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PERSONS IN NEWS - November 2018

Nov 2018

Dec 20, 2020

Five-time Shiv Sena MP Mohan Rawale Dies

Five-time Shiv Sena MP from Mumbai, Mohan Rawale, died in at the age of 72.
Rawale represented the Mumbai South Central Lok Sabha seat five times between 1991 and 2004. He was expelled from the Sena briefly in 2013 for dissidence, but later rejoined the party.

Dec 18, 2020

Businessman and Philanthropist R. N. Shetty Passes Away

Eminent businessman and philanthropist R. N. Shetty passed away at the age of 92.
Born on August 15, 1928, at Murudeshwar in the coastal district of Uttara Kannada, Rama Nagappa Shetty founded the RN Shetty and Company in 1961 and ventured into the construction industry with focus on infrastructure building.
He built tunnels for the railways, dams, canals, bridges and buildings in various parts of Karnataka and neighbouring states. Later, he entered the hospitality and education sector and left a mark there as well.
The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industries had bestowed on him the Visvesvaraya Memorial Award in 2004 and the Bengaluru University conferred an honorary doctorate in 2009.

Dec 17, 2020

Shashi Shekhar Vempati New Vice President of Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union

Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati was elected as the vice president of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, one of the largest broadcasting associations in the world.
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union was formed in 1964 as a professional association of broadcasting organisations with over 286 members in 57 countries and regions, reaching the potential population of about three billion people.
Vempati has been elected to the office of the Vice President, ABU for three years with immediate effect.

Siddharth Chatterjee Appointed United Nations Resident Coordinator in China

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed senior UN official Siddharth Chatterjee of India as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in China.
Resident Coordinators are the UN Secretary-General's representatives for development at the country level. They lead UN teams supporting countries to recover better from the COVID-19 pandemic through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Guterres appointed Chatterjee as the Resident Coordinator in China, with the host government's approval.
Most recently, Chatterjee served as United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kenya, after holding other leadership positions across the organization.

Dec 16, 2020

Orissa High Court Gets New Chief Justice

Transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court from the Delhi High Court, Justice S. Muralidhar was elevated as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court.
The senior-most Judge of the court, Justice Rajesh Bindal, was transferred to the Calcutta High Court.
Currently, the Acting Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court, Justice Bindal joins there as the first Judge or the senior-most Judge after the Chief Justice.
Justice Hima Kohli of the Delhi High Court will take over as the new Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court.

Aerospace Scientist Roddam Narasimha Passes Away

Eminent aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist Roddam Narasimha died in Bengaluru. He was 87.
In the past six decades, Narasimha made numerous contributions to several seminal aerospace programmes in India. He is most well known for his work on fluid dynamics, a study of the flow of fluids (liquid or gas), that includes modelling cloud flows, structure of shock waves, and fluid dynamics at atmospheric boundaries.
He was conferred with the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, in 1987 and Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest, in 2013.

Dec 15, 2020

John Le Carre, Best-selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Passes Away

John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the spy novel to high art by presenting both Western and Soviet spies as morally compromised cogs in a rotten system full of treachery, betrayal and personal tragedy, passed away at the age of 89.
Before le Carré published his best-selling 1963 novel "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold," which Graham Greene called "the best spy story I have ever read," the fictional model for the modern British spy was Ian Fleming's James Bond — suave, urbane, devoted to queen and country. With his impeccable talent for getting out of trouble while getting women into bed, Bond fed the myth of spying as a glamorous, exciting romp.
Le Carré upended that notion with books that portrayed British intelligence operations as cesspools of ambiguity in which right and wrong are too close to call and in which it is rarely obvious whether the ends, even if the ends are clear, justify the means.

HDFC Bank Names Sanmoy Chakrabarti as Chief Risk Officer

HDFC Bank has appointed Sanmoy Chakrabarti as the Chief Risk Officer in place of Jimmy Tata, who will take on the role of Chief Credit Officer.
The board of directors of the bank has approved the appointment of Sanmoy Chakrabarti, Head, Risk Management, as the Chief Risk Officer of the bank, for three years.

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