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Ecuador grants citizenship to Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks

Ecuador has granted citizenship to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in an attempt to resolve the political impasse over his continued presence in the United Kingdom (UK). Ecuador Foreign...

January 12, 2018

Abhay takes charge as new chief of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)

Abhay, the 1986-batch police officer of Odisha cadre, has taken charge as the new chief of the of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) at the NCB headquarters in...

January 4, 2018

Rajinder Khanna appointed as new Deputy NSA

Former RAW Chief Rajinder Khanna, a 1978-batch Research and Analysis Wing Service (RAS) officer, has been appointed as the new Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) on January 2,...

January 3, 2018

Amardeep Singh Bhatia to be new director of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)

Amardeep Singh Bhatia, a 1993 batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre, will be the new director of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO). The SFIO is a fraud investigating...

December 28, 2017

SAMEEP launched by MEA to bring Indian foreign policy to students across country

The Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has launched Students and MEA Engagement Programme (SAMEEP) to bring Indian foreign policy to students across the country. Under this, MEA...

December 22, 2017

22nd conference of Asian Harmonization Working Party (AHWP)

Anupriya Patel, MoS (Health & Family Welfare), has recently inaugurated the 22nd conference of Asian Harmonization Working Party (AHWP) at New Delhi. The 5-day conference is being conducted...

December 5, 2017

Badri Narain Sharma appointed as chairman of newly constituted NAA under GST regime

Badri Narain Sharma, the 1985 batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed the chairman of the newly constituted National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA) under the Goods...

November 29, 2017

Nirmala Sitharaman elected new President of Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA)

Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Defence Minister, has been elected as the new President of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA). The IDSA was set up in...

November 28, 2017

C.K Mishra committee constituted by Union Government to continuously monitor solutions to air pollution

The Union Environment ministry has constituted a 7-member committee to continuously monitor the short-term and long-term solutions to air pollution. It will be headed by C.K Mishra, the...

November 9, 2017

India’s passport ranked 75th out of 94 countries

India’s passport has been ranked 75th out of 94 countries with a visa-free score of 51, according to the ‘Global Passport Power Rank 2017’ by global financial advisory...

October 26, 2017

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