{"id":437440,"date":"2026-01-27T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437440\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:47:08","slug":"capt-buttar-from-chandigarh-leads-r-day-tableau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437440\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt Buttar from Chandigarh leads R-Day tableau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a proud moment for a Chandigarh family at the Republic Day parade as Captain Samira Z Buttar, the fourth generation of the family in the armed forces, led the \u2018Integrated Operational Centre\u2019 tableau.<\/p>\n<p>The tableau showcased India\u2019s modern integrated warfare capabilities under the theme \u2018Operation Sindoor\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Buttar, who studied at Lawrence School, Sanawar, and Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh, is the granddaughter of Brig Sampuran Singh (retd), who earned the Maha Vir Chakra and Vir Chakra, the country\u2019s second highest and third highest gallantry awards, respectively, for his role in the 1965 Indo-Pak war.<\/p>\n<p>Capt Buttar\u2019s great grandfather, Risaldar Major Rattan Singh, served with the Hodson\u2019s Horse (now named 4 Horse). Capt Buttar was commissioned into the Indian Army in 2021 after training at the Officer Training Academy in Chennai. Her father Col Sarbjeet Singh (retd) served in the Mechanised Infantry Regiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a proud moment for a Chandigarh family at the Republic Day parade as Captain Samira Z&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[181559,181560,181561,181562,181563,181564,49,48,181565,181566,30498,181567,66,323],"class_list":["post-437440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-captainsamirabuttar","tag-chandigarhfamily","tag-indopakwar1965","tag-integratedwarfare","tag-militaryhero","tag-womeninuniform","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-indianarmy","tag-mahavirchakra","tag-operationsindoor","tag-republicdayparade","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}