By Bignews.news Team The senior IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, Sailesh has been appointed as Registrar General and Census Commissioner for a period till July 28, 2017. He succeeded C Chandramouli. Prior to this, he was the additional secretary in the Home Ministry.Continue Reading
Prime Minister of Somalia Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, has been elected as new Prime Minister of Somalia. Sharmarke, who served as prime minister between 2009-2010, becomes Somalia’s third premier in just over a year. The richest person in Asia Jack Ma Jack Ma has become the richest person inContinue Reading
P.Sadasivam : Ex-Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam appointed as the Governor of Kerala Ram Naik: He has been appointed as Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Kesri Nath Tripathi: He has been appointed as the Governor of West Bengal. Om Prakash Kohli: He has been appointed as the Governor of Gujarat.Continue Reading
Joko “Jokowi” Widodo: He has been elected as President of Indonesia. A former furniture businessman, he has had a meteoric rise through Indonesia’s political establishment. He won over voters with a clean image and a reputation for competence in local government, in contrast to the autocracy, corruption and power politicsContinue Reading
N. Ramachandran: He has been elected as the President of Indian Olympic Association.Continue Reading
New President and Vice-President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India Appointed Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) appointed Subodh Kumar Agrawal as its new President and K. Raghu as its new Vice-President on 12 February 2013. Subodh Kumar Agrawal • He had served the ICAI as itsContinue Reading
Gulshan Rai: He has been named as the first National Cyber Security Coordinator (NCSC). Ranjit Sinha: He has been appointed as the Director of Central Bureau of investigation (CBI). Alok Joshi: He has been appointed as the new chief of Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), an organisation entrusted with theContinue Reading
Yahoo! Inc. has appointed Marissa Mayer as its CEO. She is the fifth CEO in four years. Mayer, 37, would be charged with helping the company regain the attention of Web surfers. She shifts from Google, a company she had joined in 1999 as its 20th employee. She was Google’sContinue Reading
Jim Yong Kim —President, World Bank. Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili —Vice-President, Africa World Bank. Christine Lagarde (France) —Managing-Director, IMF. Ban Ki-Moon —General -Secretary, UNO. Haruhiko Kuroda —President, Asian Development Bank. Prema Cariappa —Chairperson, Central Social Welfare Board. Nimish C. Tolia —President, Hindustan Chamber of Commerce. Vijai L. Kelkar —Chairman, 13thContinue Reading
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