Anup Kumar Singh appointed as Director-General of NSG
India | October 29, 2019 19:01 ISTAnup Kumar Singh has been appointed as Director-General of the National Security Guard on Tuesday.
Anup Kumar Singh has been appointed as Director-General of the National Security Guard on Tuesday.
The appointment of Singh, a 1985-batch IPS officer, as the DG of the 'black cat commandos' force was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Seven members of elite NSG Commandos led by Lt Col Jay Prakash Kumar successfully scaled Mount Everest the highest peak on earth on 16 May 2019 at 0705 hrs.
The special force has recently asked the Ministry of Home Affairs, under which it functions, to intervene and get an officer from the Army on board soon.
The force was raised in 1984 as a federal contingency force and its primary task is to undertake specialised counter-terror and counter-intelligence operations.
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The decision to deploy the NSG commandos, in counter-terror operations, was taken by the Home Ministry recently.
Sweden also extended support to India's permanent membership of a reformed and expanded United Nations Security Council.
Last December, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told the media here that China's position on India's entry into the NSG remained "unchanged".
India was admitted to Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) on December 8, a development expected to raise New Delhi's stature in the field of non-proliferation besides helping it acquire critical technologies.
China, a key member of the NSG, has been stridently opposing India’s bid primarily on the grounds that New Delhi is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
India said that it remains committed to a unilateral voluntary moratorium on nuclear explosive testing.
The US is looking at ways to "more actively support" India's membership bid to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as the Trump administration considers it a very important matter, a top White House official has said
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The US has reaffirmed its support for India's membership bid to the NSG has called on other members of the elite grouping to back New Delhi's application.
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