Indian-American Amul Thapar has been appointed as Judge in US Court of Appeals
Indian-American Amul Thapar was appointed as a Judge in the
US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on 2nd June 2017.
US President Donald
Trump approved his appointment. Thapar served on the District Court of the
Eastern District of Kentucky before his appoinment to the court of Appeals.
US
Senate chose Thapar with 52-44 votes on party lines.
Indian origin Leo Varadkar set to become next - Ireland
Prime Minister
Ireland's governing Fine Gael Party elected Leo Varadkar as
its new leader to succeed Enda Kenny as the Prime Minister on 2nd June 2017.
He
is a gay son of an Irish nurse and a doctor of Indian origin.
Bicycle Patrols for better policing launched by - Delhi
Police
Delhi Police launched the Bicycle Patrols for better
policing in the capital on 30th May 2017. Union minister of Home Affairs
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir flagged off the the Bicycle Patrols.
In the first phase,
a total of 65 high-end bicycles have been made operational.
IIT Kharagpur develops new tech to make cheaper -
Pollution-free biofuel
Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have developed a new technology
which will change the way biofuel is manufactured by making the process quicker, pollution free
and cheaper.
Faceless fish in unexplored abyss discovered by - Australian
scientists
A team of Australian scientists discovered a faceless fish
and other weird and wonderful creatures in the deep waters of Australia during
their scientific journey to the parts of the ocean never explored before in May
2017.
This search area was the most unexplored environment on earth
Third gravitational wave detection made by - LIGO
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
(LIGO) detected another merger of two black holes forming gravitational waves
in January 2017.
The findings were published in the Physical Review Letters on
1st June 2017.
Prithvi-II missile successfully test-fired on - 2nd June
2017
India Army successfully test-fired its indigenously
developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile from a test range in Odisha as
part of a user trial on 2nd June 2017.
This trial was carried out from a mobile
launcher from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur.
New CEO of Prasar Bharati Shashi Shekar Vempati
Shashi Shekar Vempati was appointed as the Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of Prasar Bharati on 2nd June 2017 for the tenure of five years
from the date of the office assumption.
He was appointed on the recommendation
of the three member committee headed by Vice President M Hamid Ansari.
Vempati
is currently serving as a Part Time Member of the Prasar Bharati Board.
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