Persons In News : 2013

• Sushma Singh to be the next Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India
• Nelson Mandela Passes Away
• 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