Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slammed Congress by refuting its claims of conducting surgical strikes during its tenure; PM Modi said that the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government did not launch any surgical strikes as claimed by the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an interview with Hindustan Times last week.

Reacting to Lt. General (retd) D.S. Hooda's remarks who said too much hype had been created around surgical strikes, Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Saturday said it was his (Hooda's) "individual perception".

Two days ahead of the second anniversary of the cross-LoC "surgical strikes" carried out on the militant launch pads, the Indian Army on Thursday released another video of the 2016 military operation, showing it destroying three terrorist launch pads and killing terrorists in an ambush.

A surgical strike was conducted by the Indian Army on September 28-29 night in 2016 on terror launch pads across the Line of Control in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday revealed what led to surgical strikes across the Indo-Pak border.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that infiltration bids by terrorists have fallen after the Army carried out surgical strikes across the LoC last year to wipe out terror launch pads.

Major Rohit Suri of the Parachute Regiment was conferred the second highest peacetime gallantry award Kirti Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee here on Monday for successfully leading the army team that carried out cross-border surgical strike last year.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday answered some off-beat questions, amid raging debatable ones over September 29 surgical strikes by India.

Pakistan has been continuously rubbishing reports claiming surgical strikes by Indian Army across Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is stunned by the way people are reacting over surgical strikes by Indian Army and Pakistani artists in India. "Soldiers on border don’t care about which movie is getting released or if a Pakistani artist is working in India," said Akshay Kumar in a video he posted on his Facebook page.