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Army Chief General Dhiraj Seth leaves for the Czech Republic to widen defence ties

15 November 2026

General Dhiraj Seth, the Chief of the Army Staff, has left on an official visit to the Czech Republic. The purpose is closer defence cooperation between the two countries and wider contact between their armed forces, defence technology and industry included. At General Staff Headquarters in Prague he will meet senior Czech commanders, among them the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Petr Cepelka, and lay a wreath there. Talks with senior officials of the Czech defence ministry are to cover training, modernisation and new security challenges. The Defence University at Brno is on his programme. So is NATO's Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defence Centre of Excellence, along with a meeting of the Czech defence and security industry association.

Officer visiting: General Dhiraj Seth, Chief of the Army Staff Country visited: Czech Republic Institutions on the itinerary: Defence University, Brno and the NATO CBRN Defence Centre of Excellence

Why it matters for exams: Fixes who holds the office of Chief of the Army Staff, the country visited and its capital, and the NATO centre of excellence for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defence that sits in the Czech Republic.

Kerala PSCUPSC

15 November 2026 Source: Press Information Bureau

In plain words

COAS Chief of the Army Staff — The head of the Indian Army.

CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear — The set of unconventional threats that specialised defence units are trained to handle.