Arvind Hali New MD & CEO of Motilal Oswal Home Finance
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd (MOFSL) appointed Arvind Hali as the new Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of its housing finance company Motilal Oswal Home Finance Limited (MOHFL).
It has also appointed Amar Bahl as the Deputy Managing Director & COO of the company.
Hali was previously associated with Art Housing Finance as its MD & CEO and has over two decades of experience in the financial domain. In his new role, he will be responsible for driving broad-based strategy, strengthening operations and scaling up Motilal Oswal Home Finance's business.
Prior to Art Housing, Hali was associated with various financial organisations such as Intec Capital, AU Financiers limited, Capri global, Dhanlaxmi Bank, Reliance Capital, Standard Chartered Bank, and GE countrywide.
Bahl has over 21 years experience in the financial Services industry and has worked on both sides of the balance sheet - Assets and Liabilities. His last assignment was with ART Housing Finance as the President and COO.
Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav Passes Away
Mulayam Singh Yadav, former MLC of Samajwadi Party, passed away in his native village Kakor in Purwa. He was 92.
The veteran leader had been fighting illness for several days.
Yadav, who was elected sarpanch of his village at the age of 21 in the year 1949, was the block chief for 15 years and a member of the Legislative Council for 20 consecutive years. He was a three-time member of the Legislative Council and also the block chief of Auraiya's block, Bhagya Nagar twice.
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.
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