IPS officer Praveen Sood today took charge as Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A 1986 batch officer, Mr. Sood was earlier serving as Director General of Police in Karnataka. Mr. Sood has served in various important positions during his long tenure of about 37 years. He has supervised the investigation of high-profile cases involving high net-worth individuals. He worked for the strengthening of Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks & Systems and Interoperable Criminal Justice System networks in Karnataka.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the inaugural run of Vande Bharat Express from Dehradun to Delhi yesterday via video conferencing. This is the first Vande Bharat introduced in Uttarakhand. It will herald a new era of comfortable travel experience, especially for the tourists travelling to the state.

The train has been indigenously built and is equipped with advanced safety features including the Kavach technology.

In Hockey, the Indian junior men’s hockey team registered 3-1 win over Japan in their second Pool A game of the Men's Junior Asia Cup 2023 in Salalah, Oman, yesterday.

This was India's second win in as many games at the Men's Junior Asia Cup 2023. India will next play Pakistan tomorrow before playing against Thailand in their last pool game on Sunday.

The Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO will launch GSLV-F12 Navigation satellite on May 29th at 10.42 hrs from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. This is a return to flight mission carrying the next generation NavIC satellite that will replace the IRNSS-1G satellite launched in 2016. NavIC is a constellation of seven satellites offering the standard position service for civilian users and restricted service for strategic users. Three satellites of the constellation are placed in the geostationary orbit and four satellites in the inclined geosynchronous orbit. The ground network consists of a control centre, range and integrity monitoring stations and two-way ranging stations. NavIC signals covering 1500kms around India are designed to provide user position accuracy better than 20 meters and timing accuracy better than 50 nanoseconds.

President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the new greenfield building of the High Court of Jharkhand and dedicated the largest court building of the country to the nation. A virtual tour of the High Court spread over an area of 165 acres of land was showcased before the President. The new eco-friendly building of the High Court of Jharkhand has been equipped with energy-saving systems.

On this occasion, the President said that the judiciary should bring more innovative ways for enhancing the access of people towards justice. She emphasised upon the use of rich linguistic skills and developed technology for a wider reach of people to Courts.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched the 5.1 version of the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) - Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) to enhance the connectivity to remote areas of the country and achieve last mile connectivity through helicopters. This round has been designed specifically for helicopter routes. The Ministry highlighted that airfare caps have been reduced by as much as 25 percent to make flying in helicopters more affordable for passengers. It further said that Viability Gap Funding (VGF) caps for the operators have been increased substantially for both single and twin-engine helicopters to enhance financial viability for operating the awarded routes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the inaugural run of Vande Bharat Express train from Dehradun to Delhi this morning through video conferencing. This will be the first Vande Bharat to be introduced in Uttarakhand. The Prime Minster will also dedicate the newly electrified rail line sections in Uttarakhand. The state will have its entire rail route 100 percent electrified with this. Trains run by electric traction on the electrified sections will result in increase in speed of trains and enhance haulage capacity.

The Union Public Service Commission announced the result of the Civil Services Examination 2022 on Tuesday. Ishita Kishore has topped the examination while Garima Lohia secured the second rank. Uma Harathi N secured the third position and Smriti Mishra got the fourth rank.
 
Talking exclusively to Akashvani News, Ishita Kishore who hails from Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh said, her mother was her backbone in getting this achievement. She highlighted that women empowerment is the area where she would like to work after joining the service.

President Droupadi Murmu is on a three-day visit to Jharkhand starting on 24th May 2023. She will inaugurate the new building of the High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi. 

On 25th May, Thursday, President Murmu will grace a conference of more than 500 Women Self Help Groups organized by Tribal Affairs Ministry at Khunti. 

India and Australia signed agreements in the field of migration and mobility partnership  and on Green Hydrogen task force.

India and Australia today signed agreements in the field of migration and mobility partnership  and on Green Hydrogen task force. The Memorandum of Understandings  were exchanged after a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi  and  his  Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Sydney.