GK Monthly Special - January 2014

GK Monthly Special - January 2014 Power Pack

APPOINTMENTS

New executive director of oriental bank of commerce is Suresh n patel. Earlier he acted as general manager at Dena bank.

New Executive director of bank of Maharashtra is RK Gupta.Earlier he acted as a general manager at Dena bank.

New CMD of Vijaya bank is V.Kannan.Earlier HS Upendra kamath acted as CMD of Vijaya bank

Senior IPS officer Devendra Kumar Pathak has been appointed as Special Director General of Border Security Force (BSF).

Pradeep Kumar Saxena has taken over charge as full-fledged General Manager of South Western Railway (SWR).

Sunil Kumar Sood has been appointed General Manager, Central Railway with effect from December 31, 2013. He was earlier Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway, Chennai. Sood had also served as Divisional Railway Manager, Jodhpur Division, North Western Railway, Chief Workshop Manager, Jamalpur, Eastern Railway, Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Moradabad Division, Northern Railway, earlier.

Tata Sons announced appointment of Shankar Venkateswaran as Chief — Tata Sustainability Group with the responsibility of driving group level initiatives in the sustainability space, and guiding Tata Sons and the group companies on sustainability and CSR initiatives.

Janet Yellen, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, was confirmed by the Senate to succeed Chairman Ben Bernanke as the next head of America’s central bank. Her term, which begins Feb. 1, will mark an important shift in the direction of the bank’s policy efforts, as it begins to “taper” back the past five years of unconventional monetary policy, which have resulted in the Fed pouring some $3.8 trillion into the U.S. economy following the financial crisis.

The Centre will soon appoint Justice B.S. Chauhan, a Judge of the Supreme Court, as Chairman of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal to take up pending applications.

Senior IAS officer Rajeev Kher has been appointed Secretary in Department of Commerce.

Jeevandas Narayan has taken over as Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore.

Sachin Pilot appointed Rajasthan Congress chief.

T. Nanda Kumar will be the new Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), replacing Amrita Patel who has been holding the post since 1998.

Australia has appointed Shane Warne as a specialist spin consultant on 23 January 2014 to support Darren Lehmann ahead of Australian campaign in World Twenty20 to be played in Bangladesh. His role in the team will be to train the spinners of the squad.

Rajasthan's former police chief HC Meena has been appointed the secretary, security in the cabinet secretariat, an official statement.

New Zealander Kathy Cross has become the first woman appointed to an International Cricket Council umpire panel.

The government appointed Arun Kumar Gupta as the chairman and managing director of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), filling the post which has been vacant for over a year.

Multi Commodity Exchange, promoted by the troubled Financial Technologies (India) Ltd, has appointed former BSE head Manoj Vaish as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for three years.

Indian-origin academician Rakesh Khurana has been appointed dean of the prestigious Harvard College and will take over his new role in July.

RESIGNATIONS/RETIREMENTS

Ali Larayedh, the Prime Minister of Tunisia resigned.

The Aviation Ministry removed V.P.Agrawal as chairman of the state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) on 24 January 2014.

Justice AK Ganguly resigned as honorary professor of National University of Juridical Sciences.

Garry Kenneth Toomey resigned from Jet Airways

Ukraine Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned

Vijay Bahuguna, the Chief Minister of Uttrakhand resigned.

OBITUARIES

Freedom fighter and veteran urdu journalist Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead

Former Odisha MLA and freedom fighter Narayan Sahu passes away.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Dies AT 85.

Veteran South Indian film actress Anjali Devi dies at 85.

Former Mumbai Ranji Trophy cricketer Vishwanath Ramachandra Bondre died at night. He was 77.

Padma Vibhushan and Dada Saheb Phalke awardee Akkineni Nageswara Rao passed away in Hyderabad at the age of 91, around 2:10 a.m. He was ailing with cancer.

Udhir Mahato (58), the former Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand died on 22 January 2014 following a heart attack at Ghatsila in Singhbhum district.

Renowned Marathi poet and activist Namdeo Dhasal passed away in Mumbai after a prolonged illness.

Legendary Bengali actor Suchitra Sen who was undergoing treatment at a private health facility in the city died in Kolkata.

Karl Slym, the managing director of Tata Motors died on 26 January 2014 after falling from a hotel building in Bangkok.

Raymond Weil, the pioneer of Swiss watch died

Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Died

Ulises Estrada, the Cuban Revolutionary and associate of Che Guevara died.

AWARDS

Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the noted Gandhian environmentalist and social activist won the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 on 28 February 2014.

Corporation Bank has bagged the awards for lending to MSE (micro and small enterprises) and to micro enterprises from the Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) for 2012-13.

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli are the leading candidates for the 2013 ESPNCricinfo awards, nominations.

FIFA awards Cristiano Ronaldo prestigious Ballon d'Or prize.

Actress Deepika Padukone, who gave the industry four blockbusters last year, was awarded the Best Actress while Farhan Akhtar walked away with the Best Actor for his power packed performance in 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' at the 20th Screen Awards.

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh gave away National Bravery awards for the year 2013 to children from various parts of the country in New Delhi.

Kerala Tourism has been conferred the United Nations Award for creating innovative initiatives for sustainable tourism, the first time India has ever won the recognition.

Renowened scientist R.A. Mashelkar, yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar, actors Vidya Balan and Paresh Rawal, sportspersons Yuvraj Singh, P. Gopichand and Dipika Pallikal are among the personalities who have been awarded the Padma awards ahead of the Republic Day.

Dr. Tej Vir Singh from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh won the 2013 UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge on 22 January 2014.

Rapper duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis took home the first of the major awards at the 56th Grammys beating the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Jay Z, Kanye West and Drake.

Australian pace spearhead Mitchell Johnson won the coveted Allan Border medal at an event in Sydney.

President Pranab Mukherjee will confer cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and eminent scientist Prof C N R Rao with Bharat Ratna on February 4 at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Abhishikta S Shetty of Karnataka on 19 July 2014 was crowned as the Miss South India 2014 at the Le Meridien in Coimbatore.

Director Steve McQueen celebrates winning Best Motion Picture - Drama for 12 Years a Slave at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images.

President of India, Pranab Mukherjee presented the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award of 2012 and 2013 on 11 January 2014 to two eminent Bengali poets, namely Nirendranath Chakraborty and Sankha Ghosh, respectively. The awards were given at a function at Raj Bhawan in Kolkata.