Dear Readers, we are presenting a list of persons in news these days for upcoming IBPS Clerk Mains and other upcoming Exams.
Try to learn this list as it will help you in upcoming IBPS Clerk Mains Exam.
1. Former Delhi High Court judge Reva Khetrapal has been selected as Delhi’s new Lokayukta.
Try to learn this list as it will help you in upcoming IBPS Clerk Mains Exam.
1. Former Delhi High Court judge Reva Khetrapal has been selected as Delhi’s new Lokayukta.
2.
Veteran Kannada film-maker K.S.L. Swamy passes away
3.
Justin Trudeau elected as Canada’s new PM
4.
Acclaimed Egyptian novelist and journalist Gamal al-Ghitani passed away in
Cairo, Egypt. He was 70.
5.
Kundhavi Kadiresanwas appointed as the Assistant Director (AD) of United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Regional Representative for
Asia and the Pacific.
6.
India’s second largest software services firm, Infosys has appointed Ranganath
D Mavinakere as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
7.
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified
Marxist-Leninist)-CPN-UML was elected as new Prime Minister of Nepal.
8.
Renowned scientist Shekhar Basu has been appointed as the Chairman of Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) and Secretary of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
9.
Oscar-winning composer Allah-Rakha Rahman has been named the Cultural
Ambassador for Seychelles.
10.
Hoesung Lee of South Korea has been elected Chairman of Inter-governmental
Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).
11.
Micro blogging site Twitter has appointed its co-founder and interim chief
executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey as permanent CEO for second time.
12.
V Shanmuganthan has sworn in as the 17th Governor of Manipur after taking oath
at ceremony held at Raj Bhawan in Imphal. He succeeded Dr. Syed Ahmed who had
died in late in September 2015.
13.
The Department of Posts has released a Commemorative postal stamp on father of
Indian Constitution Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as part of his 125th Birth Anniversary
celebrations.
14.
President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Governor of Meghalaya V.
Shanmuganathan to discharge the functions of the Governor of Manipur.
15.
Ace Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra has clinched gold medal in the men’s 10 metre
Air Rifle event of the Asian Air Gun Championships held in New Delhi.
16.
Dr. P Sivakumar has been elevated as Distinguished Scientist with immediate
effect by the Union Defence Ministry Ministry.
17.
Sherif Ismail has sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Egypt. He was
administered oath to the office by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
18.
Metro Man E Sreedharan to serve UN High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable
Transport
19.
Malcolm Turnbull has sworn-in as Australia’s new Prime Minister.
20.
Queen Elizabeth II on 9th September 2015 became the longest-reigning Monarch of
Britain and the longest-reigning female monarch in history.
21.
Renowned Agriculture expert Professor Ramesh Chand has been appointed as new
full time member of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog.
22.
South African city of Durban has been selected as the host for the 22nd edition
of Commonwealth Games to be held in 2022.
23.
A K Jha has been given additional charge of interim Chairman & Managing
Director (CMD) of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited.
24.
President of Greece’s Supreme Court Vassiliki Thanou has been appointed as the
first female Prime Minister of the heavily indebted country which is center of
Eurozone crisis.
25.
Maharashtra government has bought the house in London where social reformer and
architect of the Indian Constitution Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar had stayed in
the 1920s.
26.
World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic from Serbia has been appointed as a
new goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
27.
Veteran actor and director Amol Palekar has been appointed as the Chairman of
India’s Oscar jury by Mumbai based Film Federation of India (FFI).
28.
French President Francois Hollande to be Chief Guest at Republic Day in India
29.
Prithvi Raj Singh elected to Board of Governors of World Water Council
30.
Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary will be given
Sainthood i.e. will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September
2016.
31.
Renowned British Novelist Peter Dickinson passed away in Winchester, Hampshire.
He was 88. He was a prolific novelist best known for children’s books and
detective stories.
32.
Indian-origin barrister Kalyani Kaul sworn-in as Circuit Judge in the UK
33.
Shekhar Kapur to head jury and Anil Kapoor was chief guest at IFFI 2015
34.
Former Defence Secretary Radha Krishna Mathur (62) has been appointed as Chief
Information Commissioner (CIC).
35.
Renowned theatre artiste and writer Chatla Sriramulu passed away at
Secunderabad, Telangana. He was 84.
36.
Senior revenue service officer Arun Kumar Jain appointed Chairman of Central
Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
37.
An Indian-origin politician, Pravin Gordhan has been appointed as South
Africa’s new Finance Minister.
