Army Chief General Bipin Rawat  

Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat was on Monday (December 30) announced as the first-ever Chief of Defence Staff. He will now continue to serve till March 2022 as the CDS where his primary role would be to create synergy in operations and finances of the three services.

Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat is set to become India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). The Army chief was named the CDS a day before he was set to retire from the service after completing a full three-year term as the Chief of Army Staff.Soon after seven personnel were caught for allegedly leaking sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence agencies, the Indian Navy has banned the use of social media at certain locations. It has also banned smartphones at naval bases, dockyards and onboard warships.Do not miss the headlines of the day on MyNation in 100 seconds.

On December 30, 2019, Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat was announced as India's first Chief of Defence Staff, who will function as a single-point advisor to the government on matters related to tri-services.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram has asked the Army Chief General Bipin Rawat to ‘mind his business’ in the context of the General condemning the CAA protests 

Sandeep Dixit, a Congress leader had once termed the Army Chief General Bipin Rawat ‘sadak ka goonda’ as the Chief had spoken positively spoken about India’s preparedness for facing aggression, both internally and externally 

Hours after Army Chief General Bipin Rawat made his displeasure over violence in the CAA and CAB violence, Asaduddin Owaisi, the AIMIM chief has said he should not enter in civil matters 

The army chief himself, General Bipin Rawat has come out in the open and hit out at leaders who are misleading the masses, in the name of anti-CAA protests. 

In all probability, Army Chief, General Bipin Rawat who retires by the end of the year, will be named as the new CDS of India, who will head the department of military affairs, which would be under the defence ministry

Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat recalled, in this exclusive interview with MyNation, the terror attack in Uri reminded Pakistan how the Indian Army replied with surgical strikes, which is a hint to how this country will retaliate, he said, in case of another 26/11-type attack

The newly-planned IBGs are part of Army chief General Bipin Rawat’s initiatives to reorganise and right-size the operational structure of the force to make it more effective and lethal during wars