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PERSONS IN NEWS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Jan 01, 2021

Maharashtra Police Chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal Appointed CISF DG

Maharashtra police Chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal has been appointed the Director General of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF.
Jaiswal is a 1985-batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved appointment of Jaiswal to the post of Director General, CISF from the date of joining the post and up to September 30, 2022, i.e. date of his superannuation.

Dec 31, 2020

Renowned Music Director Shantanu Mohapatra Passes Away

Legendary music director Shantanu Mohapatra passed away at a private hospital. He was 84.
Mohapatra has been associated with Odia music industry for almost 60 years. He has many firsts to his credits in the field of Odia music as a music composer.
He composed the first modern Odia ballad 'Konark Gatha' with lyricist Gurukrushna Goswami and sung by Akshay Mohanty.
He also worked with several Bollywood artists like Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd Rafi, Manna Dey, Usha Mangeshkar, Suresh Wadekar, Anuradha Paudwal, Usha Uthup, and Kavita Krishnamurthy.
Born in Mayurbhanj district in 1936, the legendary music director was a geophysicist (an IIT-Kharagpur alumnus) and worked with Odisha Mining Corporation.

Pierre Cardin Father of Fashion Branding Passes Away

French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to exploit that name as a brand for selling everything from cars to perfume, died at the age of 98.
In a career spanning more than 60 years, Cardin drew scorn and admiration from fellow fashion designers for his brash business sense. He maintained that he built his business empire without ever asking a bank for a loan.
Cardin was the first designer to sell clothes collections in department stores in the late 1950s, and the first to enter the licensing business for perfumes, accessories and even food - now a major profit driver for many fashion houses.

Dec 30, 2020

Atanu Chakraborty Likely to be Next HDFC Bank Chairman

Former economic affairs secretary Atanu Chakraborty is set to be appointed as the next chairperson of India's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank. The appointment, however, is subject to the Reserve Bank of India's approval.
The board of HDFC Bank cleared Chakraborty's name for the position of part-time chairperson of the bank in its meeting. The incumbent chairperson of the board, Shyamala Gopinath, is set to retire on 1 January.
The appointment assumes significance as the private lender had recently undergone a leadership change, with its long time managing director and chief executive officer, Aditya Puri, retiring in October, and Sashidhar Jagdishan taking over.

Dec 29, 2020

Ramesh Chandra is New CBI Chief Information Officer

Senior Indian Information Service (IIS) officer Ramesh Chandra Joshi became the new face of the CBI for interactions with the media by taking charge as its chief information officer. The post was lying vacant since March.
Joshi was posted as the additional director general of the government's Press Information Bureau (PIB), from where he was picked for the high-pressure job at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Joshi who has handled crucial positions in the PIB and the erstwhile Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP), may bring a new outlook at the CBI, which does not have any presence on social media unlike the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and relies mostly on its spokespersons to communicate with the media.

Dec 28, 2020

Padma Shri Dance Historian Sunil Kothari Passes Away

Padma Shri dance historian and critic Sunil Kothari passed away after he suffered a cardiac arrest a month after testing positive for coronavirus. He was 87.
Hailing from Baroda, Kothari took to dancing in the 1940s.
He studied chartered accountancy, but could never stay off the dance circuit and was eventually pulled into it by the legendary Mulk Raj Anand, the editor of the art magazine "Marg."
It was Anand who first invited Kothari to edit an issue on Chhau among other masked dances of India.
The edition was published in 1968 and there was no looking back since.

RCP Singh Becomes New JD(U) President

Bureaucrat-turned-politician Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, better known by his initials RCP was chosen as the new president of the JD(U).
At the party's national executive meeting, Kumar proposed the name of Singh for the top post and it was then approved by other members.
The Chief Minister, who was re-elected as the JD(U) president in 2019 for three years, gave up the post in favour of Singh, its leader in the Rajya Sabha.
The man who prefers to keep a low profile was so far the general secretary (organisation) of the regional party.
The 1984-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre has been with Kumar since his stint as the Railway minister in the government led by late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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