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JANUARY 2018 QUICK REVIEW www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com Anandiben Patel - Governor, Madhya Pradesh Anil Khanna - Chairman, Finance Commission of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) 1st January - 50th World Day of Peace A R Rahman - Brand Ambassador, Sikkim State 1st January - 125th Birth Anniversary of Satyendra Ashok Lavasa - Election Commissioner of India Nath Bose (Noted Indian Scientist) B. Rajendran - Chairperson, Real Estate Appellate 4th January - World Braille Day Tribunal (REAT) 4th January - 70th Independence Day of Myanmar Bo Young Lee - 1st Chief Diversity Officer (CD), Uber 6th January - World Day of War Orphans Devika Shah - MD & CEO, Indian Clearing 9th January - 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Corporation Ltd (ICCL) 10th January - World Hindi Day Dilip Asbe - MD & CEO, National Payments 12th January - National Youth Day Corporation of India (NPCI) 15th January - 70th Indian Army Day Dilip Chenoy - Director General, Federation of Indian 16th January - Religious Freedom Day Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) 17th January - National Immunization Day Errol D'Souza - Directo, IIM Ahmedabad 19th January - 13th Raising Day of NDRF (National George Weah - President, Liberia Disaster Response Force) Gopal Guru - Editor, Economic and Political Weekly 21st January - Squirrel Appreciation Day (EPW) 21st January - 46th Statehood Day of Manipur, Harjinder Singh - Chef De Mission, 23rd Winter Tripura and Meghalaya Olympic Games 23rd January - 121st Birth Aanniversary Subhash Hasan Sardar - Head Coach, Pakistan Hockey Chandra Bose National Team 24th January - 11th National Girl Child Day Hemant Kumar Sharma - Divisional Commissioner of 24th January - Uttar Pradesh Diwas Jammu (J & K) .com 25th January - 8th National Voters’ Day James Kavanaugh - Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Z 25th January - National Tourism Day IBM 25th January - Statehood Day of Himachal Pradesh Jerome H Powell - Chair of the Federal Reserve 26th January - 68th Republic day (USA) mbition A 26th January - International Customs Day Juan Orlando Hernandez - President, Honduras 27th January - International Holocaust Remembrance (Central America) Day Kajol - Advocacy Ambassador, Swachh Aadat 28th January - World Leprosy Day (Swachh Bharat initiative) www.Gr8 28th January - Data Privacy Day (Data Protection Kenneth Chenault - Member, Facebook Board (1st Day) African-American) 29th January - National Immunization Day Kookhyun Shim - MD & CEO, Kia Motors India 30th January - National Martyrs' Day Manisha Singh - Assistant Secretary of State, USA (1st Woman) Marc Steifman - Chief Financial Officer (CFO), us visit at materials InMobi Milos Zeman - President, Czech Republic (Central study AB Mathur - Interlocutor for talks with ULFA (United Europe) Liberation Front of Assam) Mohammed Qamaruddin - Chairman, Telangana Ajendra Bahadur Singh - Chief of Western Naval State Minorities Commission For more Command, Indian Navy Momtaz Moussa - General Manager, OLX India 1 JANUARY 2018 QUICK REVIEW www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com Om Prakash Rawat - Chief Election commissioner Viorica Dancila - 1st Female Prime Minister, (CEC) of India Romania Pankaj Jain - Managing Director, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) Newly Appointed Indian Ambassadors Pramod Agarwal - Chairman, Gems and Jewellery Srikumar Menon - Angola (Southern Africa) Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) Tsewang Namgyal - Poland (Eastern Europe) Priyanka Chopra - Global Brand Ambassador, JBL Rajesh Agarwal - Niger (Western Africa) and Harman Kardon Audio Brands Rajarapu Pratap - Vice Chairman, Telangana State Minorities Commission Rajesh Ranjan - High Ambassador of India to Botswana Ambalavaner Sivanandan - Novelist & Intellectual Rajinder Khanna - Deputy National Security Adviser Giant (NSA) of India Anwar Jalalpuri - Poet (Translated Bhagavad Gita to Rajiv Prasad - President, JK Tyres & Industries (India) Urdu) S Selvakumar - CMD, Security Printing and Minting Ava Mukherjee - Veteran Actress Corporation of India Ltd (SPMCIL) Dan Gurney - 1st Driver with wins in each of the S Somanath - Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Formula One, IndyCar and NASCAR Cup series Centre (VSSC) Thiruvananthapuram Dolores O'Riordan - Lead singer of the Irish rock Sauli Niinisto - President, Finland (Northern Europe) band 'The Cranberries' Shantanu Narayen - Vice Chairman, US-India Dudhnath Singh - Renowned Writer, Poet and Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) Critique Sita Ram Mardi - Director General of Police (DGP), FKK Sircar - India's Longest Living Army Veteran Himachal Pradesh John Young - NASA Astronaut (1st Human to fly solo Sivan K - Chairman, ISRO (Indian Space Research around the Moon) Organization) Radha Viswanathan - Renowned Carnatic Vocalist .com Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga - Prime Minister, Mali (M S Subbulakshmi's stepdaughter) Z (West Africa) Raghunath Jha - Former Union Minister Sudeep Lakhtakia - Director General, National Saksham Yadav - India's powerlifting world Security Guard (NSG) champion mbition A Sunny Verghese - Chairman, World Business Council Shrivallabh Vyas - Veteran Actor for Sustainable development( WBCSD) Simon Barnes - Teletubbies Actor Tracey Crouch - World's 1st-ever minister tasked Sukhchain Singh Cheema - Former wrestler and with the portfolio of 'Loneliness' (UK) Coach www.Gr8 Usha Ananthasubramanian - 1st Woman Chairman, Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) V J Mathew - Chairman, Maritime Board (Kerala) V Narayanan - Director, ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Angelina Jolie - ASC Board of Governors Award Systems Centre (LPSC) Anish Kapoor - Genesis Prize (Jewish Nobel Prize) Vijay Keshav Gokhale - Foreign Secretary of India us visit at materials Asha Bhosle - 5th Yash Chopra Memorial Award Vijay Kumar - MD & CEO, National Commodity & Donald Trump - Bravery Medal by Afghanistan Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) study Residents (for his stance against Pakistan) Vikram Singh Sisodia - Chef de Mission for 21st Jaishree T - Ganga Jamuna Award Commonwealth Games Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (Mumbai) - Samudra For more Manthan - Caring Organisation of the Year Award 2 JANUARY 2018 QUICK REVIEW www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com Jyoti Prakash Nirala - Ashoka Chakra Bachendri Pal - First Indian woman to reach Mount Mangalajodi Ecotourism Trust (Odisha) - United Everest summit. 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Prakash Padukone - Badminton Association of India P V Sindhu - first Indian woman to become Olympic Lifetime Achievement Award silver medallist (Badminton) Pratibha Laxman Gai - Damehood (female Priya Jhingan - First Lady Cadet to join Indian Army. equivalent of a knighthood) by Queen Elizabeth ricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s Biopic titled “A Billion R.S Puram Police Station (Coimbatore) - Best Dreams” won 2 awards at 11th Tehran SMART Police Station in the country Award C International FICTS Festival 2018, Iran. 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