{"id":31311,"date":"2017-09-23T03:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=31311"},"modified":"2017-09-23T03:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:59:48","slug":"arjan-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/arjan-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjan Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Arjan Singh passed away recently. Consider the following statements In regards to him-<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> (i) He died on September 16th, 2017.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> (ii) He was the first officer of the Air Force and non-military army who was given the rank of Marshal.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> (iii) He is known to play a key role in the Indo-Chinese War of 1962.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Which of the aforesaid statements is \/ are correct?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Only (i) and (iii)<br \/>\n(b) Only (i) and (ii)<br \/>\n(c) .Only (ii) and (iii)<br \/>\n(d) All of the above<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On September 16th, 2017; former Air Chief and the sole officer of the Air Force, promoted to the five star rank Marshal Arjan Singh, died. He was 98 years old.<\/li>\n<li>Born on April 15th 1919, in Lyallpur.<\/li>\n<li>On August 1st, 2017, Air chief marshal Arjan Singh took over as the IAF\u2019s third Indian Chief of Air staff.<\/li>\n<li>He was Chief of the Air Force from 1964 to 1969.<\/li>\n<li>He played a crucial role in the Indo-Pak war in the year 1965 and for his meritorious service he was awarded with Padma Vibhusan.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from this he also participated in World War II.<\/li>\n<li>He was honored with the rank of Marshal Rank of the Indian Air Force in the year 2002.<\/li>\n<li>He was the first officer of the Air Force and non-military army who was given the rank of Marshall.<\/li>\n<li>Marshall Rank is equivalent to Army\u2019s Field Marshal.<\/li>\n<li>K.M. Cariappa and Sam Manekshaw (First) were two army officers to hold the highest Rank of Field Marshal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170853<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170860<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indias-first-ever-marshal-of-the-iaf-arjan-singh-passes-away\/article19700049.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indias-first-ever-marshal-of-the-iaf-arjan-singh-passes-away\/article19700049.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arjan_Singh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arjan_Singh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Arjan Singh passed away recently. Consider the following statements In regards to him- (i) He died on September 16th, 2017. (ii) He was the first officer of the Air Force and non-military army who was given the rank of Marshal. (iii) He is known to play a key role in the Indo-Chinese War of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-31311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}