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Eminent sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sand sculpture on Wednesday to salute the Indian armed forces with a message 'Bharat Mata Ki Jay, Justice Served', at Puri beach in Odisha.

Indian armed forces executed 'Operation Sindoor' in the wee hours of today, carrying out precision strikes on nine 'terrorist infrastructure' sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to the April 22 Pahalgam attack that left 26 civilians dead.

Pattnaik created a six-foot-high sand art where he showed how Sindoor turns into 'strength' and destroys the enemy. He has used about five tonnes of sand to create it. Students of ...