Mysore/Mysuru: VeKare Ex-Servicemen Trust and Kodagu Ex-Servicemen Welfare Association, Mysuru East, had organised a programme yesterday at Squadron Leader A.B. Devayya (MVC Posthumous) Bhawan in city to pay rich floral tributes to CDS Gen. Bipin Rawat and 13 others who lost their lives in IAF helicopter crash in Coonoor, Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, on Dec.8….
Military Veterans Association pays tribute to CDS Bipin Rawat in city
December 14, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Rich tributes were paid by Military Veterans Welfare Association to Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others, who died in the chopper crash in Tamil Nadu. The condolence event was held in front of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa’s statue on JLB Road-Hunsur Road junction yesterday. Speaking on the occasion,…
Memories of a Mysurean who served Gen. Bipin Rawat
December 10, 2021Officer had banned use of smartphones by soldiers on Pak-China borders Mysore/Mysuru: India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Laxman Singh Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu on Dec. 8 was known as a jovial, straight-talking officer who initiated studies to reorganise the Army, make it a leaner…
Morale booster: PM Modi flies to Ladakh, meets soldiers
July 3, 2020Ladakh/ New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unannounced visit to a forward post in Ladakh this morning and interacted with troops days after the June 15 border clash with China in which 20 soldiers were killed in the line of duty. The Prime Minister’s visit served as a morale booster for the forces…
Armed Forces to conduct fly-pasts to thank COVID-19 Warriors tomorrow
May 2, 2020New Delhi: India’s Armed Forces will conduct fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on hospitals in an elaborate display on Sunday (May 3) to thank doctors, medical staff and other frontline workers battling the COVID-19 outbreak, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat said on Friday. “The Air Force will…
Armed Forces… stay at arm’s distance
January 18, 2020In the last few years, Army Chiefs and senior security personnel have met the Press and spoken quite candidly. And that interaction has dragged them into a public debate, interpretation and criticism which has become political fodder. Recently, the first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said, de-radicalisation camps are operating in the country…
Army Chief recommends Bharat Ratna to Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa
November 4, 2017Gonikoppal: Over 15,000 people, most of them in their traditional Kodava attire, were a witness to the unveiling of bronze statues of Field Marshal Kodandera M. Cariappa and General Kodandera S. Thimayya by Chief of the Army Staff General Bipin Rawat at Cauvery College in Gonikoppal, South Kodagu, this morning. After unveiling the statues, Gen….
Army Chief to unveil statues of Field Marshal Cariappa and Gen. Thimayya at Gonikoppal tomorrow
November 3, 2017Gonikoppal: Chief of the Army Staff General Bipin Rawat will unveil the bronze statues of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa and General K.S. Thimayya at a function in Cauvery College, Gonikoppal, Kodagu district, tomorrow at 10.30 am. Hectic preparations are on at the College to make the event a grand success. A giant pandal has been…
Gen. Bipin Rawat visiting Kodagu on Nov. 4
October 31, 2017Mysuru: General Bipin Rawat, the 27th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, will be visiting Kodagu on Nov.4. Gen. Rawat will unveil the statues of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa and Gen. K.S. Thimayya at Cauvery College in Gonikoppal on that day at 9.30 am. Kodava Samaja, Mysuru, has in a press release requested…
Gen. Rawat Vs Gen. Dyer: A comparison
June 13, 2017Sir, For the academician who compared the above mentioned two Generals and the activists who supported his view, my request to them is to read history lesson 101. According to text books, during the First World War, Indian National Congress not only slowed down its agitation for independence but supported the British in its war…
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