India was elected with 184 votes out of 193 votes of the General Assembly.
India won unopposed. Other members elected alongside India are Mexico, Ireland, and Norway. One seat still open.
The 2 year tenure starts on January 01st.
Category: RECORDS, ALL OTHER excl. Asia & India
India. World’s 9th Largest Recipient of FDI in 2019 : UN
India is the 9th largest recipient of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) ) in 2019 with USD 51 billion dollars of inflow.
‘The World Invest Report 2020’ by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said India will continue to attract market seeking investments.
- India – World’s 9th Largest Recipient
- South Asia’s Largest Recipient
British Indian Parm Sandhu – First Woman of Colour – Senior Most Female Police Officer – Scotland Yard
Parm Sandhu (aka) Parm Kaur Sandhu, British Sikh , senior most female police officer of colour to reach the highest-rank in London’s Metropolitan Service.
Position/s:
- Temporary Chief Superintendent, attached to Human Resources, Metropolitan Police
- Borough Commander, Richmond-Upon-Thames – First Asian Woman in the history of the Force to hold this position
Award:
- Asian Women of Achievement Award (2006)
Harsh Vardhan takes charge as Chairman of WHO’s Executive Board : May 2020
Dr. Harsh Vardhan (aka) Harshvardhan Goel has taken charge of the World Health Organization (WHO), as Executive Chairman of the Board with effect from May 22nd, 2020.
He succeeds Hiroki Nakatani of Japan. To head a 34 member Executive Board of the 134 nation, World Health Assembly
Presently :
- Minister – Ministry of Health & Family Welfare – Government of India
- Minister – Ministry of Science & Technology – Government of India
- Minister – Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India
- Member of Parliament – 17th Lok Sabha
Education :
- M.S. (Otorhindaryngologist) – Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur (1983)
- M.B.B. S – Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur (1979)
Awards / Honours :
- IMA President’s Special Award of Appreciation – by Indian Medical Association (1994)
- Director-General’s ‘Polio Eradication Champion Award Commendation Medal’ – World Health Organization (WHO) – (1998)
- Polio Eradication Champions Award – by Rotary International (2001)
- ‘Doctor of the Last Decade’ (Swasthya Ratna) – by Indian Medical Association’s New Delhi branch (2002)
ISRO gets patent for Made in India ‘moon soil’ : May 2020
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has registered a patent for its method of manufacturing highland lunar soil stimulant or simply ‘ lunar / moon soil.
The patent was granted by the Indian Patent Office on May 18th for an invention as to the method of manufacturing highland lunar soil stimulant.
Indian-American Siddhartha Mukherjee Wins Pulitzer for non-fiction Book
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee – Physician, Oncologist, Scientist and Writer.
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for his book, non-fiction category – ‘ The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer’ in 2011
Work:
- Assistant Professor , Department of Medicine, Division of Haematology/Oncology, Columbia University Medical Center
Education:
- B.S – Biology, Stanford University
- D.Phil – Thesis ‘The processing and presentation of viral antigens’
- M.D – Harvard Medical School
- – Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard Medical School)
- Ph.D – Honorary Doctorate degree – Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
- Ph.D – Honorary Doctorate degree – University of Southern California
Awards:
- Padma Shri (2014) , President of India
Books:
- The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer (2010) – Pulitzer Prize Winner (2011) and several other awards for the book
- The Law of Medicine : Field Notes from an uncertain science (2015)
- The Gene : An intimate history ( (2016)
British Indian Nitin Sawhney – Chair of ‘ PRS Foundation’ UK : April 2020
Nitin Sawhney CBE, confirmed as the new Chairman of Board of Trustees of PRS Foundation. UK’s leading Funder of new Music & Talent.
Nitin Sawhney – Composer, Musician, Creator, Song-Writer, Multi-Instrumentalist
Awards :
- CBE – Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire – New Year Honour – 2019
- Ivor Novello Lifetime Award – 2017
- Royal Television Society’s Composer Award for BBC’s ‘Wonder of the Monsoon’ – 2015
- Several major National Awards for Album works
- Many more not listed here as yet
Education:
- Ph.D – Doctorates awarded from 6 British Universities
www.nitinsawhney.com
Sudhir Krishnaswamy – Member of Facebook’s 1st ‘Oversight Advisory Board’ – May 2020
Sudhir Krishnaswamy is appointed as one of the initial 20 members who will be a part of the first ‘Oversight Board’, which will review content referred to it by both users and Facebook. The content is for both Facebook and Instagram.
The board members are from 27 countries, who speak at least 29 languages. Some are former heads of state, three former judges, six former and current journalists, two former human rights rapporteurs and other leaders etc.
Background :
- Vice Chancellor – National Law School of India University
- Co-Founder – Center for Law and Policy Research
- Director – School of Policy and Governance
- Professsor of Law & Politics – Azim Premji University
- Visiting Professor of Indian Constitutional Law – Columbia University
Education :
- BA, LLB – National Law School of India University
- Ph.D – University of Oxford
3 Indian Photo-Journalists Won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize : May 2020
Dar Yasin and Mukhtar Khan from Kashmir Valley along with Channi Anand from Jammu, all three of Associated Press (AP) – won the acclaimed award in American Journalism.
Award was for the category ‘ Feature Photography for capturing life in Kashmir’.
Indian-American Physicist Jagadeesh Moodera and MIT Team Discover Sighting of ‘Majorana Fermion’ – April 2020
Dr. Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera and his team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), discover the sighting of ‘Majorana Fermion’.
This sighting of Majorana Fermion are scalable and could be made in qubits. These qubits could be used to build the most powerful and error free quantum computers.
Married to Dr. Geetha Berera – Senior Lecturer – Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
Currently :
- MIT – Francis Bitter National Laboratory – Leader, ‘Thin Film Magnetism, Superconductivity and Nanospintronics Group
- Visiting Professor – Technological University of Eindhoven – The Netherlands
- Adjunct Professor – Suffolk Universtiy
Awards & Honours :
- Oliver Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics -from American Physical Society (APS) – (2009)
- Fellow – American Physical Society (2000)
- Coorg Person of the Year (2008)
Papers:
- More than a dozen papers published internationally
Education:
- Ph.d – Physics – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Madras
- M.Sc – Mysore University
- B.Sc – Mysore University