38.
Indian-origin writer Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali from Singapore has been awarded
prestigious 2015 South East Asia Write Award.
39.
Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has appointed senior IPS officer Ahmad
Javed as India’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
40.
Renowned agro-economist and veteran leader of farmers Sharad Anantrao Joshi
passed away in Pune, Maharashtra. He was 81.
41.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released On My Terms: From the Grassroots to
the Corridors of Power, an autobiography of former Union Minister Sharad Pawar.
42.
Mauricio Macri of Republican Proposal Party (RPP) has been sworn in as new
President of Argentina after taking oath in the Congress.
43.
Time magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as Person of the Year
2015.
44.
Distinguished Scientist M Nair Rajeevan (54) has been appointed as Secretary of
Union Ministry of Earth Sciences.
45.
Kaher Kazem has been appointed as President and Managing Director General
Motors (GM) India operations.
46.
Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India (CJI).
47.
Veteran industrialist and former parliamentarian MAM Ramaswamy passed away in
Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was 84.
48.
Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been elected as President of Burkina Faso
49.
Russian legendary film Director and screenwriter Eldar Ryazanov passed away in
Moscow, Russia. He was 88.
50.
Dominica-born British lawyer Patricia Scotland (60) has been elected as the new
Secretary General of the Commonwealth.
51.
Distinguished Tamil scholar and historian of South India and South Asia, Noboru
Karashima from Japan passed away in Tokyo. He was 82.
52.
Atonio Costa, the leader of Portugal’s Socialist Party was named Prime Minister
of Portugal.
53.
Former world long jump champion Anju Bobby George was appointed as the
Chairperson of Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) by Union Ministry of Sports
and Youth Affairs.
54.
Noted labour economist Dr. T.S. Papola passed away in New Delhi. He was 74.
55.
Harshavardhan Neotia has been elected as the President of industry body
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
56.
Senior diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale has been appointed as India’s Ambassador
to China.
57.
Well-known neurosurgeon and Secretary General of Indian Red Cross Society
(IRCS) Dr. Satya Paul Agarwal passed away in New Delhi. He was 70.
58.
Former Director of country’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis
Wing (RAW), K. Shankaran Nair passed away in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He was 94.
59.
Senior Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal passed away in Gurgaon,
Haryana. He was 90 and was suffering from serious respiratory problems.
60.
Senior Indian diplomat Syed Akbaruddin has been appointed as India’s Permanent
Representative to the United Nations at New York.
61.
A noted writer of children’s books Kamala Laxman passed away on 14 November
2015 in Pune. She was 90.
62.
Bhawana Somaaya, Satish Shah and Brijendra Pal Singh have been nominated as
members of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Society.
63.
Renowned economist Subir Gokaran has been appointed as an Executive Director on
the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
64.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has been appointed as vice
chairman of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements
(BIS).
65.
India’s former Ambassador to Nepal and modern Indian historian Bimal Prasad
passed away in New Delhi at the age of 92.
66.
Oscar-winning British writer and actor Colin Welland passed away at the age of
81. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years.
67.
Veteran CPI(M) leader and former Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly Hasim
Abdul Halin passed away in Kolkata. He was 80.
68.
Hero MotoCorp patriarch and Doyen of Indian two-wheeler industry Brijmohan Lall
Munjal passed away in New Delhi. He was
92.
69.
One of the eminent archaeologists of post-Independent India, Virendra Nath
Misra passed away in Pune, Maharashtra. He was 81.
70.
Union Government has appointed senior IRS officer Najib Shah as the chairman of
Central Board of Excise and Customs(CBEC).
71.
Union Government has nominated Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das to
the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
72.
Bidhya Devi Bhandari of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist
Leninist)-CPN-UML has been elected as first female President of Nepal.
73.
Lord Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon, one of Britain’s most prominent Indian-origin peers
and Curry King passed away in London. He was 79.
74.
Luxembourg envoy to the United Nations (UN) Sylvie Lucas has been appointed as
the next chair of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) of UN Security
Council Reforms.
75.
Bengali film, television and stage actor Pijush Ganguly passed away in Kolkata,
West Bengal. He was 50.
76.
Renowned Irish-American actress and singer Maureen O’Hara passed away in Boise,
US. She was 95.
77.
Retired Lieutenant General Nasser Khan Janjua has been appointed as the new
National Security Advisor (NSA) of Pakistan.
78.
Autobiography of Sam Pitroda named Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India
has been released. It is written with the help of an American author David
Chanoff.
