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Appointments 2017(Jan – Dec)
January | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
BCCI President Anurag Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke | The Supreme Court has removed from the Office |
Prof. David R. Syiemlieh | Chairman of Union Public Service Commission |
Air Marshal SB Deo | Vice Chief of the Air Staff of Indian Air Force |
ShivpalYadav | AkhileshYadav Dismisses him and appoints NareshUttam as Party’s Chief |
US Congress Members | Kamala Harris |
Ami Bera | |
Ro Khanna | |
Raja Krishnamoorthi | |
PramilaJayapal | |
Paul Ryan re-elected | Speaker of US House of Representatives |
Robert Lighthizer | Chief Trade Negotiator |
JovenelMoise | President of Haiti |
SurekhaMarandi | Executive Director Reserve Bank of India |
Karan Bajwa | Managing Director IBM India |
S Padmanabhan | Chairman of Tata Power |
Kalyan Krishnamurthy | Flipkart’s new CEO |
Kumar Sharadindu | MD & CEO of SBI Pension Funds |
Pakistan’s Gen. Raheel Sharif | Head of Islamic Military Alliance |
Shalabh Seth | CEO of Ola Fleet Technologies |
Daniel Ortega | Nicaragua’s President for Third Consecutive Term |
Dr. Ausaf Sayeed | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Seychelles |
Vikram Pawah | President of BMW Group India |
Jimmy Adams, former captain | New director of West Indies cricket |
Housing’s ex-CEO Jason Kothari | chief strategy and investment officer of Snapdeal |
Manish Tewari | Senior fellow of US think tank Atlantic Council |
Rajesh Gopinathan | Chief Executive Officer of TCS |
TCS CEO N. Chandrasekaran | Tata Sons chairman. |
Ashish Shelar | Maharashtra Cricket Association president |
Sanjeev Srinivasan | CEO, MD Bharti AXA General |
Antonio Tajani | President of European Parliament |
Birender Singh Yadav | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Sierra Leone |
Rajeev Singh | Interim CEO of Prasar Bharati after S C Panda |
Alok Kumar Verma | Director of CBI |
Adama Barrow | Official President of Gambian |
BishwadipDey | High Commissioner of India to Grenada |
AIFF president Praful Patel | FIFA finance committee |
Anurag Thakur | Himachal Olympic Association Head |
Vishal Kaul | Chief Operating Officer (COO) of OLA |
Anerood Jugnauth (resigns) | Mauritius Prime Minister |
Indo American Ajit Pai | FCC, US communications regulatory agency-chairman |
Uttam Dhillon | Special assistant to the President on ethics and compliance matters-White House position. |
Rex Tillerson | Secretary of State US |
Derk Segaar | Director of United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) |
Siddhartha Murarka | Institute of Company Secretaries of India –Chairman |
Mike Pompeo | US Central Intelligence Agency –Director |
V Shanmuganathan (resigns) | Meghalaya Governor |
Dushyant Chautala | Table Tennis Federation of India President |
AP Singh | Interim Head of India Post Payment Bank |
Amulya Patnaik | Delhi Police Chief |
Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit | Additional charge of Meghalaya |
Nagaland governor PB Acharya | Additional charge of Arunachal Pradesh |
Dr. Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar | VC Nalanda University |
Chadian foreign affairs minister Moussa Faki Mahamat | African Union Commission head |
SanjivRanjan (concurrently) | Ambassador of India to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay |
Ivan Rogers(resigns) | Britain’s Ambassador to the EU Anil Jalali HR |
Sir Tim Barrow | Britain’s ambassador to the EU |
Ashok Warrier | Ambassador of India to the Central African Republic |
Birender Singh Yadav | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Burkina Faso |
Ashok Warrier | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Congo |
Nikki Haley | U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |
February | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Mehriban Aliyeva | Azerbaijan First Vice President |
Frank Walter Steinmeier | President of Germany |
Hassan Ali Khaire | Prime minister Somali |
Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo | New President of Somalia |
Cressida Dick | First woman to lead Scotland Yard |
Rex Tillerson | US secretary of state |
Achamkulangare Gopinathan | UN Joint Inspection Unit |
Economist Sanjeev Sanyal | Principal Economic Adviser |
Anand Kumar Gupta | Director of NTPC |
Sasikala Natarajan | AIADMK Legislative Party leader |
Satish Menon | CEO of Kings XI Punjab |
Ashok Gulati, Manish Sabharwal, Rajiv Kumar |
Non-Official Directors On RBI Central Board |
Hemant Bhargava | LIC’s Managing Director |
Ajay Tyagi | SEBI Chairman |
Sandeep Jajodia | President of Assocham |
Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey | President of ICAI |
CAG Suman Saxena, Mukulita Vijaywargiya Navrang Saini |
Whole-time members in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India |
IDFC MD Vikram Limaye | CEO & MD of National Stock Exchange (NSE) |
Tehmina Janjua | First Women Foreign Secretary of Pakistan |
France’s Jean-Pierre Lacroix | UN peacekeeping chief |
Edappadi K Palaniswami | Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
Vikas Swarup | Next envoy to Canada |
1.Madras HC Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul | |
2. Rajasthan HC Chief Justice Naveen Sinha
3. Kerala HC Chief Justice Mohan M Shantanagouder 4. Chhattisgarh HC Chief Justice Dipak Gupta 5. Karnataka HC judge S Abdul Nazeer. |
