General Rawat further said, "We had information that terrorists are coming closer to camps in the forward areas. In last one month, we have seen repeated attempts from different sectors to infiltrate terrorists."
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat briefed Defence Minister Rajnath Singh about the situation at Line of Control in Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir), sources told India TV News. They said that after briefing Defence Minister, General Rawat told him that retaliatory action taken by the Indian Army has resulted in a befitting reply to Pakistan after its ceasefire violation.
With a network of 52 laboratories, the government agency DRDO is charged with the military's research and development covering various fields like aeronautics, land combat engineering, armaments, electronics, missiles, and naval systems.
India has no extraterritorial ambitions and does not want to "transplant" its ideology on others, Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat has said, asserting that the country will fulfil its regional and global security obligations as a responsible emerging power.
Army chief General Bipin Rawat has slammed Pakistan for 'proxy war' against India and said that will cross the border if needed. Rawat has said that the surgical strikes have sent across a message that the Line of Control (LoC) will be “sacrosanct” so long as Pakistan does not vitiate the atmosphere.
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat took over as the Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) on Friday. He received the baton from outgoing Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa.
Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat will take over as the chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee (CCS) tomorrow.
Army chief General Bipin Rawat reaffirmed on Monday that people were moving around freely in the Kashmir valley and those claiming that there was a shutdown were the ones whose survival depended on terrorism.
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Monday said Pakistan has reactivated Balakot very recently and about 500 infiltrators were waiting to infiltrate intoIndia.
"All actions are decided upon by the central government. Agencies working under the government have to act in accordance with its directions... the Army remains always prepared for any kind of action," Rawat told the media.
Saying that the government will take call on issues like retrieving Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said Army is always ready.
If the adversary wants to activate the LoC, that's his choice, says Army Chief Bipin Rawat
The visit of Army chief Bipin Rawat to Jaisalmer to inaugurate the Army International Scout Masters Competition here was called off on Monday, defence sources said. Rawat was scheduled to inaugurate the event on Monday evening. It would now be inaugurated by Chief of Staff of Southern Army Command Lt Gen DS Ahuja and the deputy defence minister of Russia at Jaisalmer military station, the sources said.
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat called on Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik in Srinagar on Thursday in what was termed by defence sources as a general meeting to review security scenario in the valley.
"I want to convey to our countrymen that you can be rest assured that any task given to defence services will always be accomplished no matter how difficult it is. Our soldiers will continue to man and guard our borders," Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said.
The rise of non-state actors and the readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting have become a new norm, he said. Addition of cyber and space domain has changed the battlefield scenario, the Army chief noted.
This is the first visit of the army chief to the region after India's air strike at a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror facility in Balakot in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday in response to the February 14 strike in Pulwama, in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.
Army Chief Bipin Rawat flies in the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft - Tejas in Bengaluru
He added that India should ensure that it empires in military systems in weapons, equipment and ammunition.
Addressing the annual press conference ahead of the Army Day, Gen Rawat said that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir needs to be brought under better control.
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