The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms Nirupama Rao as the next Foreign Secretary and Mr M N Prasad as the Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Ms Rao, an IFS officer of 1973 batch, is presently Ambassador of India to China and posted in Beijing. She would take over as [...]

Bharti AXA Life Insurance today said it has appointed Mr Sandeep Nanda as its Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Prior to this, Mr Nanda was with Bharti AXA Investment Managers as Head of Investment Research.
He would also head the investment research team at Bharti AXA Life that plays a key role in the systematic approach followed [...]

A fire was broken out at the Congress headquarters at New Delhi this afternoon. The incident occurred in the media conference room of the AICC when the air conditioner caught fire at around 15:25 pm.
Three fire engines were immediately rushed to the spot. The fire was extinguished within 10 minutes.

India’s federal Cabinet has on Thursday said that it has appointed Nandan Nilekani as the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. The authority will help implement a scheme to assign a unique identification number to every Indian. It will also own and operate the database and maintain it.
Mr. Nilekani will have the rank [...]

Delhi Police has on Monday filed a 620 pages chargesheet against five youths arrested in connection with the murder of TV journalist Soumya Viswanathan. All the five persons – Ravi Kapoor, Ajay Sethi, Amit Shukla, Baljit Malik and Ajay Kumar – have also been booked under Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA).
The chargesheet filed [...]

Two Swine Flu cases have been confirmed in Delhi. This is the first instance of a confirmed Swine Flu case in New Delhi. The deadly H1N1 Influenza virus was found in a 35-year-old person, who recently returned from New York. He passed on the virus to his 60-year-old mother. Both mother-son duo have been admitted [...]