Sidharth Birla
Sidharth Birla succeeded the HSBC India Country Head Naina
Lal Kidwai.
Chairperson and Managing Director of Bharat Hotels,
Joytsna Suri elected as Senior Vice-President of FICCI and Chairman of Ambuja
Neotia group, Harshavardhan Neotia as Vice-President of FICCI.
- FICCI is the largest and oldest apex business organization in India and established in 1927.
- FICCI is a non-government, non-profit organization and the voice of India’s business and industry.
Who is Sidharth Birla?
Birla did Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1980
from International Institute for Management Development (now known as IMD),
Switzerland.
Michiaki Takahashi
Dr. Michiaki Takahashi who developed a vaccine for the
chicken pox virus died due to heart failure on 23 December
2013( Monday ) in Osaka, Japan.
He was 85.
The vaccine did not treat the disease, but it prompted immune systems to produce antibodies.
Takahashi developed the vaccine for the chicken pox in
1972.
In 1964 Takahashi had spent several years in studying
the measles and polio viruses as research fellowship at Baylor Medical College
in Houston, US.
In 1972 he developed the early version of the chicken
pox vaccine in Japan.
The Food and Drug Administration, United Stated approved
the first chickenpox vaccine in 1995.
What is Chicken Pox?
Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus which
is a form of herpes and chickenpox is highly contagious disease that is spread via
contact with infected person.
Chickenpox symptoms are rashes in the body, fever, loss of
appetite, headache and tiredness.
G.S. Shivarudrappa
Famous Kannada poet, writer and researcher G.S.
Shivarudrappa (87) passed away on 23 December 2013( Monday ) morning at his home in Bangalore.
The writer, who was awarded title of Rashtrakavi by the
Government of Karnataka in 2006.
He received the Central Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984
for his literary contribution.
He has also bagged several awards including the
Karnataka State Sahitya Academy and Soviet Land Nehru Award.
He presided over
the Akhila Bharatiya Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held in Davanagere in 1992.
S. Jaishankar
Born in New Delhi in 1955, Jaishankar is the son of prominent Indian strategic affairs analyst, commentator, and civil servant K. Subrahmanyam and brother of historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
He is the new Indian Ambassador to the US, will
arrive here tomorrow to take charge amid a raging diplomatic row over the
arrest and strip-search of senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade on visa fraud
charges.
Jaishankar, who till recently was India’s Ambassador to
China, arrives in Washington at a time when bilateral ties threaten to hit a
low in more than a decade now in the aftermath of the arrest of Khobragade.
He Known as one of the brightest foreign service officials
of his generation, who played a key role in the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal,
Jaishankar’s first task would be to prevent the relationship from getting
derailed any further.
Jaishankar, who is proficient in Russian and also knows
Japanese and Hungarian, succeeds Nirupama Rao.
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