**PERSONS IN NEWS ‘2014’** A) APPOINTMENTS 1) Who assumed charge as the new Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on 3 March 2014? Ans:- Arjun Bahadur Thapa 2) Who was appointed as the Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB) on 11 March 2014 ? Ans:- Justice (Retd.) BN Srikrishna 3) Who took over as Asian Development Bank’s new Country Director for India on 3 February 2014? Ans:- Teresa Kho 4) Who was appointed as the new CEO and Managing Director of MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX), the country’s newest full-fledged stock exchange on 2 February 2014? Ans:- Saurabh Sarkar 5) John Thompson was appointed as the Chairman of which tech giant on 5 February 2014? Ans:- Microsoft 6) Who was selected as the new President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) on 7 February 2014? Ans:- R Sridharan 7) Who has been elected as the Speaker of the Delhi Assembly on 3 January 2014? Ans:- M.S. Dhir 8) Who was appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Uninor on 8 January 2014 ? Ans:- Morten Karlsen Sorby 9) Who has been appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of private insurer Future Generali India Life Insurance on 7 January 2014? Ans:- Munish Sharda B) DEATHS 1) Name the the author of the Fatal Vision died on 10 March 2014 at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, US ? Ans:- Joe McGinniss 2) Balu Mahendra, who passed away on 13 February 2014 at Chennai , was associated with which field? Ans:- Films 3) Namdeo Dhasal, the firebrand writer and fierce fighter for Dalit rights who passed away on 15 January 2014 was a famous poet in which language? Ans:- Marathi
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