{"id":310777,"date":"2019-03-23T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T10:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310777"},"modified":"2019-03-23T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T10:02:37","slug":"vice-admiral-karambir-singh-appointed-as-next-chief-of-navy-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/vice-admiral-karambir-singh-appointed-as-next-chief-of-navy-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice Admiral Karambir Singh appointed as next chief of Navy staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310778 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/admiral-karanbir-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/admiral-karanbir-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/admiral-karanbir-333x420.jpg 333w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/admiral-karanbir.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice Admiral Karambir Singh has been appointed as the next chief of Navy staff, a defence ministry official said on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh will succeed Admiral Sunil Lanba who retires in May this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence spokesperson said in a tweet, \u201cGovernment appoints Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, PVSM, AVSM, FOC in C Eastern Naval Command as the next Chief of Naval Staff vice Admiral Sunil Lanba,PVSM, AVSM, ADC, who vacates the office on 31 May 2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Currently, Vice Admiral Singh is serving as the Flag Officer Commanding in Chief of the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Admiral Karambir Singh has been appointed as the next chief of Navy staff, a defence ministry official said on Saturday. Singh will succeed Admiral Sunil Lanba who retires in May this year. Defence spokesperson said in a tweet, \u201cGovernment appoints Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, PVSM, AVSM, FOC in C Eastern Naval Command as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11185,11184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310779,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310777\/revisions\/310779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}