NOVEMBER 2015 QUICK REVIEW www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com 26th November - National Milk Day 27th November - Indian Organ Donation Day 29th November - International day of solidarity with 1st November - World Vegan Day the Palestinian people 1st November - Haryana Day 30th November - National flag day 1st November - Kannada Raajyotsava (Karnataka Day) 6th November - International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict A.K. Jha - CMD, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) 7th November - National Cancer Awareness Day Aishath Bisam - 1st woman Prosecutor General, 8th November - International Day of Running / Maldives Worled Run Day Amarjeet Sohi - Minister of Infrastructure and 8th November - International Day of Radiology Communities, Canada 9th November - Legal Services Day Anil Khanna - President, Asian Tennis Federation (ATF) 10th November - World Science Day for Peace and Anju Bobby George - Chairperson, Target Olympic Development Podium Scheme (TOPS) 11th November - National Education Day (India) Antonio Costa - Prime Minister, Portugal 2nd Thursday of November - World Quality Day Arun Kumar Kapoor - CEO, Dish TV 12th November - World Usability Day / Make Things Bardish Jhagger - Minister for Small Business and Easier Day Tourism, Canada 12th November - World Pneumonia Day Baroness Patricia Scotland - Secretary General, 12th November - Public Service Broadcasting Day Commonwealth of Nations 13th November - World Kindness Day Captain Amarinder Singh - Congress President, 14th November - Children’s Day Punjab 14th November - World Diabetes Day Captain Krishna Swaminathan - 2nd Commanding 16th November - International Day for Tolerance Officer, INS Vikramaditya 17th November - International Students' Day Deepak Singhal - Executive Director (ED), RBI 18th November - World COPD (Chronic Obstructive Harjit Sajjan - Defence Minister, Canada Pulmonary Disease) Day Harshavardhan Neotia - President, FICCI 3rd Thursday of November - World Philosophy Day John Magufuli - President, Tanzania 19th November - International Men's Day Justice AP Shah - Ethics Officer (Ombudsman), BCCI 19th November - World Toilet Day (WTD) Justice Tirath Singh Thakur - Chief Justice of India 19th November - National Integration Day (CJI) 20th November - Universal Children's Day Justin Trudeau - Prime Minister, Canada 21st November - World Television Day Kalyani Kaul - Circuit Judge, UK 21st November - World Hello Day Lionel Messi - Global Brand Ambassador, TATA 21st November - World Fisheries day Motors 25th November - International Day for the Marzieh Afkham - Iran's ambassador to Malaysia Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) (1st woman ambassador) 26th November - 1st Samvidhan Divas / Constitution Michael Keating - Special Representative for Somalia Day and Head, UNSOM 26th November - 66th National Law Day For more materials visit us at www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com 1 NOVEMBER 2015 QUICK REVIEW www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com Najib Shah - Chairman, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) Navdeep Bains - Minister of Innovation, Canada Navtej Singh Sarn - High Commissioner, Britain Allen Toussaint - American musician Ashok Singhal - Senior VHP Leader Nitish Kumar - Chief Minister, Bihar Banwari Lal Mittal - Founder and Chairman of Shree P.Udaya Bhaskar Rao - Chairman, APPSC Airlines, Nepal Prithvi Raj Singh - Board of Governors, World Water Bimal Prasad - Former Indian Ambassador to Nepal Council Brijmohan Lall Munjal - Chairman, Hero MotoCorp Raghuram Rajan - Vice-chairman, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Colin Welland - Oscar-winning writer, Actor Rajiv Bansal - Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Ola Dr. Satya Paul Agarwal - Secretary General, Indian Rakesh Kapur - Vice-President, International Red Cross Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) Eldar Ryazanov - Russian legendary film Director Ravikumar Sreedharan - MD, Unisys Corporation Hashim Abdul Halim - Former WB Speaker India Hemendra Narain - Senior journalist Rishi Gour - Country President, Sodexo in India Joe Marston - Australian football icon Roch Marc Christian Kabore - President, Burkina K. Shankaran Nair - Former Chief, RAW Faso (West African country) Kamala Laxman - Noted Children’s Book Writer (R. Sarbananda Sonowal - BJP President, Assam K. Laxman's wife) Shaktikanta Das - Board Member, SEBI / RBI Khekiho Zhimomi - Rajya Sabha MP (Nagaland) Subir Gokarn - Executive Director, IMF Kondavalasa Lakshman Rao - Tollywood Comedian Sunil Kanoria - President, Assocham Mahip Singh - Famous Hindi writer, columnist and Suresh N. Patel - MD & CEO, Andhra Bank journalist Surojit Chatterjee - Head (Consumer Experience and Noboru Karashima - Japanese historian of South Growth), Flipkart India Syed Akbaruddin - Permanent Representative of Om Prakash Mehra - Former Air Chief Marshal India to US Ram Krishna Trivedi - Former Gujarat Governor and T.S. Thakur - Chief Justice of India Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) V. Sivaramakrishnan - MD, Oxford University Press Rene GirardFrench - French Theorist of the Social India Sciences Vijay Keshav Gokhale - Indian ambassador to China Saeed Jaffrey - Veteran actor Vijay Kumar Chaudhary - Speaker, Bihar Shankaran Nair - Former RAW Director Zarin Daruwala - CEO, Standard Chartered Bank Surendra Upadhyay - Noted litterateur (India) T.R. Govindarajan - Distinguished football administrator T.S. Papola - Noted labour economist V.N. Misra - Eminent Archaeologist Newly appointed CEOs of Public Sector Banks Indian Bank : Mahesh Kumar Jain. Andhra Bank : Suresh N Patel. UCO Bank : Ravi Krishan Takkar. Abraham M. Keita (Liberia) - International Children's Corporation Bank : Jai Kumar Garg Peace Prize 2015 Bindeshwar Pathak - New York Global Leaders Dialogue Humanitarian Award For more materials visit us at www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com 2 NOVEMBER 2015 QUICK REVIEW www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Recognition of Excellence award for GyanSetu Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. D.K. Srivastava - International quality leadership Humanities : Prof. Jonardon Ganeri, Global Network award Professor of Philosophy, New York University and Fernando del Paso (Mexican Author) - Cervantes Recurrent Visiting Professor, Department of letters prize 2015 Philosophy, King’s College London, UK. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore - 99th Life Sciences : Dr. Amit Sharma, Group Leader, position in world's top 100 universities for Structural and Computational Biology Group, engineering and technology International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Kerala Tourism - Favourite Indian Leisure Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi. Destination prize 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom (US’s highest Kuldip Nayar - Ramnath Goenka Lifetime civilian honour) Award Winners List Achievement Award P. Sambasiva Rao - Best Farmer Award (N.G. Ranga Yogi Berra : professional baseball catcher, manager Kisan Samstha) and coach (posthumous) Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma - Kala Shikhar award Steven Spielberg : American director, producer and Prashant Damle (Marathi actor) - Dinanath screenwriter Mangeshkar award Willie Mays: The legendary baseball player. Prithika Yashini - India's first transgender Sub Billy Frank: Jr. (posthumous), a longtime Native Inspector of Police American activist. Raif Badawi - Sakharov Prize for human rights 2015 Minoru Yasui (posthumous) : A Japanese-American United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees lawyer and activist. (UNHCR) - Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace 2015 Gloria and Emilio Estefan : The Cuban-born wife and Uttar Pradesh - Guinness Book of World Records (for husband team behind the band Miami Sound planting the most number of saplings in one day) Machine. Vikram Gokhale - Vishnudas Bhave Award Shirley Chisholm (posthumous) : An educator and Zaina Erhaim - Reporter Without Borders Award seven-term Congresswoman. 2015 Bonnie Carroll : A life-long public servant. Lee Hamilton : A member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. Infosys Prize 2015 Winners Katherine G. Johnson : An American physicist, space scientist and mathematician. Physical Sciences : Prof. G. Ravindra Kumar, Barbara Mikulski : A senior United States Senator Professor in the Department of Nuclear and Atomic from Maryland. Physics (DNAP), Tata Institute of Fundamental Itzhak Perlman : An Israeli-American violinist, Research (TIFR), Mumbai. conductor, and pedagogue. Social Sciences : Dr. Srinath Raghavan, Senior William Ruckelshaus : An American attorney and Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. former U.S. government official. Mathematical Sciences : Prof. Mahan Mj, Professor Stephen Sondheim : An American composer and of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental lyricist. Research, Mumbai. Barbra Streisand : An American singer, songwriter, Engineering and Computer Science : Prof. Umesh actress, director and filmmaker. Waghmare of Theoretical Sciences Unit, of James Taylor : An American singer-songwriter and guitarist. For more materials visit us at www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com 3 NOVEMBER 2015 QUICK REVIEW www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com Top 10 Countries in 2015 Prosperity Index All the 9 titles won by Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis Pair in 2015 (with runners-up details) 1. Norway (Score - 3.504) 2. Switzerland (Score - 3.337) Wimbledon 2015 - Ekaterina Makarova / Elena 3. Denmark (Score - 3.272) Vesnina (Russia) 4. New Zealand (Score - 3.246) US Open 2015 - Casey Dellacqua(Australia)