RANCHI, Jan. 1 -- A 1994-batch IPS officer Tadasha Mishra has been appointed Jharkhand Director General of Police, a day before her retirement, according to a government notification. She is the first woman to head the Jharkhand police. Mishra was holding the additional charge of DGP and was scheduled to retire from service on Wednesday. She will be the full-time DGP for a period of two years, an official said. "... Tadasha Mishra is appointed and posted to the post of Director General and Inspector General of Police, Jharkhand (HoPF)," said the notification issued by the home, prison and disaster management department on Tuesday night. Mishra, a 1994-batch IPS officer, had assumed the charge of acting DGP on November 6 after former director general of police Anurag Gupta resigned from his post. Before her elevation, she was serving as Special Secretary in the Home, Prisons and Disaster Management Department. A native of Odisha, she has held several key positions in Jharkhand, including ADG, IG, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Giridih and Bokaro, and City SP of Ranchi....