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GK Power Capsule July 2014
GK Power Capsule July 2014
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GK Power Capsule July` 2014 (The Hindu Review)
1. Subhash Sheoratan Mundra took charge as the
fourth Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of
India for three years. He was appointed to fill
the vacancy created by the KC Chakrabarty.
Before being appointed as Deputy Governor of
RBI, S S Mundra was the Chairman and
Managing Director of Bank of Baroda.
2. Lt. General Dalbir Singh Suhag took over as Chief
of Army Staff. He succeeded General Bikram
Singh to become the 28th Army Chief.
3. Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha
took over as the Chairman of the Chief of Staff
Committee (COSC).
4. Amitabh Bachchan was appointed as the
horticulture ambassador of Maharashtra.
5. Veteran BJP leader Kaptan Singh Solanki was
appointed as the Governor of Haryana.
6. The Comptroller & Auditor General of India,
Shashi Kant Sharma assumed office as Member
of the United Nations Board of Auditors for a
term of six year.
7. The Supreme Court appointed R S Cheema as
Special Public Prosecutor for trial in coal blocks
allocation scam.
8. Keshari Nath Tripathi was sworn in as 22nd
Governor of West Bengal.
9. Ram Naik was sworn in as 27th Governor of
Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow.
10. Yellapragada Sudharshan Rao was appointed as
Chairman of Indian Council of Historical
Research (ICHR).
11. B Ashok took charge as Chairman of Indian Oil
Corporation (IOC), the Indias largest oil firm.
12. President of India, Pranab Mukherjee appointed
Balramji Dass Tandon as the Governor of
Chhattisgarh, Om Prakash Kohli as the Governor
of Gujarat, Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya as
the Governor of Nagaland.
13. Emma Watson, the British Actress was
appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for UN
Women.
14. Justice Arun Mishra, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel
and Justice Rohington F Nariman were
appointed as Supreme Court judges.
15. M S Mehta was appointed as Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of Reliance Infrastructure.
16. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited
Nepal. She cochaired the meeting of the Indo
Nepal Joint Commission. India and Nepal agreed
to review and adjust the Treaty of Peace and
Friendship of 1950 to reflect the current
realities.
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