- Manish Desai assumes charge as Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB).
- Manish Desai has taken over the post after the retirement of Rajesh Malhotra, who retired a day earlier. Manish Desai is a 1989-batch Indian Information Service officer.
Press Information Bureau (PIB)
- It was established in June 1919 at Shimla as a small unit under the Ministry of Home Affairs of the British Government.
- Its initial objective was to compile a report on India for presentation to the British Parliament.
- Dr. LF Rushbrook Williams of Allahabad University was the first head of the Publicity Cell and served as Officer on Special Duty.
- In 1941, J Natarajanbecame the first Indianto lead theBureau as Principal Information Officer.
- In 1946the name of the organization was officially changed to thePress Information Bureau.