NEWSMAKERS OF THE WEEK

WORLD OVER POLITICAL LEADERS ARE GETTING CONVICTED FOR CORRUPTION. IT IS EXTREMELY GOOD TO SEE THAT AS IT SETS THE RIGHT PRECEDENT IN THE SOCIETY. CEASER’S WIFE HAS TO BE ABOVE SUSPICION. THOSE IN POWER SHOULD LEAD FROM THE FRONT.

INDRA NOOYI

PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi has been appointed to the International Cricket Council ( ICC) Board as the governing body’s first independent female director. The introduction of an independent director, who must be female, was approved by the ICC full council in June last year as part of wide ranging constitutional change aimed at improving the governance of the sport.

SONIA GANDHI

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi addressing the Congress parliamentary party for the first time since demitting office as party chief, said, “We have a new Congress president and on your behalf and my own I wish him all the best. He is now my boss too. Let there be no doubt about that.” She said, “Congress will work with like- minded parties to ensure the BJP’s defeat in the next general election.”

CAPTAIN KAPIL KUNDU

Army Captain Kapil Kundu lost his life in the "unprovoked and indiscriminate" firing by Pakistan along the Line of Control ( LoC) in Kashmir's Rajouri district on January 4. Captain Kundu was six days short of his birthday. On February 10, Kundu would have turned 23. “Life should be big, not long,” Rajesh Khanna says to Amitabh Bachchan in Anand film, and that's the quote Kundu believed in.

JASHODABEN

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jashodaben had a narrow escape when the Innova car she was travelling in, rammed a truck near Chittor, Rajasthan. Of the seven occupants of the vehicle, one died and three others were injured. Jashodaben did not suffer any major injuries in the accident. The vehicle was completely smashed. The family was travelling from Atru in Baran to a place called Unjha in Gujarat. Jashodaben

KHALEDA ZIA

Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader and three- time Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was jailed for five years on February 8 after being found guilty in a corruption case by a special judge’s court in Dhaka. She was charged with misappropriating Tk 21 million in foreign donations received by the ‘ Zia Orphanage Trust’. “She was given a shorter term, considering her health and social status,” Judge Mohammad Akhteruzzaman said as he passed the sentence.