Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams - 28 August, 2014
Current Affairs for BANK, IBPS Exams
28 August 2014
Spolia back as Delhi Chief Secretary
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The Ministry of Home Affairs re-appointed D.M. Spolia as the Chief Secretary of Delhi to replace S.K. Srivastava who is currently holding the post.
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Mr. Spolia, a 1979 batch IAS officer, who was removed from the post by the Aam Aadmi Party government in January, will take over with immediate effect.
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He was working as Financial Commissioner of the Delhi Government since January.
Child rights panel vacancies remain unfilled
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Six important vacancies in the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) have been unfilled since the past ten months.
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The panel currently needs to fill posts for Member (Education), Member (Child Health, Care, Welfare or Child Development) Member (Juvenile Justice or Care of neglected or marginalised children or children with disabilities), Member (elimination of child labour or children in distress), Member (child psychology or sociology) and Member (laws relating to children).
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There are four other vacancies, including those of Deputy Superintendent of Police and inspector.
Set minimum qualification for MPs, MLAs: SC
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The time has come for Parliament to prescribe some minimum qualifications for Parliamentarians/Legislators as prescribed in other fields, the Supreme Court observed.
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Justice Madan Lokur, in his separate but concurring judgment on the PIL filed in 2005 seeking removal of tainted Ministers, recalled the words of the first President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, in the Constituent Assembly that he would have liked to have some qualifications laid down for Members of Legislatures.
