{"id":5440,"date":"2022-12-05T02:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:02:04","slug":"parakram-diwas-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/parakram-diwas-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Parakram Diwas celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Importance of Parakram Diwas:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is observed to mark the 51st anniversary of India&#8217;s victory in the Longewala battle during the 1971 war.<\/li>\n<li>The Longewala battle between India and Pakistan in 1971 was one of the biggest and most decisive battles.<\/li>\n<li>On the night of 04\/05 Dec 1971, Pakistan forces comprising 4000 soldiers, T-59 &amp; Sherman tanks, and a medium artillery battery attacked Longewala border post held by 23 PUNJAB.<\/li>\n<li>Inspite of being outnumbered, Indian soldiers gallantly held the post and requisitioned support of IAF.<\/li>\n<li>At the dawn of 5th Dec 1971, the Hunter aircraft based at Jaisalmer wreaked havoc on the Pakistani troops with their devastating fire power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the significance of Parakram Diwas?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Indian government in 2021 declared that the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, a prominent Indian freedom fighter, will be celebrated annually as &#8220;Parakram Diwas&#8221;. The decision was taken to honour the contributions of Bose towards India&#8217;s freedom struggle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Parakram-Diwas-to-be-celebrated-in-Rajasthan-to-mark-51st-anniversary-of-Longewala-battle&amp;id=451836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>All India Radio<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parakram Diwas is observed on Dec 5 to celebrate India&#8217;s victory in Longewala battle during the 1971 war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}