IPS officer Archana Ramasundram appointed SSB chief
ü Senior
IPS officer Archana Ramasundram has been appointed as Director-General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),
the first woman to head a
paramilitary force.
ü Ramasundram
is currently Director, National Crime
Records Bureau.
Points to remember:
There
are five paramilitary forces
ü SSB
ü Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
ü Border
Security Force (BSF)
ü Central
Industrial Security Force and
ü Indo
Tibetan Border Police
None of the five paramilitary forces has ever had a woman chief.
v Besides
her, IPS officers — K. Durga Prasad and K.K. Sharma — have been appointed
Director-Generals of the CRPF and the BSF, respectively.
Datta Padsalgikar named Mumbai Police Commissioner
ü Datta Padsalgikar has been named the
Police Commissioner of Mumbai with effect from January 31.
ü He
will succeed Ahmed Javed, who has been appointed
as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
ü Padsalgikar,
a 1982-batch IPS officer from the Maharashtra cadre, is the 40th police
commissioner of the city. He was earlier
serving as the Additional Director in the Intelligence Bureau.
ü The
Indian representative's post in Saudi Arabia remained vacant after the exit of
Hamid Ali Rao, who occupied the office from September 2011 to April 2015.
Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey is now Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities
ü Dr.
Kamlesh Kumar Pandey has been appointed as the Chief
Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) for a period of
three years.
ü The
CCPD is appointed by the Central Government from persons having special
knowledge or practical experience in matters relating to rehabilitation of
Persons with Disabilities.
Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Mexico
ü Senior IFS officer Muktesh Kumar
Pardeshi has been appointed India's next Ambassador to Mexico.
ü Pardeshi,
a 1991-batch IFS officer, is currently posted as Joint Secretary (Passport
division) in the Ministry of External Affairs.
ü He
has previously served as the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of India in
Jakarta from 2007 to 2010. During 1993-2001, he worked with Indian Missions in
Mexico, Colombia and Nepal.
Flipkart invests Rs.666 crore in Ekart
ü Flipkart
has injected Rs.666 crore in Ekart, its
logistics arm.
ü This
is Flipkart's second fund infusion in seven months into Ekart, which is now
under a newly-created entity called Instakart Services after the e-commerce
firm bought back Ekart from WS Retail.
ü Ekart
had expanded its total warehouse space to 1.6 million sq ft at the end of 2015
across 17 delivery or fulfilment centres.
Kohli replaces Finch as No 1 batsman in T20 Internationals
ü Virat Kohli replaced Aaron Finch
as the top-ranked batsman in the ICC list for the shortest format of Cricket
T20.
ü According
to the latest list released by the ICC, Kohli, who had scores of 90 not out, 59
not out and 50 in the three-match series, gained 47 ratings points to move
ahead of Finch with 892 ranking points to his credit.
Kidambi Srikanth wins maiden Syed Modi International title
ü Kidambi
Srikanth has won his first Syed Modi
International Badminton Championship, which was held in Lucknow. He defeated China's Huang
Yuxiang 21-13, 14-21, 21-14 in the final match held at Babu Banarasi Das Indoor
Stadium.
ü Srikanth
has previously won the Thailand Grand Prix Gold, China Super Series premier,
Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold and India Super Series.
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