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    • CDS Gen Anil Chauhan calls for safeguarding India’s assets in space

      The Chief of Defence Staff called for enhancing the country's space situational awareness, which means to understand the orbital environment better, with accurate data on space radiation and where each object is located.

    • Gen Anil Chauhan (retired) to take charge as new Chief of Defence Staff

      A decorated Army officer, 61-year-old Chauhan will also function as Secretary in the Department of Military Affairs.

    • Lt General Anil Chauhan (Retired) appointed as next Chief of Defence Staff

      Born on 18th May 1961, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan was commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army in 1981.

    • Defence Ministry amends rules for CDS appointment; check details

      The government will consider serving or retired military officials who have not attained the age of 62 years on the date of appointment.

    • Army Chief Naravane leading contender for CDS

      Government is keen to push Rawat’s agenda on redesigning existing military commands into theatre commands and establishing new joint commands, which would combine the resources and assets of the three defence forces, based on threat perceptions

    • 'My best friend': Brigadier LS Lidder's teen daughter after funeral

      Brigadier LS Lidder, who died in the helicopter crash, was given a funeral with full military honours, with several VIPs, including Defence Ministers Rajnath Singh and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval attending the solemn ceremony.

    • Social media users highlight sharp contrast in farewells given to General Bipin Rawat and Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

      Several social media users said the country’s top leaders personally paying their last respects to General Bipin Rawat is in sharp contrast to what was witnessed after Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw’s death in June 2008.

    • Bipin Rawat chopper crash | How a military aviation accident investigation unfolds

      The probe into the Mi-17V5 that killed Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat will examine everything from the machinery, flight path, communications, flight data, maintenance records, and possibly information from the OEM to arrive at the most plausible analysis

    • Tri-service enquiry ordered into CDS Bipin Rawat's chopper crash: Rajnath Singh

      Singh informed both the Houses of Parliament that the last rites of CDS Rawat will be performed with full military honours.

    • Video: General Bipin Rawat's helicopter moments before crash, last visuals

      The Mi-17VH helicopter carrying General Bipin Rawat took from the Sulur IAF station in Coimbatore before it crashed near Coonoor.

    • General Bipin Rawat, Gorkha Rifles officer to India's first Chief of Defence Staff

      General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), comes from a military family with several generations having served in the armed forces.

    • Who is General Bipin Rawat, India's first Chief of Defence Staff?

      General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff, was on his way to the Defence Staff College in Wellington when the helicopter crashed.

    • Terror activity flowing out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan will be firmly dealt with: General Bipin Rawat

      Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said: “We were concerned about how terrorist activity from Afghanistan could overflow into India and so to that extent our contingency planning had been ongoing and we are prepared for that.”

    • The IAF is best suited to lead India’s theatre commands

      The ISRO has so far confined itself to providing imagery data support to the armed forces and, therefore, would need a doctrinal shift away from its wonted ‘civilian’ role to help the Air Defence Command  

    • India-China border clashes: How the post of CDS has impacted the chain of command in Indian military

      A look at how the creation of the post of Chief of Defence Staff — a long-pending reform — has come to bear on decision-making and strategy in the armed forces.

    • Appointment of CDS momentous, historic for India: Amit Shah

      General Bipin Rawat was on Monday appointed India's first Chief of Defence Staff with a mandate to bring in convergence in functioning of the Army, the Navy and the Indian Air Force and bolster the country's military prowess. He took charge as CDS on Wednesday.

    • General Bipin Rawat: From Gorkha Rifles to India's first Chief of Defence Staff

      Before becoming the Army Chief, Gen Rawat handled various operational responsibilities in many areas, including along the LoC with Pakistan, the LAC with China and in the Northeast

    • Defence | A Chief of Defence Staff will not address the armed forces’ problems

      A two-decade-old bureaucratic reform cannot solve a deep human problem the Indian military is facing.

    • CDS is PM’s ‘yes’ to hybrid warfare, theatre commands, military reforms

      The CDS will take charge of the military’s modernisation, ‘jointness’ and ‘integration’ effort, essential in today’s world of hybrid warfare or wars where the lines blur between war, politics, diplomacy and legalities

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