IMPORTANT UPDATES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Justice G Rohini appointed as the first women Chief Justice of Delhi High Court • Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences Sriprakash KS has been presented with the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology outstanding services award for prevention of blindness at the World Ophthalmic Conference in Tokyo • The World Heritage Day was observed across the World on 18 April with the theme “Heritage of Commemoration” • Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet, named Kepler-186f • Abdelaziz Bouteflika won fourth time as the President of Algeria • Capital market regulator of India, the Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on 17 April 2014 issued detailed corporate governance norms for listed companies • President Pranab Mukherjee on 31 March conferred Padma awards on 66 eminent personalities at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan • US ambassador to India Nancy Powell has resigned her post on 31 March • Best Fund House Award achieved by ICICI Prudential on 30 March • Indian-origin Gopal Rao on 27 March won UK Twitter Prize • India was on 27 March officially declared ‘Polio Free’ by the World Health Organisation • Japanese Architect Shigeru Ban Won 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize • Renowned Hindi author Govind Mishra will be given Sarawasti honour for the year 2013 for his book “Dhool Paudho Par” • The 23rd G.D.Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2013 has been given to theoretical physicist Rajesh Gopakumar of the Department of Physics at the Harish-Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad • World Water Day 2014 was observed on 22 March with the theme Water and Energy to raise awareness of the inter-linkages between water and energy • Shubranshu Choudhary Won 2014 Digital Activism Award • The Indian Journalists’ Association in London has unanimously elected its first woman president Aditi Khanna • Gujarat has been ranked number one in a list of India’s 20 largest states in terms of “economic freedom” • Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany won the Australian Grand Prix on 16 March • Czech priest and intellectual Tomas Halik has won the 2014 Templeton Prize • World Kidney Day 2014 was observed on 13 March 2014 . • Rakesh Sethi has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Allahabad Bank • Soma Mondal has been appointed as the new Director (Commercial) of Navratna PSU National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) on 12 March • Justice (Retd.) BN Srikrishna has been appointed as the Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB) • Michelle Bachelet has been sworn-in as the President of Chile in Valparaiso on 11 March • International Women Day is being observed across the world on 8 March 2014 • Tom Albanese, former Rio Tinto Chief, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vedanta Resources • Technology firm Avaya has appointed Priyadarshi Mohapatra as its Managing Director (MD) for India and SAARC operations • World Dentist Day is being observed across the world on 6 March 2014 thegatecoach
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