• V.S.Naipaul : Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul has joined a select band of living figures whose portraits hang in London’s National Portrait Gallery.
• M. F. Hussein : India’s most celebrated artist has been given Qatar nationality recently. (died in London on 9th june 2011)
• Tin Oo : Pro—democracy leader of Myanmar, Octogenarian Tin Oo was set free by the Myanmarese military rulers on February 4, 2010.
• Aditi Malik : Aditi Malik, an Indian human rights student has won the prestigious Gates scholarship, after winning this scholarship; she has secured her place at the Cambridge University.
• Justice N. Santhosh Hegde : In a sudden turn of events, Karnataka Lokaykta N Santhosh Hegde on July 3. 2010 decided to withdraw his recognition submitted to Governor H.R. Bhardwaj on June 23.
• Nikki Haley : Nikki Haley is an Indian-American who came into news when she bagged the Republican nomination for South and Carolina’s guber-national elections’ to be held in November 2010.
• Khusboo : Ms. Khusboo, who is a popular southern actress, came into the news recently when she met DMK President M. Karunananidhi and joined his DMK party saying she loves to serve the people.
• Sayeeda Hussein Warsi : Baroness Sayeeda Hussein Warsi created history by becoming the first Muslim women to the part of British Cabinet, when she was announced the Chairman of the Conservative Party.
• Rashad Hussein : Indian origin lawyer Rashad Hussein, a hafiz of the holy Quran, has been appointed as the new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference by US administration.
• Mukul Sangma : Mukul M. sangma took oath as the 21st Chief Minister of Meghalaya on April 20 2010. Which also happens to be 45th birthday.
• Chirayu Amin : Jolted by the alleged dubious dealing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) set into to motion a clean- up act in Mumbai on April 26 2010 by appointing Vice- President (West Zone) Chirayu Amin as interim Chairman of IPL.
• Kshemendra Paul : The Obama administration has appointed Indian- American Kshemendra Paul to a key IT position making him head of an agency that facilities the sharing and access of terrorism related information with in various wings of the U. S. government.
• Ashok Kumar Attri : Ashok Kumar Attri has been appointed Ambassador of India to Denmark.
• Chistiana Figures : Chistiana Figures has been appointed new executive secretary of the United Nations Frame work Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in place of the present secretary Yoes de Boers who resigned after the failure to reach an agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009.
• Yogesh Aggarwal : Former banker Yogesh Aggarwal has been appointed Chairman of interim pension regulator PFRDA.
• Nisha Desai Biswal : The Obama government has nominated yet another Indian-American, Nisha DesaiBiswal, to a senior position within its administration. Ms. Biswal has been nominatedto the post of assistant administrator for Asia in the US Agency for International for Development (USAID).
• Balwinder Singh : Balwinder Singh, Additional Director in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been appointed as the Special Director of the agency.
• M.Balamuralikrishna : Carnatic vocalist Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna has been appointed the lifetime court musician of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD)
• Geeta Gopinath : Noted academician Geeta Gopinath has been named professor of economics at the prestigious Harvard University, becoming the first Indian-American Professor in the institution’s history.
• S.Y. Quraishij : President Pratibha Patil has appointed Election Commissioner (EC) Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi as the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) under clause 2 of the Article 324 of the Constitution.
• Kanu Sanyal : Kanu Sanyal, one of the architects of the naxalite movement and, who, in more recent times, was critical of the Maoists was found dead on March 23, 2010 at his residence in the Naxalbari area of West Bengal’s Darjeeling district-the same area from where an armed peasant uprising in May 1967 lead by him, among others had catapulted him into political reckoning.
• Biswanath Patnaik : Eminent Bhoodan leader and social worker Biswanath Patnaik passed away at Baliguda in Orissa’s Kandhamal district on March 29, 2010.
• Juan Antonio Samaranch : Former International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch died on April 21, 2010 at the age of 89 at a Barcelona Hospital from a cardiorespiratory arrest in Spain.
• Dorothy Height : Dorothy Height, a longtime leader of the US Civil rights movement and the Chairwomen of the National Council of Negro women, passed away on April 20, 2010 in Washington.
• M.K.Kamalam : M.K.Kamalam, who was the heroine of the first Malayalam talkies Balan died at her residence in Kottyam district on April 20.
• C.K.Prahalad : Coimbatore Krishanarao Prahalad, one of the world’s most eminent management gurus, a distinguished professor and a visionary, passed away in San Diego after a brief illness.
• John Wakefield : John Wakefield, the torchbearer of Karnataka’s first eco-tourism project-the Kabini River Lodge on the banks of the Kabini at Karapur in Mysore district-passed away at the Kabini lodge on April 20.
• Prabha Rau : Rajasthan Governor Prabha Rau died in Delhi on April 26, 2010 following a heart attack.
• Carlos Franqui : Cuban writer and political activist Carlos Franqui, an important figure in the Cuban revolution, who later became one of the most outspoken critics of Fidel Castro has died. He was 89.
• Scot John Shepherd-Barron : India-born Scot John Shepherd-Barron, the man who invented the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) passed away in Scotland on May 15, 2010.
• Tapen Chattopadhyay : Film personality Tapen Chattopadhyay, famous for his role as Goopi in Satyajit Rai’s classic Goopi Gayan Bagha Bayen (Goopi the singer Bagha the drammuer) died on May 24, 2010.
• Manohar Malgonkar : Manohar Malgonkar, the author, died in Jagalpet in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district on June 14, 2010.
• Jose Saramago : Nobel literature prize winner Jose Saramago, who left his native Portugal after arguing with his country’s government died on the Canary Island Lanzarote
• Robert Byrd : U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, who evolved from a segregationist to a civil rights advocate in becoming the longest serving member ever of the Congress, died on June 28, 2010.He was first elected to the Congress in 1952.
• Shashi Tharoor : Minister of State in the External Affairs Ministry Shashi Tharoor resigned on April 18, following an unpalatable IPL controversy in which he got involved.
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