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YC Modi, an IPS officer who was part of a Special Investigation Team that inquired into the 2002 Gujarat riots, will head the country's top anti-terror body, the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Senior IPS officer Y C Modi, who was part of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team that probed the 2002 Gujarat riot cases, was today named chief of the National Investigation Agency.

As many as 1,200 cows - mostly abandoned, sick and injured - have found a saviour in 59-year-old German national Friederike Irina Bruning. When she landed in India from Berlin in 1978 as a tourist, she had no inkling of the life destiny had in store for her.

Back in September 1965, the Chief of Air Staff was summoned to the Defence Minister's office. Pakistan was targetting the vital town of Akhnoor in Jammu and Kashmir as part of Operation Grand Slam. The army needed air support. The government needed to know how quickly the Indian Air Force would be ready for operations. Air Force Chief Arjan Singh replied in his characteristic nonchalance, "...in an hour".

Noted scientist Sekhar Basu was today given one-year extension as Atomic Energy Secretary, till mid September next year.

Achutha Reddy, a psychiatrist from Telangana who was stabbed and killed in the US, allegedly by an Indian-American patient, is being credited by those he treated as a lifesaver.

An 18-year-old pilot in Australia has set the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to take a solo trip around the globe in an aircraft.

A team of six naval officers are starting a historic and gruelling around-the-world mission on Sunday -- the first circumnavigation of the globe by an all-female crew of the Indian navy.

Journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead at her home in Bengaluru last night, was a fierce activist, who openly expressed her pro-Naxal and Leftist views.

Details about Ri's life and career are sparse, but she was reportedly born in 1943 to a poor family in what is now the southeastern part of the country and attended theater school in Pyongyang.

On teacher's day, google doodle paid tribute to the birth anniversary of India's celebrated teacher and its first vice president, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

India celebrates teachers' day today to commemorate the birth of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, we tell you about celebrities who served as teachers at a point in their lives.

Former union home secretary Raj Kumar Singh has been been given the tasked to lead the Power Ministry as Minister of State (Independent Charge) in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third cabinet reshuffle today. He has also been given the responsibility ofNew and Renewable Energy Ministry.

Nine ministers join Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet today were told that they were chosen with great consideration. Meeting with them before the oath ceremony, PM Modi reportedly told the ministers to perform and "do a good job".

Noted economist Rajiv Kumar today took over as the vice-chairman of government think tank NITI Aayog.