Appointments /
Takeover [May 2015]
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J
Jayalalithaa
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Took
over as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after Karnataka High Court acquitted her
in DA case
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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
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Achal
Kumar Jyoti
|
Appointed
as Election Commissioner; CEC is Nasim Zaidi
|
Surender
Singh
|
Director
General of CISF
|
Nikesh
Arora
|
President,
Softbank Corp (Japan)
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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
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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
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Manabi
Bandopadhyay
|
First
transgender to become principal of a college; Krishnagar Women’s College in
West Bengal
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Christopher
|
New
Director General of DRDO
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Pradeep
Kumar Sinha
|
Next
Cabinet Secretary; replaces Ajit Singh
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George
Yeo
|
Chancellor
of Nalanda University
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State
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New Governor
|
Old Governor
|
Meghalaya
|
V.
Shanmuganathan
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Keshari
Nath Tripathi
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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]
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Ruth
Rendell
|
Crime
Writer; UK; Pen-name: Barbara Vine
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Lu Ping
|
Chinese
Diplomat; oversaw Hong Kong’s transition from British to Chinese Sovereignty
in 1997
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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
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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
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John
Nash
|
Eminent
Mathematician
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