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Oct 20, 2015

[CA] Persons in News (July - September 2015)

PERSONS IN NEWS

Appointments
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
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
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
Akshay Kumar
Global campaigners on UN goals on Sustainable Development Goals
Hirthik Roshan
A R Rahman
Tejinder Pal Singh
An Indian-origin driver in Australia; named as Australian of the Day by Commonwealth Bank of Australia for feeding the homeless in Darwin for the past three years.
S A V Sathya Murthy
Director, IGCAR – Kalpakkam
Hrusikesh Senapath
Director, NCERT
Ramesh Chand
Agriculture Expert; appointed as full time member of NITI Aayog
J Manjula
Director-General of Electronics and Communication Systems cluster of DRDO
Jagdeep Grewal
Indian – American; sworn in as the first woman postmaster of Sacramento City in Claifornia
Ashok Sridharan
Indian – origin; elected as Mayor of Bonn (Germany)
Malcolm Turnbull
29th Prime Minister of Australia
Hormusji Cama (Bombay Samachar)
Chairman, Press Trust of India (PTI)
Riyad Mathew (Malayala Manorama)
Vice Chairman, Press Trust of India (PTI)
Jeremy Corbyn
Elected as leader of Labour Party in UK
Mahesh Rangarajan
Resigned as Director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
Gokulakrishnan
Rajya Sabha MP from Puducherry; AIADMK
E. Sreedharan
Metro Man of India; accepted an invitation of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to serve on his High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST).
P. V. Chandran
President, Indian Newspaper Society (INS)
Eric Fanning
Newly appointed Army Secretary of US; also the first gay (same-sexuality) Army Secretary
Zayn Khan
President, Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India
John T Chambers
Elected as Chairman of USIBC (US India Business Council)
Stuti Narain Kacker
Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Sourav Ganguly
President of Cricket of Association of Bengal
Syed Akbaruddin
To be the next, Permanent Representative of India to the UN (from Jan 2016)
Matthias Muller
Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen
Arvind Panagariya
Sherpa for G-20 Summit
Jennifer Lopez
Global Advocate for Girls and Women
Jayant Prasad
Director – General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Praveen Dikshit
DGP, Maharashtra


Deaths
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
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
Chandra Bahadur Dangi
Nepal; World's shortest man
Binny Yanga
Social Worker; Arunachal Pradesh
Aadesh Srivastava
Music Composer; Maharashtra
Ramaswamy Iyer
Water Policy expert
Balkrishna Wasnik
Former MP from Congress; from Maharashtra
John P Connell
English film actor
Gauthama Neelambaran
Tamil writer
Frank D. Gilory
Pultizer – prize winner
Kalamandalam Sathyabhama
Mohiniyattam dancer
Bal Pandit
Marathi cricket commentator and writer
Jackie Collins
British-born novelist
Jagmohan Dalmiya
BCCI President
Radhika Thilak
Playback Singer; Malyalam
Sadhan Gupta
Veteran Leftist
Nizam
Odia Lyricist
Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra
Baseball legend; USA
Syed Ahmed
Governor, Manipur
Frank Tyson
Former England Fast Bowler



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