Weekly Current Affairs (12 June to 17 June 2023)

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: June 18 2023

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  1. Kerala-cadre IPS officer Nitin Agarwal appointed BSF Director General, currently posted as the Additional DG of operations at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
  2. Elon Musk-led SpaceX inducts 14-year-old Karen Kazee to its Starlink engineering team, becomes youngest engineer to join Elon Musk's SpaceX
  3. Amit Agarwal takes over as UIDAI CEO, Subodh Kumar Singh as Director General of National Testing Agency
  4. IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers appointed as the Chair-elect of of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Board of Governors
  5. Lt Gen Sanjay Mitra takes over as Commander of Strike 1 Corps, replaces Lt Gen Gajendra Joshi
  6. Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) appoints Shri Sanjay Swarup to the role of Chairman and Managing Director of Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR)
  7. Gurbachan Singh Randhawa steps down as chairman of AFI selection committee
  8. Shri Uttam Lal takes over as Director (Personnel), NHPC
  9. Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai assumes Command of Chinar Corps
  10. Jane Marriott appointed as first female British High Commissioner to Pakistan
  11. Sudhansh Pant to be new Health Secretary, Chanchal Kumar to take over as Aviation Secretary
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