Name the former Rajasthan chief minister and BJP leader whose resignation from the post of leader of opposition in Rajasthan assembly was accepted recently, ending nearly five months of defiance of the BJP party leadership by her.

Rashad Hussain was named deputy associate counsel to president Barack Obama in January 2009. Previously, he served as trial attorney in the US department of justice.

Taslima Nasrin is a Bangladeshi gynaecologist-turned-author who has been living in exile since 1994. From a modest literary profile in the late 1980s, she rose to global fame by the end of the twentieth century owing to her radical feminist views and her criticism of Islam in particular and religion in general.

Pauline Lee Hanson is the former leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party (now called the One Nation Party), which has a populist, anti-immigration agenda. In 2006, she was named by The Bulletin as one of the 100 most influential Australians of all time.

Vasundhara Raje is a member of the BJP. She was the first woman chief minister of Rajasthan. She was the chief minister of Rajasthan from December 2003 till December 2008. She is daughter of Vijayaraje Scindia and Jivaji Rao Scindia of Gwalior, members of the prominent Scindia ex-royal family.

Ashton B Carter is a United States national security professional. Carter served as assistant secretary of defence for international security policy in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1996. He was nominated to his current post on March 18, 2009.

YS Dadwal is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the 1974 batch. He was formerly the special commissioner of Delhi police.

The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right political party formed by John Tyndall from a splinter group of the National Front in 1982.

Union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde declared Palakkad the country's first “total electrified district” on February 16, 2010 at a function held in Ottapalam. The total-electrification campaign in Palakkad was taken up as a major programme by the LDF government after it came to power in 2006.

Husain has been in exile and living in Dubai and London alternately since 2006 after some Hindu outfits started baying for his blood over his art works which allegedly depicted Hindu goddesses in the nude. Art galleries displaying his work were subjected to vandalism. Besides, a large number of legal cases were filed against him in courts all over the country. At present, according to people in the know, there are nearly 900 cases pending against him.

Defexpo is the land and naval systems exhibition held biennially in New Delhi. Defexpo has grown into an important exhibition on the global defence and aerospace exhibitions calendar and is considered a ‘must attend’ event in the Asian region by global arms companies.