Krishna Rao named Andhra Pradesh's Chief Secretary designate

1.    Krishna Rao named Andhra Pradesh's Chief Secretary designate

i. Mr. I.Y.R. Krishna Rao, Senior IAS Officer (Andhra Pradesh cadre, 1979 batch) and presently serving as the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, has been named the Chief Secretary designate for the successor State of Andhra Pradesh.

ii. Mr.Krishna Rao also called on the Governor E.S.L.Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan on Saturday.

iii. Mr.Krishna Rao — who held key posts in Revenue, Finance, Industries, Agriculture and served as Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam Board Executive Officer — was one of the senior officers in the reckoning for the post of Chief Secretary of united Andhra Pradesh. 

2.    Shazia Ilmi, Capt Gopinath quit AAP

i. In a major setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a key founder member Shazia Ilmi quit the party on Saturday citing ‘lack of inner party democracy”.

ii. Capt. G.R Gopinath, who launched the first Indian low-cost carrier, also made an announcement to quit the Aam Aadmi Party.

iii. Addressing a crowded press conference here to announce her resignation, Ilmi, who contested and lost the Delhi Assembly election as well as the recent Lok Sabha election from Ghaziabad, blamed a ‘clique that had encircled Kejriwal’ for her decision to quit.

3.    Indian-American student Akhil Rekulapelli won National Geographic Bee Championship

i. Indian-American student Akhil Rekulapelli on 21 May 2014 won the National Geographic Bee championship in Washington, USA. 

ii. Ameya Mujumdar from Florida stood second, while California's Tuvya Bergson-Michelson finished third. Ameya Mujumdar is also an Indian American student.

iii. Akhil won the 50000 US dollar college scholarship given to the winner of the National Geographic Bee Championship.  Akhil also received a trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic's Lindblad Expeditions

iv. The National Geographic Bee is an annual geography contest sponsored by the National Geographic Society. The bee, held every year since 1989, is open to students in the fourth through eighth grade in participating American schools.