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IIT post-graduate D.Udaya Kumar's design for Rupee with Devanagari 'Ra' and Roman Capital 'R' without stem has been chosen as Indian rupee symbol Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' for 2010 Nicole Faria wins Miss Earth 2010 at Vietnam Sabrina Bachai aged 23 of Long Island has been crowned Mazza Miss India New York 2010 Jennifer Lopez named style icon of the decade Indian-origin Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been elected the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago David Cameron has been elected as British Prime Minster Australia gets Julia Gillard as first female Prime Minister S.Malathi has been appointed as Tamil Nadu's Chief Secretary S.K.Natraj will be the Mayor and N. Dayanand as Deputy of Bengaluru starting April 2010 Oana Lungescu has been hired for top press job (as spokeswoman) for the first time in NATO's 61-year history Sudhir Vasudeva has been selected by the Public Enterprise Selection Board (PSEB) to succeed RS Sharma as the chairman of ONGC Baldev Raj has been elected president of the International Institute of Welding (IIW). Baldev becomes the 1st Indian and 2nd Asian to be elected to Head IIW. Welding societies from 55 countries are its members. Baldev to hold office for 3 years from 20112014 Walter D'Souza, Managing Partner, Fernandes Brothers, Mangalore has been elected as Chairman of FIEO(Federation of Indian Export Organisations) Southern Region Soundara Kumar has been appointed as Chief General Manager of State Bank of India, Bangalore Circle S.K.Tripathi has been appointed as the chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

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Hemant Contractor has been promoted as CFO of SBI, replaces SS Rajana who is set to retire in 2012 Kiran Kumar Reddy was sworn as the 16th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 25th Nov 2010 LIC has appointed VK Sharma as the chief executive officer of LIC Housing Finance with effect from November 25 Samta Kumari, a 28 year old of Uttar Pradesh becomes 5th woman train engine driver in India

Mother Teresa's birth centenary was celebrated in Kolkata Bharat Ratna recipient Sir M Visvesvaraya's 150th birthday was celebrated on September 15 India's most loved cartoonist R.K.Laxman turns 86 Legendary actor Shammi Kapoor turns 79

Sharad Pawar becomes 2nd Indian and 7th International Cricket Council President to succeed David Morgan Sachin Tendulkar to become Indian Air Force's honorary rank of Group Captain Sachin Tendulkar is Deccan Hearld Sportsperson of the Year 2010 Tendulkar has been honoured 'Lebara People's Choice' award by Ratheesan Yoganathan, CEO Lebara at the inaugural Asian Awards in UK Mano Menezes succeeds Carlos Dunga as Brazil coach and the offer has been accepted by Brazil football federation P.T.Usha(to head panel for Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards) has been named chairperson of the selection committee for 2010's National Sports award Hockey icon Ashok Kumar to head the panel to pick the Dronacharya Awards

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Rudi Koertzen (108 Tests, 209 ODI's and 14 T20I's) officiates in final Test match as Pakistan played against Australia in the MCC Spirit of Cricket Test match at Headingley, Leeds Former captain Pragat Singh of Indian hockey team files nomination for Hockey India President post Imran Khan becomes fourth Pakistani to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame Herbert Sutcliffe an England batting great has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame Tamim Iqbal named Wisden Test Player of the year 2010 Rajiv Dube, President of Tata Motors passenger car business unit quits as Girish Wagh(man behind the Nano) and Mr.S.Krishnan, Senior Vice-President(Commercial) to share responsibilities Dr.Mark Gasson, a cybernetics expert at the University of Reading becomes the first human to be infected with a computer virus. Aashu Calapa would continue via new role as President HR and Country Manager, India at Firstsource Solutions. Bharti Retail has appointed Mr.Andrew Levermore as Chief Operating Officer who will lead operations starting July 2010 for Easyday and Easyday market stores across India Soiles Bhattacharya Director (Finance), will take charge as the Interim Chairman of SAIL as Mr.S.K.Roongta completed his term on May 31st 2010 Bharti Airtel appoints Drew Kelton as President - Enterprise Services (India and South Asia) Abhay Singavi has been appointed as CEO of Narayana Hrudayalaya Mr.Rajiv Bakshi to be Vice President - Marketing Asia-Pacific, for Discovery Networks Biswadip Mitra takes charge as ISA Chairman for 2010-11 Sanjay Jain has been appointed as CEO of Tulip Telecom Ltd. N.Rangachary has been appointed as Chairman of Central Depository Services Ltd. Debarpita Banerjee has been appointed as the Vice President-Marketing, India by FOX International Channel

