Sunil Lanba  

Singh's appointment as the next navy chief was challenged by Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command Vice Admiral Bimal Verma who had approached the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT)

Indian Navy Vice Admiral Bimal Verma was commissioned in 1979 and is the brother of Admiral Nirmal Verma, who was the chief of naval staff between 2009-12

Vice Admiral Karambir Singh will be the next Chief of Naval Staff, defence spokesperson informed in a tweet. 

Admiral Sunil Lanba is also scheduled to visit the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, RN Submarine Rescue Facility at Glasgow and interact with the organisers of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh

Lanba said, “We also have reports of terrorists being trained to carry out attacks with varying modus operandi including through the medium of the sea. India has been facing the threat of terror through the seas.”

'The bank guarantees of Reliance Naval have been encashed and action has been taken (for not supplying five Offshore Patrol Vessels in time). There is no pressure from anywhere to not act against them,' Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said

New Delhi: Ahead of Navy Day, on December 4, Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba reminded the nation that after the first deterrence patrol of the indigenously-built nuclear-propelled submarine INS Arihant, India has activated the third and most reliable part of the nuclear triad — the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon by air, land and sea.

India became the sixth country to have a nuclear triad after the US, UK, France, Russia and China.