June 2019

Border Security Force (BSF) appointed as the head of its Tekanpur-based academy, the alma mater of the officers of the country’s largest frontier-guarding force. S S Chahar took over the charge of the academy’s director — an Additional Director General (ADG) rank — a senior official said. He is the 13th officer of the cadre to […]

Jeune Afrique, the 59-year-old arrested at his hotel in Paris where global chiefs have gathered this week for FIFA’s annual congress and the start of the Women’s World Cup. Former sports minister and current senator in Madagascar, Ahmad was elected president of the Confederation of African Football in 2017 His time in charge of the

Google tech Behemoth invented three new features- bus travel times from live traffic in 10 of the largest cities in India The live train status for Indian Railways trains, and mixed-mode commute suggestions that now combine auto-rickshaw and public transport. The travel plan of Indian users are predicted by transit time while traveling on buses. Google map enable users

A new species of dung beetle discovered in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district. The new discovery named ‘Enoplotrupes tawangensis’ is a 27-mm-long insect, relatively bigger than most dung beetles. The shining dark blue insect was first examined by two scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) — Kailash Chandra and Devanshu Gupta.  Czech scientist David Král confirmed that

Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel sworn in as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.  Lt Governor Anil Baijal administered the oath of office to Justice Patel at a function held at Raj Niwas. Earlier, Justice Patel was posted at the Jharkhand High Court.  Supreme Court Collegium recommended his name for the appointment as Chief Justice of the

Centre notified the appointment of Justice Prashant Kumar as the Acting Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court with effect from the date present Acting Chief Justice D N Patel relinquishes charge following his appointment as the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court.  Former Chief Justice Aniruddha Bose was appointed as Supreme Court judge on May 22. 

The Indian Air Force has signed Rs 300-crore deal with the Israeli government to buy as many as 100 SPICE bombs. The newly ordered SPICE bombs are an advanced version of SPICE-2000 bombs which were used by the IAF during the air strikes in Balakot on February 26, in which the Indian forces reportedly eliminated

The centre underpaid the food subsidy bill to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) by as much as ₹69,394 crore in order to meet the fiscal deficit target of 3.4% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018-19. This rollover of the food subsidy bill, which is 41% of the budget estimate, was the highest during the

Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the reconstitution of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog.Rajiv Kumar has been retained as the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog. Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah has been appointed as one of the ex-officio members of the NITI Aayog, along with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. VK Saraswat,

Bank of Baroda (BoB) has declared Dighi Port chairman and managing director Vijay Goverdhandas Kalantri as a wilful defaulter, The Times of India reported. Both Vijay Kalantri and his son Vishal Kalantri, director of Dighi Port, owe close to Rs 3,334 crore to a consortium of 16 banks in the country that include BoB, while