Vijay Kumar Singh: Meet this marathon man; Service: IRS, Batch: 2004

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A SENIOR IRS-IT officer of 2004 batch, Vijay Kumar Singh, won a marathon on Sunday held at 11,500-feet above the sea level! Singh, currently serving in Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal in Ahmedabad as Additional Commissioner (Income-Tax), won the 42.2-km-long full marathon held at Leh in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir that saw participation of as many as 5,800 runners from…

Police Commemoration Day: …and the story of Chinese Army’s attack on an Indian police team in Ladakh in Oct 1959

“Everyday we fight crime. Today, we fight our tears as well”— As the nation pays respect to police martyrs today on Police Commemoration Day, the story of October 21, 1959 when 10 police personnel at Hot Springs area in north eastern Ladakh were killed by the Chinese Army, needs to be retold. Every year, October 21 is observed as Police Commemoration Day. In fact, until the autumn of 1959, it was the Indian Police who manned the 2,500-mile-long border of India with Tibet. It was October 20, 1959, a day before India’s brave policemen lost their lives, three police parties were launched from Hot Springs in preparation for...