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2. Rajiv Mehrishi took charge as Union Finance
Secretary. He succeeded Arvind Mayaram.
3. Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) candidate Devendra
Gangadharrao Fadnavis sworn-in as the Chief
Minister of Maharashtra. He is the first BJP
candidate to become CM of Maharashtra.
4. First-time legislator from BJP Manohar Lal
Khattar, 61, is the 21st Chief Minister of Haryana.
5. Vice President of Zambia Guy Scott was
appointed as acting President by the Zambia
government.
6. Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar was elected
Vice-President of Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union
in Macau.
7. Surya Prakash was appointed as the Chairman 12. Kalpana Morparia was appointed as first woman
of Prasar Bharti Board for a term of three years. director of Hindustan Unilever Limited.
8. The former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh was 13. Union Ministry of Civil Aviation approved the
designated as the head of Future Earth appointment of Cramer Ball as Chief Executive
Engagement Committee, a global research Officer of Jet Airways.
platform panel on sustainable development. 14. President Pranab Mukherjee authorised Vigilance
9. Union Government appointed US-based Commissioner Rajiv to act as chief of Central
economist Arvind Subramanian as Chief Vigilance Commission until the appointment of
Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Union Finance the Central Vigilance Commissioner.
Ministry for three years. 15. Justice H L Dattu was sworn-in as the 42nd Chief
10. Khaled Bahah was appointed as Prime Minister of Justice of India. He succeeded Chief Justice RM
Yemen. Lodha.
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16. Malala Yousafzai won the 2014 World’s 28. Pakistani child education activist Malala
Children Prize after a global vote involving Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist
millions of children. Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize
17. Malala Yousafzai was conferred with the 2014 2014.
Liberty Medal at the National Constitution 29. Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights
Centre in Philadelphia. activist born in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. His
organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan has
been active in the Indian movement against child
labour.
30. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school pupil,
education activist who is known for her activism
18. Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege for right to education for women.
Mukengere won the prestigious Sakharov human 31. Eric Betzig, Stefan W Hell and William E.
rights prize 2014. Moerner won the 2014 Nobel Prize for
19. Australian author Richard Flanagan won Man Chemistry for the development of super-resolved
Booker Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow fluorescence microscopy.
Road to the Deep North. This was the first year 32. Three Japanese-born researchers Isamu
that the Man Booker prize was open to all authors Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura
writing in English, regardless of nationality. won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. They were
20. All India National Unity Council honoured poet- honoured for inventing efficient blue Light-
diplomat Abhay K with Asia-Pacific Excellence Emitting Diodes (LED) lamps that worked as a
Award. bright and energy-saving white light sources.
21. Noted lyricist Sameer was honoured with the 33. Saiyid Hamid was conferred with Sir Ross
National Kishore Kumar Award for 2012-13. Masood Lifetime Achievement Award 2014 for
22. The UK government announced the inaugural Excellence in Leadership, Education, community
Dadabhai Naoroji Awards to honour individuals & Public Service.
who have worked to strengthen the UK-India 34. The Nobel Assembly decided to award the 2014
relationship over the years. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to John
23. Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser.
of India was conferred with Euromoney’s The award was given for their discoveries of cells
Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014 in that constitute a GPS in the brain.
Washington. 35. The President of India Pranab Mukherjee
24. Indian-origin Singaporean poet and writer KTM presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National
Iqbal was named for the 2014 Cultural Medallion, Award 2014 to Dr Apathukatha Sivathanu
the highest cultural award of Singapore. Pillai.
25. An eminent Indian scientist Dr Sanjaya Rajaram 36. Former New York Mayor and philanthropist
received the World Food Prize 2014 for his billionaire Michael Rubens Bloomberg was
scientific research that led to a prodigious granted an honorary knighthood from Queen
increase in world wheat production. Elizabeth II in Britain.
26. French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 37. Anoop Jain won 2014 Waislitz Global Citizen
Nobel Prize for Economics. Jean Tirole was Award.
awarded for his analysis of market power and 38. Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan received
regulation. Global Diversity Award 2014 at the Britain’s
27. French author Patrick Modiano won the Nobel House of Commons.
Prize for literature for the year 2014. The Nobel 39. Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan was
Prize for Literature is granted by the Swedish recently in news as he was summoned by a US
Academy. Federal Court in Los Angeles for allegedly