MARCH

Ø   RESIGNS

Ø  Myanmar President, Htin Kyaw resigns

Ø  Myanmar’s President and Aung San Suu Kyi’s right-hand man Htin Kyaw stepped down after two years in the position. He has resigned due to ill health. Htin Kyaw, 71, was sworn in as Myanmar’s official president in 2016 after Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party won landmark elections.

Ø  Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim resigns

Ø  Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has resigned. She resigned after being embroiled in a scandal over the use of a credit card to buy luxury personal items. It has been alleged that Gurib-Fakim made personal purchases, buying jewellery and clothing using a credit card provided by London-based Planet Earth Institute.

Ø  Tata group Chief Ethics Officer Rajan quits

Ø  Tata Son’s Chief Ethics Officer Mukund Rajan will leave the group to evaluate entrepreneurial pursuits in the coming months. Rajan, who was the former MD of Tata Teleservices, was appointed as the group spokesperson and brand custodian in February 2013.

Ø  Slovenian PM Cerar resigns

Ø  Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar has resigned. He resigned after a court annulled the result of a referendum in the latest blow to his crisis-hit government, months ahead of planned elections.

Ø  Slovak PM Robert Fico resigns

Ø  Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and his government resigned. Slovak President Andrej Kiska accepted the resignation. He has resigned because of the political crisis triggered by the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee.

Ø  Two TDP Ministers resign from Union Cabinet, Suresh Prabhu given additional charge

Ø  Civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju and junior science and technology minister YS Chowdhary have submitted their resignation letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This follows Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s observation that the Centre cannot offer special status to Andhra Pradesh. The President of India Ramnath Kovind has on the advise of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, directed Commerce and Industry minister Suresh Prabhu to take up the additional charge of the Civil Aviation Ministry.

Ø  Venkatesh quits as BCCI selection chairman

Ø  Former Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad submitted his resignation from the post of chairman of the junior national selection committee. Prasad, who cited personal reasons for stepping down, has worked as the head of the committee for 30 months.

Ø  Mukul Sangma tenders resignation as Meghalaya CM

Ø  Mukul Sangma submitted his resignation from the post of Meghalaya Chief Minister. Sangma submitted his resignation to Meghalaya Governor Ganga Prasad in Shillong following the assembly election results.