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Prime Minister NarendraModiled Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of former Intelligence Bureau Special Director R.N. Ravi as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee for a period of three years.
The Joint Intelligence Committee functions under the National Security Council Secretariat.
Mr. Ravi, a 1976-batch Indian Police Service officer from Kerala, has been appointed in the pay and rank of Secretary to the Government of India. He retired as IB Special Director in 2012.

The ACC has also cleared the proposal for appointment of senior IPS officer Ramesh Chand Tayal as Central Reserve Police Force Special Director- General.
The 1980-batch Assam- Meghalaya cadre officer is presently posted as Additional Director-General of the SashatraSeema Bal.

President Pranab Mukherjee appointed Kalyan Singh, VajubhaiRudabhaiVala, Ch. VidyasagarRao and MridulaSinha Governors of Rajasthan, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa, respectively.
Manipur Governor Vinod Kumar Duggal will continue to hold charge of Mizoram. Raghav Lakhanpal
The Meerut Commissioner in his report on last month’s riots in Saharanpur has reportedly blamed the local BJP MP, RaghavLakhanpal, for fanning tensions, besides accusing district authorities of not controlling the rioting mob.
The report of Meerut Commissioner Bhupendra Singh is almost identical to the findings of a Committee set up Chief Minister AkhileshYadav and headed by senior Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav that had come down heavily on the local MP and BJP workers for their role in the riots that left three dead and gutted hundreds of shops.

The Ministry of Home Affairs re-appointed D.M. Spolia as the Chief Secretary of Delhi to replace S.K. Srivastava who is currently holding the post.
Mr. Spolia, a 1979 batch IAS officer, who was removed from the post by the AamAadmi Party government in January, will take over with immediate effect.
He was working as Financial Commissioner of the Delhi Government since January.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Trust, the body overseeing the world famous news corporation, is set to get its first female head.
Rona Fairhead, 53, a high-flying executive who sits on the boards of a number of bluechip companies, announced as the prospective new chairperson of the BBC Trust.
SajidJavid, UK secretary of state for culture, is expected to officially announce Fairhead as government’s preferred candidate to fill the slot, replacing Lord Patten, who stepped down in May on health grounds.

Veteran journalist Padma BhushanBalrajPuri passed away after prolonged illness at a Government Medical College here .
Mr. Puri was conferred the Padma Bhushan for his contribution in the fields of Literature and Education in 2005 and also the Indira Gandhi award for national integration on October 31, 2009.
He was an author and co-author of about 40 books and approximately 1,000 articles for various dailies in India and abroad.

U.R.Anantha Murthy, the doyen of Kannada Literature and one of the pioneers of Navya movement in Kannada language is no more.
A steadfast thinker who withstood many an assault, physical, verbal and virtual, gave a new thrust to Kannada literature and cinema, to move towards the 21st Century.
Mr. Iyengar, who was admitted to the Prayag Hospital last week, breathed his last at 3.15 a.m., doctors attending on him said. He has been on dialysis since Sunday after renal failure. Mr. Iyengar, who abhorred
hospitals and clinics, failed to respond to the treatment owing to heart problems brought on by advanced age.
Despite two massive heartattacks in 1996 and 1998, Mr. Iyengar, with his nearlegendary regimen and discipline, kept up a punishing teaching schedule, touring Russia and China in recent years