Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams - 26 August, 2014

Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams

The ‘right to travel abroad’ is a fundamental right, but it is “not an absolute one,” and it is subject to certain limitations, the Madras High Court has said.
Justice M. Venugopal made the observation in response to a contention by an accused, charge-sheeted by the CBI in a serious crime, that no one could be deprived of his or her right to travel abroad under Article 21 of the Constitution, except according to the procedure established by law.
Dismissing the petition, Mr. Justice Venugopal said the right to go abroad was an individual’s personal liberty. There was no order to impound the petitioner’s passport.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of former Intelligence Bureau Special Director R.N. Ravi as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee for a period of three years.
The Joint Intelligence Committee functions under the National Security Council Secretariat.
Mr. Ravi, a 1976-batch Indian Police Service officer from Kerala, has been appointed in the pay and rank of Secretary to the Government of India. He retired as IB Special Director in 2012.

The ACC has also cleared the proposal for appointment of senior IPS officer Ramesh Chand Tayal as Central Reserve Police Force Special Director-General.
The 1980-batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre officer is presently posted as Additional Director-General of the Sashatra Seema Bal.

The Sait Nagjee Trophy all-India football tournament, once one of the most important events in India’s football calendar and a huge hit in this football-crazy city, is being revived after a gap of 20 years.