Persons In News : 2013

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Sushma Singh to be the next Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India.
Nelson Mandela Passes Awayimages (1)
Obituary : Robert Edwards – co-developer of IVF technology
Mehvish Mushtaq – first Kashmiri to develop an Androidapplication
Christian Wulff : former German President charged for corruption
Anji reddy founder and chairman of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, passes away
Kenichi Ayukawa appointed new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Maruti Suzuki
IITian Sundar Pichai appointed head of Google’s Android division
John Brennan appointed as next Central Intelligence Agency director
Chairman of the organising committee for the 2015 cricket World Cup James Strong is dead
Uhuru Kenyatta sworn as Kenya’s new president
Obituary : Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s First and only woman prime minister
Wansuk Syiem : Meghalaya’s first woman representative to Rajya Sabha
Chitra Ramkrishna appointed new CMD of the National Stock exchange
U.R. Rao first Indian to be inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame
Bobby Ghosh appointed new editor of Time International
Three Indian Americans appointed to the key post of Obama administration
Frederick Sanger, double Noble Prize Awardee, is no more
Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby technologies, dies
Rakesh Sood appointed PM’s Special Envoy on Disarment and Non-Proliferation.
Deepak Sandhu has been appointed as the new Chief Information Commissioner of India
Nishi Vasudeva : shortlisted to be the first woman head of a Navratna company
‘Kamaicha’ maestro Sakar khan passes away
Raghuram Rajan appointed 23rd Governor of RBI
Sharad Kumar appointed as new DG of NIA
Indian-American Nisha Biswal to be US assistant secretary of state for South Asia
Amol Rajan: first non-white editor of a national British newspaper
Obituary : Ruma Chattopadhyay – current Chief coach of Indian Cycling team
Obituary : B. Raman, Founder Official of Research and Analysis wing
Ayesha Farooq : Pakistan’s first female fighter pilot
Tomas Brunegard : New president of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
Phaneesh Murthy : disgraceful exit as President and CEO of iGate Corporation
S. Gopalakrishnan : is the new President of CII for 2013-2014
Devanand Sharma : youngest Australian Ambassador
Premlata Agarwal : first Indian woman to scale the Seven Summits
Avinash Chander : New Director General of DRDO
Arvind Mahankali – wins Scripps National Spelling Bee 2013
K Natarajan appointed Chairman of NASSCOM for 2013-14
Obituary : Rituparno Ghosh – National Award winner filmmaker
Kushal Singh appointed new Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Srikanth Srinivasan : first ever South Asian Circuit court judge in U S
Shashi Kant Sharma is the 12th Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India
S Venkatakrishna appointed CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third-biggest gold producer
Ivan Menezes : new CEO of Diageo, the world’s largest drinks company
Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury : Bangladesh’s youngest and first woman speaker
Willem-Alexander is the new King of Netherland
Anshuman Das is the new Chairman and managing director of Nalco
Archana Bhargava appointed Chairman and Managing Director of United Bank of India
Abdul Hamid elected Bangladesh’s 20th president