CURRENT AFFAIRS APPOINTMENTS 2017

APPOINTMENTS JANUARY TO JUNE 2017

APPOINTMENTS - CHIEF MINISTERS & GOVERNORS

NAME DEPT/FIELD

Banwarilal Purohit Governor of Meghalaya

Padmanabha Acharya (Add. Charge) Governor of Arunachal Pradesh

Edappadi K Palaniswami Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

Shurhozelie Liezeitsu Chief Minister of Nagaland

Amarinder Singh Chief Minister of Punjab

Biren Singh Chief Minister of Manipur

Manohar Parrikar Chief Minister of Goa

Trivendra Singh Rawat Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Yogi Adityanath Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

APPOINTMENTS - CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIAN STATES

DEPT/FIELD NAME

Indias 44th Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice JS Khehar

Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Justice Navniti Prasad

Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court Justice T B Radhakrishnan

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Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice Hemant Gupta

Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court Justice P K Mohanty

Chief Justice of the patna High Court Justice Rajendra Menon

Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court Justice Pradeep nandrajog

Chief Justice of the Madras High Court Justice Kumari indira banerjee

Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court Justice B.d. Ahmed

APPOINTMENTS - BANKS

NAME DEPT/FIELD

R Subramaniakumar MD and CEO of the Indian Overseas Bank

(IOB).

Rajkiran Rai G MD and CEO of Union Bank of India.

Sunil Mehta MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank

Usha Ananthasubramanian MD and CEO of Allahabad Bank

Dinabandhu Mohapatra MD and CEO of the Bank of India

M O Rego MD and CEO of Syndicate Bank

R A Sankara Narayanan MD and CEO of Vijaya Bank.

Sunil Kakar MD and CEO of IDFC Bank

Smita Sandhane MD of Saraswat Bank

Renu Satti CEO of Payments Bank

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T C A Ranganathan Non-Official Director of Indian Overseas Bank

Sunil Mehta Non-Official Director of Punjab National

Bank

Neelam Damodaran&Atanu Kumar Executive Director of Bank of India

K Swaminathan General Manager in Indian Overseas Bank

Ashok Kumar Pradhan ED in United Bank of India

P Ramana Murthy Executive Director of Central Bank of India

Fareed Ahmed Khan ED in Punjab and Sind Bank.

M K Bhattacharya ED of Indian Bank

S Harishankar ED of Allahabad Bank

Surekha Marandi Executive Director of RBI

B P Kanungo RBI deputy governor

K G Karmakar Directors of India Post Payment Bank

Gauri Shankar

APPOINTMENTS - HIGH COMMISSIONER OF INDIA TO OTHER COUNTRIES

NAME DEPT/FIELD

Ms. Ruchira Kamboj High Commissioner of India to the

Republic of South Africa

Shri Bishwadip Dey High Commissioner of India to Grenada

Birender Singh Yadav High Commissioner of India to the

Republic of Sierra Leone

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Ausaf Sayeed High Commissioner of India to the

Republic of Seychelles

Vishvas Vidu Sapkal High Commissioner of India to Tuvalu

Ravi Shankar High Commissioner of India to the

Republic of Rwanda

Vikas Swarup High Commissioner of India to Canada

Pradeep Kumar Rawat Ambassador of India to the Republic of

Indonesia

Shamma Jain Ambassador of India to Greece

Pooja Kapur Ambassador of India to Bulgaria

Reenat Sandhu Ambassador of India to Italy

Venu Rajamony Ambassador of India to Netherlands

Ajit Vinayak Gupte Ambassador of India to Denmark

Param Jit Mann Ambassador of Indian to Republic Slovenia

Jaideep Mazumdar Ambassador of India to Philippines

Vani Sarraju Rao Ambassador of India to Finland

OTHER APPOINMENTS

NAME DEPT/FIELD

Sunaina Singh Vice-chancellor of Nalanda University

Pratap Bhanu Mehta Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University

Najma Heptulla Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia

Vinod Rai Chief of BCCI

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Amulya Patnaik Commissioner of Delhi Police

David R Syiemlieh Chairman of the Union Public Service

Commission (UPSC)

