Kris Gopalakrishnan as Chairperson of RBI's Innovation Hub
Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and former co-Chairman, Infosys, has been appointed as the first Chairperson of the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub.
Gopalakrishnan is currently the Chief Mentor of Start-up Village, an incubation hub for start-ups.
RBIH would be guided and managed by a governing council led by a Chairperson.
Other members of the governing council are CEO (to be appointed), Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Institute Professor, IIT, Madras), H Krishnamurthy (Principal Research Scientist, IISc, Bengaluru), Gopal Srinivasan (CMD, TVS Capital Funds), A P Hota (Former CEO, NPCI), Mrutyunjay Mahapatra (Former CMD, Syndicate Bank), T Rabi Sankar (Executive Director, RBI), Deepak Kumar (CGM, Department of Information Technology, RBI), and K Nikhila (Director, Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad).
Former HP Assembly Speaker Tulsi Ram Passes Away
Former Himachal Pradesh assembly speaker and senior BJP leader Tulsi Ram passed away at Palampur. He was 78.
Tulsi Ram was the speaker of the Himachal Pradesh assembly from 2007 to 2012 and was elected MLA thrice in 1990, 1998 and 2007 from the Bharmour assembly constituency.
He was a great statesman who worked tirelessly for the cause of vulnerable sections of society.
Tulsi Ram's contributions for the development of the Bharmour assembly constituency were immense and he would always be remembered.
Nov 17, 2020
Rajasthan Minister Bhanwar Lal Meghwal Passes Away
Rajasthan Minister Master Bhanwar Lal Meghwal passed away at the age of 72.
The five-time MLA was reportedly suffering from brain haemorrhage.
He was Rajasthan's Social Justice and Empowerment Minister who represented the Sujangarh assembly constituency of Churu district.
He was a Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly constituency Sujangarh Churu, Rajasthan. He was the member of Indian National Congress.
Arun Founder Vasan Eye Care Passes Away
Fifty-one-year-old A M Arun, the founder of Vasan Eye Care, passed away in Chennai.
In 1991, Arun took over the reins of the family's pharmacy business 'Vasan Medical Hall' in Trichy. In 2002, he forayed into the eye care business and set up the first eye care hospital in Trichy.
Today the network includes 170 eye care hospitals in India and 27 dental Hospitals across 4 states in South India. Company also operates two multi-speciality hospitals in Trichy.
Nov 16, 2020
Padma Shri Awardee & Sculptor Arjun Prajapati Dies of Covid
Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot condoled the demise of Padma Shri awardee sculptor Arjun Prajapati.
Chief Minister Gehlot said Prajapati gave a new identity to the traditional ''Bani-Thani'' form of art and established a different identity for it in the country and abroad.
Soumitra Chatterjee: India Acting Legend Dies, Aged 85
Legendary Indian actor Soumitra Chatterjee, famed for his work with Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, has died from Covid complications.
He was mourned by fans and critics who avidly followed his six-decade-long career in Bengali language films.
Chatterjee, who starred in more than 300 movies, was also an accomplished playwright, theatre actor and poet.
Nov 15, 2020
ED Director S. K. Mishra's Tenure Extended by One Year
The Union government has extended the tenure of ED Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra by a year after modifying his appointment order that was issued in 2018.
Mishra is a 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Income Tax cadre and was appointed the Enforcement Directorate chief in November 2018.
His tenure was to end the next week at the ED director's post comes with a fixed term of two years.
The ED is a central investigative agency that enforces two central laws—the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
These laws were enacted to curb money laundering, terror financing, black money and hawala or illegal financial transactions that have cross-border ramifications.
Nov 14, 2020
Japanese Astrophysicist Masatoshi Koshiba Passes Away
Japanese astrophysicist Masatoshi Koshiba, a co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics for confirming the existence of elementary particles called neutrinos, passed away at the age of 94. He was a distinguished professor at the University of Tokyo.
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