The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has appointed Dr Renu Singh as the next Director of the Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehradun, Uttrakhand.
AP Abdullahkutty has been elected as the chairperson of the Haj Committee of India, while for the first time, two women have been chosen as its vice-chairpersons- Munnawari Begum and Mafuja Khatun.