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Chaitanya Kamat has been appointed as Oracle Financial Service Software (OFSS) Managing Director and CEO Michael Perschke to head India operations for Audi from July 1st 2010, replaces Mr.Benoit Tiers Hiroshi Takashina has been appointed as Managing Director for Nikon India, takes over from Mr.Hidehiko Tanaka Apoorva singh has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Global Head Infrastructure Management Services for Patni Computer Systems R.M.Malla has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of IDBI Bank for a period of 3 years Sunil Rekhi has been appointed as Deputy Chief Financial Officer by Car-maker Nissan India Suresh Kandukuri has been appointed as the Sales Director of Cyberstar Infocom whose business is to distribute IT products Noel Tata to succeed Ratan Tata as chairman of the Tata Group to take over as Managing Director of Tata International Ravi Kant, Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors has been appointed as an Advisor to Jaguar Land Rover Friedrich Froeschl to replace Andy Mattes as Chairman for Mphasis, an Information Technology and BPO Company Chandra Bhushan Paliwal takes over as the Chief Vigilance Officer of SAIL Shalabh Jain has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Business unit by Firstsource Solutions Krithiga Reddy has been appointed as Director of online Operations and Mr.Manoj Varghese Director of user operations by Facebook to mark the launch of its India operations at Hyderabad Neil Mills will be the new Chief Executive Officer of SpiceJet Airways Madhusudan Kela to be Chief Investment Strategist from September 21st 2010 at Reliance Capital Amit Chatterjee has been appointed as Microsoft's new India Development Center MD

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Vinod J Nathan has been appointed as National Sales Head for Kannada channel Suvarna TV Sumant Pal has been appointed as Head of Global Services for India by EMC Priya Ranjan is set to join Axa group's headquarters in France to head global force of over 1 lakh people Ravi Uppal has been appointed by Larsen and Tourbo as whole-time director for a period of 5 years P.V.K.Mohan has been appointed as Senior Fund Manager at Principal Mutual Fund Ex-Patni VP Rajesh Padmanabhan, has been appointed as HR Head by Capgemini Leo Apotheker replaces Mark Hurd as HP's CEO Rohit Kapoor(EXL President and CEO) would hold additional role of Executive Chairman of Board Pierre Nanterme named CEO of Accenture with effect from 1st January 2011, replaces William D Green Dheeraj Hinduja(3rd generation Hinduja) replaces RJ Shahaney at Ashok Leyland as $25 billion Hinduja group is to take over the expansion of the commercial vehicle business in a joint venture with Nissanaces Mark Hurd as HP's CEO Unilever's John Cooper, head of corporate occupational health, set to retire in December 2010, the organisation has chosen Thirumala Rajgopal to head and operate from India staring 1st January 2011. It is the first time for a FMCG industry to have global functional head posted in India Deepak Kapoor has been appointed as chairman of PricewaterCoopers India Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum has been named Dubai World chairman Nitin Seth has been appointed as the executive director of Ashok Leyland's LCV's division R.K.Singh has been appointed as BPCL chairman Soon H Kwon replaces Moon B Shin as MD of LG Electronics India Vishal Bali appointed CEO of Fortis Global Healthcare

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Kamalkar Kaul has been appointed as Chief Strategy Officer for EMC's government business Jace Johnson, former Chief of staff of Sen. Orrin G.Hatch(R-Utah) has been appointed as the Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy with Adobe Systems Ratan Tata honoured with the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award for his outstanding leadership, vision and professional excellence Ratan Tata conferred as 'Businessman of the Decade Award' on behalf of Indo-Israeli Chambers of Commerce Ratan Tata conferred the prestigious 'Legend in Leadership Award' at the 64th Yale CEO Leadership Summit by Yale University President Richard C Levin Vijay Mallya has been awarded the International Business Leader of the Year by the GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards

London-based hotelier and Philanthropist Joginder Sanger has been given Incredible India Travel Personality of the Year award Dr.Arogyaswami Paulraj, co-founder of Beceem Communications Inc. has been named the recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

A.R.Rahman receives Indira Gandhi award for National Integration for the year 2009 Resul Pookutty becomes member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Indian origin actress Archie Panjabi, has bagged the best supporting actress in a drama series for her role in "The Good Wife" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards 2010 Priyanka Chopra has been appointed as the National Ambassador of UNICEF and would support in promoting child rights Natasha Arora from Texas has been declared Miss India USA 2010 at a function at Royal Albert's Palace in Fords in New Jersey who also bagged Miss Beautiful Skin and Best Talent titles

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7 year old maths prodigy Oscar Selby, who became the youngest Briton to gain the top grade in GCSE maths, now advises the Government of Britian 2 Engineering students, Vaibhav Tidke a final year student of Master's in Chemical Technology at the Institute of Chemical Technology from Mumbai and Chandrashekaran a student of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamil Nadu have been selected for prestigious Bayer Young Environmentalist Envoy (BYEE) honour who will also attend an international conference in Germany in November Ted Turner, the chairman of United Nation's Foundation and the founder of Cable New Network (CNN) has donated $1 billion towards the eradication of polio in Nigeria

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