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Sunday, 18 May 2014

LIST OF NEW APPOINTMENTS Part -2


  1. Dinesh Sarraf - ONGC chief
  2. Arseny Yatseniuk - Ukraine’s new prime minister
  3. Rashid Latif - Pakistan cricket chief selector
  4. Bappi Lahiri - goodwil ambassador in Nepal
  5. Metro Man E Sreedharan - Uttar Pradesh government’s chief adviser for Lucknow metro rail project.
  6. Cheteshwar Pujara - ‘brand ambassador’ of the Gujarat state Election Commission.
  7. Salil Nair - Shoppers Stop CEO
  8. Ashok Varadhan - co-head of Goldman Sachs’ securities
  9. Justice Mukul Mudgal - appointed as Chief of BCCC
  10. Siddharth Das - Flipkart Chief Operating Officer of its online payment solution PayZippy
  11. Rakesh Maria - Mumbai’s new police commissioner
  12. Vallabhaneni Venkateshwara Rao - the member of Censor Board.
  13. Kalyan Singh -BJP vice-president
  14. Sheila Dikshit – Governor of Kerala Published
  15. Ibrahim Mahlab – Prime Minister of Egypt
  16. Matteo Renzi - PM of Italy
  17. Edward Snowden - Rector of University of Glasgow
  18. Abdul Basit - high commissioner of Pakistan
  19. Vinod Sawhny - CEO of Reliance Communications
  20. Jatinder Bir Singh - CMD of Punjab and Sind Bank
  21. R.K.Tiwari – new Chairman of CBDT
  22. N Ramachandran- President of IOA
  23. Marco Lambertini - Director-General of WWF International
  24. Sanjeev Kulkarni - dean of Princeton University Graduate School (DGH)
  25. Satya Nadella – CEO of Microsoft
  26. M Teresa Kho – Country Director of ADB
  27. Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur – head 7th Central Pay Commission
  28. Poonam Khetrapal Singh – Regional Director of SEARO
  29. Vivek Lall -Special Advisor Published
  30. Manoj Vaish – MD & CEO of MCX
  31. Harish Rawat -8th Chief Minister of Uttrakhand
  32. Michel Rogers – Director of NSA
  33. Arun Gupta – CMD of Shipping Corporation of India
  34. Ajoy Misra – the CEO and MD of Tata Global Beverages Limited
  35. Manoj Kohli – MD&CEO of non telecom businesses of Bharti Enterprises
  36. Gopal vittal – MD&CEO of Bharti Airtel
  37. Egypt’s Army Chief Fattah al-Sisi -Field Marshal
  38. Professor Rakesh Khurana – Dean of Harvard College
  39. Kailash Meghwal – Speaker of Rajasthan Assembly
  40. Aruna Bahuguna -first woman to be appointed chief of National Police Academy
  41. Catherline Samba-Panza- CAR’s Interim President (first woman to be elected as the interim president)
  42. Jamila Bayaz -first women to be appointed police chief of Kabul province
  43. Sirajuddin Qureshi – President of IICC Published
  44. Morten Sorby – new Uninor CEO
  45. Munish Sharda – MD and CEO of Future Generali Life
  46. Janet Yellen – Chairperson of Federal Reserve
  47. Chandrashekhar – President of NASSCOM
  48. Srinivas and Pravin Rao – Infosys Presidents
  49. Raj Jain – CEO of Bharti Retail
  50. Pradhyuman Singh – pro-tem speaker of 14th Rajasthan Assembly
  51. S.K.Sharma – Chairman and Managing Director of BEL
  52. Ashraf Jehan-first female judge in Pak’s National Sharia Court
  53. Devendra Kumar Pathak – DG, BSF
  54. Pradeep Kumar – MD Corporate Banking of State Bank of India
  55. J.N.Chaudhary – Head of NSG
  56. CISF – chief Arvind Ranjan
  57. Ashok Lavasa, – the New Civil Aviation Secretary
  58. M. Veerappa Moily – new Environment and Forests Minister
  59. Siddarth Birla – President of FICCI
  60. Vinod Kumar Duggal – the Governor of Manipur
  61. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar – ambassador of US
  62. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed – Prime Minister by Somalian Parliament
  63. Usha Sangwan – first woman Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation.
  64. P.H. Parekh – President of Supreme Court Bar Association
  65. S B Nayar -Chairman and Managing Director of India Infrastructure Finance Corp Limited
  66. Puneet Kumar – secretary general of AEPC
  67. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala -Chairman of NABARD
  68. CVR Rajendran – CMD of Andhra Bank
  69. Krishna Iyer – CEO of Wal-Mart India
  70. Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag – new Army chief

Important Idioms and Phrases



1. Like a fish out of water - In a strange situation
2. Smell a rat - Suspect something foul
3. Read between the lines - Understand the hidden meaning
4. Tooth and Nail - With all of one’s power
5. Spread like wild fire - Spread quickly
6. Hit the nail on the head - Do or say the exact thing
7. Burn the midnight Oil - Work or study hard
8. Under his thumb - Under his control
9. With a high hand - Oppressively
10. Gain ground - Become popular
11. By leaps and bounds - Rapidly
12. Make off with - To run away with
13. Pass away - to die
14. To cry for the moon - Ask for the impossible
15. To make a pig of oneself - To over-eat
16. Donkey’s years - Very long time
17. To pull one’s leg - to joke; tease
18. To keep one’s fingers crossed - to hope fervently
19. To eat humble pie - To apologize in a humble manner
20. To fight a losing battle - Struggle without hope of success
21. A deadlock - A position when no progress can be made
22. A daredevil - A person who does not care for any
consequences
23. Once in a blue moon - Very rarely
24. At a premium - Difficult to get or obtain
25. To play the game - To act honestly