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Feb 06, 2021

Virat Kohli Remains Most-valued Celebrity for 4th Year in Row

According to an industry ranking, ace cricketer Virat Kohli has been ranked as the most valuable celebrity for the fourth consecutive year in 2020 with a brand value of USD 237.7 million, and the second and third slots have gone to Hindi film actors Akshay Kumar and Ranveer Singh.
Of the top ten most-valued celebs, only Kohli is outside of the filmdom and of the nine film stars only two are females in the 2020 ranking.
While Kohli's brand remained the same, the top 20 celebs lost 5 per cent of their combined value to USD 1 billion in 2020, Duff & Phelps, which specialises in brand valuation.

Feb 04, 2021

Praveen Sinha Named Acting CBI Chief

The Centre appointed the Central Bureau of Investigation's deputy chief, 1988 batch Gujarat cadre Indian Police Service officer Praveen Sinha, as the acting director of the federal agency with immediate effect, according to an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training.
Sinha, currently additional director in the agency, will look after the duties of CBI director till the high-powered selection committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi chooses the replacement for incumbent, Rishi Kumar Shukla, whose fixed two-year term ended, or until further orders.

Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio Takes Charge as Chairman of NERPC

Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio was appointed as chief of the North East Regional Power Committee (NERPC).
Rio took over as chairman from former chairman, James Sangma, Minister of Power, Meghalaya.

Zoho's Sridhar Vembu Appointed to Doval-led National Security Advisory Board

Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has been appointed to the reconstituted National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) led by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval.
Vembu is one of the Padma Shri awardees announced by the government of India this year. He is currently based in Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, working from the company's office in the village.
The members of NSAB typically have two-year terms. Other new members in this term include former ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan, Anshuman Tripathy, faculty at IIM Bangalore, and Arun K Singh, former ambassador to France and the United States.
National Security Advisor Doval is the key advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on six sensitive verticals including defence, internal security, strategic (nuclear) affairs, space, external affairs and intelligence and receives consultations from the NSAB.

Feb 03, 2021

Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos to Step Down in Third Quarter

E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc beat estimates for holiday-quarter sales and said that Jeff Bezos would move to the role of executive chair in the third quarter and be replaced by Amazon Web Services head Andy Jassy as chief executive officer.
The announcement came as Amazon released its financial results for its fourth quarter that ended December 31, 2020.
Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994 had stepped back from much of the day-to-day business over several years, though the pandemic pulled him back in last spring.

Feb 02, 2021

Bhavya Lal NASA's New Acting Chief of Staff

Indian-American Bhavya Lal was appointed by NASA as the Acting Chief of Staff of the US space agency. Lal served as a member of the Biden Presidential Transition Agency Review Team for the agency and oversaw the agency's transition under the administration of President Joe Biden.
As per NASA, Lal brings extensive experience in engineering and space technology, serving as a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defence Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) from 2005 to 2020.
Lal is an active member of the space technology and policy community, having chaired, co-chaired, or served on five high-impact National Academy of Science committees.

Feb 01, 2021

Dutch Chemist Paul Crutzen, Who Warned of Ozone Hole, Passes Away

The Earth has dozens of names in dozens of languages, but the human-dominated moment in the planet's history that we find ourselves in has been named only once: the Anthropocene. The man most responsible for that moniker, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen, died at 87.
Crutzen discovered in 1970 that nitrogen pollution was capable of destroying ozone in the atmosphere, a critical layer of that protects living things from the sun's ultraviolet radiation. The implications were potentially dangerous, as this ozone gas thinned into a "hole" above the Southern Hemisphere that threatened to leave millions of people exposed. Crutzen shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the risk to the ozone layer.

SBI Cards Appoints Rama Mohan Rao Amara as the MD and CEO

SBI Cards and Payment Services Ltd (SBI Card) appointed Rama Mohan Rao Amara as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for a period of two years.
Ashwini Kumar Tewari had resigned from the post of MD and CEO of SBI Card owing to his appointment as the Managing Director of State Bank of India (SBI).
Rao is a veteran banker, with a successful career spanning over 29 years at SBI, the credit card company said in a release. Prior to taking charge at SBI Card, he was the Chief General Manager, SBI Bhopal Circle.

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