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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - September 2015

Sep 2015

Aug 10, 2017

R. N. Ravi Gets One Year Extension

R. N. Ravi has been given an extension of one year as chairman of Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), a body tasked to assess intelligence gathered by various snoop agencies including IB and RAW.
He was made the JIC chief for three years in 2014.
The JIC functions under the National Security Council Secretariat.
Ravi is also the interlocutor for Naga peace talks.

Vaishali Kasture Appointed as MD

Global information services company Experian appointed Vaishali Kasture as managing director and country manager, with immediate effect.
She is taking charge from Mohan Jayaraman, who has been promoted as the regional managing director for decision analytics (DA) and business information services (BI) at Experian Asia Pacific.
Kasture will be responsible for all management and operations in the country.

Aug 09, 2017

Next CJI of India

The government cleared the appointment of Justice Dipak Misra, the senior most judge of the Supreme Court, as the next Chief Justice of India.
Justice Misra, who will be the 45th Chief Justice of India, will succeed incumbent J. S. Khehar, who retires later this month.
Justice Misra will have a tenure of nearly 14 months as the Chief Justice of India.

Joint Military Exercise

India and the United States of America will conduct Yudh Abhyas joint exercise between their armies in September.
The exercise Yudh Abhyas – 2017, will be held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the US.
The exercise will be the 13th in the Yudh Abhyas series, which started in the year 2004 under US Army Pacific partnership programme.

Ram Temple in Ayodhya

The Shia Central Waqf Board filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court in which it stated that a mosque can be constructed at a place near the birth place of Lord Ram in Ayodhya.
The Board stated that a mosque can be located in a Muslim dominated area at a reasonable distance from Shree Ram Lala's birth place in Ayodhya.
The Board further claimed that since Babri Masjid was a Shia Waqf property, it is the only one which is entitled to negotiate and arrive at peaceful settlement with other stakeholders in the Babri Masjid-Ram Temple dispute case.

Aug 08, 2017

Assam Declared as Disturbed for another Month

The Centre has declared entire Assam as a disturbed area under the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) for one more month, citing various violent activities by insurgent groups ULFA, NDFB, and others.
The Union home ministry also declared Meghalaya's border areas adjoining Assam, and three districts in Arunachal Pradesh as "disturbed" under the AFSPA for two more months.

Aug 07, 2017

New Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog

Economist Dr. Rajiv Kumar was named as the new Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, five days after the incumbent Arvind Panagariya announced that he would quit to return to academics.
Kumar holds a DPhil in economics from Oxford and a PhD from Lucknow University.
Earlier, he was Secretary General of the FICCI and had also served as Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

Aug 06, 2017

India's 13th Vice President

Veteran BJP leader and NDA candidate Venkaiah Naidu was elected the 13th Vice President of India after bagging majority of the votes of the electoral college comprising both the Houses of Parliament.
Naidu got 516 votes while his rival and former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi received 244 votes.
The election saw almost 100 percent voting with 771 members casting their votes out of the 785 members. The voting percentage was 98.21 percent.

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