GK OF DEATHS, RETIREMENT AND MORE

IMPORTANCE GK OF DEATHS, RETIREMENT AND RESIGNS

IMPORTANT DEATHS IN WORLD

1.    Xi Jinping - President of China

2.     Li Keqiang – Prime Minister China

3.    Shinzo Abe – prime minister Japan

4.     NicosAnastasiades – President Cyprus

5.    Park Guen_ hye – president South Korea

6.    Uhuru Kenyatta – president Kenya

7.    John Kerry - 68th Secretary of State of the US

8.    Mohan Pieris- 44th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka

9.    VedPrakash- UGC chairman

10. Obama - US President (Second Term)

11. Suchitra Ella - Founding Chairwoman of CII’s women wing

12. Mo Yan (writer) and Jackie Chan (Actor) - New Members of Chinese Parliament

13. Subra Suresh - President of Carnegie Mellon University

14. Ratan Tata – Member of “National Academy of Engineering“

15. Rajiv Shah – Head of United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

16. Anil Dev Singh - New chief of IOA election panel

17. Scott Flemming - India’s basketball coach

18. Tony Hall - Director general of BBC

19. RanjitSinha - CBI Director

20. Barbosa - First non-white President of Brazil’s Supreme Court

21. Alok Joshi - New RAW chief

22. Rajeev Shahare - New High Commissioner to Maldives

23. Ajit Saran - Member Secretary of National Commission for Women

24. Virbhadra Singh - Himachal Pradesh’s Chief Minister

25. NarendraModi- Gujarat CM (4th time)

26. Cyrus Mistry - Tata Group Chairman

27. Asif Ibrahim - Chief of the Intelligence Bureau

28. Urjit Patel - RBI deputy governor

29. YV Reddy - Head of 14th Finance Commission

30. Ami Bera and TulsiGabbard - new members of the US House of Representatives

31. Srinivasan- Federal Judge (Re elected)

32. Vivek Rae – MSME (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) Secretary

33. Anil Kumble - Chairman of ICC Cricket Committee

34. JaspalRana - Junior pistol chief coach

35.  Neiphiu Rio - Chief Minister of Nagaland (3rd Term)

36. MukulMandaSangma - Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2nd Term)

37. Ashwani Kumar - Governor of Nagaland

38. Bobby Ghosh - Editor of Time International (first non American)

39. Khil Raj Regmi - New Prime Minister of Nepal

40. D K Jain - Chairman of 20th Law Commission of India

41. Ashok Tomar- India’s ambassador to Brazil

42. Rakesh Mohan - Executive director of IMF board

43. VK Malhotra - Archery Association President (re-elected)

44. S. Ramakrishnan - Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)

45. Luiz Felipe Scolari- Brazil Football team coach

46. Mohan - Vice president of IBSF (re-elected)

47. SachinDevPavithran (Visually Challenged) - Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board member

48. AjitPawar- Maharashtra Deputy CM

49.  Chautala- IOA President

50. ParthasarathyShome - Adviser to Finance Minister

51. ZiauddinYousufzai (Malala’s Father) - UN Education Adviser, Education attache at the Pakistan consulate in Birmingham, England

52. Vijay Kumar - Senior Security Adviser in Home Ministry

53. VinodRai- Chair of UN Auditors Panel (Re-elected)

54. Rita Singh - Federation of Indian Associations President

55. John Brennan - CIA director

56. HalimahYacob - First woman Speaker of Singapore

57. Kulwant Singh Gill - New Commandant of NDA

58. R.K. Dubey - Canara Bank’s new CMD

59. RajkumarGoyal- Central Bank of India new Executive Director Resources Department

60. Jack Lew - New Treasury Secretary of US

61. Lord DolarPopat - Minister in the UK cabinet (First Gujarati in UK cabinet)

62. Subhash Joshi - BSF Chief

63. John Kerry - America’s Foreign Minister

64. Smita Singh - Member of Global Development Council

RESIGNS AND RETIREMENT

1.    Pope Benedict XVI - Sovereign of the Vatican City State and leader of the Catholic

Church

2.    Ricky Ponting (Australia) - international cricket

3.    Yeddyyurappa (former CM of Karnataka) - BJP, Assembly

4.    CheickModiboDiarra - Mali Prime Minister (arrested by the army)

5.    Michael Palmer - Singapore Parliament Speaker

6.    Michael Schumacher - Formula One

7.    ShiraniBandarnayake- First Woman Chief Justice of Sri Lanka

8.    NatwarGandhi - Chief Financial officer (CFO) of Washington DC

9.    RohintonNariman - Solicitor-General of India

10. Minister Imkong L. Imchen - Nagaland Home Minister

11. David Petraeus - American CIA Director

12. Ram Jethmalani – BJP (Suspension due to ‘indiscipline’)

13. Vinod Singh - UP Revenue Minister (involved in CMO abduction)

14. S M Krishna - External Affairs Minister

15. Peter Gade - Badminton Player (from International Career)

16. ArjunMunda - Jharkhand CM.

17. Avigdor Lieberman - Israeli Foreign Minister

18. Yoshihiko Noda - Japan Prime Minister

IMPORTANT DEATHS

1.    Margaret Thatcher - Britain's First and Only Lady Prime Minister (Iron Lady)

2.    P. Shanmugam - Former CM of Puducherry

3.    Zhuang Zedong - Table Tennis Legend (China)

4.    Ronald Dworkin - American Philosopher, Law Expert.

5.    RadhakishanMalviya- former Union Ministe (MP)

6.    TilakamGopal - Former India Volleyball Captain

7.    Leslie Claudius- Hockey Player.

8.    Tony Greig- Former England Cricket Team Captain

9.    M.S. Gopalakrishnan - Violin Player

10. Mehnaz Begum - Pakistani singer

11. Eric Hobsbawm – Historian

12. Satyanarayana- Freedom fighter, ex-Governor of Uttar Pradesh

13. Kevin Curran - Zimbabwe cricket coach

14. Norodom Sihanouk – Former King of Cambodia

15. BandyaKakade - Former Indian football goalkeeper

16. Yash Chopra – Bollywood Producer (King of Romance)

17. Sunil Gangopadhyay – SahityaAkademi President

18. Yerram Naidu – Former Rural Development Minister (Andhra Pradesh)

19. T.Samuel – Cartoonist

20. Kailashpati Mishra - BJP leader, Former Governor of Gujarat and Rajasthan

21. V P Murthy Raju - Freedom fighter and Andrhra Pradesh Minister

22. KC Pant – Former Defence Minister and Dept Chairman of Planning Commision

23. Balasaheb Thackeray - Shiv Sena Chief

24. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab- Terrorist of 26/11 attacks

25. Dr Joseph Murray - Nobel winning Surgeion, Organ transplant pioneer

26. IK Gujral – Former PM of India

27. DevendraLal – Geophysicist

28. Besse Cooper - World’s Oldest Woman

29. Yao Defen – World’s Tallest

30. Dina Manfredini (115 Years) - World’s Oldest Person

31. Dave Brubeck - Jazz Composer & Pianist

32. Sir Patrick Moore - British Astronomer and Broadcaster

33. Iajuddin Ahmed - Ex-Bangladesh President

34. Pandit Ravi Shankar – Sitarist (Bharat Ratna)

35. B BNimbalkar - Former Ranji Cricketer

36. Nityanand Swami - First CM of Uttarakhand

37. Norman Joseph Woodland – Co Creator of Barcode