Persons in News – Dec 2015
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Appointments
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Sir
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Presidency
of the Royal Society in London
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Justice
Tirath Singh (TS) Thakur
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43rd
Chief Justice of India
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Dr Vijay
M Rao
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Indian
– American; named as the chairperson of the prestigious Radiological Society
of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors
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Mauricio
Macri Blanco
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President
of Argentina
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Ahmad
Javed
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Mumbai
Police Commissioner; appointed as India’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia
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Kapil
Chopra
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Chairman
of World Travel & Tourism Council, India Initiative (WTTCII) for 2016
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Pravin
Gordhan
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Indian-origin
politician, has been appointed as South Africa's new Finance Minister
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Justice L
Narasimha Reddy (retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court)
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To
head the Judicial Committee which will look into the implementation of One
Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for the Ex-Servicemen
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Virendra
Singh
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Appointed
as Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh by the Supreme Court; it is the first time that
the apex court exercised its powers to appoint a Lokayutka
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R. K.
Mathur
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CIC
(Chief Information Commissioner)
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Sanjay
Pradhan
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Indian
– Origin; World Bank official; Open Government Partnership (OGP) selected him
to lead the organization
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Pawan
Kumar Agarwal
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CEO
of FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
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Amit
Agarwal
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Chief
Financial Officer of Jet Airways
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Gautam
Bambawale
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(currently
India's Envoy to Bhutan) has been appointed as next High Commissioner to
Pakistan
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Amitabh
Kant
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CEO,
NITI Aayog
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Giorgi
Kvirikashvili
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Prime
Minister, Gerogia
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Deaths
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MAM Ramaswamy
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Industrialist (Tamil Nadu)
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Sharad Joshi
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Agro – Economist
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G Chidambaranathan
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Disability Rights Activist; founder
of the Federation of Tamil Nadu Differently Abled Associations; recipient of
the best social worker award of the Tamil Nadu Government in 2007
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Noorul Huda
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Veteran leader of CPI (M)
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Sadhana Shivdasani
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Hindi film actress
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George Clayton
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Renowned Science - Fiction writer
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Haskell Wexler
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Oscar Winning Cinematographer
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Mangesh Keshav Padgaonkar
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Iconic Marathi poet and Padma
Bhushan recipient
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