Former Army Chief KV Krishna Rao Passed away

 The former Army chief General K.V. Krishna Rao, who was the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for two terms when militancy flared up, died. He commanded an Army Division in the 1971 war with Pakistan in the eastern theatre. General Krishna Rao was appointed as the Chief of Army Staff on June 1, 1981 and served as COAS until July 1983. From June 1984 to July 1989, General Rao was the Governor of Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura. He also served short tenures as the Governor of Mizoram.