Daily Current Affairs Updates

• WHO accords PQP certification to Indian vaccine maker GreenSignal Bio Pharma.
• Maharashtra rolls out Deradicalisation Programme in wake of IS threat.
• US General John Nicholson appointed NATO Commander in Afghanistan

The World Health Organisation (WHO), a UN Health agency has accorded PQP (Pre-qualification of Medicines Programme) certification to Chennai based GreenSignal Bio Pharma.

India has ratified Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC), 1997 which sets parameters on a nuclear operator̢۪s financial liability.

India officially became the Associate Member State of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).

A US Senate Armed Services Committee has confirmed the nomination of General John Nicholson to the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Maharashtra Government has rolled out Deradicalisation Programme for the minority community to counter both home-grown extremism and the global Islamic State (IS) threat.

• Instructions on OROP implementation issued.
• Aruna Sethi appointed as first women head of Indian Cost Accounting Service.
• Rahul Dravid in ICC’s Anti-Corruption Oversight Group.

Batting great Rahul Dravid has been named in ICC̢۪s newly appointed Anti-Corruption Oversight Group as part of the recommendation from its Integrity Working Party of the parent body.

Moving a step closer to fulfilling its promise of implementing the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for military personnel, the government released detailed instructions and tables on its implementation. This is a follow-up to the notification on OROP on November 7 last year.

Principal Adviser (Cost) Mrs. Aruna Sethi has been appointed as head of Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS). With this, she becomes first lady ICoAS officer to the topmost post.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Balram Jakhar passed away in New Delhi. He was 92.

Major General Jai Shanker Menon of India has been appointed as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).