People in News: October 2020 PDF

1. Justice Bansi Lal Bhat

• The Central Government has extended the tenure of Justice Bansi Lal Bhat as the officiating Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) for the third time.
• Justice Bhat will now remain on the post till December 31, 2020.
• He was appointed on March 12, 2020.

2. Om Puri

• Late actor Om Puri has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the India International Film Festival of Boston.
• The actor has been given this award for his contribution to the cinema.
• The award was received by his wife.

3.Alpha Condé

• Alpha Condé has been appointed as the President of Guinea.
• He has been appointed as the president of the country for the third time.

4. Lewis Hamilton

• British racing driver Lewis Hamilton has won the German Grand Prix.
• It is the 91st victory of Hamilton's career.
• With this win, Lewis has equalled Michael Schumacher's record.

5. Saad al-Hariri

• Saad al-Hariri has been appointed as the prime minister of Lebanon.
• He has been appointed by the Lebanese President Michel Aoun.

6. Rajiv Kumar

• Vice President of NITI Aayog, Rajiv Kumar will head a 14-member committee formed by NITI Aayog to reform the urban planning education system.
• Other members of the committee include Amitabh Kant (CEO of Aayog); principal scientific advisor (PSA) K VijayRaghavan; Tarun Khanna of Harvard Business School and others.

7. Pravir Krishna

• The Team of TRIFED warriors has won three awards at National Awards for Excellence- PSU.
• Managing Director of TRIFED, Pravir Krishna has won CEO of the year and Visionary Leadership Award while the team has won an award in the Investment in Start-ups category.
• Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation of India (TRIFED) is a national level cooperative body under the administrative control of Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

8. Seema Gupta

• Director of Operations at POWERGRID Corporation of India, Seema Gupta has won the GOLD Stevie Award in the Lifetime Achievement- A business category in the 17th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.
• The award is given to honour women executives, employees, entrepreneurs around the world.

9. Aishwarya Sridhar

• Indian Photographer, Aishwarya Sridhar became the first Indian woman to win the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
• She was announced as the winner of the award at the Natural History Museum in London.
• This is the 56th year of the award.
• Aishwarya was declared the winner for her picture named 'Lights of passion'.

10. Jacinda Ardern

• Jacinda Ardern became the Prime Minister of New Zealand for the second consecutive time.
• Ardern's liberal Labour Party won by a landslide victory in the elections.

11. Rajkiran Rai G

• Rajkiran Rai G has been appointed as the new Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
• Rajkiran is the Managing Director and CEO of Union Bank of India.
• He has succeeded Rajnish Kumar.

12. Vishal V. Sharma

• Vishal V. Sharma has been appointed as the new Permanent Representative of India to the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO.
• His rank will be of Ambassador.
• He has succeeded Jawed Ashraf.

13. Michael Irani

• Michael Irani has been appointed as the Interim President of International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
• IWF is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary and has 187 members.

14. Constantina Dita

• Constantina Dita has been named as the brand ambassador for World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020.
• Rita is a Romanian long-distance runner and the 2008 Olympic champion.

15. Mukesh Ambani

• Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has again become the richest Indian as per the Forbes list.
• It is the 13th consecutive time; Ambani has been named the richest person of India.
• His net worth is worth of $88.7 billion.

16. Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson

• Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson have been declared as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
• They have been awarded for “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats."
• Both of them are American economists.

17. Robert Lewandowski

• Robert Lewandowski has won the UEFA Men's Player of the Year award.
• Robert is a Polish footballer.

18. Louise Glück

• Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2020.
• She has been awarded “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
• She is the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• She is an American poet.

19. M A Ganapathy

• Senior IPS officer M A Ganapathy has been appointed as director-general of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
• At present, Ganapathy is the CISF special director-general and head of the airport sector.

20. S S Deswal

• ITBP Chief S S Deswal has been given an additional charge of the DG of National Security Guard (NSG).
• He has been appointed after A K Singh retired on September 30.
• Deswal is a 1984-batch IPS officer.

21. Sanjay Singh

• Rajya Sabha MP from Aam Admi Party (AAP), Sanjay Singh has chosen for the 'Gandhi Award' instituted by the Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation.
• He has been awarded for his role in the removal of Mahatma Gandhi's pictures from beer bottles in a Company in Israel.

22. Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice, and Michael Houghton

• Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice, and Michael Houghton have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.
• They have been awarded for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
• Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice are American Scientists while Michael Houghton is a British scientist.

23. Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez

• Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2020.
• Britain’s Penrose, has been awarded “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”.
• German Genzel and US Scientist Ghez have won the award “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.

24. Dinesh Kumar Khara

• State Bank of India (SBI) has appointed Dinesh Kumar Khara as its new chairman.
• He has replaced Rajnish Kumar.

25. J Venkatramu

26. M. Rajeshwar Rao

• M. Rajeshwar Rao took over as the Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
• He has been appointed for 3 years.

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