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PERSONS IN NEWS - November 2018

Nov 2018

Oct 03, 2020

Air Marshal Vikram Singh New SASO, WAC

Air Marshal Vikram Singh was appointed as the Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO), Headquarters Western Air Command.
Commissioned into the fighter stream in December 1984, he flew the MiG-21 and Mirage-2000 aircraft before undergoing the Flying Instructor's Course, Experimental Flight Test Course and Staff Course at Pretoria, South Africa.
He has performed flight test duties at the National Flight Test Centre, commanded an Air Force Station, served in various staff appointments in air headquarters and has been posted as the Air Attache at Moscow. He has also served at the Integrated Defence Staff Headquarters and was the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Plans) at air headquarters before taking over the present appointment.

Oct 02, 2020

Sonali Ghosal New Chief of Military Nursing Service

Major General Sonali Ghosal, who had nursed soldiers wounded in the Operation Bluestar launched to flush out terrorists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984, assumed the charge of Additional Director General, Military Nursing Service.
She took over the reins after Major General Joyce Gladys Roach relinquished the post on her superannuation after having served the Indian Army for nearly four decades.
Besides Bluestar, Ghosal has also served in Operation Sadbhavana, a military civic action programme launched by the Army in J&K and North East region. In recognition of her meritorious and distinguished service she was awarded the Chief of the Army Staff Commendation Card in 2014.

Argentina's Beloved Cartoonist Quino Passes Away

Argentines held a day of national mourning after the death of the country's beloved cartoonist Quino, whose comic character Mafalda, an Argentine girl with shock black hair and strong political views, drew admirers around the world. He was aged 88.
Personalities such as singer Ricky Martin, basketball player Manu Ginobili, politicians and artists paid tribute to Quino, the pen name of Joaquín Salvador Lavado.
Quino was able to use Mafalda's seeming innocence to spread scathing criticism, including of the dictatorships that plagued Latin America from the 1960s. He himself lived through military rule in Argentina.

Oct 01, 2020

Mohit Kapoor New Executive VP, Group CTO of Mahindra Group

Diversified conglomerate Mahindra Group appointed Mohit Kapoor as Executive Vice President and Group Chief Technology Officer.
Kapoor, will be responsible for driving the group's ambitious technology transformation agenda and will report to Anish Shah, Deputy Managing Director and Group CFO, Mahindra.
He will also be Technology Head for Financial Services Sector, reporting to Ramesh Iyer, Vice Chairman and MD, Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Ltd, and President Financial Services sector, he will be part of the leadership team of the Group Corporate Office and Mahindra Financial Services sector.
Kapoor joined the group from DBS Bank where he set up the Asia Hub at Hyderabad, the bank's first technology development center outside Singapore.
He has been in technology and operations roles for over 29 years, with the last 17 years in banking and financial service industry. He has also worked with Bank of America and MphasiS.

Sep 30, 2020

Kuwaiti Ruler Sheikh Sabah Passes Away

Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation's top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, passed away. He was 91.
In a Middle East replete with elderly rulers, Sheikh Sabah stood out for his efforts at pushing for diplomacy to resolve a bitter dispute between Qatar and other Arab nations that continues to this day.
His 2006 ascension in Kuwait came after parliament voted unanimously to oust his predecessor, the ailing Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah, just nine days into his rule.
Yet as Kuwait's ruling emir, he struggled with internal political disputes, the fallout of the 2011 Arab Spring protests and seesawing crude oil prices that chewed into a national budget providing cradle-to-grave subsidies.
Sheikh Sabah is expected to be succeeded by his half brother, the crown prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah.

Shekhar Kapur New President Of FTII Society and its Governing Council

Noted filmmaker Shekhar Kapur was appointed president of the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Society and chairman of the institute's governing council, an official said. FTII Director Bhupendra Kainthola said Shekhar Kapur's appointment was announced by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The 74-year-old filmmaker's tenure will be till March 3, 2023, the official said. Born on December 6, 1945 at Lahore in Pakistan, the critically acclaimed director and actor is known for films like Elizabeth (1998), Bandit Queen (1994) and The Four Feathers (2002).
Shekhar Kapur directed the 1983 film Masoom, starring Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Urmila Matondkar.
Shekhar's tenure as President if FTII Society and Chairman of Governing Council of FTII is till March 3, 2023.
After Bollywood actor Anupam Kher resigned as the chairman of the premier institute in October 2018, B P Singh, producer-director of popular TV serial CID, was named president of FTII Society and Chairman of Governing Council in December 2018.

Sep 29, 2020

Assam's Sole Woman CM Syeda Anwara Taimur Passes Away

Syeda Anwara Taimur, the only woman Chief Minister of Assam, died in Australia after a prolonged illness. She was 84.
As per reports, Taimur, Chief Minister from December 6, 1980 to June 30, 1981, was residing in Australia with her son for the past few years.
A teacher of economics in Debicharan Barua Girls College in Jorhat before joining politics, she had an illustrious career spanning over four decades.
Elected to the Assam Assembly four times — 1972, 1978, 1983 and 1991 — as nominee of the Congress, she also served as state Public Works Department (PWD) minister from 1983 to 1985.
In 1988, she was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. In 2011, the veteran leader left the Congress and joined the All India United Democratic Front. She figured in the headlines after her name was found missing from the NRC (National Register of Citizens) list in 2018.

P. D. Vaghela New Chairman of TRAI

Senior IAS Officer P. D. Vaghela was appointed as the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory of India) Chairman. He succeeded R. S. Sharma.
Vaghela is a Gujarat-Cadre IAS Officer. He is currently in the Department of Pharmaceuticals that operates under Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. Prior to this, he was the commissioner of commercial tax in Gujarat. He played a key role in the roll out of GST, 2017.
Usually, the TRAI chairman is appointed for a term of three years. However, RS Sharma was provided a rare two-year extension till 30th September, 2020 though he turned 65 in 2018 and attained the age of retirement. Prior to chairman of TRAI, Sharma led the creation of Aadhar. He was the director of UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) between 2009 and 2013.

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