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Air Marshal VR Chaudhary assumed the post of Air Officer Commanding in Chief of the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force.
Air Marshal VR Chaudhary was appointed as a fighter pilot in the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force in the year 1982.
He has experience of flying destructive fighter aircraft like MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-29 Sukhui-30 MKI.
Air Marshal VR Chaudhary has been appointed in place of Air Marshal B Suresh, the Chief of Western Air Command of the current Indian Air Force.

The current food minister of the state of Mizoram, C. Lalarinsanga launched the Green AG project in the state of Mizoram.
He introduced the scheme to Dampa Tiger Reserve in Mamit district of West Mizoram and Thorangtlang wildlife sanctuary in Lunglei district in the southern part of the state covering more than 30 villages.
The project aims to catalyze transformational change of India's agricultural sector to achieve national and global environmental benefits and to conserve important biodiversity and forest landscapes.

Ashish Bhatia appointed as the new Director General of Gujarat Police.
Along with this, new police chiefs of three major cities of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara were also appointed.
Sanjay Srivastava, a 1987 batch IPS officer, was appointed as the new Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad and Anupam Singh Gehlot, a 1989 batch IPS officer, was named as the new Commissioner of Police in Vadodara.
While RB Brahmabhatta was appointed as the new Commissioner of Police, Surat.

Smartphone maker Apple has become the world's most valuable company according to the 2020 quarterly report.
Apple company stock closed at 425.04 SENSEX and the company registered market registration investment reached $ 1.82 trillion. Which recorded an increase of 10%.
Last year, the Saudi Aramco Company had a market registration of $ 1.76 trillion, according to which it was the first listed company in the world, but in the 2020 quarter it has become the second largest valued company in the world.

Samajwadi Party veteran Amar Singh died in a hospital in Singapore.
He was considered very close to Mulayam Singh Yadav and his brother Shivpal Yadav.
Amar Singh was born in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, in the year 2010, he resigned from all posts of Samajwadi Party. Then Mulayam Singh Yadav soon joined him in the party.
But in the year 2017, he was expelled from the Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav, which ended his second term in the SP party.

Jin Liqun was appointed the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for the next five years for the second time.
Jin Liqun's second term will begin on January 16, 2021.
The Beijing-based multilateral financial institution, under the chairmanship of Liqun, has grown from 57 founding members to more than 100 accepted members.
Currently, India holds 7.65 percent stake in AIIB while China holds 26.63 percent stake in the organization.

Northern Railway ran a 46 wagon Vyapar Mala Express train for Jirania in Tripura.
With this Vyapar Mala Express, wheat was loaded in 34 wagons by the Food Corporation of India from Guiana station in Ferozepur division and rice and pulses were loaded in the remaining wagons.
Railways earned over 94 runs with the help of this express train.
The train left from Delhi Kishanganj to Chirania and reached its destination by covering a distance of 2673 km from Punjab to Tripura.

The Madhya Pradesh government has started a public awareness campaign called "Ek mask Anek Zindagi".
The Madhya Pradesh government has considered masks as a simple and effective means to prevent corona infection in the state.
For this purpose, he also started a public awareness chariot in the city.
Under this campaign, poor and middle class people will be provided free masks and important information related to prevention and related to Covid-19 will also be given to them.
This public awareness campaign started by Madhya Pradesh is being highly appreciated.

Union Consumer Minister Ram Vilas Paswan included the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland and Uttarakhand under the One Nation One Card scheme.
Under the National Food Security Act, more than 65 crore beneficiaries in these 24 states will be provided ration card portability.
Apart from these four states, in these 20 states like Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Odisha, Punjab , Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, and Uttar Pradesh have already been added to this scheme.