The former chief of the Special Protection Group Kode Durga Prasad as Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). A Andhra Pradesh cadre IPS officer of the 1981 batch, Prasad was the special director general CRPF after being moved out of the SPG to make space for a Gujarat cadre IPS officer. Prasad – who had set up the CRPF’s anti-Maoist commando unit, CoBRA -- will take over as CRPF later this month.
Padma Shri (CA.) Thotala Narayanaswamy Manoharan is an Indian Chartered Accountant and a former president of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). Manoharan was born in April 1956 in a freedom fighter's family in a small village near Vellore, with agricultural background. He obtained a post graduate degree in Commerce from Sri Venkateshwara University and a law degree from Madras Law College. He became a Chartered Accountant in 1983 and set up his public practice in the same year. He is the founding partner of the accounting firm Manohar Chowdhry & Associates, Chennai. He was elected to the central council of ICAI in 2001 and its Vice President in 2005. He remained as a Central Council Member till 2007. He has also chaired various committees of the Institute. In 2006, he was elected as the President of the ICAI (for a one year term). He is also a notable freemason. In 2009, Manoharan was one of the four members (as representatives of Government of India)...
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