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U.P. YODDHA U.P. Yoddha is the kabaddi franchise in the Pro Kabaddi League, the kabaddi team is owned by GMR Group. The team captures the warrior spirit of Uttar Pradesh. The players are known as Yoddha, who are ready to give their blood, sweat and tears in the battlefield. The team made it to the playoffs in every season since its inception in 2017. Its emblem is in the form of a shield in red and blue background crested by the logo of its owner and its name written in extra bold sans serif text supported by the silhouetted image of Arjuna with his bow and arrow targeting a revolving fish by looking at its reflection in the water below.

COLLEGE OF DEFENCE MANAGEMENT College of Defence Management (CDM)  is a premier tri-service institution imparting management training to officers of the Defence Services. The CDM is entrusted with the responsibility of instilling contemporary management thoughts, concepts and practices in the senior leadership of the three Services. The need to set up a college specializing in imparting scientific management training was felt sometime after the Indo-Pak war of 1965. The complexities of modern combat, the high lethality and velocity of battle, large size of the Indian Armed Forces, their deployment in far flung areas, high cost of equipment, limited resources, socio-economic changes; all necessitated military commanders to be exposed to modern management concepts and techniques to enable them to operate in an effective and optimal manner. This felt need of Services gave birth to the Institute of Defence Management - IDM, at Secunderabad in December 1970. Brigadier

INDIAN AIR FORCE The Indian Air Force  (IAF) was officially established on October 8, 1932. Its first flight came into being on April 1, 1933.  It possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers). In January 1950, India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ‘Royal’ prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. The Motto of Indian Air Force has been taken from eleventh chapter of the Gita, the discourse given by Lord Krishna to Arjuna  on the battlefield of Kurukshetra during the Great War of Mahabharata . The Lord is showing His Supreme Divine form to Arjuna and the great form of the Lord is reaching the sky with glory, evoking