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SHREEMATI NATHIBAI DAMODAR THACKERSEY WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY SNDT Women’s University is the first Women’s university in India as well as in Southeast Asia. The university was founded by Maharshi Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve in 1916 for women’s education and the first five women graduated in 1921 from this university. It has its headquarters in Churchgate Campus, Mumbai and the other two campuses are at Juhu, Mumbai and Karve Road, Pune. SNDTWU is unique in terms of jurisdiction and can affiliate colleges and institutions anywhere in India with prior consent from the State Government. The motto of the university is ‘An Enlightened Woman is a Source of Infinite Strength’. SNDTWU is a home to one thousand and one hundred teaching and non-teaching staff members and fifty thousand students spread across seven states and a union territory ( SNDTWU ).  The emblem of the university has two major circular elements of which, one is with the circular eight petalled lotus motif with its o

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG  AGARTALA The Tripura Engineering College was converted to National Institute of Technology Agartala on April 1, 2006 vide notification No. F. 20-20/2004/TS III/ dated 10.03.2006 of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. Its emblem is a gear wheel in which, on a border its name in Hindi and English are placed. Within this circle an opened notebook with a pen is placed, from which a glowing sun of knowledge rises. This is supported on both sides by leafy laurels. Its motto ‘ज्ञानं परमं बलम्’ meaning ‘Knowledge is the Ultimate Strength’ is written on a banner at the bottom.

NO. 1 SQUADRON The first Indian Air Force unit raised was No.1 Squadron, Indian Air Force on April 1, 1933. Since then a number of Squadrons, Flights and Units were raised spanning the number range 1-224. With the exception of a few SA-2 Squadrons raised in the mid 60s, all other Squadrons operated either fixed wing aircraft or helicopters. No.1 Squadron Air Force was raised on  April 1, 1933 at Drigh Road, Karachi and equipped with 04 Westland Wapiti aircraft. The Indian element consisted of six officers and nine technicians then known as Hawai Sepoys. The early history of 1 Squadron is synonymous with the history of the Indian Air Force. It was formed on the day the Indian Air Force received its first batch of trained pilots from RAF Cranwell. The first batch of Indians at Cranwell were HC Sircar, Subroto Mukherjee (later Air Marshal and the first Indian Chief of the Air Staff), AB Awan, Bhupendra Singh, Amarjit Singh and J N Tandon. Its current location is Mah

NO. 5 SQUADRON No 5 Squadron, IAF, is not one of those raised before Independence due to the fact that 5 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was based in India, from 1920 until the very eve of Independence in 1947 and the colonial authorities felt that to have another squadron in India with the same number would have caused confusion. No 5 Squadron of the Indian Air Force was raised only in late 1948. It took on charge the first of a number of formerly American-owned (but British-operated) Second World War-era heavy bombers that were being restored to flying condition in India. The emblem of No 5 Squadron Air Force is a fully grown Asian wild elephant. The mighty 'Tusker' with raised trunk is shown trumpeting before the charge symbolising the enormous strength that could be harnessed in order to impart crushing blows. Its motto is ‘Shaktir Vijayate’ meaning ‘Strength is Victory’.

NO. 14 SQUADRON The No. 14 Squadron Indian Air Force (Bulls), is a ground attack unit, operating out of IAF Ambala. The squadron currently operates SEPECAT Jaguar IS and IBs, operational since March 1981. The Squadron’s motto is ‘Balam Jayay’ meaning ‘Strength will Conquer’. This Squadron is also called ‘Bulls’ and its insignia has a bull in the centre. Hunters of No. 14 Squadron battled with Sabres of the PAF in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. No. 14 Squadron was the first to be equipped with the state of the art Jaguar aircraft in 1979. This squadron spent considerable part of their existence in Eastern India, first at Barrackpore Air Force Station, in the Calcutta suburbs and later at Kalaikunda, south-west of Calcutta. It was from this airbase they saw action, briefly during September 1965 and in December 1971. No. 14 Squadron had the unusual opportunity of being deployed at the captured PAF airbase of Jessore during the final stages of the Bangladesh war.