GOI has appointed Navneet Rajan Wasan as the Director General of the Bureau of Police Research & Development. Navneet Rajan currently working as the Special Director General in the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Wasan, a 1980-batch IPS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, is going to fill the post, that had been lying vacant since March 2015 after the retirement of Rajan Gupta.

Indian Postal Service (IPoS) officer Sheuli Burman (1990 batch) has been appointed as the Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in the Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), Bengaluru.

Tidbits

• The Bureau of Police Research and Development was set up on August 1970 for the modernization of Police Forces. It is headquartered in New Delhi.
• At present it has 4 divisions – Research, Development, Training and Correctional Administration.
• The Indian Postal Services was founded in April 1774. It is  headquartered in New Delhi.
• Ms Kavery Banerjee is the present Chairman of the Postal Services Board.
• The postal service is under the Department of Posts, which is part of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of India.

GK Questions

• Where is the highest post office in the world is located? Hikkim, Himachal Pradesh.
• What is the Slogan of Indian Postal Service? Dak Seva Jan Seva
• The National Philatelic Museum of India was inaugurated in _______? New Delhi