On the eve of General Bipin Rawat’s birthday, the army dedicated a chair of excellence in the late chief of defence staff (CDS)’s memory at the United Service Institution of India (USI), the country’s oldest think tank founded in 1870.

Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash last December, would have turned 64 on Wednesday, March 16th,

The aim of the Chair will be to conduct research on strategic issues pertaining to the armed forces, officials said