5 new judges to Supreme Court |
Norman Isaac | First Indian Technical Delegate of International Basketball Federation |
Neelam Damodharan , Atanu Kumar Das | EDs in Bank of India. |
K Swaminathan | ED 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 | EDs of Allahabad Bank |
Government Cuts SEBI’s Chairman-Designate Ajay Tyagi’s Tenure by Two Years | |
Ranganathan, Mehta | Non-Official Director in IOB, PNB |
TR Zeliang (Resigns) | Nagaland Chief Minister and Shurhozelie Liezietsu elected in place |
Dr Neelu Rohmetra | First Woman Indian Institute of Management Director Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh |
Pirojsha Godrej | Chairman, Adi Godrej to be Chairman Emeritus- Godrej Properties |
Arun M Kumar | Chairman and CEO of KPMG India |
Govind Rajan Quits | FreeCharge Chief executive office |
Jonathan Bullock(quits) | Boards of Ola and Snapdeal |
Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre | Head of Cauvery Tribuna |
Abhijit Sarkar | Vice President of Asian Hockey Federation |
Former CM T R Zeliang | Finance Advisor to Nagaland government |
Shigenori Shiga (Steps Down) | Toshiba’s Chairman |
Birender Singh Yadav | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Togo |
Subir Dutta | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Madagascar |
Narinder Chauhan | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Philippines |
Renu Pall | Ambassador of India to Montenegro |
March | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Hassan Saleh | Sudan’s prime minister |
Donald Tusk | European Council president |
Park Geun-hye (removed) | South Korea’s President |
Pradeep Nair | Regional director for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka- Ford Foundation |
David Beasley | New head of World Food Programme by UN |
ICMR head Soumya Swaminathan | UN group on antimicrobial Resistance Member |
Amjad Hussain B Sial | Secretary general of SAARC |
Seema Verma | A top healthcare position in the Trump administration |
Pakistani American Ali Javed | First Muslim of New York City Police Department (NYPD) on Emergency |
Iqbal Surve | Head of SA’s BRICS Business Council |
Upendra Tripathy | Full Time Interim Director General of ISA |
Carrie Lam | Chief Executive of Hong Kong |
Manohar Parrikar | Goa Chief Minister. |
Nongthombam Biren Singh | CM Manipur |
Yogi Adityanath | Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
Amarinder Singh | Chief Minister of Punjab |
Trivendra Singh Rawat | Chief Minister of Uttarakhand |
Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma | Deputy Chief Ministers of UP |
Justice Sharma | Upalokayukta of Assam |
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley | Defence Minister-Additional Charge |
Narendra Kumar | New Chairman of Central Water Commission |
Vishwanath Mahadeshwar | Mumbai Mayor |
Nand Kumar Sai | Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes |
Gopal Baglay | Spokesperson of External Affairs Ministry |
Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan | Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court. |
Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh | Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. |
Justice Hemant Gupta | Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. |
Justice Rajendra Menon, | Chief Justice of the Patna High Court. |
Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty | Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court. |
BV Papa Rao, Jwala Gutta | Governing body of Sports Authority of India (SAI). |
Mohan Das | Government Terminates Service of Coal India’s Director |
Dr. Randeep Guleria | Director of AIIMS Delhi |
Siddhartha Upadhyay | Governing body of Sports Authority of India |
Tanushree Pareek | BSF woman field officer |
Madhabi Puri Buch | SEBI Whole-Time Member |
Shri Sudeep Lakhtakia | Additional charge as DG CRPF |
R Subramania Kumar | Additional charge of MD & CEO of IOB |
Bibhu Prasad Kanungo | Deputy governor of RBI |
Mallikarjun Kharge | Public’s Account Committee Chairman |
Sun Pharma’s Dilip Shanghvi | Member on RBI’s western board |
Mahesh Kumar Jain, | IDBI Bank’s MD & CEO |
Kishore Piraji Kharat | CEO of Indian Bank. |
Manhar Valji Bhai Zala | Head of Safai Karamcharis Commission |
T S Anantharaman | Part-time chairman of Catholic Syrian Bank |
Sima Kamil | First Woman Chief of United Bank Limited (UBL)—Pakistan |
Vanaja N Sarna | New Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs |
Kumar Mangalam Birla | Merged entity Chairman of Vodafone and Idea. |
Ankur Khanna | New Chief Financial Officer of ICC |
Shashank Manohar (resigns) | ICC chairman |
Jason Kothari | FreeCharge CEO |
Subhankar Roy Chowdhury | Heaad HR for Asia Pacific for Lenovo |
Babul Supriyo | Vice-President Of FIFA U-17 World Cup LOC |
P K Purwar | MTNL CMD |
Baichung Bhutia (Sacked) | AIFF advisor |
Bill Thomas | Global Chairman KPMG |
Devang Mody | CEO Reliance Commercial Finance |
Sam Ghosh (Quits) | Reliance Capital’s CEO |
Mark Tucker | New Chairman HSBC |
Manjeev Singh Puri | Indian envoy to Nepal |
D. Bala Venkatesh Varma | Ambassador of India to Andorra |
Manjeev Singh Puri | Indian envoy to Nepal |
April | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Ilir Meta | President of Albania |
Mridul Gehlot | President of kabaddi federation |
Rajiv Kumar Chander | Permanent Representative to Geneva UN offices from India. |
Lenin Moreno | Ecuador President. |
