Persons in News [August 2015]
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Appointments
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K Bhavaneeswari
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Chief
Security Officer, Chennai Metro
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N Poonguzhali
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Chief
general Manager, BSNL (TN Circle); first woman to hold this post
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Nilanjan Roy
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Global
Chief Financial Officer, Bharati Airtel
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Ronald S Folger
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CEO
and MD of Mercedes-Benz India
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Richard Hay
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Anglo-Indian
(Kerala); a nominated member of Lok Sabha
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George Baker
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Anglo-Indian
(West Bengal); a nominated member of Lok Sabha; an actor
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Atul Keshap
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Indian-American;
appointed as the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives
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K Ramanujam IPS
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State
Chief Information Commissioner (Tamil Nadu)
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Ram Nath Kovind
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New
Governor of Bihar
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Acharya Dev
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New
Governor of Himachal Pradesh
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Rekha Menon
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Chairperson
of India’s operation for Accenture
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Sundar Pichai
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CEO
of Google; Chennai-born
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Amitabh Bachchan
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‘Tiger
Ambassador’ for Maharashtra
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Om Prakash Rawat
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Election
Commissioner
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Ajit Kumar Seth
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Chairman,
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB)
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Sebastian Coe
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President,
IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federation)
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Aditi Chauhan
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India's
first woman to play in English league football
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Ashwani Lohani
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CMD
of Air India Limited
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Amitabh Mattoo
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Noted
academician appointed as Advisor to J&K Chief Minister
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Justice ML Tahaliyani
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Lokayukta
of Maharashtra
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Girish Sahni
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Director
– General, CSIR
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Novak Djokovic
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Goodwill
Ambassador of UNICEF
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Rajiv Mehrishi
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Union
Home Secretary
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Ratan Watal
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Union
Finance Secretary
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S A V Satya Murty
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Director,
IGCAR – Kalpakkam
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Death
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Suvra
Mukherjee
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First
Lady of India (wife of Pranab Mukherjee)
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Jagannath Mishra
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Former
State Minister of Madhya Pradesh; BJP
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Cilla Black
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British
Singer
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Arnold Scaasi
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Fashion
designer
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George Cole
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Actor
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Frances Oldham
Kelsey
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Canadian
doctor who played a central role in preventing the drug thalidomide being
distributed in the US
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Kayyara Kinhanna
Rai
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Freedom
fighter
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Bhalchandra
Pendharkar
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Marathi
Stage actor
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Paravoor Bharathan
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Malayalam
Actor
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Chitranjan Swarup
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State
Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh
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N R Varhadpande
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Eminent
Sanskrit Scholar and Indologist
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Pranab Kumar Borah
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Veteran
journalist
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Dr. M M Kalburgi
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Eminent
Kannada writer – shot dead
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Oliver Wolf sacks
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Renowned
neurologist and author
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