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Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, PVSM, AVSM, NM (born 15 May 1964) is a serving four star flag officer of the Indian Navy. He is the current and the 26th Chief of the Naval Staff. [2] He took over as the 26th CNS succeeding Admiral R. Hari Kumar on 30 April 2024. [3] He previously served as the 38th Vice Chief of the Naval Staff. [4]
The Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (VCNS) is a statutory position in the Indian Armed Forces, that is usually held by a three star vice admiral. The Vice Chief is the deputy of the Chief of the Naval Staff and is usually the second highest ranking officer of the Indian Navy. The current VCNS is Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan who took over from ...
The Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) is a statutory office held by the professional head of the Indian Navy (IN), the naval branch of the Indian Armed Forces. [3] Customarily held by a four-star admiral, the CNS is the senior-most operational officer of the IN, tasked with the roles of overseeing the force's overall functioning during states of peace and conflict, along with the realization of ...
Name Photo Decorations Reference Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Perspective Planning & Financial Development) Vice Admiral: Sanjay Vatsayan: AVSM, NM [12] Additional Secretary Department of Military Affairs: Vice Admiral: Atul Anand: AVSM, VSM [13] Joint Secretary (Navy & Defence Staff) Department of Military Affairs: Rear Admiral ...
The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. [1] [2] [3] The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the ...
The earliest evidence for life on Earth includes: 3.8 billion-year-old biogenic hematite in a banded iron formation of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada; [30] graphite in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks in western Greenland; [31] and microbial mat fossils in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone in Western Australia.
The Western Naval Command is one of the three command–level formations of the Indian Navy. [1] It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.As the senior–most of the three formations, [2] the command is responsible for the all naval forces in the Arabian Sea and western parts of the Indian Ocean and the naval establishments on the west coast of India.
Vice Admiral Sardari Lal Sethi AVSM: February 1981 25 February 1982 [28] 15 Vice Admiral Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni AVSM, VSM, NM: 16 August 1982 April 1984 Later Chief of the Naval Staff. [29] [30] 16 Vice Admiral S. M. Gadihoke PVSM: 30 June 1984 June 1988 [31] [32] 17 Vice Admiral Vasant Laxman Koppikar AVSM: 6 July 1988 1992 [33] 18 Vice ...