Tapan Singhel (re-appointed) | Bajaj Allianz General CEO |
Ajit Kumar Srivastava & Shabri
Bhattasali |
CBDT members |
Mahabaleshwara MS | MD and CEO of Karnataka Bank |
Achim Steiner | Administrator of UNDP |
Justice Gita Mittal | Acting Chief Justice of Delhi HC |
B Venugopal, Sunita Sharma | Govt MDs at LIC |
Sheela Patel named by the UN chief to panel on Urban development | |
Gynaecologist Dr Duru Shah | President of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR). |
Himanta Biswa Sarma | Badminton Association of India’s interim President |
Bhakra Beas Management | Board (BBMB) chairman |
Vinay Shah | MD & CEO of LIC Housing Finance |
B.N. Mohapatra | Railway Financial Commissioner |
Iran bars Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running for President | |
Nita Ambani | Member of IOC’s important commissions |
Shri Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar | DG, CRPF |
Shri RK Pachnanda | DG, ITBP |
T Krishnakumar | Coca-cola India’s new chief |
Indira Banerjee | New Chief Justice of Madras High Court |
Mahesh Kumar Jain | IDBI bank MD and CEO |
K Kharat | MD and CEO of Indian Bank |
MS Dhoni | CEO of Gulf Oil for 1 day |
Brayan Jimenez | banned for life-time by FIFA |
DGP Geetha Johri | Gujarat’s first woman police chief |
Aliza Knox (quits) | Twitter’s VP of Asia Pacific |
Prithika Yashini | India’s first transgender police officer Tamilnadu Police Dept |
Malvika Sinha | New Executive Director of RBI |
Kenichi Yokoyama | New Country Director of India Resident Mission of the Asian Development
Bank (ADB). |
Quatrro’s Raman Roy | CEO of NASSCOM |
Rishad Premji | vice chairman of NASSCOM |
Former Supreme Court judge Shiva
Kirti Singh |
Head of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal(TDSAT). |
Mukta Dutta Tomar | New Ambassador of India to Germany |
Anuja dhir | First non-white circuit judge at Old Bailey in London |
Smita Sandhane | MD of Saraswat Co-operative Bank. |
S.N. Subrahmanyan | CEO -Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) |
Foreign Coaches in Athletics | |
Name | Sports |
Dave Smith (Australia) | Race walking |
Galina P Bukharina (USA) | 400m and 400m relay |
Dmitry Kislev (Russia) | Masseur |
Elmira Kisleva (Russia) | Masseur. |
May | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Socialist Lenin Moreno | President of Ecuador |
Hubert Minnis | Prime minister- Bahamas |
Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ (Resigns) | Nepal Prime Minister. |
Moon Jae-in | South Korea President |
Edouard Philippe | Prime Minister of the France |
Justice Mudgal | Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee |
Mark Lowcock | United Nations’ new humanitarian aid chief |
Usha Ananthasubramanian | MD&CEO -Allahabad Bank |
R Subramania Kumar | MD&CEO -Indian Overseas Bank |
DinabandhuMohapatra | MD&CEO -Bank of India |
RajkiranRai G | MD&CEO -Union Bank of India |
Sunil Mehta | MD&CEO -Punjab National Bank |
R K SankaraNarayana | MD&CEO -Vijaya Bank |
M O Rego | MD&CEO -Syndicate Bank |
Mr Anthony Lianzuala | Controller General of Accounts (CGA) |
Shobana Kamineni | First Woman President of Confederation of Indian Industry |
Soumen Ghosh | MD, Financial Services– Bharti Enterprises |
Mallikarjun Kharge | Parliamentary Affairs Committee |
Braj Bihari Kumar | Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) |
Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah | 1st Non-IAS to head tea board |
Sanjay Mitra | Defense Secretary |
Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has announced to employ 23 members from the transgender community. | |
Sohail Mahmood, | Pakistan’s -new High Commissioner to India |
R K Mahajan, Mahender Singh | CBEC members |
V K Saraswat | JNU Chancellor |
Taranjeet Singh | Country Director for India- Twitter |
Emmanuel Macron(39) | France’s youngest President |
Harsh Vardhan | Additional Charge Of Environment Ministry |
Anil Dua | CEO of Dish TV India |
A German
policewoman BibianaSteinhaus |
First female referee in Europe’s top leagues. |
Debjani Ghosh | Independent director Yes Bank |
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani won re-election by a wide margin. | |
Aisha Mughal – First ever
transgender lecturer in Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad |
Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
Anurag Mehrotra | MD of Ford India |
Air Marshal PN Pradhan | Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff |
Dr S Christopher | DRDO chief |
First Indian-born woman Rehana Ameer | City councillor of London Corporation |
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ethiopia) | Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) |
Shuva Mundal | Group General Counsel of Tata Sons. |
P V Sindhu | Badminton World Federation Athletes’ Commission |
Google’s Rajan Anandan | Chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). |
According to Union Minister Jitendra Singh, the government has forced 129 government officers to retire for non- performance in the past few months. | |
Anurag Tripathy | Secretary of CBSE |
Amul Thapar | Second Indian-American judge of US Court of Appeals. |
Rakesh Kapur | Chairman International Fertiliser Association |
Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi | Chairman of National Commission for Minorities |
Ananya Kamboj | Young journalist at the global Football for Friendship (F4F) Social Programme in Russia. |
Manipur Governor, Najma Heptulla | Jamia Chancellor |
