Committee approves appointment of 35 bureaucrats, including Deputy Election Commissioner
New Delhi: The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has approved the appointment of 35 officers from various all-India services, including IAS, IPS, IRSS, ITS, IRS, IES, and IRTS, to key administrative positions.
Madhup Vyas, an IAS officer from the AGMUT cadre, has been appointed as the Deputy Election Commissioner for a five-year term. Mukund Agarwal (IAS, 2008 batch, Rajasthan) will serve as the CEO of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana under the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, also for five years.
IAS officers Prasanna R. and Sushma Chauhan have been designated as joint secretaries in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Kamala Kant Tripathy, a 1999-batch officer of the Indian Economic Service (IES), has been appointed joint secretary at the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), NITI Aayog.
Prajakta L. Verma has been assigned as joint secretary in the Department of Atomic Energy, while Lakhpat Singh Choudhary will serve in the Ministry of Coal. Saket Kumar (IAS, 2009 batch, Bihar) has been named joint secretary in the Department of Commerce.
Other appointments include Satinder Kumar Bhalla as secretary of the North Eastern Council Secretariat, Ajay Kumar as joint secretary in the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, and Devesh Deval (IAS, 2004 batch, Maharashtra) as joint secretary in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
Raghav Langer has been confirmed as secretary of the National Medical Commission, and Jyoti Yadav will take charge as joint secretary in the National Health Authority (NHA). Prem Chandra Maurya has been appointed joint secretary in the Ministry of Heavy Industries, while Armstrong Pame will serve in the Department of Higher Education.
In addition, Samir Kumar from the Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) has been appointed joint secretary at the National Human Rights Commission. Pradeep Kumar Jha and Isha will assume roles as joint secretaries in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
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Trump’s fresh threat to bomb Iran amid reports of deal to end war
Washington (PTI): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Iran with more bombing if it doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz, amid a report that the warring sides were nearing an agreement to end the war.
US media outlet Axios reported, quoting US officials and two other sources, that the US and Iran were getting close to a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations.
The US expects Iranian responses on several key points over the next 48 hours, Axios reported, adding that nothing has been agreed yet. This was the closest the parties had been to an agreement since the war began.
"Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be at an end, and the highly effective Blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be OPEN TO ALL, including Iran," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
"If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before," Trump said.
According to Axios, the deal would involve Iran committing to a moratorium on nuclear enrichment, the US agreeing to lift its sanctions and release billions in frozen Iranian funds, and both sides lifting restrictions around transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
It said many of the terms laid out in the memo would be contingent on a final agreement being reached, leaving the possibility of renewed war or an extended limbo in which the hot war has stopped, but nothing is truly resolved.
