People in News: October 2020 PDF

Published on Monday, November 09, 2020

1. Justice Bansi Lal Bhat

The Central Government has extended the tenure of Justice Bansi Lal Bhat as the officiating Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) for the third time.
Justice Bhat will now remain on the post till December 31, 2020.
He was appointed on March 12, 2020.

2. Om Puri

Late actor Om Puri has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the India International Film Festival of Boston.
The actor has been given this award for his contribution to the cinema.
The award was received by his wife.

3.Alpha Condé

Alpha Condé has been appointed as the President of Guinea.
He has been appointed as the president of the country for the third time.

4. Lewis Hamilton

British racing driver Lewis Hamilton has won the German Grand Prix.
It is the 91st victory of Hamilton's career.
With this win, Lewis has equalled Michael Schumacher's record.

5. Saad al-Hariri

Saad al-Hariri has been appointed as the prime minister of Lebanon.
He has been appointed by the Lebanese President Michel Aoun.

6. Rajiv Kumar

Vice President of NITI Aayog, Rajiv Kumar will head a 14-member committee formed by NITI Aayog to reform the urban planning education system.
Other members of the committee include Amitabh Kant (CEO of Aayog); principal scientific advisor (PSA) K VijayRaghavan; Tarun Khanna of Harvard Business School and others.

7. Pravir Krishna

The Team of TRIFED warriors has won three awards at National Awards for Excellence- PSU.
Managing Director of TRIFED, Pravir Krishna has won CEO of the year and Visionary Leadership Award while the team has won an award in the Investment in Start-ups category.
Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation of India (TRIFED) is a national level cooperative body under the administrative control of Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

8. Seema Gupta

Director of Operations at POWERGRID Corporation of India, Seema Gupta has won the GOLD Stevie Award in the Lifetime Achievement- A business category in the 17th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.
The award is given to honour women executives, employees, entrepreneurs around the world.

9. Aishwarya Sridhar

Indian Photographer, Aishwarya Sridhar became the first Indian woman to win the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
She was announced as the winner of the award at the Natural History Museum in London.
This is the 56th year of the award.
Aishwarya was declared the winner for her picture named 'Lights of passion'.

10. Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern became the Prime Minister of New Zealand for the second consecutive time.
Ardern's liberal Labour Party won by a landslide victory in the elections.

11. Rajkiran Rai G

Rajkiran Rai G has been appointed as the new Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
Rajkiran is the Managing Director and CEO of Union Bank of India.
He has succeeded Rajnish Kumar.

12. Vishal V. Sharma

Vishal V. Sharma has been appointed as the new Permanent Representative of India to the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO.
His rank will be of Ambassador.
He has succeeded Jawed Ashraf.

13. Michael Irani

Michael Irani has been appointed as the Interim President of International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
IWF is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary and has 187 members.

14. Constantina Dita

Constantina Dita has been named as the brand ambassador for World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020.
Rita is a Romanian long-distance runner and the 2008 Olympic champion.

15. Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has again become the richest Indian as per the Forbes list.
It is the 13th consecutive time; Ambani has been named the richest person of India.
His net worth is worth of $88.7 billion.

16. Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson

Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson have been declared as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
They have been awarded for “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats."
Both of them are American economists.

17. Robert Lewandowski

Robert Lewandowski has won the UEFA Men's Player of the Year award.
Robert is a Polish footballer.

18. Louise Glück

Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2020.
She has been awarded “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
She is the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
She is an American poet.

19. M A Ganapathy

Senior IPS officer M A Ganapathy has been appointed as director-general of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
At present, Ganapathy is the CISF special director-general and head of the airport sector.

20. S S Deswal

ITBP Chief S S Deswal has been given an additional charge of the DG of National Security Guard (NSG).
He has been appointed after A K Singh retired on September 30.
Deswal is a 1984-batch IPS officer.

21. Sanjay Singh

Rajya Sabha MP from Aam Admi Party (AAP), Sanjay Singh has chosen for the 'Gandhi Award' instituted by the Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation.
He has been awarded for his role in the removal of Mahatma Gandhi's pictures from beer bottles in a Company in Israel.

22. Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice, and Michael Houghton

Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice, and Michael Houghton have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.
They have been awarded for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice are American Scientists while Michael Houghton is a British scientist.

23. Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2020.
Britain’s Penrose, has been awarded “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”.
German Genzel and US Scientist Ghez have won the award “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.

24. Dinesh Kumar Khara

State Bank of India (SBI) has appointed Dinesh Kumar Khara as its new chairman.
He has replaced Rajnish Kumar.

25. J Venkatramu

26. M. Rajeshwar Rao

M. Rajeshwar Rao took over as the Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
He has been appointed for 3 years.