On the eve of General Bipin Rawat\u2019s birthday, the army on Tuesday dedicated a chair of excellence in the late chief of defence staff (CDS)\u2019s memory at the United Service Institution of India (USI), the country\u2019s oldest think tank founded in 1870, the army said in a statement. Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash last December, would have turned 64 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aim of the Chair will be to conduct research on strategic issues pertaining to the armed forces, officials said<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On the eve of General Bipin Rawat\u2019s birthday, the army on Tuesday dedicated a chair of excellence in the late chief of defence staff (CDS)\u2019s memory at the United Service Institution of India (USI), the country\u2019s oldest think tank founded in 1870, the army said in a statement. Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter … Continue reading ** Army institutes Chair at USI in Gen Rawat\u2019s memory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[206,5,7,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defence-services-airlandsea","category-education","category-leaders","category-leaders-on-the-world-stage-all-others","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14530,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519\/revisions\/14530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}