Recent Appointments in India and World - 2017
1. Congress
leader and former Union Minister Manish
Tiwari has been appointed as senior fellow of US-based think tank Atlantic
Council.
2. Tim Barrow appointed as British Ambassador to
European Union, after Ivan Rogers Resigned from this post.
3. Alok Kumar Verma has been appointed as Director of
CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation).
5. Anshu Sinha appointed as Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
6. Antonio Guterres (Portugal) appointed as UN Secretary General.
7. Archana Nigam is newly appointed as Controller
General of Accounts in Department of Expenditure under the Ministry of Finance.
8. Bharti AXA
General Insurance appointed Sanjeev
Srinivasan as CEO and Managing Director.
9. Daniel Ortega appointed as President of Nicaragua
for third consecutive term.
10. David R. Syiemlieh is appointed as chairman of Union
Public Service Commission.
11. Film
producer and Tennis player Ashok
Amritraj has been appointed United Nations Goodwill Ambassador in India for
Sustainable Development Goals.
12. Government
appointed A P Singh as interim MD
and CEO of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB).
13. Jagdish Singh Khehar sworn in as 44th Chief Justice of
India (CJI).
14. Assam Governor
Banwarilal Purohit has been given
additional charge of Meghalaya.
15. Nagaland
Governor PB Acharya has been given
additional charge of Arunachal Pradesh.
16. Birender Singh Yadav appointed as New Indian Ambassador
to Burkina Faso.
17. Ashok Warrior appointed as the New Indian
Ambassador to Congo
18. Praful Patel (President of All India Football
Federation) has been appointed as member of FIFA’s Finance Committee for 2017-2021.
19. Pravind Kumar Jugnauth appointed as Prime Minister of
Mauritius.
20. Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) appointed Surekha
Marandi as Executive Director (ED).
21. Vijay Bhatkar is appointed as chancellor of
Nalanda University. He is architect of India’s first supercomputer - Param
series.
22. General Bipin Rawat has taken charge as the new
“Chief of Army Staff”.
23. Ajay Tyagi appointed as new chairman of
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), replacing U K Sinha. He will
initially serve for 3 years.
24. BJP leader
from Chhattisgarh, Nanda Kumar Sai
been appointed as Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST).
25. Government
appointed 8 Executive Directors in various Public Sector Banks, on
Recommendations of Bank Board Bureau -
1.
Neelam Damodaran and Atanu
Kumar Das - Bank of
India.
2.
K Swaminathan - Indian Overseas Bank.
3.
Ashok Kumar Pradhan - United Bank of India.
4.
P Ramana Murthy - Central Bank of India.
5.
Fareed Ahmed Khan - Punjab and Sind Bank.
6.
M K Bhattacharya - Indian Bank
7.
S Harishankar - Allahabad Bank.
26. Hemant Bhargava appointed Managing Director of LIC
(Life Insurance Corporation of India).
27. Indian
Actress Shilpa Shetty has been appointed
as Brand Ambassador of cleanliness initiative Swachh Bharat Mission by
Government.
28. J S Deepak appointed as India’s Ambassador to
World Trade Organisation (WTO).
29. Ministry of
Urban Development appointed Actress Anushka
Sharma as ambassador of Swachh Bharat Campaign.
30. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
elected as new President of Somalia (Africa).
31. Narinder Chauhan appointed as Ambassador of India to
Philippines.
32. PVK Reddy appointed as Director General
(Investigation) in National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
33. Ravi Shankar appointed as India's ambassador to
Rwanda. While Renu Pall is appointed as Indian Ambassador to Montenegro.
34. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo elected as Somalia’s New President
35. KPMG
India board has elected Arun M Kumar
as Chairman and CEO to lead the India operations of the consulting and
accounting major.
36. Jovenel Moise has been sworn in as Haiti’s new
President
37. Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey was appointed as new President of
“Institute of Chartered Accountant of India.” (ICAI) for the year 2017-18.
38. Vikas Swarup was appointed as the High
Commissioner of India to Canada.
39. B Chandrakala has been appointed as director of
Government's Swacch Bharat Mission.
40. BP Kanungo is appointed as Deputy Governor of
Reserve Bank of India, in place of R. Gandhi. Other RBI DG's are - N. S.
Vishwanathan, S. S. Mundra, Viral V. Acharya.
41. Badminton
player Jwala Gutta appointed as
member of governing body of Sports Authority of India (SAI).
42. Chittaranjan Sharma appointed as Assam’s Upalokayukta.
43. Government
appointed Mahesh Kumar Jain as
Managing Director & CEO of IDBI Bank and Kishore Piraji Kharat as Managing Director and CEO of Indian Bank.
44. Hassan Saleh is appointed as new Prime Minister
of Sudan (North Africa).
45.
Indian-American Seema Verma
appointed for top health care position in USA. She is second Indian-American in
USA administration after Nikki Haley (US Ambassador to UN).
46. Manhar Valjibhai Zala appointed as Chairperson of National
Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK).
47. Manjeev Singh Puri is appointed as India’s new
ambassador to Nepal. While D. Bala
Venkatesh Varma is appointed as Ambassador to Andorra.
48. New
Chief Justices in State High Courts -
1.
Hemant Gupta - Madhya Pradesh High Court.
2.
P K Mohanty - Jharkhand High Court.
3.
Navniti Prasad - Kerala High Court.
4.
T B Radhakrishnan - Chhattisgarh High Court.
5.
Ramalingam Sudhakar - J&K High Court
6.
Rajendra Menon - Patna (Bihar) High Court.
49. P K Purwar is appointed as Chairman and
Managing Director of telecom major Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).
50. Upendra Tripathy has been appointed as Interim
Director General (IDG) of International Solar Alliance (ISA).
51. Vanaja N. Sarna has been appointed as Chairman in
Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).
52. Sima Kamil became first woman to head a major
commercial bank in Pakistan - United Bank Limited (UBL).
53. Shashi Kant Sharma has been appointed as the Comptroller
and Auditor General of India
54. Santosh Dev was recently appointed as new
Director of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVA)
55. Ajit Kumar Srivastava and Shabri
Bhattasali appointed
as members of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
56. Aleksandar Vucic is appointed as New President of
European Nation Serbia.
57. Anthony Lianzuala took over as Controller General of
Accounts (CGA) (Ministry of Finance).
58. B.N.Mohapatra appointed as Financial Commissioner
of Railway.
59. Raman Roy appointed as chairman of National
Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) for 2017-18.
60. United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appointed Syrian refugee and
Olympic athlete Yusra Mardini as a
Goodwill Ambassador.
61. Rajeev Singh appointed as the CEO of Prasar
Bharti.
62. Sanjeev Sanyal appointed as the Principal Economic
Adviser of Economic Affairs.
63. N Chandrasekaran announced as the Chairman of Indian
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