{"id":142327,"date":"2019-03-01T18:32:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=142327"},"modified":"2019-03-01T18:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:32:35","slug":"70th-raising-day-vajra-corps-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/142327","title":{"rendered":"70TH Raising Day of Vajra Corps celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jalandhar, Mar 1 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; The Vajra Corps celebrated its 70<sup>th<\/sup> Raising Day on 1<sup>st<\/sup> March 2019.&nbsp;To <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142328\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPN0103201925.jpg\" alt=\"PPN0103201925\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPN0103201925.jpg 800w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPN0103201925-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>mark the occasion Lt Gen Arvind Dutta, General Officer Commanding Vajra Corps laid a wreath and paid homage at Vajra Shaurya Sthal to the martyrs of Vajra Corps.&nbsp;The ceremony was attended by the serving pers and veterans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142329\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPN0103201924.jpg\" alt=\"PPN0103201924\" width=\"800\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPN0103201924.jpg 800w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PPN0103201924-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> Vajra Corps was the first Corps raised in India after independence in 1950 by Lt Gen Kalwant Singh at Ambala.&nbsp;The Vajra Corps Headquarter was relocated at Jalandhar in 1951 and the Corps has proved its mettle on the strategic Western Front in Various wars and achieved its objectives with elan and vigour.&nbsp;The Corps witnessed some of the fiercest battles in history during the 1965 War.&nbsp;From the Graveyard of Patton Nagar to the ruins of Barki and Dograi, numerous acts of individual and collective bravery, gallant sacrifices and inspiring leadership ensured that Vajra Corps played a pivotal role in shaping the history of the Nation.&nbsp; The Vajra Corps is bestowed with the Theatre Honour of \u2018Punjab\u2019 and Battle Honours of \u2018Sehjra\u2019 and Dera Baba Nanak\u2019 and is proudly identified as the \u2018Defenders of Punjab\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jalandhar, Mar 1 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; The Vajra Corps celebrated its 70th Raising Day on 1st March 2019.&nbsp;To mark the occasion Lt Gen Arvind Dutta, General Officer Commanding Vajra Corps laid a wreath and paid homage at Vajra Shaurya Sthal to the martyrs of Vajra Corps.&nbsp;The ceremony was attended by the serving pers and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>70TH Raising Day of Vajra Corps celebrated | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/142327\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"70TH Raising Day of Vajra Corps celebrated | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jalandhar, Mar 1 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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