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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - September 2015

Sep 2015

Oct 03, 2018

CBI Gets Cadre Officer as Joint Director

After a hiatus of almost nine years, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has got a joint director (JD) who has risen from the ranks.

Deputy inspector general (DIG) N. M. Singh has been promoted to the rank of JD (equivalent to an inspector general).

Singh joined the CBI as a directly recruited deputy superintendent of police (DySP) in the early 1990s. He is the first officer from the CBI cadre to be promoted as JD after M Narayanan, who held the same rank and retired in January 2009.

Reshuffle in IAF

The government has made a major reshuffle in the top Indian Air Force (IAF) positions with Air Marshal V. R. Chaudhari taking over as the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff and Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar taking over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C), Eastern Air Command.

Air Marshal Amit Dev has been appointed as the Director General Air (Operations) and Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora has been named the new South Western AOC-in-C.

Garg Gets Additional Charge

Sudhir Garg, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, has assumed charge as interim CMD of National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC).

Garg has been given additional charge of the post from October, for a period of three months or until further orders, whichever is earlier.

Oct 02, 2018

Candidates Allowed to Withdraw from Exams

The UPSC for the first time has decided to allow candidates to withdraw from the examination if they wish to.

This is because only half of the over 10 lakh aspirants who apply for civil services exam actually write the test.

Odisha Bans Plastic in Six cities

A ban on storage and sale of plastic bags is all set to come into force in six urban centres of Odisha, coinciding with the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

The government will restrict the indiscriminate use of certain types of plastic products in the territorial jurisdiction of five municipalities and municipal corporations, including Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Berhampur, Rourkela and Sambalpur, and in the pilgrim town of Puri.

Stockists and manufactures have been given one month time to dispose of their stocks.

Priya Dutt No more AICC secretary

Senior Congress leader and former Lok Sabha member Priya Dutt has been relieved of her duties as secretary, All India Congress Committee (AICC).

Oct 01, 2018

Indian Navy Needs Minesweeper Ships

The Navy requires 12 minesweeper ships, but at present has only two at its disposal to safeguard sea lanes and ports spread across thousands of kilometres of coastlines in the eastern and western seaboards.

Minesweepers are small naval warships that detect and destroy underwater mines and are considered vital for keeping the critical sea lanes safe for movement of essential cargo, including crude oil.

Sep 30, 2018

RPF's New Director General

Senior IPS officer Arun Kumar has been appointed Director General of the Railway Protection Force (RPF). He succeeded Dharmendra Kumar.

Mr. Kumar, a 1985 batch officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, was serving as Special Director-General of the Border Security Force. He has worked as Joint Director of the CBI and was in charge of probe into the 2008 Aarushi murder case.

PTI Gets New Chairman

N. Ravi, Publisher and former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, has been unanimously elected Chairman of the Press Trust of India (PTI). Vijay Kumar Chopra, Chief Editor of the Punjab Kesari Group of newspapers, was elected Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Ravi succeeded Viveck Goenka, chairman and managing director of the Express Group.

India to Gift 3 MiG-21 to Russia

Three MiG-21s are scheduled to be handed over to Russians based on a request from Russia's Defence Minister. They comprise one Type 75 aircraft and two Type 77 aircraft.

This will be major symbolic gesture to showcase the all-weather friendship and deep strategic partnership between India and Russia.

The MiG-21 has more of emotional value for Russia, as it has the distinction of being the most produced supersonic fighter in history.

Sep 29, 2018

Reshuffle in Command Head

The government has selected three Lieutenant Generals to hold Army Commander-level ranks.

Lt Gen S. K. Saini will head the Pune-based Southern Command, replacing Lt Gen DR Soni, Lt Gen P. S. Thimayya will head the Army Training Command (ARTRAC) at Shimla. The incumbent Lt Gen M. M. Naravane has been appointed the Eastern Army Commander at Kolkata.

Lt Gen P. S. Rajeshwar will head the tri-services CISC (Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee). He will replace Lt Gen S. K. Dua.

India's Next Ambassador to China

The government has notified that Vikram Misri would be the new Indian envoy to Beijing.

Presently Vikram is India's envoy to Myanmar.

He will succeed Gautam Bambawale, who retires this year.

Indian Newspaper Society Gets New President

Jayant Mammen Mathew, Executive Editor of Malayala Manorama, has been elected as the president of the prestigious Indian Newspaper Society, an apex body of the country's print media industry.

He succeeds Akila Urankar of Business Standard.

Lav Saksena will serve as the secretary general, while Shailesh Gupta of Mid Day newspaper will be the deputy president and L. Adimoolam of Health and The Antiseptic, the vice-president of the INS.

Pact on Ropeway between Hindu and Sikh Shrines

The governments of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have signed an agreement to build a ropeway project connecting popular Sikh and Hindu shrines in both states.

The ropeway project will connect the birthplace of the 'Khalsa Panth' at Takht Keshgarh Sahib in the Sikh holy town of Anandpur Sahib in Punjab and Mata Naina Devi temple in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh.

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