Shubhalaxmi Panse and Pradip Shah | Members of Banks Board Bureau |
George Kurian | Vice-Chairperson Of National Commission for Minorities |
Vani Sarraju Rao | Ambassador of India to Finland |
Jaideep Mazumdar | Ambassador of India to Philippines |
VenuRajamony | India’s ambassador to Netherlands |
Vinay Mohan Kwatra | Ambassador to France |
June | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak | President of 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. |
Sher Bahadur Deuba | Nepal’s prime minister for fourth time |
Mohammed Bin Salman | Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia |
Aleksandar Vucic | New President of Serbia |
Indian-origin Leo Varadkar | Next Ireland PM |
Ana Brnabic | First openly gay and first female Prime Minister of Serbia |
Mihai Tudose | Prime-minister designate in Romania |
Kaushik Basu | International Economic Association president. |
Sushila Karki (retires) | First woman Chief Justice of Nepal Supreme Court |
Dalveer Bhandari | Re-nominated Justice as its candidate for another term as judge at the
International Court of Justice. |
J-K Governor N N Vohra | President of India International Centre (IIC) |
Neeru Chadha | First Indian woman member of ITLOS |
Indian origin Sikh Palbinder Kaur | First turbaned judge in Canada |
Preet Gill | First female Sikh MP to be elected to the UK’s Houses of Parliament |
Ram NathKovind (resigns) | Bihar Governor |
KeshriNathTripathi | Bihar Governor |
Mukul Rohatgi | Country’s chief law officer (14th attorney general) |
Justice CS Karnan becomes (retires) | First High Court Judge to retire while absconding |
Shashi Shekhar Vempati | CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati |
Ramachandra Guha (steps down) | BCCI Administrator |
Vikram Limaye | MD & CEO of National Stock Exchange |
Nirupama Rao | Public Policy Fellow to US Think-Tank |
Shaktikanta Das (retires) | Economic Affairs Secretary |
Tapan Ray | Economic Affairs Secretary |
S Ganesh Kumar | Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India |
Sunil Kakar | MD and CEO of IDFC Bank |
B K Manjunath | Part-time chairman Lakshmi Vilas Bank |
RK Sharma | Administrator for Sahara India Life Insurance |
Jeevandas Narayan | Managing director of Manappuram Home Finance |
K G Karmakar, Gauri Shankar | Directors of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) |
Vinay Dube | CEO of Jet Airways |
Girish Wagh | CV unit head Tata Motors |
Imran Khawaja | ICC Deputy Chairman. |
Travis Kalanick (resigns) | Uber CEO and Co -Founder. |
Rajiv Gauba | Home Secretary |
Yudhvir Singh Malik | Secretary, Road Transport and Highways. |
Subhash C. Garg | Secretary of Economic Affairs. |
ArunaSundarajan | Telecommunications Secretary. |
Ajay Prakash Sawhney | Electronics and Information Technology Secretary |
Avinash K. Srivastava | Consumer Affairs Secretary |
Jagdish Prasad Meena | Secretary, Food Processing Industries |
Rajiv Kapoor | Secretary, Chemicals and Petrochemicals. |
SanjeevaneeKutty, | Secretary, Ex-Servicemen Welfare in the Defence Ministry. |
Arun Kumar Panda | Secretary, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises,. |
Ravi Kant, | Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping. |
Anand Kumar, | Secretary, New and Renewable Energy. |
Ajay Kumar Bhalla, | Power Secretary |
Indian origin doctor Kailash Chand | Honorary VP of UK medical body |
Russian Diplomat Vladimir Voronkov | Chief of United Nations CounterTerrorism Centre |
Rajesh V. Shah | National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)Chairperson. |
SN Subrahmanyan | CEO & MD of Larsen & Toubro |
Hoshiar Singh | Chief of Copyrights office |
Lt Col Raja Chari | First Indian American after Kalpana Chawla to be chosen by NASA for one
of its missions from 18,000 applicants at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. |
Ruchira Kamboj | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of South Africa |
Param Jit Mann | Ambassador of India to Republic Slovenia |
Reenat Sandhu | Head of India’s diplomatic mission in Italy. |
Gaitri Issar Kumar | India’s next ambassador to Belgium. |
Ajit Vinayak Gupte | Ambassador to Denmark. |
Kenneth I Juster | America’s new ambassador to India |
Indian American Krishna R. Urs | Ambassador to Peru for US |
Shamma Jain | Ambassador of India to Greece |
July | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi | Prime Minister of Pakistan |
Carrie Lam | Hong Kong’s first female leader |
Lt General Mahesh Senanayake | New Army Commander of Sri Lanka. |
Khaltmaa Battulga (Democratic Party) | Wins Mongolian presidential election |
Sandeep Chakravorty (India’s Ambassador to Peru ) | New York Consul General |
Justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli | Chief Justice of Nepal |
JDU President Nitish Kumar | Chief Minister of Bihar for 6th time |
Ram Nath Kovind (NDA) | 14th President of India |
TR Zeliang | 19th Cheif Minister of Nagaland. |
KK Venugopal | 15th Attorney General of India |
Achal Kumar Jyoti | 21st Chief Election Commissioner |
Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah | First Ever black assistant for Queen Elizabeth |
M&M’s Rajeev Dubey | Governing board of the International Labour Organisation |
Rajiv Kumar | Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh |
Dinesh Malkani (quits Office) | Cisco India President |
Himachal Pradesh DGP Sanjay Kumar | National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Chief |
