05 February 2016 Current Affairs
Mudra Founder AG Krishnamurthy Passed Away
AG Krishnamurthy, the founder of Mudra Communications passed away on 5 February 2016. He was founder Chairman and Managing Director of Mudra Communications. Born on the 28th of April, 1942 in Vinukonda, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, Krishnamurthy graduated in History at the Andhra University. In 1968 he joined the Calico Mills, a big textile name in the 60s and 70s, to assist Giraben Sarabhai. In 1972, he moved to their Advertising Agency, Shilpi Advertising as an Account Executive and then joined Reliance Industries in 1976 as their Advertising Manager. Four years later, on 25th of March, 1980, he founded Mudra Communications. In March 1991, he set up Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), the only advertising institute of its kind in Asia. MICA was set up to feed the growing Indian advertising industry with trained talent. He retired from Mudra on 31st March, 2003, and was The Chairman of AGK Brand Consulting.
Narendra Modi inaugurated gas cracker project, wax producing unit in Assam
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5 February 2016 inaugurated the Rs.10,000 crore gas cracker project at Lepetkata in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district and and a wax producing unit at the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) in Golaghat district. The gas cracker project was envisaged by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and given shape by Rajiv Gandhi as prime minister in 1985 at the end of the six-year- long anti-foreigners agitation. The prime minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone of the project in 2007. The petrochemical project will use naphtha and natural gas from the state’s oilfields to produce ethylene for manufacturing polymers.
US General John Nicholson appointed NATO Commander in Afghanistan
Army Lieutenant General John Nicholson has been appointed as the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan on 5 February 2016. He succeeded US General John Campbell who has been leading the Afghan operations for nearly 18 months. At present, Nicholas was US Army commander of NATO land forces. Earlier, he had served in multiple capacities like chief of staff of operations for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and US Forces – Afghanistan, director of Pakistan/ Afghanistan Coordination Cell for the Joint Staff, and deputy commander – Stability of ISAF Regional Command – South. North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. NATO’s headquarters are located in Haren, Brussels, Belgium, where the Supreme Allied Commander also resides.