Overview
- General Upendra Dwivedi laid a wreath on November 25 at the National War Memorial, joined by Vice Chief Lieutenant General Pushpendra Singh, who served in the operation as a young officer.
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid respects to Major R. Parameswaran, the sole Param Vir Chakra awardee from the campaign, on his death anniversary.
- Reporting places the IPKF toll at about 1,171 soldiers killed and roughly 3,500 wounded during the 1987–1990 deployment in Sri Lanka.
- Veterans, widows and families, including Uma Parameswaran, gathered with serving personnel for the first officially led commemoration.
- Sri Lanka has long maintained an IPKF memorial in Colombo, while India had no formal observance despite years of consideration by the Ministry of Defence.