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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - September 2015

Sep 2015

May 27, 2017

K. P. S. Gill Passes Away

Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, one of India’s most celebrated cops, passed on Friday. He was 82.
He is popularly known as the ‘Lion of Punjab’ and ‘Super Cop’.
Gill has also been an advisor to the Gujarat and Chhattisgarh governments, a hockey administrator, and a prolific commentator on security issues.

Illegal Arms Factory Unearthed

The police claimed to have unearthed an illegal arms factory and arrested three men with seven country-made pistols, raw material and manufacturing equipment.
The police raided the factory located along the Ghaghra River.

May 26, 2017

Sanjay Mitra New Defence Secretary

Sanjay Mitra has taken over as Defence Secretary from G. Mohan Kumar.
He is an officer of the 1982 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), West Bengal cadre.
He will have a two-year tenure.

BJP Wins Lone Rajya Sabha Seat

President of the Manipur unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party Khetrimayum Bhabananda won the state's lone Rajya Sabha seat.
He defeated his lone rival Elangbam Dijwamani of the Opposition Congress by a margin of 18 votes.
In the 60 member Manipur assembly, Bhabananda secured 39 votes while Dijwamani got 21 votes.

May 25, 2017

High Operational Military Readiness

As per a media report, both India and Pakistan continue to maintain high operational military readiness along the volatile Line of Control (loC).
According to a top army officer, the pre-emptive and punitive fire assaults will continue to be conducted across the 778-km LoC to stem infiltration. But he added that it was not a war-like situation as of now.

Army Free to Take Decisions

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said that army officers are free to take decisions in a war-like zone, referring to the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, a day after the Army went public on fire assaults on Pakistani posts along the LoC.

May 24, 2017

Lt Gen Gurpal Singh Sangha

Lt Gen Gurpal Singh Sangha took over as the General Officer Commanding, Bengal Area, of the Army.
He replaced outgoing GOC, Bengal Area, Lt Gen Giri Raj Singh.

Modi Pushes for Asia-Africa Growth Corridor

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for an Asia-Africa Growth Corridor which involves India and Japan. Research institutions of the two countries have come up with a vision document to explore joint initiatives in skills, health, infrastructure, manufacturing and connectivity in Africa.

May 23, 2017

Army Teams in Major RBI Offices

Fifteen teams of the army will be deployed in key offices of the RBI to beef up security as well as help the central bank to speed up disposal of demonetised currencies.

H. C. Gupta Gets 2-year Jail Term

Former Coal Secretary H. C. Gupta and two serving senior officials were awarded two-year jail term by a Delhi court for irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Madhya Pradesh to a private firm.
The other two are then joint secretary K. S. Kropha and then director K. C. Samaria.
Soon after the pronouncement of the sentence, special CBI court granted bail to all the convicts in the case.

Tata Sons Gets New CFO

Tata Sons roped in Aditya Birla Group strategy head Saurabh Agrawal as group chief financial officer (CFO) of the conglomerate.

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