Rakesh Asthana appointed CBI special director

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October 23, 2017

New Delhi, Oct 23: Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana was on Monday appointed the special director of the CBI. Asthana, a 1984-batch IPS officer, had been serving in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as additional director.

He is among seven other senior police officers of the 1984 batch promoted on Monday by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, according to a notification by the Department of Personnel and Training.

Javeed Ahmed, a 1984-batch IPS officer who served as DGP of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and launched key police modernisation projects such as the "Twitter Seva" in the state, was given the rank of special DG at the Centre.

Ahmed, a former CBI joint director who was posted at the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science under the home ministry, has been given the rank of special DG on "in-situ" basis, the notification said.

Deepak Mishra of AGMU cadre and Sudeep Lakhtakia of Telangana cadre have been promoted as special DG in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

Both were serving in the CRPF as additional DG. A P Maheshwari of UP cadre and Rajesh Ranjan of Bihar cadre, who held the post of additional DG in the Border Security Force, have been promoted as special DG in the force.

Gurbachan Singh of Odisha cadre and Arvind Kumar - posted as additional director in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) - have been given the ranks of a special director.

While Singh has been given the position against an existing vacancy, Kumar has been granted the rank and pay of special director on "in-situ" basis.

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June 17,2020

New Delhi, Jun 17: With an increase of 10,974 new cases and 2,003 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count reached 3,54,065 on Wednesday while the toll due to the virus stands at 11,903.

This includes 1,55,227 active cases and 1,86,935 cured, discharged and migrated patients, according to the Union Health Ministry.

While the spike in the number of cases has stayed below the 11-thousand mark, the death toll has increased manifold today as compared to the 380 death reported on Tuesday.

Maharashtra with 1,13,445 cases continues to be the worst-affected state in the country with 50,057 active cases while 57,851 patients have been cured and discharged in the state so far. The toll due to COVID-19 has crossed the five thousand mark and reached 5,537 in the state.

It is followed by Tamil Nadu with 48,019 and the national capital with 44,688 confirmed cases.

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April 20,2020

Mumbai, Apr 20: At least 53 media persons from Mumbai have tested positive for coronavirus, a city civic official said on Monday.

During a special camp organised at the Azad Maidan here on April 16 and 17 for COVID-19 testing of scribes, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) collected swab samples of 171 mediapersons, including electronic and print media journalists, photographers and cameramen.

“Out of the 171 mediapersons, 53 tested positive for coronavirus,” BMC spokesperson Vijay Khabale said, adding that most of those who tested positive are asymptomatic at present.

All the mediapersons found infected with coronavirus will be kept in isolation and a process was underway to find out suitable places to the purpose, he said.

Efforts were also on to trace their high and low risk contacts.

Till Sunday, Mumbai recorded 2,724 coronavirus cases and 132 deaths due to the disease.

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January 2,2020

Perambalur, Jan 2: Veteran Tamil writer Nellai Kannan was arrested in Perambalur for criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah during a protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

The Tirunelveli Police had registered the FIR against the writer for the speech delivered at a meeting, which was called by the Social Democratic Party of India on December 29 last year.

The police have booked him on the basis of multiple complaints filed by BJP leaders.

Kannan has been booked under Sections 504, 505(1) and 505(2) of the Indian Penal Code.

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