8th April 2016

A.Hashim Thaci sworn in as new President of Kosovo

1.Hashim Thaci has sworn in as the President of Kosovo after he was elected by the parliament in March 2016. 

2.He succeeds Atifete Jahjaga. With this, he becomes fourth President of Kosovo after the European country had unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008. 

3.Prior getting elected as President he was serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Government led by Isa Mustafa. 

About Hashim Thaci 
1.Born on April 24, 1968 in the Drenica region of central Kosovo. 

2.From the early 1990s as a student, Thaci was involved in passive resistance to the Belgrade authorities. He had rose to prominence as the political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a paramilitary organisation that was active during the Kosovo War.

B.CP Gurnani appointed as Chairman of NASSCOM

1.The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has appointed CP Gurnani as its Chairman for 2016-17 and Raman Roy as vice chairman for the period. 

2.Currently, Gurnani is Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tech Mahindra. 

3.He is a chemical engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He has over 31 years of rich corporate experience. Previously, he had worked at Hewlett Packard Limited, Perot Systems (India) Limited and HCL Corporation Ltd, and had led the merger of Tech Mahindra with Satyam. 

4.Raman Roy is the MD of Quatrro Global Services. He is widely regarded as a pioneer of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in India. 

About National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) 1.NASSCOM is a global non-profit trade association (organisation) of Indian Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. 

2.It facilitates business and trade in software and services and encourages the advancement of research in software technology. Established: It is registered under the Indian Societies Act, 1860. 

Headquarters: New Delhi.

C.Justice (Retd) Permod Kohli sworn in as Chairman of CAT

1.Retired Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court Justice Permod Kohli was sworn in as the Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). 

2.He succeeded Justice Syed Rafat Alam and will have tenure of 5 years with effect from the date of assumption of charge of the post or till attaining the age of 68 years, whichever is earlier. 

About Justice (retd) Permod Kohli 
1.Born in 1951 in Rajouri, Jammu and Kasmir. 

2.He had joined Bar at Jammu in 1972. In 1990, he was appointed as Advocate General of Jammu & Kashmir. 

3.He is an expert in Civil, Constitutional and Taxation cases. 

4.He had served as Judge in the High Courts of Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand and Punjab & Haryana.

D.Mother Teresa conferred with Founders Award posthumously in UK

1.Mother Teresa has been posthumously conferred with the United Kingdom’s prestigious Founders Award 2016. 

2.Teresa’s only living relative Agi Bojazhiu (niece) collected the award on her behalf. Other category recipients Community Service award: Rami Ranger, leading NRI entrepreneur and philanthropist. 

3.Business Leader of the Year award: Prakash Lohia, Chairman and co-founder of Indorama Corporation. 

4.Outstanding achievement in Television: Kunal Nayyar, actor from the hit American comedy series The Big Bang Theory. 

5.Outstanding Achievement in Cinema award: Asif Kapadia, oscar and BAFT-winning documentary-maker. 

6.Outstanding achievement in Sports award: Son Heung-Min, Tottenham Hotspurs football star of South Korea. 

7.Entrepreneur of the Year award: Anil Agrawal, founder and Executive Chairman of the metal and mining company, Vedanta Resources Corporation.