Dr. Kshama Sawant – Seattle City Council Woman
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Seattle City Council Woman . First socialist elected in a major US city in decades
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American / American-Indian
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
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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.
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Dia Mirza Bollywood Actress , Model , Entrepreneur and Environmentalist.
Dia Mirza joins nine women leaders across the world to support a global plan for social and economic recovery from the Covid-19 virus.
She will be part of ‘Rise for All’ – a global advocacy group and will be working towards funding the UN Response and Recovery Trust Fund.
Joining Mirza in this advocacy effort convened by the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed is a host of dignitaries such as — President of Ethiopia Sahle-Work Zewde, Prime Minister of Norway and SDG Advocate Erna Solberg, SDG Advocate and Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador of Pakistan Muniba Mazari, Executive Director of UNICEF Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Executive Director of UNFPA Natalia Kanem.
Dia Mirza said that in the coming weeks, more women leaders from political, multilateral and business sectors are expected to join Rise For All
Dr. Ramesh Mehta FRCPCH, FRCP, MD, DCH – Consultant & Lead Paediatrician , Belford Hospital
President BAPIO / www.bapio.co.uk
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Notes: There are over 65,000 doctors of Indian origin in the NHS
Surgeon Lieutenant General Punita Arora, PVSM, SM, VSM
Also concurrently holds the First for –
First Woman Vice Admiral , Indian Navy
Awarded : Param Vishish Seva (PVSM), Sena Medal and Vishist Seva Medal (VSM)
Surgeon Vice-Admiral Punita Arora, PVSM, SM, VSM
Also concurrently holds the First for –
First Woman in India to hold the 2nd highest rank in the Indian Army – Lieutenant-General Punita Arora.
Awarded : Param Vishish Seva (PVSM), Sena Medal and Vishist Seva Medal (VSM)
M A Yusuff Ali, Chairman & Managing Director, LuLu Group
February 2020
Dr.Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary was commemorated and celebrated at the UN in New York on April 13th, 2016, a day before his actual birthdate.
At the keynote speech delivered by Helen Clark, Chair of UN Development Group and Adminstrator of UN Development Program, she said ” Ambedkar’s work on the empowerment and inclusion of excluded groups, reform of labour laws and promotion of education for all, made him an icon for marginalised people in India and in other countries as well”.
A documentary film titled ‘Dr.Babasahed Ambedkar… A Man of the Century’ was screened for 10 minutes at the UN Conference. The full length documentary of 28 minutes was made by Marathi Film maker Sandeep Manohar Navre.
The event was organised by the ‘Permanent Mission of India to the UN’ in association with ‘Kalpana Saroj Foundation’ and ‘Foundation for Human Horizon’. The UN Event was titled ‘Landmark 2030 : Agenda for Sustainable Development’.
Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar was born on April 14th,1891 in Mhow, Central Province(now Madhya Pradesh) and died on December 06th, 1956 in New Delhi. He was the youngest of 14 children.
Dr. Ambedkar was educated in University of Bombay(now Mumbai), Columbia University (USA), University of London (UK) and London School of Economics.
Babasaheb was the Chairman of the ‘Constitution Drafting Committee’, the first Minister of Law and Justice. He inspired the Dalit Movement and campaigned against Social Discrimination. He was posthumously awarded the highest civilian award ‘Bharat Ratna’ in 1990.
The restructuring of Google made Alphabet Inc., into Google’s parent company. Larry Paige is now the CEO and Sergey Brin the President of Alphabet. Subsequent to the completion of the restructuring Sundar Pichai assumed the postion of CEO on October 02nd, 2015.
Pichai joined Google in 2004 and was formerly Product Chief in Google.
Sundar Pichai earned his Bachelor’s Degree B.Tech, at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT,Kharagpur) in Metallurgical Engineering. Followed by a Masters M.S. from Stanford University in Material Sciences. An MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He was named ‘Siebel Scholar’ and ‘Palmer Scholar’.
Sundar Pichai was born on July 12th, 1972 in Madurai,TamilNadu(India) to Regunatha Pichai and Lakshmi. His father was a Senior Electrical Engineer in British General Electric, Madras(now Chennai).
He is married to his same-year classmate Anjali Pichai, a chemical engineer of IIT,Kharagpur and has 2 children