A senior IAS officer, Rajendra Kumar, is tipped to become
the Principal Secretary to Arvind Kejriwal, who is set to take over as Chief
Minister of Delhi later this week.
Like Mr Kejriwal, 47-year-old Kumar, at present Higher
Education Secretary, is an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur.
Mr Kumar met Mr Kejriwal at his residence.
Chief
Secretary D M Spolia also met Mr Kejriwal. They were described as courtesy
calls.
Mr Kejriwal may be sworn-in as Chief Minister once
President Pranab Mukherjee clears the Lt Governor’s proposal in this regard.
Meanwhile, newly elected AAP MLAs Rakhi Birla from Mangolpuri
constituency, Somnath Bharti from Malviya Nagar and Manish Sisodia from
Patparganj, who are tipped to become Ministers, met him.
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Sports News
England spinner Graeme Swann announced his retirement from
international and first-class cricket midway through the Ashes Series
The surprise announcement came days after England lost
the coveted Ashes in the third Test in Perth to fall 3-0 behind in the
five-test series.Swann had long been Australia's Ashes tormentor.
He played a
key role in England's run of three successive series wins against their
arch-rivals Australia.
Swann made his test debut against India at
Chennai in 2008 wherein he took four wickets. He retired as the sixth highest
Test wicket-takers of England.
He took 255 wickets from his 60 matches at an
average of 29.96.
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International News
India has offered its expertise to Yemen in election
management and electoral roll preparations.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was
signed between the two nations during a visit by India’s Chief Election
Commissioner (CEC) V.S. Sampath to Yemen.
He is currently on a visit to the country at the
invitation of Judge Mohammed Hussain Al-Hakimi, President of the Supreme
Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) of Yemen.
India being the largest functional democracy in the
world and, given India’s vast experience in the conduct of free and fair
elections over a period of 6 decades, and also in putting to use successfully
modern technologies in conduct of elections and declaration of election
results, Yemen had sought India’s expertise and cooperation,” the statement
said.
New Records
Zaheer Khan became the fourth Indian
bowler to claim 300 wickets in Test Cricket. Jacques Kallis was his 300th
wicket in international test cricket on the fifth day of the first cricket test
match against South Africa in Johannesburg at the Wanderers Stadium.
With the 300 wickets, Zaheer joined the club of bowlers
of India, who has taken 300 wickets which are--
- Kapil Dev (434 wickets),
- Anil Kumble (619 wickets)
- Harbhajan Singh (413 wickets).
He also became the most
successful left arm fast bowler after
Wasim Akram of Pakistan (414 wickets) and
Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka (355 Wickets).
Technology News
Apple signs iPhone deal with China Mobile
US computer giant Apple has signed a deal to bring its
iPhone to China Mobile the world's largest carrier.
Chine Mobile, which has 760
million customers will make the two largest iPhone models the 5s and 5c
available from next month.
Last month China Mobile was one of three network to be
awarded China's first 4G licences.
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