<span style="color: #222222;">Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria will be the next chief of Indian Air force.<br />''<br />''Air Marshal Bhadauria, who took over as the Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force in May this year, will take charge from the incumbent Chief Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa on 30th of September.<br />''<br />''An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Bhadauria was commissioned into the fighter stream of the IAF in June 1980 and won the coveted Sword of Honour for standing first in the overall order of merit.</span>