General Bipin Rawat and wife Madhulika to be cremated in Delhi
General Bipin Rawat and wife Madhulika to be cremated in Delhi: Gen Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was on a visit to Defence Services Staff College, Wellington (Nilgiri Hills) to address the faculty and student officers of the Staff Course . Around noon today, an IAF Mi 17 V5 helicopter with a crew of 4 members carrying the CDS and 9 other passengers met with a tragic accident near Coonoor, TN yesterday. The nation has lost one of its bravest sons. His four decades of selfless service to the motherland was marked by exceptional gallantry and heroism General Bipin Rawat, India’s first chief of defence staff, was among 13 people killed in a helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, shocking the country’s three services, setting back the country’s military reforms, and leaving a direct impact on the country’s military establishment. President Ram Nath Kovind , Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others expressed anguish...