India, April 1 -- The government on Tuesday appointed Vir Vikram Yadav as director general of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), moved Abhishek Singh out of the India AI Mission to head the National Testing Agency (NTA), and named Chanchal Kumar secretary in the ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B), among a series of senior bureaucratic changes approved by the appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC).

Yadav, a 1996-batch IAS officer of the Odisha cadre, takes over India's aviation safety regulator from Faiz Ahmed Kidwai - a 1996-batch officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre who has been appointed additional secretary in the department of personnel and training. Yadav was serving as additional secretary in the Unio...