Lt Gen N S Raja Subramani appointed next CDS; Vice Adm Krishna Swaminathan to head Navy

NEW DELHI: The Centre connected Saturday appointed Lieutenant General N S Raja Subramani (Retd.) arsenic India’s adjacent Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), portion Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan was named the adjacent Chief of Naval Staff. According to an authoritative announcement, Lt Gen Raja Subramani, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd.), volition besides relation arsenic Secretary to the Government of India successful the Department of Military Affairs from the day helium assumes complaint until further orders. The existent CDS, General Anil Chauhan, is scheduled to implicit his tenure connected May 30, 2026. Lt Gen Raja Subramani has been serving arsenic Military Adviser astatine the National Security Council Secretariat since September 1, 2025.

Earlier, helium served arsenic Vice Chief of the Army Staff from July 1, 2024, to July 31, 2025. He was besides the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Command from March 2023 to June 2024. Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, presently the Western Naval Commander successful Mumbai, volition presume bureau arsenic the adjacent Navy main connected May 31. His tenure is expected to proceed till December 31, 2028. Commissioned into the Indian Navy connected July 1, 1987, Vice Admiral Swaminathan is simply a specializer successful Communication and Electronic Warfare. He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, the Joint Services Command and Staff College successful Shrivenham, United Kingdom, the College of Naval Warfare successful Karanja, and the United States Naval War College successful Newport, Rhode Island.