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[CA] Persons in News - July 2015

Persons in News [July 2015]

[Appointments & Deaths]


Appointments
Kruti Tiwari
Ambassador for ‘Digital India’
Jin Liquin
Former Finance Minister of China – President of AIIB
Lord Kamlesh Patel
Became first British-Asian appointee to ECB Management Board (England and Wales Cricket Board)
Rodrigo Oreamuno
Lawyer; Union Government appointed him to arbitrate Vodafone tax case
Oreamuno replaces former Chief Justice of India RC Lahoti, who relived himself in May 2015.
Vodafone already named Yves Fortier of Canada as its nominee on the panel. Now, Oreamuno and Fortier would name a third arbitrator, who will act as a chairman of the tribunal for the case.
Prashant Pathrabe
Appointed as Interim Director of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)
Pathrabe's appointment as Director of FTII comes at a time when the institute is at the centre of a major controversy with students protesting and boycotting classes after government announced its decision to appoint Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of its governing council.
Bhanu Pratap Sharma
Chairperson, FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
Swati Maliwal
Chairperson, Delhi Commission for Women
Maurice Obstfeld
American; Chief Economist of IMF
Ananth Narayanan
CEO, Myntra
Ajay Mathur
Director – General, TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute); succeeded RK Pachauri who was removed from the post over sexual harassment charge
R S Sharma
Chairman, TRAI
S. Davidson Devasirvatham
Intelligence Chief, Tamil Nadu


Death
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
11th President of India
Matti Makkonen
Finish tech pioneer of SMS technology
K P P Nambiar
Founding Chairman of Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Keltron)
Y K Sabharwal
Former Chief Justice of India
Abdullah Hussai
Renowned Urdu Poet (Pakistan)
Diana Douglas
Actress (Hollywood)
Bashar Navaaz
Urdu Poet
M. S. Viswanathan
Music Composer
Joan Sebastian
Musician
V Ramakrishnan
Telugu playback singer
Jules Bianchi
Formula 1 Race Driver (France)
Alex Rocco
English Film Actor
Bisheshar Pardeep
Urdu Poet
Olaf Pooley
English Film Actor
Tom Moorie
Cartoonist
P R Chari
Advocate (nuclear disarmament)
Bijoy Krishna Handique
Politician (Congress Party)
Ramkrishna Suryabhan Gavai
Former Governor of Bihar and Kerala
P Hariharan
Physicist
Clive Rice
Former Cricket Captain, South Africa
Dr. Suniti Solomon
Doctor, who detected first HIV in India
Vasundhara Komkali
Vocalist
Sasi Perumal
Gandhian Activist

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