Earlier, Indian Air Force had carried out attack at terror camps in Balakot in retaliation to the deadly terror attacks on CRPF personnel in Pulwama
He was commissioned into the 7th battalion, the Sikh Light Infantry Regiment in June 1980.
Army Chief designate Lt Gen MM Naravane's father and Navy Chief Admiral KB Singh's father had also served together in the Air Force and were thick friends
Addition of cyber and space domain has changed the battlefield scenario, the Army chief noted
Gen Bipin Rawat has superseded Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi to become COAS from Jan 1, 2017
Over the past two decades, six of eight army chiefs have been from the infantry and the other two from the artillery division
The government also named Air Marshal B S Dhanoa to be the New chief of Air Staff
According to convention, Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi should be named as Dalbir Singh Suhag's successor