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Lt Gen Anil Chauhan appointed as new Chief of Defence staff

Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (retd), a former eastern Army commander and director general of military operations, was on Wednesday appointed as India’s new CDS and shall also function as Secretary to the Government of India.

More than nine months after the post fell vacant following the death of Gen Bipin Rawat.