October 2020 Persons in News

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Nanda Kishore Sahoo Assumes as Director General Dental Services
Lieutenant General Nanda Kishore Sahoo, VSM assumed as the Director General Dental Services and Colonel Commandant of Army Dental Corps on 12 Oct 2020.

During his military career of 37 years, he has held multiple important appointments including Command of a unit in Kashmir Valley, Command Advisor of Western, Central and Southern Commands.

Background:
The General Officer is an alumnus of King George's Medical University and a Post Graduate from Mumbai University in the Specialty of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

He has the unique distinction of being the Professor & Head of the Dental Department at Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and at the Army Hospital (Research & Referral), Delhi.

Lt Gen NK Sahoo is an internationally acclaimed author, teacher and winner of K S Master silver medal.

The General officer is a recipient of five Commendations and the Presidential Award, VishishtSeva Medal(VSM) for his exceptional services of a high order.

He urged them to continue on the path to strive for excellence and to keep ’Nation First’ in all their endeavours.
SC appoints former justice Lokur to monitor steps to prevent stubble burning
The Supreme Court has appointed Justice Madan B Lokur, a former judge of the Supreme Court, as a one-person monitoring committee to prevent stubble burning in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, amid rising levels of pollution in the national capital and adjoining regions.

Highlights:
The judgment was passed by the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice SA Bobde while hearing a PIL filed by two environmental activities as directions to ensure the implementation of the complete ban on stubble burning.

Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) and chief secretaries of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh were directed to help the Lokur panel.

The concerned state governments are asked to provide secretarial, security and financial facilities to this committee. The committee is directed to submit its report to the Supreme Court in 15 days, with the next hearing on October 26, 2020.

The committee will be assisted by state chief secretaries and also by National Cadet Corps (NCC), National Service Scheme (NSS) and Bharat Scouts.
Vishal V Sharma appointed as India's next permanent representative to UNESCO
Vishal V Sharma has been selected as the next permanent representative of India to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He was selected with the rank of ambassador.

Highlights:
Vishal V Sharma was appointed as the replacement of Jawed Ashraf.

He was appointed to the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO.

On November 16, 1945 UNESCO was founded and had its headquarters at Paris, France.

Head of UNESCO is Audrey Azoulay.
IWF appoint Michael Irani as interim President
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on October 16, 2020, announced the appointment of Michael Irani as its interim President.

Michael Irani was appointed after the resignation of IWF President TamásAján.

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF):
International Weightlifting Federation was founded in 1905 and had its headquarters at Budapest, Hungary.

Michael Irani:
Michael Irani was born in Bombay, who is a leading physician in Rheumatology and works as a Consultant Rheumatologist at Ashford Hospital NHS Trust.

Irani was the former Chairman of the anti-doping Commission of IWF. And he was also a member of the IWF Medical Committee since 1992.

He served as the President of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) Medical Committee from 1995 to 1999.
Who has been appointed as Director General, BCAS?
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of M A Ganapathy to the post of Director General, BCAS, for a tenure up to his superannuation on February 29, 2024 or until further orders. He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

The post of BCAS chief fell vacant after Rakesh Asthana was appointed as the Director General of Border Security Force in August.
Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of SBI?
The Government of India appointed Dinesh Kumar Khara, the current Managing Director of State Bank of India as the new Chairman of SBI for a period of three years effective from 7th October 2020. Dinesh Kumar Khara succeeds Rajnish Kumar as the new Chairman, whose 3-year term ended on 7th October 2020.

The appointment of Dinesh Kumar was recommended by the Bank Board Bureau.

About Dinesh Kumar Khara
Dinesh Kumar Khara is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB) and he joined SBI as a probation officer in 1984.

He played a major role in merging the 5 associate banks and Bharatiya Bank with SBI in April 2017.

He was appointed as the MD of SBI in August 2016 for a term of 3 years

He headed the global banking division of SBI and also served as the MD and CEO of SBI Funds Management Private Limited (SBIMF)
Who has been appointed as MD, CEO of India Post Payments Bank?
On October 7, 2020, The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of J Venkatramu as Managing Director; Chief Executive Officer of India Post Payments Bank or a period of three years.

J. Venkatramu will succeed Suresh Sethi, who served the post till March, 2020.

J. Venkatramu is currently serving as Chief Digital Officer at Equitas Small Finance Bank.

He has 22 years of work experience across various banking services such as payments, mobile banking, retail banking products and has managed digital financial service projects also.
Government Appoints M Rajeshwar Rao as the New Deputy Governor of RBI
On 7th October 2020, the Government of India appointed M Rajeshwar Rao as the new 4th deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) responsible for Financial regulations. He will succeed NS Vishwanathan, the former 4th Deputy Governor of RBI, who resigned in March 2020 before the completion of his term (June 2020).M Rajeshwar Rao is currently serving as the executive director of RBI.

About M Rajeshwar Rao:
M Rajeshwar Rao joined the RBI in 1984.

He was appointed as the executive director responsible for the department of the Statistics and information management, financial markets operation department and international department in November 2016.

He served as the chief general manager in the financial market operations department.

He also served as the Banking Ombudsman in New Delhi and in RBI Regional Offices in Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi.