1. Justice Bansi Lal Bhat
- The Central Government has extended the tenure of Justice Bansi Lal Bhat as the officiating Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) for the third time.
- Justice Bhat will now remain on the post till December 31, 2020.
- He was appointed on March 12, 2020.
2. Om Puri
- Late actor Om Puri has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the India International Film Festival of Boston.
- The actor has been given this award for his contribution to the cinema.
- The award was received by his wife.
3.Alpha Condé
- Alpha Condé has been appointed as the President of Guinea.
- He has been appointed as the president of the country for the third time.
4. Lewis Hamilton
- British racing driver Lewis Hamilton has won the German Grand Prix.
- It is the 91st victory of Hamilton's career.
- With this win, Lewis has equalled Michael Schumacher's record.
5. Saad al-Hariri
- Saad al-Hariri has been appointed as the prime minister of Lebanon.
- He has been appointed by the Lebanese President Michel Aoun.
6. Rajiv Kumar
- Vice President of NITI Aayog, Rajiv Kumar will head a 14-member committee formed by NITI Aayog to reform the urban planning education system.
- Other members of the committee include Amitabh Kant (CEO of Aayog); principal scientific advisor (PSA) K VijayRaghavan; Tarun Khanna of Harvard Business School and others.
7. Pravir Krishna
- The Team of TRIFED warriors has won three awards at National Awards for Excellence- PSU.
- Managing Director of TRIFED, Pravir Krishna has won CEO of the year and Visionary Leadership Award while the team has won an award in the Investment in Start-ups category.
- Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation of India (TRIFED) is a national level cooperative body under the administrative control of Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
8. Seema Gupta
- Director of Operations at POWERGRID Corporation of India, Seema Gupta has won the GOLD Stevie Award in the Lifetime Achievement- A business category in the 17th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.
- The award is given to honour women executives, employees, entrepreneurs around the world.
9. Aishwarya Sridhar
- Indian Photographer, Aishwarya Sridhar became the first Indian woman to win the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
- She was announced as the winner of the award at the Natural History Museum in London.
- This is the 56th year of the award.
- Aishwarya was declared the winner for her picture named 'Lights of passion'.
10. Jacinda Ardern
- Jacinda Ardern became the Prime Minister of New Zealand for the second consecutive time.
- Ardern's liberal Labour Party won by a landslide victory in the elections.
11. Rajkiran Rai G
- Rajkiran Rai G has been appointed as the new Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
- Rajkiran is the Managing Director and CEO of Union Bank of India.
- He has succeeded Rajnish Kumar.
12. Vishal V. Sharma
- Vishal V. Sharma has been appointed as the new Permanent Representative of India to the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO.
- His rank will be of Ambassador.
- He has succeeded Jawed Ashraf.
13. Michael Irani
- Michael Irani has been appointed as the Interim President of International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
- IWF is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary and has 187 members.
14. Constantina Dita
- Constantina Dita has been named as the brand ambassador for World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020.
- Rita is a Romanian long-distance runner and the 2008 Olympic champion.
15. Mukesh Ambani
- Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has again become the richest Indian as per the Forbes list.
- It is the 13th consecutive time; Ambani has been named the richest person of India.
- His net worth is worth of $88.7 billion.
16. Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson
- Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson have been declared as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
- They have been awarded for “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats."
- Both of them are American economists.
17. Robert Lewandowski
- Robert Lewandowski has won the UEFA Men's Player of the Year award.
- Robert is a Polish footballer.
18. Louise Glück
- Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2020.
- She has been awarded “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
- She is the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- She is an American poet.
19. M A Ganapathy
- Senior IPS officer M A Ganapathy has been appointed as director-general of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
- At present, Ganapathy is the CISF special director-general and head of the airport sector.
20. S S Deswal
- ITBP Chief S S Deswal has been given an additional charge of the DG of National Security Guard (NSG).
- He has been appointed after A K Singh retired on September 30.
- Deswal is a 1984-batch IPS officer.
21. Sanjay Singh
- Rajya Sabha MP from Aam Admi Party (AAP), Sanjay Singh has chosen for the 'Gandhi Award' instituted by the Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation.
- He has been awarded for his role in the removal of Mahatma Gandhi's pictures from beer bottles in a Company in Israel.
22. Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice, and Michael Houghton
- Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice, and Michael Houghton have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.
- They have been awarded for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
- Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice are American Scientists while Michael Houghton is a British scientist.
23. Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
- Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2020.
- Britain’s Penrose, has been awarded “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”.
- German Genzel and US Scientist Ghez have won the award “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.
24. Dinesh Kumar Khara
- State Bank of India (SBI) has appointed Dinesh Kumar Khara as its new chairman.
- He has replaced Rajnish Kumar.
25. J Venkatramu
26. M. Rajeshwar Rao
- M. Rajeshwar Rao took over as the Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
- He has been appointed for 3 years.