N Chandrasekaran | Chairman of Tata Global Beverages |
Sanjiv Goenka | IIT-Kharagpur chairman |
Kewal Handa | Non-executive chairman of Union Bank |
Melwyn Rego | Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Syndicate Bank. |
R K Pachnanda | Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). |
John Joseph | Director General of GST intelligence agency |
Raninder Singh (Re-elected) | National Rifle Association of India President |
Debi Prasad Dash | Director General of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). |
Leslie Thng | CEO of Vistara |
Thomas Kuehl | President of Nissan Indian operations |
Ravi Shastri | New head coach of Indian cricket team |
Farzaneh Sharafbani | First female CEO Iran Air |
Justice Vikramajit Sen | Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC-chairperson) |
Subra Suresh | President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU)-Singapore |
Senior IRS Officers Arbind Modi and Bajrang Dass Vishnoi | CBDT Members |
Aarthi Subramanian | Chief Digital Officer of Tata Sons |
Mukesh Kumar Jain | MD & CEO of Oriental Bank |
Sushant Kumar Panda, Ameeta Suri, Pranab Kumar Das and Joseph | Members in the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). |
Farooq Abdullah (Srinagar-Budgam)
Kunhalikutty(Malappuram) |
Lok Sabha members |
UK’s first woman Sikh MP Preet Kaur Gill | Parliament panel in UK |
Smriti Irani | Additional charge as I&B Minister |
NarendraTomar | Additional charge -Minister for housing and urban affairs. |
Swami Smarananandaji | Ramakrishna Mission president |
Bharat Arun | Cricket India bowling coach until 2019 World Cup |
Mayawati (resigns) | From Rajya Sabha MP post |
Shanmugh Natarajan | MD of Adobe India operations |
Former minister Lord Davies | Chair of the UK India Business Council |
Sanjay Kothari | Secretary to new President Ram Nath Kovind |
Brenda Hale | UK supreme court’s first female president |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai | Alphabet Board of Directors |
Ajay Kanwal | Janalakshmi Financial Services- CEO |
Subhash Chandra Garg | India’s Alternate Governor on the Board of Governors of ADB |
Shikha Sharma (Term Extended three- year from June 2018 ) | Axis Bank CEO |
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif (resigns) | Over Panama Papers verdict |
Ravi Mittal | Part-time member on IRDAI board |
Pradeep Kumar Rawat | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Indonesia |
Bishwadip Dey (concurrently) | High Commissioner of India to Montserrat |
Sanjiv Kohli (concurrently) | High Commissioner of India to Niue |
August | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
M Venkaiah Naidu | 13th Vice President of India |
Sameer Garde | Cisco president for India, Saarc region |
Arvind Panagariya (resigns ) | As NITI Aayog Vice Chairman |
Rajiv Kumar | Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog |
Lt.Gen. Abhay Krishna | Chief of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command |
Dhirendra Swarup | BSE chairman |
Christopher Wray | FBI Director |
Sanjay Baru | Secretary General of FICCI |
Peter O’Neill | Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea |
Hassan Rouhani | President of Iran |
Harmanpreet Kaur | DSP by Punjab Government |
Ushanath Banerjee | Chairman of Transfers Dispute Committee |
Hemant Narayan Bhagwat | Hemant Narayan Bhagwat |
Prabhat Kumar | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Kazakhstan |
Mohammad Mustafa | CMD Of SIDBI |
Neil Chatterjee | Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) |
Krishna R. Urs | US Ambassador to Peru |
Vishal Amin | White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator |
Gautam Kaushik | CEO of Payback |
Paul Kagame | President of Rwanda |
Darshan Lal | First Hindu in Pakistan’s Cabinet in 20 years |
Aparna | Executive Director of World Bank |
Justice Dipak Misra | 45th Cheif Justice of India |
Dilip Chauhan | Deputy Comptroller to the minority affairs in Nassau County |
ReenatSandhu | Next Ambassador of lndia to the Republic of San Marino |
Prasoon Joshi | CBFC chairperson |
Uhuru Kenyatta | President of Kenya |
Gaitri Issar Kumar | Ambassador of India to Belgium |
Vinay Dube | CEO of Jet Airways |
David Rasquinha | Exim Bank MD |
Dilip Asbe | Chief executive of NPCI |
Lalit Modi | Rajasthan Cricket Association |
Actress VidyaBalan and Gautami | Part of the reconstituted Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) |
Sandeep Gupta | New India Head of Earthport |
Gurdeep Singh Sappal (resigns) | RajyaSabha TV CEO |
Santosh Sharma | CMD of HindustanCopper Limited (HCL) |
Sankara Rao | IFCI Chief Executive Officer |
I.V. SubbaRao | Secretary to Vice President |
P.B.Balaji | Chief Financial Officer of Tata motors |
Sanjiv Gupta | MD of General Motors (GM) India |
Vishal Sikka (resigns) | MD & CEO of Infosys |
U B PravinRao | Interim MD and CEO of Infosys |
Dr. Mamta Suri | Executive Director of IBBI |
Nikolay Kudashev | Russia’s new ambassador to India |
Travis Sinniah | First Tamil Navy chief after four decades |
P R Seshadri | MD and CEO of Karur Vysya Bank |
O Panneerselvam | Tamil Nadu Deputy CM |
Nandan Nilekani | Chairman of Infosys board |
Rajiv Bansal | Air India chief |
Ajay Vipin Nanavati | Chairman of Syndicate Bank |
Nachiket Mor | Re-appointed as a member of the Eastern local board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). |
