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Amitabh Kant affirms India’s position as a global hub of drone technology

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Amitabh Kant affirms India’s position as a global hub of drone technology

Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa of India, affirmed India’s position as a leading force in the Industry 4.0 revolution and a global hub of drone technology at the BHARAT DRONE MANTHAN -2024, a two-day Expo on Innovations & Technological Advancement in the Drones Ecosystem; UTM; UAM, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) systems & Allied Industries held from…

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RINL registers impressive sales and production in 2023-24 fiscal

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RINL registers impressive sales and production in 2023-24 fiscal

RINL has registered an impressive sale of 7,30,000 tons of Wire Rod Coils (WRC) on the marketing front during 2023-24 Financial Year (FY), a growth of 43 per cent over corresponding year, last year-CPLY) and 5,08,000 tons of Structurals (a growth of 11 per cent CPLY), which are respective best ever sales for any financial…

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Konkan Railway: S K Jha takes over as CMD

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Konkan Railway: S K Jha takes over as CMD

Santhosh Kumar Jha (IRTS: 1992) takes over as the new Chairman & Managing Director of Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL). He was selected for the coveted post on November 01, 2023. Prior to his appointment as CMD he worked as Director (Operations and Commercial) in KRCL.He brings with him 28 years’ experience in Operations, Infrastructure…

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Sadanand Date takes over as new NIA chief

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Sadanand Date takes over as new NIA chief

Sadanand Vasant Date (IPS: 1990: MH) on March 31, 2024 took over reins of the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Date succeeded Dinkar Gupta (IPS: 1987: PB), who superannuated on Sunday. Before joining the NIA, Date was serving as the chief of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Maharashtra.Date has served two tenures in the Indian government —…

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Nidhi Khare takes over as Secretary, Consumer Affairs

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Nidhi Khare takes over as Secretary, Consumer Affairs

Nidhi Khare (IAS: 1992: JH) has taken over as Secretary, Consumer Affairs, who was laterally shifted from Land Resources to take over as OSD in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the rank and pay of Secretary to the Government of India on March 4, 2024. She takes over as Secretary…

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Sheyphali Sharan takes charge as PDG, PIB

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Sheyphali Sharan takes charge as PDG, PIB

Sheyphali B. Sharan (IIS: 1990) has today assumed charge as the Principal Director General, Press Information Bureau upon superannuation of Manish Desai yesterday.During an illustrious career spanning over three decades, she has held cadre portfolios of largely looking after media publicity work as Press Information Bureau officer for Ministries such as Finance, Ministry of Health…

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14 IIS officers promoted to JAG

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14 IIS officers promoted to JAG

As many as 14 officers of Indian Information Service (IIS) have been promoted to Junior Administrative Grade (JAG). They are: M Ponnein Selvan, Satti Kishore Kumar, Saratape Raviraj Dattatraya, Akhilesh Kumar Sharma, Keshava Murthy B A, Ritesh Chaudhary, Yashwant Kumar MS, Iyengar M, Rangaswamy,Ashutosh Mohile, R K Raina, Ajay Joy, Joycee Phillip,Mahar Singh and Anubhav…

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ECI rejects proposal to appoint Saunik as CS; extension for Kareer sought

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ECI rejects proposal to appoint Saunik as CS; extension for Kareer sought

The Maharashtra government has sent a proposal to the Centre asking three-month extension for Chief Secretary Nitin Kareer (IAS: 1988: MH) after the Election Commission of India (ECI) rejected its proposal to make Sujata Saunik (IAS: 1987: MH) as the CS.The concurrence of the EC is needed because elections in every state are held under…

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UN expresses concern over Kejriwal’s arrest & freezing of Cong’s account

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UN expresses concern over Kejriwal’s arrest & freezing of Cong’s account

Besides US and Germany expressing their concern on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Income Tax Recovery from the Congress at the time of the Lok Sabha elections, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesperson too has said the UN very much hopes that in India and any country having elections, people’s “political and…

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