Monday 15 May 2017

INS Rajput on a 3-day visit to Yangon

INS Rajput on a 3-day visit to Yangon 

INS Rajput, Indian Navy's front line guided missile destroyer(मिटाने वाला) entered Yangon, Myanmar for an Operational Turn around (OTR) from 11-13 May 17. The ship was given a traditional welcome and
received by Commodore Thant Sin Lay Deputy Commander Naval Dockyard. Captain RA Shah, Commanding Officer INS Rajput called on Commodore Nay Win , Commander, Ayeyarwady Naval Regional Command.  Later, Capt RA Shah, Commanding Officer, INS Rajput laid wreath(पुष्पांजलि)  for the Martyrs of the First and Second World War at Yangon War cemetery(कब्रिस्तान). He also called on His Excellence V Misra, the Indian Ambassador of Myanmar.

During the visit, 35 Indian Naval officers visited the Myanmar Naval Training Command and 35 Myanmar Navy officers and 160 under trainee sea cadets visited the ship and were given a guided tour of the ship. The sea cadets interacted(बातचीत की) with the junior officers of the ship during the visit. A friendly volleyball match was also with Myanmar navy personnel. 

Team Rajput comprising 05 officers and 05 sailors also visited Thanlyin Orphanage School and distributed notebooks, stationary and food packets to the students of the orphanage as a good will gesture. 


Definitions of cemetery कब्रिस्तान

noun
a burial ground; a graveyard.
Funerals are held in churches, and burials are in churchyards or public cemeteries .

synonyms: graveyard, churchyard, burial ground, burying ground, necropolis, memorial park/garden, boneyard, potter's field, God's acre


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