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Sep 3, 2015

[CA] Persons in News (PIN) - August 2015 (Appointments and Deaths)

Persons in News [August 2015]

Appointments
K Bhavaneeswari
Chief Security Officer, Chennai Metro
N Poonguzhali
Chief general Manager, BSNL (TN Circle); first woman to hold this post
Nilanjan Roy
Global Chief Financial Officer, Bharati Airtel
Ronald S Folger
CEO and MD of Mercedes-Benz India
Richard Hay
Anglo-Indian (Kerala); a nominated member of Lok Sabha
George Baker
Anglo-Indian (West Bengal); a nominated member of Lok Sabha; an actor
Atul Keshap
Indian-American; appointed as the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives
K Ramanujam IPS
State Chief Information Commissioner (Tamil Nadu)
Ram Nath Kovind
New Governor of Bihar
Acharya Dev
New Governor of Himachal Pradesh
Rekha Menon
Chairperson of India’s operation for Accenture
Sundar Pichai
CEO of Google; Chennai-born
Amitabh Bachchan
‘Tiger Ambassador’ for Maharashtra
Om Prakash Rawat
Election Commissioner
Ajit Kumar Seth
Chairman, Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB)
Sebastian Coe
President, IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federation)
Aditi Chauhan
India's first woman to play in English league football
Ashwani Lohani
CMD of Air India Limited
Amitabh Mattoo
Noted academician appointed as Advisor to J&K Chief Minister
Justice ML Tahaliyani
Lokayukta of Maharashtra
Girish Sahni
Director – General, CSIR
Novak Djokovic
Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF
Rajiv Mehrishi
Union Home Secretary
Ratan Watal
Union Finance Secretary
S A V Satya Murty
Director, IGCAR – Kalpakkam



Death
Suvra Mukherjee          
First Lady of India (wife of Pranab Mukherjee)
Jagannath Mishra
Former State Minister of Madhya Pradesh; BJP
Cilla Black
British Singer
Arnold Scaasi
Fashion designer
George Cole
Actor
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian doctor who played a central role in preventing the drug thalidomide being distributed in the US
Kayyara Kinhanna Rai
Freedom fighter
Bhalchandra Pendharkar
Marathi Stage actor
Paravoor Bharathan
Malayalam Actor
Chitranjan Swarup
State Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh
N R Varhadpande
Eminent Sanskrit Scholar and Indologist
Pranab Kumar Borah
Veteran journalist
Dr. M M Kalburgi
Eminent Kannada writer – shot dead
Oliver Wolf sacks
Renowned neurologist and author
  
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