The Biggest Stories of December 17, 2016

Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat will succeed General Dalbir Singh as the next Indian Army Chief superseding two senior officers for the post; Three soldiers were killed after terrorists attacked an army convoy in Pampore on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway; Two Reserve Bank of India officials in Bengaluru were arrested in connection with the alleged conversion of Rs 1.99 crore of demonetised currency; Former Air Chief SP Tyagi, an accused in the AgustaWestland chopper scandal, has been sent to jail till December 30 by a court in Delhi; The Congress has termed as "vendetta and witch-hunt" the summoning of a company linked to the son-in-law of its president Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate, and more in our news wrap of the day.