9 JUNE 2015: R C Tayal is appointed DG NSG

Ø  In what the Delhi Government described as a bureaucratic coup, a Joint Commissioner of the Delhi Police was ‘unilaterally’ placed at the helm of the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) by Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung. Mr. Jung cleared the appointment of Mukesh Kumar Meena, an IPS officer of the 1989 batch currently in-charge of the New Delhi Range, “without keeping the Chief Minister's office or the Government in the loop.”

Ø  India, Japan and Australia discussed concerns over Chinese reclamation in the South China Sea, and hoped a “ code of conduct” would be agreed to between China and the ASEAN countries to calm tensions in the region. Australia’s top diplomat Peter Varghese, in Delhi for the .rst India- Japan- Australia highlevel trilateral talks, said: “ It’s the pace and the scale of China’s reclamation which is causing some anxiety in the region.”

Ø  The Modi government on Monday appointed former chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes K. V. Chowdary as the Central Vigilance Commissioner ( CVC) and Information Commissioner ( IC) Vijai Singh as the Chief Information Commissioner ( CIC), filling two vacancies that are key to the institutional framework for accountability.

Ø  Senior IPS officer R. C. Tayal has been appointed the new chief of the elite National Security Guard. The 1980- batch AssamMeghalaya cadre officer is at present serving as the Special Director General in the CRPF and is heading its formation in Jammu and Kashmir. He is expected to serve as NSG DG till August next year. NSG was raised in 1984 as a federal contingency force with a specific aim to undertake counter- terror and counter- hijack operations and it was later tasked to protect high- risk VVIPs.

Ø  Group of Seven (G7) leaders agreed on Monday to wean their economies off carbon fuels and supported a global goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but they stopped short of agreeing their own immediate binding targets. In a communiqu? issued after their two-day summit in Bavaria, the G7 leaders said they backed reducing global greenhouse gas emissions at the upper end of a range of 40 to 70 per cent by 2050, using 2010 as a basis. The range was recommended by the IPCC, the United Nations’ climate-change panel. They also backed a global target for limiting the rise in average global temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) compared with pre-industrial levels.