Olympic champions Sushil Kumar and Vijender Kumar have been selected for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for this year. Government has announced the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards, Arjuna Awards, Dhyan Chand Awards, Dronacharya Awards and Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar for the year 2009 today.

Considering the spectacular performance of Shri Vijender in Boxing and Shri Sushil Kumar in Wrestling, both Bronze Medalists in Beijing Olympics, 2008, the Government has accepted the recommendation of the Selection Committee to confer the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award on both of them.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardees will receive a cash prize of Rs.7.5 lakh each apart from citation.

After the recent raids of CBI at the AICTE’s offices the Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education, Prof. R.A. Yadav has been axed by the HRD Ministery.

Yadav, who is under investigation for a criminal offence, has been placed under suspension today so that there is no possibility of investigation being influenced by his continuation in office, the official source of the Ministry said.

After concerns raised over the security arrangements by the Commonwealth games Federation Chairman Mike Fennel during his recent visit in Indian capital the a post of Special Commissioner has been created for 2010 games.

Ajay Chadha (AGMU-1977) DGP, Arunachal Pradesh is transferred and posted as Special Commissioner of Police Common Wealth Games-2010. The order has been issued in this regard by the Lt. Governor Tejendra Khanna today. Fennel paid a visit to Indian capital on 21st July and raised the issue of security arrangements for 2010 games. Though he was satisfied by the progress for the games preperations he asked that what arrangements are there for the safety of international players. After this a special post has been created for the security of 2010 games.

Several other transfers has been made by the Lt. Governor in the police department. M S Upadhaye (AGMU-1987) posted in the Office of Home Guard and Civil Defence is transferred as Joint CP, Riot Cell whereas Joint CP, Riot Cell S. Vasudeo Rao (AGMU-1986) is transferred as Joint CP, Home Guard and Civil Defence.

DCP / HQ (PHQ) H.M. Meena (DANIPS-85) is transferred as DCP, Rashtrapati Bhawan whereas DCP, Rashtrapati Bhawan, S.B.S. Tyagi (AGMU-2000) is transferred to Andaman & Nicobar Island. ACP, Patel Nagar (Central District) Mangesh Kashyap is transferred as Additional DCP, Headquarters.

India’s first indigenously built nuclear submarine named ‘Arihant’ meaning ‘Destroyer of the Enemies’ was launched on 26 Jul 09, at the Ship Building Center, Visakhapatnam. With this launch India has joined a elite club of nations which have the technological capability to build and operate nuclear propelled submarines.

The launch ceremony was graced by the prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Defence Minister AK Antony, Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Rajasekhar Reddy, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta and high ranking officials from the Navy, Department of Atomic Energy, and Defence Research and Development Organisation.

Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has asked the state to prepare their plans to improve quality of Vice-Chancellors of the University. The HRD Minister has also asked all states today to establish their accreditation agency for the quality education in the college.
In a contrary to his proposed uniform school system in the country the minister talked about decentralization system for accreditation agency for higher education. Inaugurating the conference of Education secretaries of the states in Delhi today the Union HRD Minister said that states should also have an accreditation system for their colleges.
The HRD Minister said that all state governments must prepare a vision document for higher education. This document will contain the state’s vision for higher education till 2020, including the current state of affairs, like the number of universities and colleges, states’ budgetary outlay in this sector etc.