1. Dr. Manmohan Singh resigns. as Prime Minister of India.
2. Nitish Kumar resigns as Bihar CM
3. Lakhdar Brahimi: UN Envoy on Syria resigned
4. Alenka Bratusek Slovenia’s Prime Minister resigned.
5. Dilip Shanghvi named among Asia’s richest self‐made
billionaires.
6. Manoj Vaish, Managing Director & CEO of Multi
Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX), resigned.
7. P Elango interim CEO & Whole time Director,
quit from Cairn India.
8. Aamir Khan – Election Commission’s National Icon for
Lok Sabha Elections 2014
9. Arjun Kapoor Named National Ambassador for Earth Hour
2014
10. Vivek Gundotra, chief of Google’s social networking
venture Google+ resigned.
11. Nancy Powell resigned as the US Ambassador to India
12. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov has
resigned
13. South Korea's Prime Minister Chung Hong‐Won give
resign over the sinking of a passenger ferry that left more than 300 people dead
or missing.
14. Justice KT Thomas quits as head of Lokpal search committee
15. Hazem El‐Beblawi : Egyptian
PM resigns.
16. Archana Bhargava: Chairman and Managing Director of the
United Bank of India, has resigned.
17. Zaka Ashraf : Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sacked Zaka
Ashraf as the Chairman of the PCB
18. Sub‐Inspector K Prasad Babu was
honoured posthumous Ashok Chakra for an anti‐Naxal operation .
19. Jamila Bayaz, first women to be appointed police chief
of Kabul province. She is the first woman in Afghanistan to be appointed as
police chief of an entire district.
20. Enrico Letta : Italy Prime Minister resigned.
21. Arvind Kejriwal: resign from the post of Chief Minister of
Delhi.
22. Pope Francis was named as the Person of the Year 2013
by Time Magazine.
23. Wipro Chairman Azim Premji won the Economic Times Lifetime
Achievement Award 2013 for his role in creating India's third largest software
exporter.
24. Ali Larayedh: Prime Minister of Tunisia resigned
25. Indian‐origin academician Rakesh Khurana has
been appointed dean of the prestigious Harvard College. He succeeds Evelynn Hammonds.
26. Parveen Amanullah: Bihar First Woman Muslim Minister Resigns
27. Teesta Setalvad, accused for misusing foreign funds meant
for helping the victims of the 2002 Gulbarg society massacre.
28. Michael Ferreira: Billiards champion was accused in 425‐crore
rupees scam in multi‐ level marketing firm QNet.
29. Justice A.K. Ganguly: West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman Justice
A.K. Ganguly resigned from the post of honorary professor of the National
University of Juridical Sciences
30. V Balakrishnan: Former Infosys CFO joins AAP
31. Hardeep Singh Puri: who retired as India’s Permanent
Representative to the United Nations, today joined BJP.
32. Chandra Kant Birla Chairman of Hindustan Motors Limited resigned from the
board.
33. Michael Schumacher, is in a coma and remains in a "critical"
condition after striking his head in a ski accident
34. Devyani Khobragade: Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New
York, was accused by Manhattan's Indian American US Attorney Preet Bharara of
visa fraud and exploiting her babysitter and housekeeper.
35. Shashi Tharoor PETA's 'person of the year' by animal rights
campaigner PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for initiating
steps for animal protection.
36. Shoma Chaudhury, managing editor of Tehelka, announced her
resignation from the Tehelka, an investigative magazine.
37. Tarun Tejpal: Tehelka editor‐in‐chief
was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a young colleague.
38. Mathew Martoma: Indian‐origin hedge
fund portfolio manager Mathew Martoma convicted for his role in the $275
million insider trading scheme, the most lucrative in U.S. history.