Persons
in News – Jan 2016
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Appointments
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Sam Pitroda
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Odisha
Government’s Technical Advisor
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Kunal Shah
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Chairman of Internet and Mobile
Association of India (IAMAI)
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Achyuta Samanta
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General President
of 105th Indian Science Congress
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Mary Barra
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First Woman
Chairman of General Motors
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Devender Kumar
Sikri
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Chairman, Competition
Commission of India
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Filippo Grandi
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High Commissioner
for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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Urjit Patel
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Re – appointed as
Deputy Governor of RBI
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Binny Bansal
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CEO, Flipkart
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Ravi Chellam
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Executive
Director, Greenpeace India
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Atulesh Jindal
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Chairman of CBDT
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Marcelo Rebelo de
Sousa
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President,
Portugal
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Union Government re-appointed Dr Urjit R Patel, as
Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), for a second three-year term.
Patel who joined RBI on 11 January 11, 2013 had headed a committee that paved
the way for the proposed monetary policy committee. Patel, a doctorate from
Yale University, also had a stint at IMF. Patel is the fourth deputy governor and the
other three are HR Khan, R Gandhi and SS Mundra. The re-appointment of Patel
assumes significance as in recent past, none of the deputy governors got a
second term.
About Urjit Patel
• Urjit Patel is an economist with hawkish point of view on inflation.
• He authored a research paper called Dynamics of Inflation Herding:
Decoding India's Inflationary Process along with Gangadhar Darbha, ED, Nomura.
• Between 1990 and 1995, he worked with the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) 1995 covering the US, India, Bahamas and Myanmar desks
• He was on deputation from 1996-1997 from the IMF to the RBI and
provided advice on development of the debt market, banking sector reforms,
pension fund reforms, real exchange rate targeting and evolution of the foreign
exchange market.
• Patel was also a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and was
also a part of IDFC’s management committee for almost 10 years ever since it
was first incepted.
• From 2005-2008, he also worked in board of Multi Commodity Exchange
of India.
• Urjit Patel was NRI at Brooking Institution, Washington DC from
2006-2007.
• As an academic as well as consultant, Patel also provides advice to
Indian government on different panels.
• He was the board member in Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation as
well.
• Prior to his appointment as the deputy governor at RBI in 2013, Patel
was advisor (energy & infrastructure) with Boston Consulting Group.
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Deaths
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A. B. Bardhan
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Veteran CPI leader
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Labshankar Thakar
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Gujarati Writer
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Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed
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Chief Minister,
Jammu & Kashmir
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Maria Teresa de Filippis
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First woman to
race in a Formula 1 grand prix; from Italy
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Mrinalini Sarabhai
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Legendary Dancer
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Kalpana Ranjani
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Film actress
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Nirmala Gajwani
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Former Deputy
Speaker of Gujarat Assembly
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mr. Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed passed away on at the AIIMS hospital in New Delhi. He was 79. Sayeed who
founded the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been admitted
to AIIMS in Delhi with complaints of severe fever and neck pain.
About Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
• Born on 12 January 1936, the leader had been a member of the Indian
National Congress party until 1987.
• In 1987, he quit the Congress party to join V. P. Singh's Jan Morcha.
• He became the first Muslim Minister for Home Affairs in the Union
Cabinet of India in 1989.
• He rejoined the Congress under P V Narasimha Rao. However, Sayeed
left the Congress in 1999 along with daughter Mehbooba Mufti to form his own
party, Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party.
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