{"id":7035,"date":"2019-12-31T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7035"},"modified":"2019-12-31T06:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T06:59:28","slug":"general-bipin-rawat-becomes-indias-first-ever-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/general-bipin-rawat-becomes-indias-first-ever-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"General Bipin Rawat becomes India&#8217;s first-ever CDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat has been named India&#8217;s\nfirst Chief of Defence Staff. General Rawat is the first officer to hold the\npost of the Chief of Defence Staff. The CDS will function as a single-point\nadivsor to the government on matters related to the military and will focus on\nbetter synergy between the Indian Army, Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Bipin Rawat was the front-runner for the post.\nGeneral Rawat will demit the office of the Chief of Army Staff on Tuesday.\nLieutenant General Manoj Mukund Naravane, currently the Vice Chief of Army\nStaff, will take over as Army chief. The CDS will be the &#8220;first among\nequals&#8221; with respect to the three service chiefs, all four-star officers\nthemselves who will retain the operational command of their respective forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat has been named India&#8217;s first Chief of Defence Staff. General Rawat is the first officer to hold the post of the Chief of Defence Staff. The CDS will function as a single-point adivsor to the government on matters related to the military and will focus on better synergy between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[832],"tags":[358],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2019","tag-indian-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7037,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions\/7037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}