Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday inaugurated an auditorium named after India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and unveiled his statue at UP Sainik School in Gorakhpur.
The Indian Army, in collaboration with Saving the Future NGO and the Jammu & Kashmir Hockey Association, has kick-started the General Bipin Rawat Memorial Kashmir Hockey League 2025 at the Polo Ground, Srinagar, under the Indian Army's Operation Sadbhavana initiative.
"The rise of China as a dominant economic and strategic force adds complexity, creates competition, and hampers India's effort to be the natural leader for the Global South," Gen Dwivedi said while speaking at the fourth General Bipin Rawat Memorial Lecture in Delhi.
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi on Sunday highlighted the importance of emerging technologies in national security, saying that technological prowess has become the new currency of deterrence and data has become the new capital of trade and security.
Brigadier Lidder lost his life in a helicopter crash in December 2021, along with former Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri Hills.
Remembering India's first chief of defence staff late General Bipin Rawat on his third death anniversary, Indian Army Vice Chief Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani on Sunday termed him as "a scholar soldier and a military reformer with an exceptional ability to envisage the future."
During his Nepal visit, General Dwivedi will pay homage at the martyrs' memorial in the Army Pavilion and receive a ceremonial Guard of Honour at the Nepali Army Headquarters.
On the 66th birth anniversary of the country's first Chief of Defence Staff late Gen Bipin Rawat, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said his legacy should be used for building national will and inspiring citizens and soldiers in the country.
Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt on Saturday inaugurated a statue of India's first Chief of Defence Staff Late General Bipin Rawat and an 80 feet high tricolour at Talla Banas village of Uttarakhand's Pauri district.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday unveiled a statue of the country's first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat at a school in Dehradun, describing him as a person who brought significant reform in the history of the Indian Army.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami unveiled the statue of brave warrior Jaswant Singh Rawat in Pauri district on Saturday and paid homage to him. Rawat had made great sacrifices for the defence of the nation.