Rudrendra Tandon is India's Next Envoy to Afghanistan, Vikram Doraiswami to Move to Dhaka
The Modi government decided to appoint Rudrendra Tandon as the new envoy to Afghanistan and Vikram Doraiswami as High Commissioner to Dhaka.
Tandon, a 1994 batch Indian Foreign Service officer is considered an Afghanistan specialist with stints in Kabul, Jalalabad and has headed Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran desk in the External Affairs Ministry. He is currently the Indian envoy to ASEAN at Jakarta. Tandon replaces Vinay Kumar who has performed admirably with the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan after striking a deal with Taliban insurgents.
Vikram Doraiswami, who is the Additional Secretary incharge of International Organisations and Summits at the foreign ministry, heads to bangladesh capital Dhaka, one of the closest allies of New Delhi. Doraiswami is a 1992 batch officer.
Doraiswami replaces Riva Ganguly Das, the 1986 batch IFS officer, who is likely to take over as Secretary East at the External Affairs Ministry when incumbent Vijai Thakur Singh retires in September 2020.
Jul 13, 2020
Veteran Gujarati Writer and Journalist Nagindas Sanghvi Passes Away
Qatari author and Padma Shri awardee Nagindas Sanghvi passed away at the age of 100. He was awarded the Padma Shri in January 2020.
Nagindas Sanghvi was born on March 10, 1920 in Bhavnagar. He did BA within the well-known Shamaldas Faculty in Bhavnagar. He served as a professor in three faculties in Mumbai from 1951 to 1980. Nagindas Sanghvi use to put in writing Tad and Phad Katar for Divyabhaskar.
He has written 'Gujarat: A Political Evaluation', 'Mahamanav Shri Krishna', 'Gujarat at Cross Street', 'Narendra Modi: A Political Journey', 'Gita Vimarsh', 'A Transient Historical past of Yoga', 'Sardar Patel: A Devoted Life'. (Gujarati translation of Rajmohan Gandhi's English ebook in Gujarati), 'Gandhi: The Agony of Arrival the South African Years', 'Ramayana's Distance Journey', 'Gita Navi Najre', 'Faith and Society', 'Salting Democracy'.
Jul 12, 2020
Elon Musk Becomes World's Seventh Richest Man
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk's net worth soared past Warren Buffett as the Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Inc became the seventh richest person in the world.
Musk`s fortune rose by $6.07 billion following a 10.8% jump in the electric carmaker`s stock.
Buffett`s net worth dropped earlier this week when he donated $2.9 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to charity.
Jul 11, 2020
Baushuan Ger Taiwan's New Ambassador to India
Taiwan named senior diplomat Baushuan Ger as its new representative to India while his predecessor Tien Chung-kwang has been promoted to the post of Deputy Foreign Minister.
Baushuan's appointment was part of personnel changes announced by Taiwan's foreign ministry. Tien served as Taiwan's representative to India for more than seven years.
Baushuan is expected to take up his post in India in September. He is currently director general of the department of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in Taiwan's foreign ministry and has served in the US and the UK.
Tien will replace Hsu Szu-chien as Deputy Foreign Minister. Hsu has been appointed as deputy secretary-general of Taiwan's National Security Council.
Advisory Committee on Mutual Funds under the Chairmanship of Usha Thorat
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the regulator of the securities and commodity market in India, has reconstituted the committee advising it on matters related to regulation and development of the mutual fund industry by including five new members.
The new 20 member committee will be chaired by Usha Thorat, former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The previous 15 members panel that formed in 2013 was headed by Janki Ballabh, former Chairman of SBI.
Jul 10, 2020
Cognizant India Chairman Ramkumar Ramamoorthy Resigns
Ramkumar Ramamoorthy, Chairman and Managing Director at Cognizant India resigned after 22 years in the company.
In a major reshuffle, Cognizant also replaced the head of global delivery Pradeep Shilige and brought in former Accenture executive Andy Stafford as the new head of delivery.
Ramamoorthy, who was elevated as the Chairman last year (2019), is the latest among the series of top level exits Cognizant has seen in the last one year.
The Teaneck, New Jersey-headquartered IT services firm has over 200,000 employees in India.
Rajesh Verma New Chairman of IEPFA
The government appointed corporate affairs secretary, Rajesh Verma, as the chairman of the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA).
The appointment was a routine change following Verma's appointment as MCA secretary after Injeti Srinivas retired from the MCA post in April. The post of the chairman of the IEPFA is held by whoever is the current MCA secretary.
As per the notification, Anil K. Sharma, executive director of the Reserve Bank of India, P. S. Narasimha, senior advocate and Gopal V. Kumar, actuary and economist, were also appointed as members of the IEPFA.
The IEPFA was established in September 2016 to make refunds of shares, unclaimed dividends, matured deposits/debentures from the Investor Education Protection Fund to investors and to promote awareness among investors.
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