indian armed forces
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1. India controls the highest battlefield in the world, the Siachen glacier, at 5000 metres above Mean
Sea Level (MSL).
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2. India has the biggest "voluntary" army in the world.
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3. Indian soldiers are considered among the very best in high
altitude and mountain warfare.
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4. India covertly tested its nuclear arsenal in the early 1970s and late
1990s without the CIA even knowing what was happening.
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5. Unlike other government organisations and institutions in India,
there are no provisions for reservations based on caste or religion.
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7. Operation Rahat (2013) was one of the biggest civilian rescue operations
ever carried out in the world.
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8. The Ezhimala Naval Academy in Kerala is the largest of its kind in Asia.
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9. The Indian army has a horsed cavalry regiment. It is among one of the last 3 such regiments in the
world
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11. The Indian Army built the highest bridge in the world.
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12. The Military Engineering Services (MES) is one of the biggest
construction agencies in India.
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13. The Indo Pakistan War of 1971 came to end with the surrender of
about 93,000 combatants and officials of the Pakistani Army.
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