Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani to be India's next Chief of Defence Staff

NEW DELHI: (May 9) Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani will be India's new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and his key task is set to be to implement the ambitious theaterisation plan that seeks to ensure tri-services synergy.

He will succeed Gen Anil Chauhan whose tenure will come to an end on May 30.

Gen Chauhan, a former Eastern Army Commander, took charge as the country's senior-most military commander in September 2022, over nine months after the first CDS, General Bipin Rawat, died in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu.