CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Unit completes 25 years. President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday awarded President’s Colours to the Corps of Army Air Defence at Odisha’s Gopalpur military station.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lieutenant General Sunil Puri Goswami is the 13th Director General of Army Air Defence. The General Officer is an alumnus of Sainik School, Chittorgarh, National Defence Academy, Pune and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.

Detailed explanation-3: -Air Force President’s Colour/Standard The President’s Colour is carried by Indian Air Force service support, education and training institutions and it uses the same design as in the President’s Standard. It is also carried by air base and air station personnel.

Detailed explanation-4: -Seven years later Major Stringer Lawrence, ‘the father of the Indian Army’, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company’s field forces in India with its headquarters at Fort St. David, 100 miles south of Madras and only 12 miles from the then French town of Pondicherry.