Ashok Chakra for Andhra Pradesh's braveheart cop, who died fighting Maoists
President Pranab Mukherjee today conferred the Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award, to Sub-Inspector K Prasad Babu on India's 65th Republic Day. A Sub-Inspector in Greyhounds, the anti-naxal force of Andhra Pradesh, Prasad lost his life in April last year during an operation where nine Maoists were killed and four commandos were rescued near the Chhattisgarh-Andhra Pradesh border. (Read more)
