Nirja Bhanot was the first woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, posthumously in 1987, for her bravery and sacrifice during the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73.
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Nirja Bhanot was the first woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, posthumously in 1987, for her bravery and sacrifice during the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73.