Daughters conduct last rites NEW DELHI, Dec 10: The plaintive strains of the last post broke through the hush, men in uniform clicked their heels and a 17-gun salute rang out as Gen Bipin Rawat and his wife were cremated this evening – the Sun setting on a day written into India’s military history and on the life of its most senior military officer. Click here to watch video India’s first Chief of Defence staff (CDS) and his wife Madhulika […]
New Delhi, December 10 (PTI): The plaintive strains of bugles sounding the last post broke through the hush, men in uniform clicked their heels and a 17-gun salute rang out as Gen Bipin Rawat and his wife were cremated on Friday
The Mi-17V5 helicopter carrying Gen. Rawat, the 63-year-old tri-services chief who would have completed two years at the end of this month in the new post after serving as the Army chief, crashed killing 13 of the 14 people on board including his wife and 11 others.