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New Delhi: More than a year after Operation Sindoor, the Union government has officially released the names of six military personnel who died in the line of duty during the military confrontation against Pakistan in May 2025, by inscribing their names on a wall at the National War Memorial in Delhi. 

Operation Sindoor was conducted in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 last year in which 26 civilians, most of them tourists, lost their lives. The Indian armed forces had in retaliation struck nine terror-linked sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir allegedly associated with Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba. 

There was no ceremonial announcement for the personnel who lost their lives. In fact, the government had until now evaded most questions around it. This has prompted the opposition to accuse the government of concealing their martyrdom and denying them due recognition for over a year.

There were reports of army personnel having died in the operation, but defence........

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