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IIT post-graduate D.Udaya Kumar's design for Rupee with Devanagari 'Ra' and RomanCapital 'R' without stem has been chosen as Indian rupee symbol

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine's 'Person

of the Year' for 2010

Nicole Faria wins Miss Earth 2010 at Vietnam

Sabrina Bachai aged 23 of Long Island has been crowned Mazza Miss India New York2010

Jennifer Lopez named style icon of the decade

Indian-origin Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been elected the first woman Prime Minister of

Trinidad and Tobago

David Cameron has been elected as British Prime Minster

Australia gets Julia Gillard as first female Prime Minister

S.Malathi has been appointed as Tamil Nadu's Chief Secretary

S.K.Natraj will be the Mayor and N. Dayanand as Deputy of Bengaluru starting April2010

Oana Lungescu has been hired for top press job (as spokeswoman) for the first time inNATO's 61-year history

Sudhir Vasudeva has been selected by the Public Enterprise Selection Board (PSEB) tosucceed RS Sharma as the chairman of ONGC

Baldev Raj has been elected president of the International Institute of Welding (IIW).Baldev becomes the 1st Indian and 2nd Asian to be elected to Head IIW. Weldingsocieties from 55 countries are its members. Baldev to hold office for 3 years from 2011-2014

Walter D'Souza, Managing Partner, Fernandes Brothers, Mangalore has been elected asChairman of FIEO(Federation of Indian Export Organisations) Southern Region

Soundara Kumar has been appointed as Chief General Manager of State Bank of India,Bangalore Circle

S.K.Tripathi has been appointed as the chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

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Hemant Contractor has been promoted as CFO of SBI, replaces SS Rajana who is set toretire in 2012

Kiran Kumar Reddy was sworn as the 16th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 25thNov 2010

LIC has appointed VK Sharma as the chief executive officer of LIC Housing Financewith effect from November 25

Samta Kumari, a 28 year old of Uttar Pradesh becomes 5th woman train engine driver inIndia

Mother Teresa's birth centenary was celebrated in Kolkata

Bharat Ratna recipient Sir M Visvesvaraya's 150th birthday was celebrated on September15

India's most loved cartoonist R.K.Laxman turns 86

Legendary actor Shammi Kapoor turns 79

Sharad Pawar becomes 2nd Indian and 7th International Cricket Council President tosucceed David Morgan

Sachin Tendulkar to become Indian Air Force's honorary rank of Group Captain

Sachin Tendulkar is Deccan Hearld Sportsperson of the Year 2010

Tendulkar has been honoured 'Lebara People's Choice' award by Ratheesan Yoganathan,CEO Lebara at the inaugural Asian Awards in UK

Mano Menezes succeeds Carlos Dunga as Brazil coach and the offer has been acceptedby Brazil football federation

P.T.Usha(to head panel for Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards) has been named chairpersonof the selection committee for 2010's National Sports award

Hockey icon Ashok Kumar to head the panel to pick the Dronacharya Awards

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Rudi Koertzen (108 Tests, 209 ODI's and 14 T20I's) officiates in final Test match asPakistan played against Australia in the MCC Spirit of Cricket Test match at Headingley,Leeds

Former captain Pragat Singh of Indian hockey team files nomination for Hockey IndiaPresident post

Imran Khan becomes fourth Pakistani to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

Herbert Sutcliffe an England batting great has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

Tamim Iqbal named Wisden Test Player of the year 2010

Rajiv Dube, President of Tata Motors passenger car business unit quits as Girish

Wagh(man behind the Nano) and Mr.S.Krishnan, Senior Vice-President(Commercial) toshare responsibilities

Dr.Mark Gasson, a cybernetics expert at the University of Reading becomes the firsthuman to be infected with a computer virus.

Aashu Calapa would continue via new role as President HR and Country Manager, Indiaat Firstsource Solutions.

Bharti Retail has appointed Mr.Andrew Levermore as Chief Operating Officer who willlead operations starting July 2010 for Easyday and Easyday market stores across India

Soiles Bhattacharya Director (Finance), will take charge as the Interim Chairman ofSAIL as Mr.S.K.Roongta completed his term on May 31st 2010

Bharti Airtel appoints Drew Kelton as President - Enterprise Services (India and SouthAsia)

Abhay Singavi has been appointed as CEO of Narayana Hrudayalaya

Mr.Rajiv Bakshi to be Vice President - Marketing Asia-Pacific, for Discovery Networks

Biswadip Mitra takes charge as ISA Chairman for 2010-11

Sanjay Jain has been appointed as CEO of Tulip Telecom Ltd.

N.Rangachary has been appointed as Chairman of Central Depository Services Ltd.

