Events; Appointments; Etc.: April 2011

APPOINTED; ELECTED; Etc. Lobsang Sangay: A research fellow at Harvard Law School, he has been elected as the Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile. Atifete Jahjaga: Kosovo’s highest ranking police-woman, she has been appointed as the President of Kosovo. RESIGNED Timothy Roemer: US Ambassador to India. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS Abhisit Vejjajiva: Prime Minister of Thailand. DIED Nawang Gombu: First person to climb Mount Everest twice. He was 75. Sathya Sai Baba: Renowned spiritual leader. He was 85. EVENTS APRIL 9—Anna Hazare ends his 97-hour hunger strike after the gazette notification by the Union government, constituting a joint committee for drafting the Lokpal Bill. 11—France officially bans burqa (women wearing full-face veils) in public places. 12—Russia commemorates 50 years of the first human flight into space, undertaken by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. 29—Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton get married at Westminister Abbey in a sumptuous show of British pageantry. MILESTONES U.K. Sinha: Chairman of SEBI, he has been elected as the Chairman of Asia-Pacific regional committee (APRC) of the International Organisation of Securities Commission (IOSCO), which is the international standard setter for securities markets.