New Appointments
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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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Bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal appointed Air India chief
He succeeds Ashwani Lohani.
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Trending
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A fact-check of every claim made by India to dispute WHO’s estimate of its Covid-19 deaths
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‘I am writing limericks and the other day I had a lollipop after seventy years’: Ruskin Bond at 88
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The big news: Court allows plea seeking removal of Shahi Idgah mosque, and nine other top stories
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‘Panchayat’ season 2 review: An entertaining game of trivial pursuit
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IPL 2022 playoff qualification scenarios: RCB’s win puts pressure on DC; SRH and PBKS eliminated
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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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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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Video
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Caught on camera: Speeding driver lands in water, rescued through sunroof of sinking car
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‘The dictator will lose’: Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelenskyy’s virtual address at Cannes
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Watch: Odia mountaineer Sidharth Routray scales Mount Everest, flies the tricolour
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Watch: What Deepika Padukone, AR Rahman, Shekhar Kapur said at the Cannes film festival
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Watch: USA guarantees equal pay for men’s and women’s national football teams in historic deal
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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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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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The Reel
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‘Panchayat’ season 2 review: An entertaining game of trivial pursuit
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‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ trailer: Meet Hulk’s lawyer cousin
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‘Ardh’ trailer: Rajpal Yadav and Rubina Dilaik play migrant dreamers in Mumbai
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Fatima Sana Shaikh: ‘Films have helped me cross an emotional barrier’
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‘Spiderhead’ trailer: Chris Hemsworth watches over prisoners controlled by mind-altering drugs
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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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UIDAI chief Ajay Bhushan Pandey is the new revenue secretary as Hasmukh Adhia retires
The 1984-batch IAS officer will continue to hold the posts of CEO, UIDAI and chairman, Goods and Services Tax Network.
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The Field
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IPL 2022: Virat Kohli stars as RCB beat Gujarat Titans to remain in the hunt for playoffs
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‘Well and truly arrived’: Reactions to Nikhat Zareen’s gold medal at Women’s World Boxing C’ships
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Women’s Boxing World C’ships: India’s Nikhat Zareen becomes world champion
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Watch: Nikhat Zareen’s wins gold medal at IBA Women's World Boxing Championships
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Cricket: Jofra Archer suffers another injury setback, to miss rest of the English season