Weekly Current Affairs (12 June to 17 June 2023)

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

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