Appointments
/ Deaths
[April
– June 2015]
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New Appointments
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Mukesh
Khanna
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Appointed
as Chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI)
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Raja
Rajeswari
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Chennai-born;
sworn in as a criminal court judge in New York
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Loretta
Lynch
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Sworn
in as the USA’s 83rd Attorney General; first African-American woman to serve
this post
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Vivek
Murthy
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Indian-American
took oath as the 19th US Surgeon General; took oath on Bhagavad Gita
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Thomas
Bach
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President
of International Olympic Committee named as ambassador of HeForShe campaign
by UN Women
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Sitaram
Yechury
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General
Secretary for CPI(M); replaces Prakash Karat
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Dr
Nasim Zaidi
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Appointed
as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India; 20th CEC; will have tenure
till July 2017
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Mayilswami
Annadurai
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Director
of ISRO Satellite Centre, Bengaluru
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Gulshan
Rai
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India’s
first Cyber security Chief
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George
Yeo
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Chancellor
of Nalanda Univeristy
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J
Jayalalithaa
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Chief
Minister, Tamil Nadu
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K V
Kamath
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Head,
New Development Bank (BRICS Bank)
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Sathish
Reddy
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Chairman,
National Safety Council
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Achal
Kumar Jyoti
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Election
Commissioner
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Surender
Singh
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Director-General,
CISF
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Nikesh
Arora
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President,
Soft Bank
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Cyriac
Joseph
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Chairman
(interim), National Human Rights Commission
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Arvind
Saxena
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Member,
UPSC
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Mohan
Kumar
|
Defence
Secretary
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Pradeep
Kumar Sinha
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Cabinet
Secretary
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S
Somanath
|
Appointed
as Director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, ISRO
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|
K
Sivan
|
Appointed as Director of Vikram Sarabhai
Space Centre (VSSC), ISRO
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Ravi
Shastri
|
Re-appointed
as Director of Indian Cricket team
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Syed
Asif Ibrahim
|
PM’s
Special Envoy on Countering Terrorism and Extremism
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Seshasayee
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Non-Executive
Chairman, Infosys
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Vijai
Sharma
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Chairman,
Central Information Commissioner (CIC)
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|
K
T Chowdary
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Chairman,
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)
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R
C Tayal
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Director-General,
National Security Guard (NSG)
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Sivari
Chandrasekhar
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Director,
CSIR-IICT
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Nikhil
Seth
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Executive
Director, UNITAR
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Sanghmitra
Bandyopadhayay
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Director
of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI); first woman to head the institute
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Mogens
Lykketfot (Denmark)
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Elected
as President of UN General Assembly
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Kapil
Mishra
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Chairman,
Delhi Jal Board
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Archana
Ramasundram
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Director
of NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau)
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Zaheer
Abbass
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President,
International Cricket Council (ICC)
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Tito
Mboweni
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South
Africa; non-executive director of the BRICS Bank (New Development Bank)
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State
|
New Governor
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Old Governor
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Meghalaya
|
V.
Shanmuganathan
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Keshari
Nath Tripathi
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Jharkhand
|
Draupadi
Murmu
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Syed
Ahmed
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Tripura
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Tathagata
Roy
|
P
B Acharya (Acting)
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Arunachal
Pradesh
|
J
P Rakkhowa
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Nirbhay
Sharma
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Manipur
|
Syed
Ahmed
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K
K Paul
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Mizoram
|
Nirbhay
Sharma
|
Aziz
Qureshi
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Deaths
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Janaki
Ballabh Patnaik
|
Former
CM of Odisha
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Jeyakanthan
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Eminent
Tamil Writer; winner of Jnanpith Award and Sahtiya Akademi Award
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Malli
Mastan Babu
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Mountaineer
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Sunita
Tomar
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Anti-tobacco
campaigner
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Ruth
Rendell
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Crime
writer
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Lu
Ping
|
Chinese
Diplomat
|
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Amalendu
Guha
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Eminent
Historian
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Ninad
bedekar
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Eminent
Historian
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Suchitra
Bhattacharya
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Bengali
Writer
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Aruna
Shanbaug
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Nurse
of KIM Hospital, Mumbai
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Sulochana
Sampath
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AIADMK’s
Organising Secretary
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Hemant
Kanitkar
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Indian Cricketer
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Christopher
Lee
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English
Film actor
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Nek
Chand
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Rock
Garden creator
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Sheila
Kaul
|
Former
Governor of Himachal Pradesh
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Charles
Correa
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Noted
Architect
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Suleyman
Demirel
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Five-time
President of Turkey
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Pichumani
|
Veena
artist
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James
Horner
|
Music
Director
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Sister
Nirmala
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Missionaries
of Charity
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