current affairs 30 May 2015

Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as President of FIFA.

•  He defeated Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan as Prince
•  This will be his fifth term. 65th FIFA Congress held in Zurich chose him for this post.

 G Satheesh Reddy has been appointed as Scientific Advisor to Union Defence Minister.

• He is appointed as Scientific Advisor to Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.

• Scientist G Satheesh Reddy is Director at Research Centre Imarat (RCI) & Programme Director of MRSAM, DRDO.

Pradeep Kumar Sinha has been appointed as Cabinet Secretary to Union Government.

• He will succeed Ajit Seth who has been holding the position for the last four years.

• Sinha, a 1977-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

• The Prime Minister has approved the appointment of Sinha as the next Cabinet Secretary with effect from June 13.

Author of the "The Pakistan Paradox" is - Christrophe Jaffrelot

• Christophe Jaffrelot is a French political scientist specialising in South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan. 

• He is director of the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po and director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
  
•  Pakistan Paradox is the definitive history of democracy in Pakistan, and its survival despite ethnic strife, Islamism and deepseated elitism.

Amrita Shah is the author of Book "Ahmedabad: A City in the World."

• Amrita Shah has been a columnist and contributing editor with the Indian Express and was the founding editor of Elle India. 
• Among the books she has written is a biography of Vikram Sarabhai (Penguin India, 2007). 
• Shah received fellowships from the New India Foundation, the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council and Fulbright to write Ahmedabad: A City in the World. 
• She is currently visiting faculty at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.