Dharmendra Kumar | Director General of RPF |
Banmali Agrawala | Head of infrastructure, defence and aerospace |
Roopa Purushothaman | Chief Economist & Head of Policy Advocacy of Tata Sons |
Dipak Misra | 45th Chief Justice of India |
Ashish Chauhan | CEO of BSE |
Dara Khosrowshahi | CEO of Uber |
Dr. R.K. Raghavan | High Commissioner of India to Cyprus |
Rajiv Gauba | Union Home Secretary |
Puneet Chhatwal | MD and CEO of Indian Hotels |
September | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Sunil Arora | Election Commissioner |
Rajiv Mehrishi | Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) |
Rajiv kumar | NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman |
J Y Pillai | Singapore’s acting president |
Rajiv Kumar | Department of Financial Services Secretary |
U. Kamachi Mudali | chief executive of the Heavy Water Board |
Anita Karwal | CBSE chairperson |
Nirmala Sitharaman | First independent woman Defence Minister of India |
Kenneth I. Juster | U.S ambassador to India |
Rajyavardhan Singh | New Sports Minister |
Roelant Oltmans (Resigns ) | India Hockey Coach |
KV Rama Moorthy | MD & CEO of TMB |
Vasant Narasimhan | CEO of Novartis |
MD and CEO of Vijaya Bank | Sankara Narayanan |
CMD of Coal India | Gopal Singh |
Parineeti Chopra | 1st Indian woman ambassador for Tourism Australia |
Ashish Kashyap resigns | MakeMyTrip president |
Viveck Goenka | PTI Chairman |
N. Ravi | PTI Vice Chairman |
Harshil Mehta | MD & CEO of DHFL |
Baijendra Kumar | NMDC chief |
Sjoerd Mrijne | India men’s hockey team coach |
Harendra Singh | India women’s hockey team coach |
Halimah Yacob | First female President of Singapore |
A.B. Pandey | Additional Charge as GSTN Chairman |
Abhay Firodia | Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) president |
Pat Hickey (resigns ) | Member of International Olympic Committee |
Raj Shah | Principal Deputy Press Secretary in US |
Brian Acton (resigns ) | |
Mahendra Pratap Mall | CMD of IRCTC |
Nagaraja Sharma | CMD of United India Insurance |
Peter Thomson | First UN envoy for oceans |
Harsh Kumar Jain | Ambassador of India to the Slovak Republic |
Ban Ki-moon | IOC’s Ethics Commission head |
Suresh Chitturi | Vice-Chairman of International Egg Commission |
Vikram Sakhuja | Advertising Club President |
Abanti Sankaranarayanan | Chairperson of ASCI |
Bjarni Benediktsson (Resigns) | Iceland PM |
Sekhar Basu | 1 Year Extension as Atomic Energy Secretary |
Y C Modi | Director General of NIA |
Mercedes Araoz | Peru PM |
Raquel Dodge | First woman General Prosecutor of Brazil |
Sriram Krishnan | Senior Director of Twitter |
Ajay Bisaria | High Commissioner to Pakistan |
Rajat Sharma | News Broadcasters Association (NBA) president |
B Sambamurthy | NPCI interim Board chairman |
Vani Sarraju Rao | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Estonia |
Jaideep Mazumdar | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Palau |
Umesh Chand Asawa | Member of managing committee of the Indian Banks Association (IBA) |
Balraj Joshi | NHPC chairman |
Chuck Robbins | Cisco executive chairman |
Gautam Bambawale | India’s high commissioner to china |
Ram Jethmalani | Retires as advocate at 94 |
Binay Tamang | Gorkha Territorial Administration chairman |
Arvind Subramanian | one-year extension as Chief Economic Advisor |
Vanlalawmpuii Chawngthu | Mizoram’s first woman minister in 30 yrs |
Rajnikant Mishra | Chief of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). |
Angela Merkel | Chancellor of Germany |
Rajinder Gupta | President of the Punjab Cricket Association |
Shashi Shanker | ONGC Chairman |
Joao Lourenco | Angola’s first new president in 38 years |
David Harquail | Chairman of World Gold Council |
Mridul Kumar | High Commissioner of India to Malaysia |
Rajiv Sabharwal | Tata Capital CEO |
Royana Singh | Banaras Hindu University’s first woman chief proctor |
Tony Douglas | CEO of Etihad Aviation Group |
Banwarilal Purohit | Governor of Tamil Nadu |
Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi | Lieutenant Governor for Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
Brigadier (Retd.) BD Mishra | Governor ofArunachal Pradesh |
Jagdish Mukhi | Governor of Assam |
Ganga Prasad | Governor of Meghalaya |
Satya Pal Malik | Governor of Bihar |
October | |||||
Name of the person | Name of the Post | ||||
Amrender Sharan | amicus curiae on a petition seeking re-probe into the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. | ||||
Sambit Patra | NON-Official Director of ONGC | ||||
Ms.Eman Al-Ghamidi | The assistant mayor of Al Khubar governorate | ||||
Jagmeet Singh | Non-white politician to lead New Democratic party in Canada. | ||||
PV Sindhu | Brand ambassador of ‘Swachh Andhra Mission’. | ||||
Rahul Bothra | First chief financial officer (CFO) for Swiggy. | ||||
Gupta, DK Gayen | Railway Board members | ||||
Birendra Prasad Baishya | Chairman of two sub-committees of International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). | ||||
Brenda Hale | UK Supreme Court’s first female president | ||||
Dr Soumya Swaminathan | WHO’s Deputy director general | ||||
Rajnish Kumar | SBI Chairman | ||||
Zafar Mahmood Abbasi | Navy Chief of Pakistan. | ||||
Jacqueline Fernandez | Brand ambassador of Delhi Dynamos(ISL). | ||||
Corey Anderson | Ambassador for the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2018. | ||||
Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh | Mangolia Pm | ||||
