Persons in News [September 2015]
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New Appointments
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Akshay
Kumar
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Global
campaigners on UN goals on Sustainable Development Goals
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Hirthik
Roshan
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A R
Rahman
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Tejinder
Pal Singh
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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.
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S A V
Sathya Murthy
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Director,
IGCAR – Kalpakkam
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Hrusikesh
Senapath
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Director,
NCERT
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Ramesh
Chand
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Agriculture
Expert; appointed as full time member of NITI Aayog
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J
Manjula
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Director-General
of Electronics and Communication Systems cluster of DRDO
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Jagdeep
Grewal
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Indian
– American; sworn in as the first woman postmaster of Sacramento City in
Claifornia
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Ashok
Sridharan
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Indian
– origin; elected as Mayor of Bonn (Germany)
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Malcolm
Turnbull
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29th
Prime Minister of Australia
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Hormusji
Cama (Bombay Samachar)
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Chairman,
Press Trust of India (PTI)
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Riyad
Mathew (Malayala Manorama)
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Vice
Chairman, Press Trust of India (PTI)
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Jeremy
Corbyn
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Elected
as leader of Labour Party in UK
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Mahesh
Rangarajan
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Resigned
as Director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
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Gokulakrishnan
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Rajya
Sabha MP from Puducherry; AIADMK
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E.
Sreedharan
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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).
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P. V.
Chandran
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President,
Indian Newspaper Society (INS)
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Eric
Fanning
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Newly
appointed Army Secretary of US; also the first gay (same-sexuality) Army
Secretary
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Zayn
Khan
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President,
Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India
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John
T Chambers
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Elected
as Chairman of USIBC (US India Business Council)
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Stuti
Narain Kacker
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Chairperson,
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
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Sourav
Ganguly
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President
of Cricket of Association of Bengal
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Syed
Akbaruddin
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To
be the next, Permanent Representative of India to the UN (from Jan 2016)
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Matthias
Muller
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Chief
Executive Officer of Volkswagen
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Arvind
Panagariya
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Sherpa
for G-20 Summit
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Jennifer
Lopez
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Global
Advocate for Girls and Women
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Jayant
Prasad
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Director
– General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
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Praveen
Dikshit
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DGP,
Maharashtra
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Resignations
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Martin
Winterkorn
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Chief
Executive Officer of Volkswagen
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Deaths
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Chandra
Bahadur Dangi
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Nepal;
World's shortest man
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Binny
Yanga
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Social
Worker; Arunachal Pradesh
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Aadesh
Srivastava
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Music
Composer; Maharashtra
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Ramaswamy
Iyer
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Water
Policy expert
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Balkrishna
Wasnik
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Former
MP from Congress; from Maharashtra
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John
P Connell
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English
film actor
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Gauthama
Neelambaran
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Tamil
writer
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Frank
D. Gilory
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Pultizer
– prize winner
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Kalamandalam
Sathyabhama
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Mohiniyattam
dancer
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Bal
Pandit
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Marathi
cricket commentator and writer
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Jackie
Collins
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British-born
novelist
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Jagmohan
Dalmiya
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BCCI
President
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Radhika
Thilak
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Playback
Singer; Malayalam
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Sadhan
Gupta
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Veteran
Leftist
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Nizam
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Odia
Lyricist
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Lawrence
Peter Yogi Berra
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Baseball
legend; USA
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Syed
Ahmed
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Governor,
Manipur
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Frank
Tyson
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Former
England Fast Bowler
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