)'s Surya Kiran team perform a fly past over Marina beach, to commemorate the Golden jubilee year of the 1971 war, in Chennai.
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Lt Gen Atulya Solanky (2R), Sena Medal General Officer Commanding of Sudarshan Chakra Corps and Air Vice Marshal Aditya Vikram Pethia (R) along with gallantry awardees welcome the ...
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Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat meets members of the Tri-Service Band during the Golden Jubilee of India’s victory over Pakistan in the Indo-Pak War, at India Gate in ...
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A Pakistani jeep captured by the 3 Grenadier Regiment in the 1971 war, in Leh. The jeep which travelled with the regiment as a 'war trophy' across India, is now stationed in the un...
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Time Signature
The Indo-Pak war surrender in 1971, a major national feat under Indira
A Bangladeshi driver trying to catch some sleep is reflected on the mirror of his three-wheeler taxi halted due to a traffic jam during a nationwide strike called by the main Islam...
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Ambulances carrying the bodies of Bangladeshi Nationalist Party leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid leave the Central Jail afte...
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Journalists surround the car carrying family members of Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami party, as they leave Central Jail after meeting Qam...
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Bangladeshi opposition activists shout slogans after they burn a street vendor's cart as they clash with police during their protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Handmade bombs explode in front of Bangladesh National Party (BNP) party offices during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Bangladeshi police officials detain opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker Rehana Akhter Ranu during a nationwide strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh's opposition lawmakers shout slogans as security officials stop them during a nationwide strike called by opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Dhaka, Banglad...
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Bangladesh’s ruling party supporters and others gather for a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Bangladeshi protesters release balloons onto which letters written to the martyrs of the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan have been attached in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Bangladeshi activists participate in a candlelight vigil demanding the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah and others convicted of war crimes during the nation'...
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Bangladeshi activists attend a rally to demand executions for people convicted of war crimes involving the nation's independence war in 1971, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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September 17, 1965. Pakistan's Ayub v India's Shastri
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August 2, 1971. "Pakistan Refugees" "Pakistan's Agony".
Translated, it would mean Bangladesh [East Paistan] Refugees in India and Bangaldesh's agony.
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December 20, 1971. "The Bloody Birth of Bangladesh"
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December 6, 1971. Conflict in Asia: India v. Pakistan
Lt Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir, who defected from the Pakistani Army to join the Liberation War, talks about the impact of the 1971 war on India and Bangladesh.
India's multi-sectoral battle plans for East Pakistan converged on Dacca—this utimate prize was fiercely defended. Fighting against time and a determined enemy, this is how it was won.
Naya Chor, Fazilka, Basantar, Chhamb…. Battles that have vanished into the fog: on cold winter sands, a site vulnerable on three flanks, a strategic highway, a vital bridge.
Pakistan’s egregious folly in its eastern wing sparked a socio-political crisis of biblical magnitude. The resultant war with India birthed Bangladesh. At the dawn of the 1971 war’s golden jubilee, we remember the Indian military’s finest hour.
India celebrates Navy Day on December 6 every year in commemoration of Operation Trident and in memory of those who were martyred during the Indo-Pak war of 1971.