Dear Readers, we are presenting a list of persons in news these days for upcoming IBPS Clerk Mains and other upcoming Exams.
Try to learn this list as it will help you in upcoming IBPS Clerk Mains Exam.
1. Former Delhi High Court judge Reva Khetrapal has been selected as Delhi’s new Lokayukta.
Try to learn this list as it will help you in upcoming IBPS Clerk Mains Exam.
1. Former Delhi High Court judge Reva Khetrapal has been selected as Delhi’s new Lokayukta.
2.
Veteran Kannada film-maker K.S.L. Swamy passes away
3.
Justin Trudeau elected as Canada’s new PM
4.
Acclaimed Egyptian novelist and journalist Gamal al-Ghitani passed away in
Cairo, Egypt. He was 70.
5.
Kundhavi Kadiresanwas appointed as the Assistant Director (AD) of United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Regional Representative for
Asia and the Pacific.
6.
India’s second largest software services firm, Infosys has appointed Ranganath
D Mavinakere as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
7.
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified
Marxist-Leninist)-CPN-UML was elected as new Prime Minister of Nepal.
8.
Renowned scientist Shekhar Basu has been appointed as the Chairman of Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) and Secretary of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
9.
Oscar-winning composer Allah-Rakha Rahman has been named the Cultural
Ambassador for Seychelles.
10.
Hoesung Lee of South Korea has been elected Chairman of Inter-governmental
Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).
11.
Micro blogging site Twitter has appointed its co-founder and interim chief
executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey as permanent CEO for second time.
12.
V Shanmuganthan has sworn in as the 17th Governor of Manipur after taking oath
at ceremony held at Raj Bhawan in Imphal. He succeeded Dr. Syed Ahmed who had
died in late in September 2015.
13.
The Department of Posts has released a Commemorative postal stamp on father of
Indian Constitution Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as part of his 125th Birth Anniversary
celebrations.
14.
President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Governor of Meghalaya V.
Shanmuganathan to discharge the functions of the Governor of Manipur.
15.
Ace Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra has clinched gold medal in the men’s 10 metre
Air Rifle event of the Asian Air Gun Championships held in New Delhi.
16.
Dr. P Sivakumar has been elevated as Distinguished Scientist with immediate
effect by the Union Defence Ministry Ministry.
17.
Sherif Ismail has sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Egypt. He was
administered oath to the office by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
18.
Metro Man E Sreedharan to serve UN High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable
Transport
19.
Malcolm Turnbull has sworn-in as Australia’s new Prime Minister.
20.
Queen Elizabeth II on 9th September 2015 became the longest-reigning Monarch of
Britain and the longest-reigning female monarch in history.
21.
Renowned Agriculture expert Professor Ramesh Chand has been appointed as new
full time member of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog.
22.
South African city of Durban has been selected as the host for the 22nd edition
of Commonwealth Games to be held in 2022.
23.
A K Jha has been given additional charge of interim Chairman & Managing
Director (CMD) of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited.
24.
President of Greece’s Supreme Court Vassiliki Thanou has been appointed as the
first female Prime Minister of the heavily indebted country which is center of
Eurozone crisis.
25.
Maharashtra government has bought the house in London where social reformer and
architect of the Indian Constitution Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar had stayed in
the 1920s.
26.
World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic from Serbia has been appointed as a
new goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
27.
Veteran actor and director Amol Palekar has been appointed as the Chairman of
India’s Oscar jury by Mumbai based Film Federation of India (FFI).
28.
French President Francois Hollande to be Chief Guest at Republic Day in India
29.
Prithvi Raj Singh elected to Board of Governors of World Water Council
30.
Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary will be given
Sainthood i.e. will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September
2016.
31.
Renowned British Novelist Peter Dickinson passed away in Winchester, Hampshire.
He was 88. He was a prolific novelist best known for children’s books and
detective stories.
32.
Indian-origin barrister Kalyani Kaul sworn-in as Circuit Judge in the UK
33.
Shekhar Kapur to head jury and Anil Kapoor was chief guest at IFFI 2015
34.
Former Defence Secretary Radha Krishna Mathur (62) has been appointed as Chief
Information Commissioner (CIC).
35.
Renowned theatre artiste and writer Chatla Sriramulu passed away at
Secunderabad, Telangana. He was 84.
36.
Senior revenue service officer Arun Kumar Jain appointed Chairman of Central
Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
37.
An Indian-origin politician, Pravin Gordhan has been appointed as South
Africa’s new Finance Minister.