Karan Bajwa IBM India Managing Director

S Padmanabhan Chairman of Tata Power Company

Vishal Kaul COO of Ola cabs

Vikram Pawah The President of India operations of BMW

Praful Patel Member of FIFA finance committee

Alok Verma Director of the CBI

Kalyan Krishnamurthy CEO of Flipkart

Anand Kumar Gupta Director of NTPC

Vikram Limaye CEO, MD of National Stock Exchange

Vinay Shah MD & CEO of LIC Housing Finance

Raman Roy Chairman of NASSCOM

Arun M Kumar Indian Chairman of KPMG

Shashi Shekar Vempati CEO of Prasar Bharati

Hemant Bhargava MD of LIC

Neelu Rohmetra First woman Director of an IIM

CA Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey President of Institute of Chartered

Accountants of India (ICAI)

CA Naveen N.D. Gupta Vice President of Institute of Chartered

Accountants of India (ICAI)

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Nand Kumar Sai Chairman of National Commission for

Scheduled Tribes (NCST)

Shiva Kirti Singh Chairman of the Telecom Disputes

Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT)

Vinay Shah MD & CEO of LIC Housing Finance

Braj Bihari Kumar Chairman Of Indian Council of Social

Science Research (ICSSR)

Mallikarjun Kharge Chairman Of Public Accounts Committee

(PAC)

Anthony Lianzuala New Controller General of Accounts

Shobana Kamineni President Confederation of Indian Industry

(CII)

Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah Chairman of the Tea Board of India

Justice (Retd.) Mukul Mudgal Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee

Rajan Anandan Head of Internet and Mobile Association of

India (IAMAI).

Anurag Tripathy Secretary of CBSE

Miroslav lajack CEO of Jet Airways

Sanjiv Singh Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation

Hoshiar Singh Chief of copyrights office

Ramanathan Ramanan Head of Atal Mission under NITI Aayog

N N Vohra President of the India International Centre

(IIC)

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K. Kasturirangan Head of National Education Policy

KK Venugopal Attorney General of India

Narendra Kumar Sinha Secretary of Information & Broadcasting

APPOINMENTS ON MINISTRY

NAME DEPT/FIELD

Binoy Kumar Directorate General of Supplies &

Disposals (DGS&D),Ministry of Commerce
& Industry, as Director General,
Directorate General of Supplies &
Disposals (DGS&D), Ministry of Commerce
& Industry

R. Sridharan Special Secretary, Ministry of Mines, as

Member (Finance), Space Commission

N K Sinha Tourism Secretary

Sanjay Mitra Defence Secretary

Ms Leena Nair Secretary of Tribal Affairs

Harsh Vardhan Environment Minister

Vikas Swarup Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson

Sanjeev Sanyal Principal Economic Adviser

Tapan Ray Economic Affairs Secretary

Rajesh Kotecha Special secretary in Ayush ministry

Rajiv Gauba Home Secretary

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Vijay Keshav Gokhale Economic relations secretary in Ministry of

External Affairs

INTERNATIONAL APPOINMENTS

NAME DEPT/FIELD

Jovenel Moise President of Haiti

Nana Akufo-Addo President of Ghana

Daniel Ortega President of Nicaragua

Qi Zhala Governor of Tibet

Frank-Walter Steinmeier President of Germany

Sher Bahadur Deuba Prime Minister of Nepal

Aleksandar Vucic President of Serbia

Leo Varadkar Prime Minister of Ireland

Mohammed bin Salman Saudi Arabias Crown Prince

Lenin Moreno President of Ecuador

Moon Jae-in President of South Korea

Emmanuel Macron President of France

Edouard Philippe Prime Minister of France

Hassan Ali Khaire Prime Minister of Somalia

Justice Mian Saqib Nisar 25th Chief Justice of Pakistan

Moussa Faki Mahamat Head of African Union

Rex Tillerson US secretary of state

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Miroslav lajack President of UN General Assembly

Muzoon Almellehan Youngest Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF

Sir Tim Barrow Britains EU Ambassador

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization Chief

Christopher Wray New FBI director of USA

Derk Segaar Director of the United Nations Information

Centre (UNIC)

Amjad Hussain B Sial Secretary-General of SAARC

Amitabh Bachchan WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis

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