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Showing posts with label Indian Women in News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian Women in News. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Women Personalities



Women personalities have remained a regular feature of General Studies Prelims and Mains both.

Here is a suggestive list of women personalities. Kindly note, they are from a selective group whereas in the examination the personalities from varied groups have appeared in one single question. Secondly, the personalities like Ekta Kapoor may not appear in the examination but this is a suggestive post and use your discretion and critical appreciation while adding them to your notes. The source link is also included for further evaluation.


Most Influential South Asian Women Executives in the media and entertainment industry:

Mira Nair: Film director, writer and producer.

Deepa Mehta: Film director, directed Fire, Earth and Water.

Jhumpa Lahiri: An author. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Indu Jain: Chairperson of the Times Group

Ekta Kapoor: Joint Managing Director of Balaji Telefilms.

Shibani Joshi: A News Channel Producer and Investment Banking analyst.

Farah K Ahmed: Assistant General Counsel of Personal Care Products Council

Vishakha N Desai: President of Asia Soceity, founded by John D. Rockfeller III.



Source: http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/mar/15/slide-show-1-most-influential-women-media-executives.htm#contentTop


Against All Odds: Famous and Infamous Women of China and Some Contemporary Achievers 220 BC - 1995 ADWoman AchieverThe Self-Empowered Woman: 17 Characteristics of High AchieversLoving A High Achiever: Learning To Live With Ambition, Power, Wealth And FameBonnie Blair: Golden Streak (The Achievers)Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)Interpreter of MaladiesThe Namesake: A NovelOne World: A global anthology of short stories


Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Meera Kumar Elected Lok Sabha Speaker, First Women to hold that post




Meera Kumar is the first women Speaker of the Lok Sabha.



The Press is going wild on her election.
As an aspirant, the candidates should remember in GS Prelims there is one or two question every year for the last three two four years when the women achievers are made the topic of the question. Similarly, in GS Mains, in case of personalities, women names are always there.



Check the following three links. (BBC has the tinge of biased reporting.)

The Hindu: Meera Kumar Scripts the history
Women Power in Lok Sabha


BBC says India elects her first Women Speaker



Saturday, December 20, 2008

Chanda Kochhar

Chanda Kochhar has remained an important Indian political personality of this blog for Civil Services General Studies since 2005 when this blog was launched and that year paper was fully solved. At that time, Zia, Kiran Majumdar et al had appeared in the question paper. There and then, it was pointed out that some of the leading managers of ICICI, HSBC, and Hdfc should remain on watch list of the candidates.

This year, rather with in this week, Indra Nyoogi, Sania Nehlawat, Hon President of India Partibha Patel etc have remained in news as leading women of India.

Include in your watch list



Sources for further notes


Chanda Kochhar set to be new ICICI CEO- Corporate Announcement-News By Company-News-The Economic Times
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSBOM18715020081219
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/icici-bank-board-clears-kochhar-as-new-m.../400725/

http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/55F4D3DF95BAA96165257523003E6428?OpenDocument





Thursday, October 02, 2008

The Right to Livelihood Awards Comes to India



TN couple wins Alternative Nobel

The Sarvodya Couple of Krishnammal Sankaralingam and Sankaralingam Jagannathan and their organisation Land for the Tillers Freedom (LAFTI) have won the Right to Livelihood Award. The Right Livelihood Award is equated to the Alternative Nobel Prize.






Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Nooyi hat trick as powerful woman in business: Fortune

Nooyi is most powerful woman in business: Fortune

It is taken from Sify News item.

In the forthcoming list of the Fortune Magazine, to be released October 13, 2008, Indra Nooyi is going to be declared as the first among the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. She is going to be declared at that position for the third time in row. She is an alumni of IIM Calcutta and presently chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, an American company. She has been able to achieve this position by expanding the international business of breverages of her company in North America and diversifying into to juices with useful fat contents.


Apart from that she is fourth most powerful women in the world. To quote the report, "Nooyi also ranks fourth on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women overall, not just in business."



Remember: The questions on women empowerment and achievements are regularly appearing in GS at prelims and mains level. Indra Nooyi had made it to the question list earlier also and question on her can be repeated.

It is co-incidence that in this very month, an international women personality has been included in
Tzipi Livni who is younger to Nooyi by two years. Prime Minister Livni is 50 years and Nooyi is 52.

Also remember, that poisition of Livni is to be watched as there can be elections before May 2009 and then the position may be different. However, it makes good heading for the notes of 2009.


Photograph source: The same news report as mentioned above.


Friday, September 19, 2008

Saina Nehwal, Winner of Chinese Taipei Badminton nearing Top 10 World Ranking of Shuttlers


Top 10 not beyond Saina, feel experts - Badminton - Other Sports - The Times of India Sports

Saina Nehwal is up to No. 12 in the world rankings. If she come into first ten in world ranking, which she can possible do, then she will be first Indian Women Badminton player to achieve that submit.

Saina won the title in Yonex Chinese Taipei Open badminton on Sunday, September 14, 2008.

In Beijing Olympics 2008, she had reached upto quarter-finals.

Saina Nehwal is a 19-year-old Hyderabad-based girl.


Sources: Both the Photoprints are from Times of India sports section retrieved first on September 11, 2008 and then on September 18, 2008.

General Information


UPSC has taken initiative to display Last Year Question Papers of CS, CDS, NDA, CMS, Engineering Service on its site. Check them out at www.upsc.gov.in. The files are PDF.


go to www.upsc.gov.in and check what is new.




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