1. New Chief Election Commissioner of India: Hari Shankar Brahma. 2. New ISRO chairman: Alur Selin Kiran Kumar. He is ISRO’s eighth chairman. 3. Grabar-Kitarovic elected Croatia’s first woman president. Ms Grabar-Kitarovic is a politically conservative member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which pushed the country towards independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991. 4. Portugal and Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo won the Ballon d’Or world footballer of the year award for the second year in a row. 5. The inaugural FIFA Player of the Year award went to German midfielder Lothar Matthaus. The first Ballon d’Or world footballer award went to Stanley Mathews. 6. Coach of 2014 FIFA world cup winning German team, Joachim Low won men’s coach of the year. 7. Wolfsburg and Germany m...