{"id":17625,"date":"2016-11-09T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=17625"},"modified":"2016-11-09T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:00:52","slug":"sarabjit-singh-marwah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/sarabjit-singh-marwah\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarabjit Singh Marwah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Indian origin Sarabjit Singh Marwah has been appointed as first Sikh senator of which of the following country?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Australia<br \/>\n(b) Canada<br \/>\n(c) Colombia<br \/>\n(d) Mexico<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 31 October 2016 India born Sarabjit Singh Marwah has become the first Sikh to be appointed to the Canadian Senate (upper house).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was among six people from Ontario who have appointed to Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marwah is one of the founders of the Sikh Foundation of Canada that promotes Sikh culture and art among the diaspora community.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marwah joined Scotia bank in Toronto as a financial analyst in 1978. Rising through the ranks, he went on to become the Chief Financial Officer (COO) of the bank in 1998.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2002, he was made the bank&#8217;s senior executive vice president and chief financial officer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2005, he was elevated as the vice chairman and chief administrative officer. In 2008, he was re-designated as vice chairman and chief operating officer of the bank &#8211; the positions he held till his retirement in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsikh.org\/wso_congratulates_sabi_marwah_on_senate_appointment?recruiter_id=19277\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.worldsikh.org\/wso_congratulates_sabi_marwah_on_senate_appointment?recruiter_id=19277<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/current-affairs\/kolkata-born-sarabjit-singh-marwah-becomes-canada-s-first-sikh-senator-116110200437_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/current-affairs\/kolkata-born-sarabjit-singh-marwah-becomes-canada-s-first-sikh-senator-116110200437_1.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceonline.com\/turbaned-sikh-sabi-sarabjit-marwah-chosen-by-trudeau-for-the-senate-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.voiceonline.com\/turbaned-sikh-sabi-sarabjit-marwah-chosen-by-trudeau-for-the-senate-update\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Indian origin Sarabjit Singh Marwah has been appointed as first Sikh senator of which of the following country? (a) Australia (b) Canada (c) Colombia (d) Mexico Ans: (b) Related facts: On 31 October 2016 India born Sarabjit Singh Marwah has become the first Sikh to be appointed to the Canadian Senate (upper house). He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-17625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}