New Appointments
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Former Supreme Court judge Justice AM Khanwilkar is new Lokpal Chairperson
Significant judgments that he was part of include the decriminalisation of homosexuality, women’s entry into the Sabarimala temple and Aadhaar’s validity.
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V Anantha Nageswaran takes over as new chief economic adviser
He was a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the prime minister between 2019 and 2021.
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President Kovind’s secretary tipped to be next vigilance chief, former bureaucrat may be CIC
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who was part of the panel headed by Narendra Modi that chose the two, said the selection process was non-transparent.
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Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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Salman Rushdie’s new memoir un-wounds the ‘knife’ of language
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Bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal appointed Air India chief
He succeeds Ashwani Lohani.
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Michael Patra named RBI deputy governor six months after Viral Acharya quit
Patra is currently an executive director at the central bank and is likely to be in charge of monetary policy in his new role.
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Former IPS officer K Vijay Kumar appointed senior security adviser in home ministry
Kumar was until recently the adviser to the governor in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria appointed new Air Force chief
He is the vice chief of air staff at present and will succeed BS Dhanoa on September 30.
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Tamil Nadu BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan, ex-Union minister Arif Mohammad Khan named governors
Arif Mohammad Khan famously quit from the Congress in 1986 when the Rajiv Gandhi government set aside the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Shah Bano case.
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Ajay Kumar Bhalla appointed Union home secretary
He is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
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The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Centre appoints Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba to Cabinet secretary’s post
Gauba will take over on August 30, and will serve for a period of two years.
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Cabinet promotes interim CBI chief Nageshwar Rao to rank of additional director
The Supreme Court had ordered Rao to refrain from taking any major decisions as interim chief of the agency.
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IAS officer Ajay Narayan Jha appointed finance secretary
He has succeeded Hasmukh Adhia, who retired on November 30.
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The Field
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go