38.
Indian-origin writer Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali from Singapore has been awarded
prestigious 2015 South East Asia Write Award.
39.
Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has appointed senior IPS officer Ahmad
Javed as India’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
40.
Renowned agro-economist and veteran leader of farmers Sharad Anantrao Joshi
passed away in Pune, Maharashtra. He was 81.
41.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released On My Terms: From the Grassroots to
the Corridors of Power, an autobiography of former Union Minister Sharad Pawar.
42.
Mauricio Macri of Republican Proposal Party (RPP) has been sworn in as new
President of Argentina after taking oath in the Congress.
43.
Time magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as Person of the Year
2015.
44.
Distinguished Scientist M Nair Rajeevan (54) has been appointed as Secretary of
Union Ministry of Earth Sciences.
45.
Kaher Kazem has been appointed as President and Managing Director General
Motors (GM) India operations.
46.
Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India (CJI).
47.
Veteran industrialist and former parliamentarian MAM Ramaswamy passed away in
Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was 84.
48.
Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been elected as President of Burkina Faso
49.
Russian legendary film Director and screenwriter Eldar Ryazanov passed away in
Moscow, Russia. He was 88.
50.
Dominica-born British lawyer Patricia Scotland (60) has been elected as the new
Secretary General of the Commonwealth.
51.
Distinguished Tamil scholar and historian of South India and South Asia, Noboru
Karashima from Japan passed away in Tokyo. He was 82.
52.
Atonio Costa, the leader of Portugal’s Socialist Party was named Prime Minister
of Portugal.
53.
Former world long jump champion Anju Bobby George was appointed as the
Chairperson of Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) by Union Ministry of Sports
and Youth Affairs.
54.
Noted labour economist Dr. T.S. Papola passed away in New Delhi. He was 74.
55.
Harshavardhan Neotia has been elected as the President of industry body
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
56.
Senior diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale has been appointed as India’s Ambassador
to China.
57.
Well-known neurosurgeon and Secretary General of Indian Red Cross Society
(IRCS) Dr. Satya Paul Agarwal passed away in New Delhi. He was 70.
58.
Former Director of country’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis
Wing (RAW), K. Shankaran Nair passed away in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He was 94.
59.
Senior Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal passed away in Gurgaon,
Haryana. He was 90 and was suffering from serious respiratory problems.
60.
Senior Indian diplomat Syed Akbaruddin has been appointed as India’s Permanent
Representative to the United Nations at New York.
61.
A noted writer of children’s books Kamala Laxman passed away on 14 November
2015 in Pune. She was 90.
62.
Bhawana Somaaya, Satish Shah and Brijendra Pal Singh have been nominated as
members of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Society.
63.
Renowned economist Subir Gokaran has been appointed as an Executive Director on
the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
64.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has been appointed as vice
chairman of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements
(BIS).
65.
India’s former Ambassador to Nepal and modern Indian historian Bimal Prasad
passed away in New Delhi at the age of 92.
66.
Oscar-winning British writer and actor Colin Welland passed away at the age of
81. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years.
67.
Veteran CPI(M) leader and former Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly Hasim
Abdul Halin passed away in Kolkata. He was 80.
68.
Hero MotoCorp patriarch and Doyen of Indian two-wheeler industry Brijmohan Lall
Munjal passed away in New Delhi. He was
92.
69.
One of the eminent archaeologists of post-Independent India, Virendra Nath
Misra passed away in Pune, Maharashtra. He was 81.
70.
Union Government has appointed senior IRS officer Najib Shah as the chairman of
Central Board of Excise and Customs(CBEC).
71.
Union Government has nominated Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das to
the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
72.
Bidhya Devi Bhandari of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist
Leninist)-CPN-UML has been elected as first female President of Nepal.
73.
Lord Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon, one of Britain’s most prominent Indian-origin peers
and Curry King passed away in London. He was 79.
74.
Luxembourg envoy to the United Nations (UN) Sylvie Lucas has been appointed as
the next chair of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) of UN Security
Council Reforms.
75.
Bengali film, television and stage actor Pijush Ganguly passed away in Kolkata,
West Bengal. He was 50.
76.
Renowned Irish-American actress and singer Maureen O’Hara passed away in Boise,
US. She was 95.
77.
Retired Lieutenant General Nasser Khan Janjua has been appointed as the new
National Security Advisor (NSA) of Pakistan.
78.
Autobiography of Sam Pitroda named Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India
has been released. It is written with the help of an American author David
Chanoff.
