Col Rai was awarded Yudh Seva medal on Republic Day for for outstanding contribution in planning and conduct of operations including a gun battle with militants in south Kashmir last year.

When Col Rai's team reached the house and cordoned it off, its residents, suspected to be relatives of the terrorists, requested them not to carry out a full-scale operation. As the Colonel was ...

In a moving tribute to Colonel MN Rai, who was killed in a gunfight with militants in Kashmir on Tuesday, his 11-year-old daughter Alka saluted his mortal remains with a full-throated Gorkha ...

The Indian army and members of the family of Colonel Rai, pay their final homage. New Delhi: Colonel MN Rai, the 39-year-old who was shot while fighting terrorists in Kashmir, was given full state ...

(PTI file photo) Hailing from Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh, Col Rai grew up in Kalimpong where his father was a school teacher. His eldest brother, YN Rai of CRPF, was awarded a police ...

New Delhi: Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani triggered a new controversy by praising two Kashmiri militants who were killed in a recent encounter that also cost the life of gallantry award ...

Eleven-year-old Alka Rai, daughter of Colonel M N Rai who was killed in a gunbattle with militants on January 27, today tried to overcome her personal grief by letting out the fierce war cry of ...

Colonel MN Rai lost his life in operation over five years ago in January 2015 in an operation in the Kashmir valley while Colonel Santosh Mahadik lost his life in November same year. Army ...