[Hindustan Times]Remembering Major Somnath Sharma, the first recipient of Param Vir Chakra
Major Somnath Sharma was killed while leading his men on a fighting patrol to Budgam village in Kashmir while evicting Pakistani raiders from Srinagar airport in November 1947. He was given the Param Vir Chakra posthumously in November 1950. India is observing the 99th birth anniversary of Major Somnath ...