WHY IN THE NEWS?                                               

• Rajya Sabha Chairman, M Venkaiah Naidu has appointed Dr PPK Ramacharyulu, who is the secretary in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat since 2018, as the secretary-general. He succeeds Desh Dipak Verma, who demitted office as secretary-general after serving the top post for four years.
• Ramacharyulu is the first insider to have risen from the ranks of the secretariat to the top post in the about 70 years of the Rajya Sabha.