Appointments & Resignations

Ruchir Sharma Appointed as Managing Director & Chairman of Rockefeller International

Ruchir Sharma will take over as the Managing Director and Chairman of Rockefeller International, the international unit of Rockefeller Capital Management on 14th February 2022.

Tata Sons reappointed NatarajanChandrasekaran (N Chandrasekaran) as its Executive Chairmanfor the period of another five year term (2022-2027), starting from February 2022.

Krishi Network, an agritech startup company, appointed Bollywood actor PankajTripathi as its Brand Ambassador and investor.

Dinesh Prasad Saklani, Professor of history at the HemvatiNandanBahuguna(HNB) Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand has been appointed as the new Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Education (MoE), for 5 yearsor till he attains the age of 65 years, whichever is the earliest.
He succeeds HrushikeshSenapaty, who has served as the director of NCERT from 2015 to 2020.

SantishreeDhulipudiPandit, a political science professor at SavitribaiPhule Pune University in Maharashtra, was appointed as the first woman Vice-Chancellor(VC) of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, Delhi, for a period of 5 years.
President Ram NathKovind, who is Visitor to JNU, has approved the appointment of SantishreeDhulipudiPandit as the 13th VC of JNU.
She succeeds M Jagadesh Kumar

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo swore in Aníbal Torres Vásquez as the Prime Minister (PM) or President of the Council of Ministers of Peru.
This is Pedro Castillo’s 4th cabinet since he took office on 28th July 2021.
Aníbal Torres Vásquezsucceeds HéctorValer who served as PM for just 3 days.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved extending the tenure of MR Kumar as the Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India(LIC) by 1 year till March 2023, for a further period beyond 13th March 2022.

Scientists from Ahmedabad-based Space Applications Centre (SAC) and Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) successfully demonstrated quantum entanglement based real time Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), a major step towards satellite-based quantum communication.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has appointed SantishreeDhulipudiPandit as the new Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
She is the first women Vice-Chancellor of JNU.
The 59-year-old Pandit has been appointed for a period of five years.
Pandit replaces M Jagadesh Kumar, who has been appointed as Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).

Scientist and launch vehicle specialist, Dr S Unnikrishnan Nair took charge as the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).
VSSC is a keyspace research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and specialises in rocket and space vehicles for satellite programs.