Ravinder jain appointed ndma secretary
New Delhi: Senior IAS officer Ravinder Kumar Jain was on Thursday appointed as Secretary of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Jain, a 1981 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, is working as Additional Secretary in Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Rs 1,000-CR GIVEN TO Barak missiles, ClAIMS GOVT
New Delhi: Government is understood to have cleared a deal expected to be worth over Rs 1,000 crore for procuring Barak missiles from Israel whose acquisition was pending for over last five years in view of a CBI probe.The Cabinet Committee on Security is understood to have cleared the deal for procuring the Israeli air defence missiles which would be deployed on Navy's aircraft carriers that are sans air defence missile systems to target an incoming enemy aircraft or missile, sources said here. The missiles are to be put on board aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya and INS Virat — Navy's two operational warships which have been without air defence cover.