Debarpita Banerjee has been appointed as the Vice President-Marketing, India by FOXInternational Channel

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Chaitanya Kamat has been appointed as Oracle Financial Service Software (OFSS)Managing Director and CEO

Michael Perschke to head India operations for Audi from July 1st 2010, replaces

Mr.Benoit Tiers

Hiroshi Takashina has been appointed as Managing Director for Nikon India, takes overfrom Mr.Hidehiko Tanaka

Apoorva singh has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Global Head -Infrastructure Management Services for Patni Computer Systems

R.M.Malla has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of IDBI Bank fora period of 3 years

Sunil Rekhi has been appointed as Deputy Chief Financial Officer by Car-maker NissanIndia

Suresh Kandukuri has been appointed as the Sales Director of Cyberstar Infocom whosebusiness is to distribute IT products

Noel Tata to succeed Ratan Tata as chairman of the Tata Group to take over as ManagingDirector of Tata International

Ravi Kant, Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors has been appointed as an Advisor to JaguarLand Rover

Friedrich Froeschl to replace Andy Mattes as Chairman for Mphasis, an InformationTechnology and BPO Company

Chandra Bhushan Paliwal takes over as the Chief Vigilance Officer of SAIL

Shalabh Jain has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Business unit byFirstsource Solutions

Krithiga Reddy has been appointed as Director of online Operations and Mr.ManojVarghese Director of user operations by Facebook to mark the launch of its Indiaoperations at Hyderabad

Neil Mills will be the new Chief Executive Officer of SpiceJet Airways

Madhusudan Kela to be Chief Investment Strategist from September 21st 2010 atReliance Capital

Amit Chatterjee has been appointed as Microsoft's new India Development Center MD

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Vinod J Nathan has been appointed as National Sales Head for Kannada channel SuvarnaTV

Sumant Pal has been appointed as Head of Global Services for India by EMC

Priya Ranjan is set to join Axa group's headquarters in France to head global force ofover 1 lakh people

Ravi Uppal has been appointed by Larsen and Tourbo as whole-time director for a periodof 5 years

P.V.K.Mohan has been appointed as Senior Fund Manager at Principal Mutual Fund

Ex-Patni VP Rajesh Padmanabhan, has been appointed as HR Head by Capgemini

Leo Apotheker replaces Mark Hurd as HP's CEO

Rohit Kapoor(EXL President and CEO) would hold additional role of ExecutiveChairman of Board

Pierre Nanterme named CEO of Accenture with effect from 1st January 2011, replacesWilliam D Green

Dheeraj Hinduja(3rd generation Hinduja) replaces RJ Shahaney at Ashok Leyland as $25billion Hinduja group is to take over the expansion of the commercial vehicle business ina joint venture with Nissanaces Mark Hurd as HP's CEO

Unilever's John Cooper, head of corporate occupational health, set to retire in December2010, the organisation has chosen Thirumala Rajgopal to head and operate from Indiastaring 1st January 2011. It is the first time for a FMCG industry to have globalfunctional head posted in India

Deepak Kapoor has been appointed as chairman of PricewaterCoopers India

Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum has been named Dubai World chairman

Nitin Seth has been appointed as the executive director of Ashok Leyland's LCV'sdivision

R.K.Singh has been appointed as BPCL chairman

Soon H Kwon replaces Moon B Shin as MD of LG Electronics India

Vishal Bali appointed CEO of Fortis Global Healthcare

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Kamalkar Kaul has been appointed as Chief Strategy Officer for EMC's governmentbusiness

Jace Johnson, former Chief of staff of Sen. Orrin G.Hatch(R-Utah) has been appointed asthe Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy with Adobe Systems

Ratan Tata honoured with the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award for hisoutstanding leadership, vision and professional excellence

Ratan Tata conferred as 'Businessman of the Decade Award' on behalf of Indo-IsraeliChambers of Commerce

Ratan Tata conferred the prestigious 'Legend in Leadership Award' at the 64th Yale CEOLeadership Summit by Yale University President Richard C Levin

Vijay Mallya has been awarded the International Business Leader of the Year by the GG2

Leadership and Diversity Awards

London-based hotelier and Philanthropist Joginder Sanger has been given IncredibleIndia Travel Personality of the Year award

Dr.Arogyaswami Paulraj, co-founder of Beceem Communications Inc. has been namedthe recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

A.R.Rahman receives Indira Gandhi award for National Integration for the year 2009

Resul Pookutty becomes member of the Academy of Motion Pictures

Indian origin actress Archie Panjabi, has bagged the best supporting actress in a dramaseries for her role in "The Good Wife" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards 2010

Priyanka Chopra has been appointed as the National Ambassador of UNICEF and wouldsupport in promoting child rights

Natasha Arora from Texas has been declared Miss India USA 2010 at a function at RoyalAlbert's Palace in Fords in New Jersey who also bagged Miss Beautiful Skin and BestTalent titles

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7 year old maths prodigy Oscar Selby, who became the youngest Briton to gain the topgrade in GCSE maths, now advises the Government of Britian

2 Engineering students, Vaibhav Tidke a final year student of Master's in ChemicalTechnology at the Institute of Chemical Technology from Mumbai and Chandrashekaran

a student of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamil Nadu have been selected forprestigious Bayer Young Environmentalist Envoy (BYEE) honour who will also attendan international conference in Germany in November

Ted Turner, the chairman of United Nation's Foundation and the founder of Cable NewNetwork (CNN) has donated $1 billion towards the eradication of polio in Nigeria

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