Sangram Singh | CEO of Freecharge | ||||
John K Paul | President of the Federations of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) | ||||
Ashish Srivastava | PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Ltd (PNB MetLife) CEO& MD | ||||
Katrina Kaif | Lenskart Brand Ambassador | ||||
D Shivakumar | PepsiCo chairman Quit | ||||
Vinit Kumar | Kolkata Port Trust chairman | ||||
Actor Anupam Kher | FTII chairman | ||||
Umang Bedi | Facebook India MD Quit | ||||
Nisha Desai Biswal | President of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC). | ||||
John Flint | CEO of HSBC | ||||
Yuvraj Singh | Laureus’ first Indian ambassador | ||||
Kwon Oh-hyun | Samsung CEO Resign | ||||
Rukaiya Rangwala | Head of MobiKwik Payment Gateway. | ||||
Leslie Thng | Vistara CEO | ||||
France’s Audrey Azoulay | next UNESCO chief | ||||
Pradeep Bakshi | Voltas MD & CEO | ||||
Naresh Kumar Gupta | Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta | ||||
Sunny Verghese | World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Chairman. | ||||
Ranjit Kumar | Solicitor General of India | ||||
Jacinda Ardern | New Zealand Prime Minister | ||||
Sibi George | Ambassador of India to Switzerland | ||||
Manika Jain | Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Cambodia | ||||
Vinay Mohan Kwatra | Ambassador of India to the Principality of Monaco. | ||||
Pooja Kapur | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Macedonia. | ||||
Gautam H. Bambawale | Indian ambassador to China. | ||||
Izham Ismail | Malaysia Airlines (MAS) CEO | ||||
Jayant Rikhye | India HSBC CEO | ||||
Kakha Kaladze | Former AC Milan football star Kakha Kaladze had been elected as the mayor of its capital Tbilisi. | ||||
Robert Mugabe | WHO withdraws Mugabe’s goodwill ambassador title | ||||
Dineshwar Sharma | Former director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), has taken charge as the | ||||
interlocutor, for peace talks in Jammu and Kashmir. | |||||
Rakesh Asthana | CBI Special Director | ||||
Ngangom Sarat Singh | Member of the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for Manipur and Mizoram member of the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for Manipur and Mizoram. | ||||
Suresh Sethi | IPPB MD & CEO | ||||
Kanwaljit Singh Cheema | Principal secretary of Board of Administrators (BoA) in Darjeeling | ||||
NS Venkatesh | Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) chairman | ||||
Deep Kumar Upadhyay | Nepal government accepts resignation of its Ambassador to India | ||||
Alok Kumar Pateria | Additional Director General (ADG) of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). | ||||
Utpal Kumar Singh | Uttarakhand Chief Secretary | ||||
Kenneth Chenault | American Express CEO Step Down | ||||
Richard Verma | US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) New Board Member. | ||||
N.J.Gangte | High Commissioner of India to Republic of Zambia | ||||
Satya Gopal | chief secretary of Arunchal Pradesh | ||||
Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar | Vice Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS) | ||||
Suresh Raina | Brand ambassador of Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation | ||||
SK Sinha | Secretary (security) in Cabinet Secretariat | ||||
AP Maheshwari | Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development. | ||||
T V Narendran | Tata Steel CEO & MD | ||||
Vikram Singh | Private Secretary to President | ||||
Birendra Prasad Baishya | President of IWLF | ||||
November | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Suresh Chukkapalli | Honorary Consul General in Hyderabad, by South Korea |
Knut Ostby | Resident representative for U.N.Development Program in Myanmar |
Neelmani N. Raju | Karnataka’s first woman police chief |
Vikas Seth | CEO of Bharti AXA Life Insurance |
Sudhanshu Jain | CFO of Paytm Payments Bank |
Rajesh Vaishnaw | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Malta |
Nasir Kamal | Additional Director General of Border Security Force |
Shamika Ravi | Part-time member of Economic Advisory Council to PM |
MC Mary Kom | Youth World Championships ambassador |
Kenneth Juster | US Ambassador to India |
Madhu Azad | First ever female mayor of Gurgaon |
Ashwani Kumar | Chief Secretary for Puducherry |
N Poonguzhali | First woman senior DDG of Tamilnadu |
Binoy Kumar | Special Secretary in the Commerce Ministry |
Hasmukh Adhia | New Finance Secretary of India |
Sanjeev Kaushik | whole-time member of SEBI |
Urjit Patel | Financial Stability Institute Advisory Board of the Bank of
International Settlement (BIS) |
Ravinder Singh Bhalla | First ever Sikh mayor of New Jersey’s Hoboken city |
Priti Patel | Resigns as British Minister |
Alphons Kannanthanam | Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan |
Ravi Bangar | Ambassador of India to Ecuador |
Debjani Ghosh | First woman President of NASSCOM in 2018 |
Gautam Gambhir | Govt nominee in DDCA managing committee |
Phanindra Sama | Chief Innovation Officer for Telangana state |
Tulsi Gabbard | Chairperson of World Hindu Congress 2018 |
M. Mahender Reddy | DGP of Telangana |
Bhaskar Ganguly | Ombudsman of All India Football Federation |
Surendra Kumar Sinha | Resigns as Bangladesh Chief Justice |
Vijay Prasad Dimri | President of 36th International Geological Congress |
Borut Pahor | Slovenian President |
