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1
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Chief Justice of India (CJI) (by suceeding Altamas Kabir)

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Justice P Sathasivam

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PTI Chairman (succeeded R Lakshmipathy)

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K N Shanth Kumar

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Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA)

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K R Kamath Re-Elected

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4
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New Prime Minister of Palestine

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Rami Hamdallah

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5
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New CBDT chief

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Sudha Sharma

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New Chairman Of LIC succeeded D K Mehrotra, retired on 31 May

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Thomas Mathew

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7
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Vice Chairman of PTI

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Mahendra Mohan Gupta

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8
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new President of CII

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S Gopalakrishnan

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9
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new Telecom Secretary

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M F Farooqui

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10
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first woman Chief Information Commissioner (replaced Satyananda Mishra)

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Deepak Sandhu

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11
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Brand ambassador for Tobacco control campaign

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Rahul Dravid

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Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

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Rakesh Sood

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13
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New Union Home Secretary (by replacing R.K Singh)

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Anil Goswami

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14
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New CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) of India (by succeeding Vinod Rai)

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Shashi Kant Sharma

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15
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Indian Defence Secretary (succeeded Shashikant Sharma)

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Radha Krishna Mathur

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16
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Secretary of the All India chess federation

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V Hariharan

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17
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chief executive of AirAsia India.

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Mittu Chandilya

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18
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new Governor of Arunanchal Pradesh

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Lt. Gen. Nirbhay Sharma

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19
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C.M. of Karnataka

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Siddaramaiah

20
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First Women Special DG of CRPF

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Aruna Bahuguna

21
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Governor of Arunachal Pradesh

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Nirbhay Sharma

22
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New Chief of NASSCOM (replaced N Chandrasekaran).

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Krishna Kumar Natrajan (CEO and Director of Mindtree)

23
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Chairman of Asian forum of Parliamentarians (replaced Yasuo Fukuda, former P M of Japan)

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PJ Kurien

24
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Re-Elected As Chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors

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Vinod Rai

25
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Senior Vice-President of FICCI.

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Sidharth Birla (Chairman of Xpro India Ltd and Digjam Ltd)

26
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new Chairman of Law Commission

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Justice D.K. Jain

27
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New Clearing Corporation of India Ltd(CCIL) Chairperson

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Shyamala Gopinath

28
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New CEO of Prasar Bharti

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Jawahar Sircar

29
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Secretary of Financial Services in the Finance Ministry replacing Dinesh Kumar

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Rajiv Takru

30
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irector of the IGCAR (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research) replacing S.C Chetal

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P.R. Vasudeva Rao

31
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Next Permanent Representative of India to the UN

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Asoke Kumar Mukerji

32
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International Good will ambassador – UNAIDS (UN Programme on HIV/AIDS).

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

33
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Brand Ambassador of Super Fight League (SPL)

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Mary Kom

34
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president of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India

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Rajan Bharti Mittal

35
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Coach of the Junior Hockey Men’s National Team

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Gregg Clark

36
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Meghalaya governor replacing Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary

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K K Paul

37
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Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards

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Sunil Soni

38
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new governor of Sikkim

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Shriniwas Patil

39
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Nasscom President, succeeding current Nasscom President Som Mittal, whose tenure expires in January 2014

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R. Chandrasekhar (the former Secretary Department of Telecommunications (DoT))

40
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new Prime Minister of Egypt by the Interim President Adly Mansour

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Hazem El-Beblawi

41
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head coach of the Indian seniorwomen’s basketball team

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Francisco Garcia (Spain)

42
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Chief Minister of Jharkhand

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Hemant Soren (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader)

43
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Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST.

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Abdul Rahim Rather (Jammu & Kashmir Finance Minister)

44
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President of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI)

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Arvind Sharma (Chairman and CEO of Leo Burnett, India)

45
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pro-vice-chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU)

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Professor Mahendra P. Lama

46
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India’s new foreign secretary.

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Sujatha Singh

Sujatha Singh is the third woman to head the Foreign services after Chokila Iyer and Nirupama Rao.

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