NEW DELHI: India's first chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat was killed in the Mi-17 helicopter crash, along with his wife and 12 others, near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu in Dec 2021, due to ...

General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), his wife and 11 others died in a helicopter crash near Tamil Nadu's Coonoor on December 8, Indian Air Force confirmed. A decorated military man ...

Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu, NI(M) Chief of the Air Staff Pakistan Air Force; has expressed his condolences on the tragic death of Indian CDS Gen Bipin Rawat, his spouse, and 11 other ...

General Bipin Rawat was the first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of India and a highly respected military leader. On March 15, 1958, he was born in Pauri Garhwal, a small town in Uttarakhand.