People in The News January - April 2018--bankexamtoday thanks
January:
1.
Indu Malhotra
became
the second sitting woman judge in the top court and the first woman lawyer to be directly elevated
from the Bar as a Supreme Court judge
2.
Rajinder
Khanna, a former chief of the country's external intelligence agency
RAW, was on appointed as the Deputy
National Security Adviser (NSA)
3.
The Union Law Ministry appointed senior-most Election
Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat as the next Chief Election
Commissioner of India
4.
Renowned scientist K
Sivan was appointed as new chairman of ISRO. The brain behind PSLV project,
for which he has been working since 1982, Sivan is popularly known as the
'Rocket Man' for his significant contribution in the development of cryogenic
engines.
5.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has
appointed senior bureaucrat Neelam
Kapoor as Director General (DG) of the Sports Authority of India.
February:
1.
S Somanath was appointed
as Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
2. Dinesh Srivastava appointed as Chief Executive of Nuclear Fuel Complex
(NFC).
3. Cyril Ramaphosa was elected as new president of South Africa
4.
Kunwar Bai, a
106-year-old woman from Chhattisgarh who was chosen as the mascot for `Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, passed away.
5. Abhilasha Kumari was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Manipur High
Court
6. Former Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel's appointed as Madhya
Pradesh governor.
7.
Sudeep
Lakhtakia was appointed as new Director General of National Security Guard (NSG).
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9.
Vijay Keshav
Gokhale, who played a key role in resolving the Doklam standoff with China, took over as the foreign
secretary of India today, succeeding S Jaishankar.
10.
Senior Indian-origin Scotland Yard officer Neil Basu became first person of Asian
heritage to be appointed as Counterterrorism Chief
11.
Krishna
Kumari Kohli has become the first-ever Hindu Dalit woman to be elected to Pakistan's Senate,
March:
1.
Sri Jayendra
Saraswathi passed away. He was 69th pontiff of Kanchi Sankara Mutt. Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswathi will
now become the 70th head of the mutt.
2.
Navjot Kaur became the
first Indian woman to claim a gold medal in the Asian wrestling championships when she defeated Imai Miyu of Japan in
the final to win the 65kg title
3. 2018 OSCAR awards
Best movie-The shape of water
Best actor-Gary old man
Best actress- Frances Mc Dormand
Best director-Guillermo del Toro
Subash Chandra Garg committee was appointed for
Regulation of fintech sector
The President of National People’s Party (NPP)
Conrad Sangma, has been sworn-in as
the 12th Chief Minister of Meghalaya. Currently, he is Lok Sabha member from
Tura parliamentary constituency. Neiphiu Rio was sworn-in as the new Chief
Minister of Nagaland. He belongs to Nationalist
Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) Balkrishna Doshi, the
legendary Indian architect who designs not just buildings but institutions, is being honoured with
the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the Nobel equivalent for the field. Justice Gita Mittal the Acting
Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, conferred with the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017’ by the Ministry of Women and Child
Development. She is the first woman from the field of law and justice to be
conferred the prestigious award. The award, known as India’s highest civilian
honour for women Biplab Deb Kumar elected as CM of Tripura Syed Mahmud Hossain was appointed
in as chief justice of Bangladesh in the place of Abdul Wahab Mian The Union Water Resources Ministry today
issued a notification, constituting three-member Mahanadi Water Disputes
Tribunal to adjudicate the dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh over sharing
the river's water.
Supreme Court
judge A M Khanwilkar has been named
as the chairman of the tribunal
Bidya Devi Bhandari: She is the
first woman president of Nepal. Recently she re-elected for a second term to the office of president. Bhandari defeated
Nepali Congress leader
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Kumari Laxmi Rai with an overwhelming majority in the
presidential election Ram NathKovind became the first Indian
President to visit Madagascar
Ram NathKovind became the first Indian
President to visit Madagascar Sach-Gaurav is the name of India’s first
cloned Assamese buffalo. It is developed by
Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB) Haspel has been nominated by President
Trump for CIA Director. If confirmed by the
Senate, she would be the first female CIA Director General Bipin
Rawat, Chief of the Army Staff released a book on Paramveer Chakra Awardees
- ‘Paramveer Parwane’ on 20 March 2018 Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands has been named as the winner of the Abel Prize for
2018 "for his visionary programme connecting representation theory to
number theory Indian Olympic Association (IOA) chooses PV Sindhu as the flag-bearer of the
Indian contingent for the opening ceremony of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games The Government of India has decided to
nominate Professor J S Rajput,
former Director of NCERT, as India’s representative to the Executive Board
(EXB) of UNESCO. Major David Manlun of the Naga
Regiment with Kirti Chakra posthumously. Major Manlun was martyred during an encounter with militants in Mon
district of Nagaland. The President awarded Shaurya Chakra to Naik
Chandra Singh of Kumaon Scouts and Shaurya Chakra to Major Satish Dahiya of 13
Rashtriya Rifles both posthumously Indu Bhushan appointed as
the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Centre's ambitious Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission (ABNHPM).
April:
1.
The Supreme Court appointed former Karnataka High Court
Judge, Justice Jawad Rahim as the acting Chairperson of the
National Green Tribunal (NGT).
2. Myanmar's Parliament has elected Win Myint as the country's next
President
3.
Long-serving American diplomat Rosemary DiCarlo was appointed to become the
first woman to head UN political affairs, one of the most high-profile
positions at the world body.
4.
The HRD ministry has set up a "high-powered
committee" to examine the process by which the Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE) conducts examinations, following the alleged leak of the Class
X mathematics and the Class XII economics papers.
The panel,
headed by former HRD secretary VS Oberoi,
will also suggest measures to make the process "secure and foolproof
through the use of technology"
The government has appointed senior bureaucrat
Chandra Bhushan Kumar as Deputy
Election Commissioner. Champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who won India's first gold medal in the ongoing
Commonwealth Games, hails from Manipur Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was elected chairman of the
Boao Forum for Asia, which is currently underway in China's Hainan province.
Ban replaced Japan's Yasuo Fukuda at the annual conference, known as the
"Asian Davo Manmohan Juneja was the head of a 12-member panel
set up by the Corporate Affairs
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The government has set up a 12-member panel to
review the enforcement of CSR provisions under the companies law as well as
look at having a centralised scrutiny and prosecution mechanism to deal with
violations. Jayant Sinha was the head of 13 member
panel constituted to prepare the roadmap and fast-track implementation of UAV technology or drones Vinod Rai was appointed as Chairman of Banks Board Bureau Shooter Anish
Bhanwala became the youngest Indian athlete to win a medal in the history
of Commonwealth Games at the age of 15. Pavan Varma was the author of Adi
Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker. The book was released by President of India. Justice Rajesh Bindal Committee
recommends setting up of ‘Inter-Country Parental Child Removal Disputes Resolution Authority’ Eminent Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashaschandra's poetry collection "Vakhar" has
been chosen for the Saraswati Samman for 2017 Pawan Chamling, Chief Minister
of Sikkim created history by surpassing the record of a former communist ruler of West Bengal, Jyoti Basu, as the
longest-serving chief minister in the country. He is also the president of
Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF).
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