CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Lieutenant General Ajai Kumar Singh has taken over as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command of the Indian Army.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lieutenant General Ajai Kumar Singh, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, an alumnus of St Gabriel’s Academy Roorkee, National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy was commissioned into the Seventh Battalion of the Eleventh Gorkha Rifles in December 1984.

Detailed explanation-3: -It has seen action during the integration of several Princely States into modern India, during the 1961 Indian liberation of Goa, and during the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pakistani Wars. Lieutenant General Ajai Kumar Singh is the current Southern Army Commander.

Detailed explanation-4: -75th UN Peacekeepers Day: Indian Army Chief General Manoj Pande lays wreath at National War Memorial-YouTube.

Detailed explanation-5: -GOC-in-C, SOUTH WESTERN COMMAND Lt Gen BS Raju, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, an alumnus of Sainik School Bijapur, National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, was commissioned into the Jat Regiment on 15 Dec 1984.