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[CA] Persons in News - May 2015




Appointments / Takeover [May 2015]
J Jayalalithaa
Took over as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after Karnataka High Court acquitted her in DA case
K V Kamath
Eminent banker appointed as the new (first) head of the New development Bank (BRICS Bank); HQ of BRICS Bank at Shanghai
Satish Reddy
Appointed as new Chairman of National Safety Council
Achal Kumar Jyoti
Appointed as Election Commissioner; CEC is Nasim Zaidi
Surender Singh
Director General of CISF
Nikesh Arora
President, Softbank Corp (Japan)
Cyriac Joseph
Interim Chairman of NHRC
Arvind saxena
Appointed as member of UPSC; first officer from RAW to become a member of UPSC
Daniel Mookhey
Indian-origin politician in Australia; took oath with Bhagavad Gita as new MP of new South Wales
Harbahajan Kaur Dheer
Indian-origin; first Asian to be elected as mayor in UK; Mayor of Ealing Council in London
Mohan Kumar
New Defence secretary
Manabi Bandopadhyay
First transgender to become principal of a college; Krishnagar Women’s College in West Bengal
Christopher
New Director General of DRDO
Pradeep Kumar Sinha
Next Cabinet Secretary; replaces Ajit Singh
George Yeo
Chancellor of Nalanda University


State
New Governor
Old Governor
Meghalaya
V. Shanmuganathan
Keshari Nath Tripathi
Jharkhand
Draupadi Murmu
Syed Ahmed
Tripura
Tathagata Roy
P B Acharya (Acting)
Arunachal Pradesh
J P Rakkhowa
Nirbhay Sharma
Manipur
Syed Ahmed
K K Paul
Mizoram
Nirbhay Sharma
Aziz Qureshi

Deaths [May 2015]
Ruth Rendell
Crime Writer; UK; Pen-name: Barbara Vine
Lu Ping
Chinese Diplomat; oversaw Hong Kong’s transition from British to Chinese Sovereignty in 1997
Amalendu Guha
Eminent historian and Social Scientist
Ninad Bedekar
Eminent historian and orator; instrumental in bringing about the ban on American scholar James Laine’s book on Shivaji titled Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
Chris Burden
Pop Artist
Suchitra Bhattacharya
Eminent Bengali Writer
Aruna Shanbaug
Nurse of Mumbai’s KEM hospital; died after 42 years in coma following a sexual assault by a hospital ward boy; in 2011 she was in topic when ‘mercy killing’ (euthanasia) for her
John Nash
Eminent Mathematician


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