Appointments on 8th July 2021

Current Context: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari: He has become Brand Ambassador of Khadi Prakritk Paint. The automated manufacturing plant of paint is set up in the campus of Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute (KNHPI), Jaipur, which is a unit of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).

• Neha Parikh: She was appointed as the CEO of Waze, which is the crowd-sourced GPS navigation app and a subsidiary of Google. She has replaced Noam Bardin.
• PVSLN Murty: He was appointed as Chairman and MD of North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited (NEDFi). He has replaced B Paul Muktieh.
• Static Part: 
• HQ of NEDFi: Guwahati, Assam
• Jim Whitehurst: He resigned to be the President of IBM
• Static Part: 
• HQ of IBM: Armonk, New York, United States

Question: 

Q.1 Who was appointed as CEO of Waze, which is the crowd-sourced GPS navigation app and a subsidiary of Google?
a. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
b. Jim Whitehurst
c. Neha Parikh
d. Noam Bardin