Jishnu Baruah was appointed as the new Chief Secretary of the Assam government.
Mr. Baruah was serving as the additional chief secretary for Home and Political, Revenue and Disaster Management and Assam Accord Implementation departments.
The 1998 batch IAS officer and succeeded Chief Secretary Kumar Sanjay Krishna, who retired on October 31.
Aditya Puri to Join PE Major Carlyle
Aditya Puri will be guiding global Carlyle on investment opportunities across Asia as a senior advisor.
The announcement comes within a week of Puri's retirement from HDFC Bank as the Chief Executive and Managing Director.
Puri will advise the Carlyle team on investment opportunities across Asia and provide guidance on the evolving market landscape and new investment opportunities.
He will also be advising Carlyle's investment professionals and portfolio management teams on building differentiated high-quality businesses.
TN Agriculture Minister Doraikkannu Passes Away
Tamil Nadu Agriculture Minister R. Doraikkannu passed away.
Doraikkannu is a three-time AIADMK MLA.
He is the third sitting elected representative from the state to have died after contracting coronavirus, the others being DMK MLA J. Anbazhagan and Congress Lok Sabha MP from Kanniyakumari H. Vasanthakumar.
Doraikkannu has represented Papanasam in Thanjavur district in the state assembly since 2006 and was inducted in the cabinet in 2016 by late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa.
Doraikannu was known for his "simplicity, humbleness, straightforwardness, governance skills and commitment towards the welfare of the farming community.
Nov 01, 2020
Sean Connery, the First James Bond, Passes Away
Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to grace the silver screen for four decades, passed away at the age of 90.
Connery was raised in near poverty in the slums of Edinburgh and worked as a coffin polisher, milkman and lifeguard before his bodybuilding hobby helped launch an acting career that made him one of the world's biggest stars.
He first played the role of James Bond in 1962's "Dr No", followed by "From Russia with Love" (1963), "Goldfinger" (1964), "Thunderball" (1965), "You Only Live Twice" (1967), "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) and "Never Say Never Again" (1983). Connery won an Oscar for supporting actor for his turn as a tough Irish cop in Brian De Palma's 1987 "The Untouchables".
Oct 30, 2020
Former Gujarat CM Keshubhai Patel Passes Away
Former Gujarat Chief Minister and senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party Keshubhai Patel passed away at the age of 92.
Keshubhai was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1995 and from 1998 to 2001. Later, he was succeeded by the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the then Gujarat Chief Minister.
The BJP leader had been nominated as a member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly six times. He had been a member of the BJP since the 1980s.
Keshubhai left the BJP in 2012 and formed the Gujarat Parivartan Party. In 2012, he was elected from Visavadar assembly seat but had to resign in 2014 due to ill health.
India Proposes IFS Officer Suresh Kumar as Charge d' Affaires to Pakistan
India has proposed the name of IFS officer Suresh Kumar as the new Charge d' affaires to Pakistan. Suresh is a 2006 batch IFS and has worked as deputy secretary at the Pakistan desk in the Ministry of External Affairs.
Earlier, India had proposed name of Jayant Khobragade and it is learnt that Pakistan had denied visa at that time.
In June, India and Pakistan downsized by fifty per cent staff at missions both in New Delhi and Islamabad after some members of the Pakistan High Commission were caught spying.
India's top diplomat Acting Charge d' affaires in Pakistan Gaurav Ahluwalia had also complained about harassment.
Oct 29, 2020
Daniel Menaker, Award-winning Author and editor, passes away
Daniel Menaker, an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction and a longtime editor at The New Yorker and Random House who worked with Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann and many others, passed away at the age of 79.
Daniel Menaker was the author of several books, including the memoir "My Mistake" and the comic psychological novel "The Treatment," adapted into a 2007 movie starring Chris Eigeman and Ian Holm.
He was also known for the O Henry Award-winning title story of his collection "The Old Left," which draws on his early childhood in Greenwich Village and his "red diaper" upbringing: His father allegedly spied on Trotsky in Mexico, where the exiled Russian revolutionary was eventually assassinated, on behalf of the Communist Party; an uncle was named for Friedrich Engels.
Oct 28, 2020
Facebook India's Ankhi Das Steps Down
Facebook India's controversial public policy head Ankhi Das left the company with immediate effect to pursue her interest in public service.
Ankhi was one of our earliest employees in India and played an instrumental role in the growth of the company and its services over the last nine years.
The resignation comes after a Wall Street Journal report in August said that the top leadership at Facebook's India office refused to apply the company's own rules to politicians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), despite clear violations of Facebook's policies against incitement to violence, hate speech and misinformation.
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