(General Awareness For Bank's Exams) In the news
February - 2014
J Prithviraj:
The Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) has announced J Prithviraj
as the new president, while Tutu Dhawan will be the vice-president after the
Madras High Court directed the body to make their December election results
public.
The elections were held at the FMSCI’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on December
23, but the results were withheld due to a pending lawsuit filed by Shrikant
Karani of Sportscraft (Mumbai) against the national sporting authority.
Satya Nadella:
Hyderabad native Satya Nadella (46) is the new CEO of
Internet giant Microsoft.
After a selection period that saw numerous outside candidates drop off, the
Microsoft Board signalled its intention to focus on innovation by selecting the
man credited with developing the company's cloud computing and Bing search
engine businesses.
Mr. Nadella who holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Manipal
University, a master’s in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, and
an MBA from the University of Chicago, joined Microsoft in 1992.
Malik Ishaq:
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The US Department of State has designated Malik
Ishaq, one of the co-founders of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi as a Specially Designated
Global Terrorist.
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The consequences of this designation include a
prohibition against U.S. persons engaging in transactions with Malik Ishaq,
and the freezing of all his property and interests that are in the United
States, or come within the United States or the possession or control of
U.S. persons.
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Malik Ishaq is a founding member and is the current
leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
David Stern
Former NBA Commissioner David Stern has been elected to the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, just two weeks after retiring from a
successful 30-year reign.
The Hall of Fame Committee has acknowledged Stern’s contributions to the NBA
during his three decades as chief.\
N. Ramachandran
The suspended Indian Olympic Association (IOA) amended its
constitution and successfully held its elections, taking the first steps to
returning to the international fold.
World Squash Federation president N. Ramachandran was unanimously named as the
new president of the IOA in the elections held in the presence of three
observers from the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) — Pere Miró, IOC Director of NOC
Relations, Jérôme Poivey, Head of Institutional Relations in the NOC Relations
Department, and Robin Mitchell, head of the IOC delegation.
Indian athletes at the ongoing Winter Olympics in Sochi are participating under
the Olympic flag. However, it is unlikely that the Indians will be able to march
under the tricolour during the closing of the Games.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most
generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares
of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley
nonprofit in December.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that Zuckerberg's donation was the
largest charitable gift on the public record in 2013 and put the young couple at
the top of the magazine's annual list of 50 most generous Americans in 2013.
The top 50 contributors made donations last year totaling $7.7 billion, plus
pledges of $2.9 billion.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, gave their foundation
slightly more than $181.3 million last year, but they were paying off a pledge
of about $3.3 billion they made in 2004. CNN-founder Ted Turner and Berkshire
Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett also made large gifts toward previous pledges
Sonia Gandhi
