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*📚GK/CA/GA/CE | Thursday, 29 Nov. 2018*
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1)🔴 Sunil Arora Appointed New Chief Election Commissioner of India
President Ram Nath Kovind appointed senior IAS officer Sunil Arora as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). He will be the 23rd CEC and shall succeed OP Rawat who retires in December 2018. He will have nearly two-and-a-half-year tenure as CEC and General Election 2019 will be conducted under his stewardship.
🔗Sunil Arora
He is 1980-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre. Prior to this appointment, he was Election Commissioner since September 2017. At centre he has served as skill development secretary before was appointed as top bureaucrat in Information & Broadcasting Ministry. He also has worked in ministries and departments such as Finance, Textiles and Planning Commission and was also CMD of Indian Airlines for five years. In his home state, he was one of the most trusted officers of Vasundhara Raje during her earlier term as Rajasthan Chief Minister. He was her principal secretary from 2005 to 2008. He had retired from service in April 2016, following which he was appointed as advisor to Prasar Bharti and then as director general & CEO of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs.
🔗Election Commission of India (ECI)
It is permanent and independent constitutional body established directly by Constitution of India under Article 324 to ensure fair and fair elections in the country.
🔗Composition:
It is multi-member body and currently has three members including Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and two election commissioners (ECs). They all are appointed by the President.
🔗Service conditions and tenure of office CEC and ECs:
They are determined by an act of parliament titled The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Conditions of Service) Act, 1991. They hold office for term of six years or until they attain age of 65 years, whichever is earlier.
🔗Powers CEC and ECs:
They have equal power and receive equal salary, allowances and other perquisites, which are similar to judge of Supreme Court. In case of difference of opinion amongst CEC and Election Commissioner, matter is decided by Commission by majority.
2)🏆🏆🥇Magnus Carlsen beats Fabiano Caruana to win World Chess Championship 2018 🏆🏆♚♛♜♝♞♟
It is his 4th world championship title overall (2013,2014,2016) The 27-year-old won three successive rapid-chess tiebreakers in a display of intuition and guile that overwhelmed the 26-year-old American in London on 28/11/2018.
🎷F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2018 results:
Lewis Hamilton makes history after 11th win of year and 73rd overall
🏆🌐 Lewis Hamilton has ended his fifth title-winning Formula One season in style with victory from pole position for Mercedes in the final Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to become the first driver to collect more than 400 points in a season on 25/11/2018
🔴 Latest Appointment📣📢
Nageshwara Rao Guntur appointed as Atomic Energy Regulatory Board chief(AERB)
Renowned scientist Nageshwara Rao Guntur has been appointed as chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) On 27/11/2018
His appointment as the AERB chairperson will be for three years.
3) ISRO launches India's first hyperspectral imaging satellite along with 30 foreign satellites
🚀 At exactly 9.58 am on Thursday, Indian Space Research Organisation's reliable workhorse PSLV rocket soared into the skies from Sriharikota's first launchpad carrying with it India's first hyperspectral imaging satellite (HysIS), an advanced earth observation satellite, and 30 foreign satellites.
During the 112-minute-long mission, PSLV C43 first delivered India's primary satellite into the polar sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 630 km 17 minutes and 27 seconds after the launch and is now in the process of delivering 30 international co-passengers after descending to 504 km altitude in two batches. The 30 commercial satellites, including one micro and 29 nano satellites, are from eight countries.
Of the total 30 satellites whose combined weight is 261.5 kg, 23 are from the US. In another first for Isro, satellites from Australia, Colombia, Malaysia and Spain are being flown for the first time by an Indian rocket. This launch is the second mission in a month as 15 days ago on November 17 Isro had successfully launched Gsat29 communication satellite from Sriharikota.
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