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May 2019

Jun 25, 2019

Madan Lal Saini Passes Away

BJP's Rajasthan unit president Madan Lal Saini died in New Delhi. He was shifted from Jaipur to Delhi for treatment of blood-related ailment after being diagnosed with infection in the lungs. Mr. Saini, also a Rajya Sabha MP, was 75.

Jun 24, 2019

E. Sreedharan Resigns

E. Sreedharan resigned as principal advisor of Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC). Sreedharan, popularly known as Metro Man. Sreedharan sent his resignation to LMRC Managing Director Kumar Keshav, who forwarded the resignation letter to state government for final approval.
It is to be noted that another senior officer of LMRC, Mahender Kumar, who is currently the Director of Rolling Stock, is also set to leave the LMRC on June 30, 2019.
It may be recalled that Sreedharan had earlier offered to resign in 2017 too but at that time Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had refused to accept his resignation and had in fact given him the responsibility to plan metros for three more cities including Varanasi, Agra and Meerut as well as his home turf Gorakhpur.

Former Tamil Nadu DGP Passes Away

Former Tamil Nadu DGP V. R. Lakshminarayanan, who arrested the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in a corruption case in 1977, died.
He was 91 and is survived by a son and two daughters.
Lakshminarayanan, fondly known as VRL, was a 1951 batch IPS officer.
He began his career as an Assistant Superintendent of Police in Madurai and then rose to become the Joint Director of Central Bureau of Investigation.
Lakshminarayanan had worked under various Prime Ministers including late Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Charan Singh, Morarji Desai.
Lakshminarayanan retired in 1985 as a Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu.

Viral Acharya Quits RBI

Viral Acharya, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, resigned six months before his term ends.
Acharya, who was in charge of monetary policy, would return to New York University as an economics professor in August instead of February 2020.
He took office at the RBI in January 2017 for a three-year term. His departure follows Urjit Patel's sudden resignation in December last year (2018) amid rising tension between the central bank and the government about the RBI's independence.
Shaktikanta Das was appointed governor shortly after Patel quit, with the RBI reversing its tight monetary policy stance since then.

Jun 23, 2019

Trump Picks Esper

President Donald Trump nominated Mark Esper as the permanent defence secretary and also announced other senior-level appointments to bring stability at the Pentagon at a time when it is confronted with a potentially escalating military conflict with Iran.
Trump had named Esper acting defence secretary earlier after Patrick Shanahan, the then nominee for the permanent position, withdrew citing family issues.
Esper's eventual appointment for the Pentagon top job will need to be confirmed by the US Senate, which is a time-consuming process and could be one of the factors determining the timing of the next India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue.

Jun 22, 2019

Nanavati is RP for RCom

The bankruptcy tribunal approved the appointment of Aneesh Nanavati of Deloitte as the resolution professional (RP) for Reliance Communications and its two subsidiaries — Reliance Telecom and Reliance Infratel.
According to RCom's own admission, financial creditors had made claims worth Rs. 57,382 crore from RCom and its two subsidiaries as of June 16.
The committee of creditors informed the tribunal that all the three companies had unanimously chosen Mr. Nanavati as the RP, as the nature of business of all the three entities are inter-connected.

Jun 21, 2019

Sajid Javid Eliminated

Sajid Javid, son of an immigrant bus driver who had made it to the last four in the race to be the UK's next Prime Minister, was eliminated after he polled the least number of votes (34), while favourite Boris Johnson topped the list.
The fourth round of voting by Conservative MPs to select the next party leader and the man to replace Theresa May in Downing Street has now left only three in the fray: Johnson (with 157 votes), environment secretary Michael Gove (61) and foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt (59).
Javid became the first Asian and non-white politician to come close to becoming the Prime Minister in a multicultural country, where the number of non-white MPs elected to the House of Commons has been growing in recent elections.
The loss notwithstanding, Javid 's 4th position places him well for future leadership contests.

Ram Vilas Paswan to File Nomination Rajya Sabha

Union Minister and chief of the Lok Janashakti Party Ram Vilas Paswan would file nomination for Rajya Sabha as an NDA candidate in Patna.
Mr. Paswan currently holds the reins of the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Ministry.

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