National and International Appointments

Correct option is (1).

Option (2) is the correct answer.

Mohammed Waheed Hassan was appointed as President of Maldives after Mohamed Nasheed.

Lt. Navdeep Singh was awarded the Ashok Chakra on 26th January 2012.

Ajay Bhattacharya replaced Shantanu Behuria as the Secretary of the Department of Fertilisers under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.

Hari S Bhartia, Co-Chairman & Managing Director of Jubilant Organosys Ltd has been elected as the President of CII for the year 2010-11. He succeeds Venu Srinivasan as the new CII President. B. Muthuraman, Vice Chairman, Tata Steel, has been elected as the Vice President of CII for the year 2010-11.

. Dr Mathur received the Energy Efficiency Visionary Award along with three others from across four continents at a ceremony held in Washington n May 12, 2010. BEE's Bachat Lamp Yojana has become the world's biggest clean development mechanism (CDM) to gain United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approval. The other award winners include Jimena Bronfman, Chile’s Vice-Minister of Energy; Jonas Hafstrom, Swedish Ambassador to the US; and Dr. Joseph Oteng-Adjei, Minister for Energy, Republic of Ghana.

The Union government on May 11, 2010 decided to appoint Shantha Sinha as chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) for the second term. Sinha, a renowned child rights activist, was appointed as the chairperson of the child rights panel in 2007. An academic with the Central University Hyderabad, Sinha is the winner of prestigious Magsaysay Award for 2003. She was presented the Padma Shree Award in 1999 for her work on child rights.

Rajiv has been appointed Director General of National Disaster Response Force & Civil Defence (NDRF & CD) on May 12, 2010. He is an IPS officer of the 1975 batch and belongs to UP Cadre.

Eminent historian & former vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Professor Mushirul Hasan was appointed Director General of National Archives of India on May 14, 2010.

Chakor Doshi, chairman of Walchandnagar Industries Ltd, was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Indian Nuclear Society (INS) on May 15, 2010. The Board of Trustees comprises other eminent personalities such as Dr Anil Kakodkar former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India, Dr S Banerjee, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission & Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy and Dr V K lya former, group director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. INS is an apex body engaged in promoting the advancement of Nuclear Science, engineering and technology.

'Tireless Voice - Relentless Journey', a collection of speeches by BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu, was released on May 9, 2010.

The Union government on January 9, 2010 constituted a high-level committee, headed by Sam Pitroda and Deepak Parekh as member, to look into the deteriorating financial health and competitiveness of state-run telecom firm BSNL and suggest remedial action.

Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development has been conferred the Stephen P. Duggan Award for Mutual Understanding by the New York based Institute of International Education (IIE). The award will be presented in September 2010 in New York City.

Jamsheed Marker is a veteran Pakistani diplomat listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having been ambassador to more countries than any other person. He was Pakistan's top envoy to the United States and more than a dozen other countries for more than three decades and earned the distinction as the world's longest-serving ambassador.