Ganga Kumari | First transgender in Rajasthan Police. |
Sethurathnam Ravi | BSE Chairman |
Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar | SEBI executive director |
Sibi George | Ambassador of India to the Principality of Liechtenstein. |
Sarah Clarke | First female Black Rod in UK parliament |
Dalveer Bhandari | Judge in International Court of Justice |
Quarraisha Abdool Karim | Quarraisha Abdool Karim |
Ira Joshi | DG of Doordarshan News |
Robert Mugabe | Resigns as ZimbabwePresident |
Shubhangi Swaroop | First-ever woman pilot of Indian Navy |
Aashish Kamat | Resigns as UBS India Chief Executive Officer |
Emmerson Mnangagwa | Zimbabwe’s second president since independence |
N Sambasiva Rao | Andhra Pradesh DGP |
Nirmala Sitharaman | Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis President |
Vineet Arora | Aegon Life Insurance MD and CEO |
Pradeep Singh Kharola | Air India CMD |
Bill Gates along with 17 foreigners | Foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) |
Shaktikanta Das | India’s G 20 Sherpa |
NK Singh | Chairman of 15th Finance Commission |
Badri Narain Sharma | First Chairman of National Anti-Profiteering Authority |
Karen Pierce | UK’s first ever female ambassador to the UN |
Upendra Prasad Singh | Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and
Ganga Rejuvenation |
Snehlata Shrivastava | First woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha |
Sibi George | Ambassador of India to the Holy See |
K Ratna Prabha | New chief secretary of Karnataka |
Ajay Kumar | Secretary in Department of Defence Production |
December | |
Name of the person | Name of the Post |
Narinder Batra | President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) |
Rahul Gandhi | President of Indian National Congress |
Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari | President of Para-Sports Foundation (PSF) |
Jeeva Sagar | Ambassador of India to Kuwait |
Subbarayudu | Ambassador of India to Republic of Peru |
Pradeep Kumar Gupta | Ambassador of India to Republic of Mali |
Ravindra Jaiswal | Ambassador of India to Sudan |
Deepak Parekh | First Intl Ambassador of UK |
AzarA.H.Khan | Ambassador of India to Turkmenistan |
D K Sarraf | Chairperson of Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) |
Dhirendra Pal Singh | Chairperson ofUniversity Grants Commission (UGC |
Prabhat Kumar Sinha | Chairman and Managing Director of Northern Coalfields Limited |
Saba Karim | General Manager of BCCI |
Uma Shankar | Executive Director of RBI |
Salil Parekh | CEO of Infosys |
Surya Prakash | Chairman of Prasar Bharati |
Umesh Dattatraya Salvi | Acting Chairman of National Green Tribunal (NGT) |
Abhay | Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) |
Amardeep Singh Bhatia | Director of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) |
Dr Samiran Panda | Director of National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) |
Gurbachan Singh | Director General of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) |
Lieutenant General B S Sahrawat | Director of National Cadet Corps (NCC). |
M Malakondaiah | Director General of Police (DGP) of Andhra Pradesh |
Motofumi Shitara | Group chairman of Yamaha Motor India group |
Om Prakash Singh | Director of General of Police (DGP) of Uttar Pradesh |
R Hemalatha | Director of National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad |
Sunil Kumar Chourasia | Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and Chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) |
Anshu Prakash | chief secretary of New Delhi |
Chander Prakash and Arun Sangwan | State Information Commissioners of Haryana |
Dhammapiya | New secretary general of International Buddhist Confederation (IBC). |
Lieutenant General D R Soni | Indian Army’s Southern Command |
Manisha Nanda | Chief Secretary-cum-Principal Secretaryto Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister |
Ms. Smita Nagaraj | Member, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) |
N C Goel | Chief Secretary of Rajasthan |
Paul Antony | Chief Secretary of Kerala |
Raffaele Bergamasco | Performance Director of India’s senior women boxing |
Sumita Misra | joint secretary of Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister, EAC-PM |
Vineet Chowdhary | Chief secretary of Himachal Pradesh |
Andrej Babis | Prime minister of Czech |
Constantino Chiwenga | Vice President of Zimbabwe |
George Weah | President of Liberia |
Mr.Sebastián Piñera | President of Chile |
Prince Harry | President of African Parks |
Uhuru Kenyatta | President of Kenya |
Barney Harford | Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Uber |
Dominique Mineur | Belgium Ambassador of UAE |
Henrietta Fore | Executive Director of United Nations Childrens’ Fund (UNICEF). |
Kumi Naidoo | Secretary General of Amnesty International |
Michel Coulomb | Head of sales of Apple |
Preet Didbal | Mayor for Yuba city in California |
Raj Shah | key position in the White House |
MC Mary Kom (Resigns ) | National observer for Indian boxing. |
Zahid Hamid(Resigns ) | Pakistan’s Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs |
Justice Manjula Chellur(Retires ) | Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court |
Justice Swatanter Kumar(Retires ) | Chief of National Green Tribunal (NGT) |
Shashi Arora(Resigns ) | Airtel Payments Bank Managing Director and CEO Shashi Arora |
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