PC, Army chief discuss Naxals?

May 29, 2010 - Age Correspondent |

New Delhi

Army Chief General V.K. Singh met home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday and is believed to have discussed training and operational tactics of Central forces to fight the Naxal menace. Gen. Singh and Mr Chidambaram had a closed door meeting which lasted around twenty minutes. Emerging from the meeting, Gen. Singh refused to disclose details of what transpired at the meeting and said it was just a courtesy call.

Gen. Singh also refused to comment on Thursday’s Armed Forces Tribunal order which indicted a former lieutenant-general for showing bias towards a Brigadier playing down his achievements and for falsifying accounts of battles during the 1999 Kargil conflict. “I was away. I have not read the report,” Gen. Singh told reporters.

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Gen. Singh clears viva for PhD
Bhopal, May 28: Army Chief General V.K. Singh on Friday cleared his Research Degree Committee viva as a prelude to obtain a PhD in military science from Barkatullah University here.
He will do his PhD on “security implications of rise of fundamentalism in Afghanistan: Its global and regional impact with special focus on Wakhan.”
Clad in a civil dress, Gen. Singh arrived like a commoner to appear in the RDC, sans any security.
Normally, the Army Chief moves in a convoy, but on Friday he came in a Toyota, with another one carrying his staff. On selection of Afghanistan as his research topic, he said its strategic location. —PTI

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