Yuvayana Current Affairs Digest Pdf - July 2015.pdf

Yuvayana Current Affairs Digest – July 2015
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Shri Jagmohan Yadav appointed as new Director General of Police of Uttar Pradesh.
Senior IPS officer Y.C. Modi, appointed as Additional Director in the CBI. He will replace Archana
Ramasundaram.
Nandkumar Saravade appointed as CEO of the Data Security Council of India (DSCI). He will take over
from the current officiating CEO,Rama Vedashree, Vice-President of Nasscom.
Balvender Kumar IAS (UP: 1981) took over as Secretary Ministry of Mines in New Delhi. He took over the
charge from Dr. Anup K. Pujari.
Sriram Kalyanaraman becomes the first person from private sector to be appointed as head of a Public Sector
Financial Institution. He has been appointed as MD and CEO of National Housing Bank for a period of
five years from the date of his taking over the charge.
Delhi Govt appointed Swati Maliwal as chairperson of Delhi Commission for women (DCW).
Roelant Oltmans is new coach of the Indian hockey team. He will replace Paul van Ass, who was sacked after a
bitter spat with Hockey India President Narinder Batra.
Former BlackBerry India head Sunil Lalvani appointed as vice president and president of Qualcomm India,
as Avneesh Agrawal, senior vice president and president of Qualcomm India and South Asia exits the
company.
Ram Sewak Sharma appointed as new Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI),
the regulating body of Indian telecom sector.
Lieutenant General Man Mohan Singh Rai has been appointed as the Vice-Chief of the Indian Army. Rai will
succeed Lt Gen Philip Campose, who will superannuate the office on 31 July 2015. Presently, Rai is working
as the Eastern Army Commander.
Commodore C.D. Balaji (Retd) appointed as the Director of the Aeronautical Development Agency
(ADA) and Programme Director of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). He succeeded P.S. Subramanyam, a
distinguished Scientist, who superannuated on 30 June 2015.
Ashish Bahuguna appointed as Chairman of food safety regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of
India (FSSAI). Bahuguna's tenure will be of three years and he succeeded K. Chandramouli whose tenure
ended in January 2015.
Sunil Bharti led Bharti Enterprises appointed Rahul Bhatnagar as its new Managing Director and
Chief Financial Officer. Bhatnagar takes over from Manoj Kohli, who has assumed the role of Executive
Chairman, SBG Cleantech -- a JV between SoftBank, Bharti and Foxconn for renewable energy.
Cipla, the country's leading company in Pharma sector, appointed Samina Vaziralli as Executive Director on
its board. Vaziralli is the daughter of M.K. Hamied, Vice Chairman of the Board of Cipla. Earlier, she
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