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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 ) WhatsApp
    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
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    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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