Page-130 of Awards, Honours & Persons in News

No curb in Internet freedom: UN telecom head Hamadoun Toure

December 8, 2012

UN telecom body (International Telecommunication  Union, ITU) head Hamadoun Toure held that internet freedom will not be regulated or curbed. He clarified this in the recently held World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai. The objective behind WCIT-12 was ..

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World’s oldest woman dies at 116

December 7, 2012

The oldest person on this earth Besse Cooper passed away at the age of 116. She was from Georgia. In 2011, she was chosen as the world’s oldest woman by the Guinness World Records. After her death, the title now ..

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Bifurcation of News Corp, Indian to be the CFO

December 7, 2012

News Corp would undergo a restructure of the top management of the company. The company has decided that the top management would split into the two publically traded firms. The bifurcation would separate newspapers like The Wall Street Journal, The ..

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Menon first to visits China after changes in Communist Party of China

December 7, 2012

India’s National Security Advisor and negotiator in border talks with China, Shiv Shankar Menon, was the first top ranking Indian official to visit China after changes announced in the Communist Party of China. What are China’s expectations from India? China ..

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British Army’s first Sikh soldier faces racial remarks by his collegues

December 3, 2012

The British Army’s first Sikh soldier Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, who joined Scots guard this year, went through racial abuse from his colleagues over his headgear and his refusal to cut hair and his beard. Breaking an old tradition, British ..

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Who is Shreya Singhal?

December 3, 2012

Shreya Singhal is a 21-year-old girl from Delhi who came  into news as: she filed public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court calling Section 66(A) of the Information Technology (IT) Act unconstitutional. She filed the petition after the two ..

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Visually impaired Indian-American Sachin Dev Pavithran to head US agency for the disabled

December 3, 2012

Obama named a visually impaired Indian-American  Sachin Dev Pavithran to head an independent US agency devoted to people with disabilities. Sachin Dev Pavithran will soon become a member of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, the agency which is ..

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Shweta Bhatt to contest polls against Modi

December 2, 2012

Congress is fielding Shweta Bhatt to contest against Narendra Modi from Maninagar for the Assembly elections. Who is Shweta Bhatt? Shweta Bhatt is the wife of the suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. Sanjiv Bhatt is an Indian Police Service officer ..

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Yeddyyurappa resigns from BJP and Karnataka Legislative Assembly

December 2, 2012

Former Chief Minister of Karnataka B.S.Yeddyurappa gave resignation from Legislative Assembly and also renounced primary membership of BJP.

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Ms Chitra Ramakrishna to be new CEO & MD of NSE

November 29, 2012

Leading bourse National Stock Exchange (NSE) announced Ms Chitra Ramakrishna as its new MD and CEO with effect from 1 April, 2013. At present only two of the top 20 bourses globally (South Africa’s Johannesburg Stock Exchange and China’s Shenzhen ..

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