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Mr. A K Mittal   --  Appointed as Chairman of Railway Board.   He succeeds Arunendra Kumar.

Mr. Arvind Panagariya  --  Noted economist took charge as the first vice chairman of NITI Aayog.

S.K.Sinha   -- appointed as Chief Justice of Bangladesh –first Hindu to hold the highest judicial post.

Pahlaj Nihalani   -- film maker – appointed as Chairperson of the Censor Board. Succeeds Leela Samson who resigned.

S Jaishanker -  new Foreign Secretary.

Shekhar Sen – appointed chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi

Justice K Sripavan -  appointed chief justice of Sri Lanka—an ethnic-tamil.

Dr.Nasim Zaidi   -assumed charge as 20^th Chief Election Commissioner succeeding H S Brahma.

Sitaram Yechury – Communist party of India CPI (M) unanimously elected him as General Secretary.

K V Kamath – eminent banker appointed as first president of New Development Bank (NDB) of BRICS nations,

Syed Asif Ibrahim – former director of Intelligence Bureau appointed as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for countering terrorism and extremism.

Veena Jain   -- appointed as Director General (news) in Doordarshan

George yeo – former Singapore Foreign minister was appointed as new Chancellor of Nalanda University, Bihar.

K V Chowdary  -- appointed as Central Vigilance Commissioner. (first non-IAS Officer to head the CVC)

Vijai Sharma – Chief Information commissioner.,

Prof S Bandyopadhyay -  Director of Indian Statistical Institute .

Prashant Pathrabe – appointed Interim Director of Film and Television Institute of India.

Rajiv Mehrishi   -- appointed Union Home secretary.

Ashwani Lohani  -- appointed as C M D of Air India Limited.

Sekhar Basu   -  appointed as Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission.

Tapan Roy  -   appointed to the SEBI board.  He succeeds Anjuly Chib Duggal.

P S Jayakumar   - took over as MD and CEO of Bank of Baroda.

Kundhavi Kadiresan.Mrs. – appointed as Assistant director United Nationals Food and Agriculture Organisation.  (FAO)

Shaktikanta Das – on October 30 2015 he was appointed as a Director to the Central Board of Directors of the RBI.

60^th Filmfare Awards  --  Best Director  - Vikas Bahl for “Queen”.

Best Film  :  “Queen”

Best Actor (female)  - Kangana Ranaut for “Queen”

Best Actor (male )  - Shahid Kapoor  for ‘Haider”

Google CEO Larry Page named Business person of the year 2014.

Amitabh Bachchan awarded Social Media Person of the Year.

72^nd Golden Globe Awards – best Motion picture –drama – Boyhood

Lead Actor  -  Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

Lead Actress in a motion picture drama – Julianne Moore – Still Alice?

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan wins Governor of the year Award.

Jhumpa Lahiri – Indian- Americal author Jhuma Lahiri won the %50000 DSC Prize for Literature, one of South Asia’s toplioterary awards for her book, The Lowland.

87^th Oscar (Academy ) Award

Best picture  - Blindman

Best director   -Birdman – Alejandro Gonalez Inarritu

Best actor  - The Theory of Everything – Eddie Redmayne

Best Actress  -  Still Alice : Julianne Moore

Best Foreign Language Film  : Ida : Pawel Pawlikowski

Bharat Ratna conferred on Atal Bihari Vajpayee (EX –PM) and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya

Nobel Prize – Mathematics – John NASH

ISRO gets Gandhi Peace Prize 2014.

2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners  -- The New York Times.

Bharatiya Mahila Bank wins the Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015.

Shashi Kapoor bestowed with Dada Saheb Phalke Award.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2015

Ms Sania Mirza  (Tennis)

Arjuna Awards 2015

MR Poovanna (Athletics)

K S Nammalwar (Badminton)

Rohit Sharma (Cricket)

Sreejesh PR  (Hockey)

Jitu Rai (Shooting)

Bajran (Wrestling)

Manjeet Chhillar (Kabaddi)

39. Nobel prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.

Nobel prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Tu Youyou for her discoveries related to a novel therapy against Malaria.

Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.

Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 was awarded to National Dialogue Quartet for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.

Nobel Prize in Economics
Micro economist Angus Deaton has won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on consumption, poverty and welfare that helped governments improve their policies through household surveys and tax changes.

Forbes’world most power person – 2015

1 – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

2. Angela Merkel , Chancellor Germany

3.    Barack Obama, president of USA

No.9  - Narendra Modi, PM of India.

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