ANJALI SINGH

About: 

• The Indian Air Force (IAF) send her to Moscow as a deputy air attaché. The 41-year-old officer is an aeronautical engineer who served with fighter squadrons during her 17-year military career
  
  
• Until now, only male officers from the three services were appointed as military attaches in overseas Indian missions. The change came about during Nirmala Sitharam’s tenure as defence minister when she backed the proposal to give military women more global exposure.
  
  
• The army and the navy will also appoint women officers as defence attaches in the near future depending on the candidates meeting the requirement.