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Appointments & Resignations 2019 – JANUARY ........................................................................................... 2
Appointments & Resignations 2019 –FEBRUARY .......................................................................................... 5
Appointments & Resignations 2019 – MARCH ............................................................................................... 8
Appointments & Resignations 2019 – APRIL................................................................................................. 14
Appointments & Resignations 2019 – MAY ................................................................................................... 18
Appointments & Resignations 2019 – JUNE .................................................................................................. 23
Appointments & Resignations 2019 – JULY .................................................................................................. 29
Appointments & Resignations 2019 – AUGUST ............................................................................................ 35
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International
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
David Norquist Acting deputy defence United States He has been the
secretary department’s chief financial
officer and comptroller since
May 2017.
Manu Sawhney Chief executive officer International Cricket He will succeed David
Council (ICC) Richardson
Asif Saeed Khosa Chief Justice Pakistan He will succeed
incumbent Chief Justice
Saqib Nisar who will be
retiring from service on
January 17, 2019.
Gita Gopinath Chief economist(11th) International Becoming the first woman to
Monetary Fund (IMF) occupy the top IMF post.
Suman Kumari Civil judge Pakistan She became the first Hindu
woman to be appointed as a
civil judge in Pakistan
Sultan Abdullah King Malaysia
Shri Pranav R President Global Solar Council He is dubbed as the Solar
Mehta (GSC),USA Man of India.
Nicolas Maduro President Venezuela He sworn in as Venezuela’s
President for the 2nd term
for a new 6-year term.
Jair Bolsonaro President(42nd) Brazil
Andry Rajoelina President Madagascar He Succeeds Hery
Rajaonarimampianina.
Felix Tshisekedi President Congo He Succeeds the Outgoing
President Joseph Kabila.
Kristin Scott President France’s Cesar Award
Thomas
Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wins Third
Term as PM of Bangladesh.
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RESIGNATIONS
Name Resigned as Entity/place
Justice Madan B Lokur Supreme Court judge Supreme Court
Krishnamurthy V Subramanian Independent director Bandhan Bank
Kevin Sweeney Chief of staff of the US Department of Defence
Sultan Muhammad V King Malaysia
Ashok Chawla Chairman National Stock Exchange(NSE)
Ananth Narayanan CEO Myntra and Jabong, a unit of
Walmart-owned Flipkart
Pierre Nanterme CEO Accenture
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International
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
Indra Nooyi Board of Directors Amazon With her appointment, Amazon’s
11-member board now has five
women, including Nooyi, Brewer,
Jamie Gorelick, Judith McGrath and
Patricia Stonesifer.
Abdel Fattah Chairman African Union He will succeed Rwanda’s
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Resignations
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
P C Mohanan and J V Meenakshi Non-governmental members National Statistical Commission
Chanda Kochhar Managing Director and CEO ICICI Bank
Pralay Mondal Senior group President Yes Bank
Harshil Mehta CEO Dewan Housing Finance
Corporation Limited (DHFL)
Mirchandani, concurrently
accredited as Ambassador to
Benin as India does not have
a Resident Diplomatic
Mission in Benin.
Arvind Laddha CEO Mercer,India He is currently Deputy CEO in
JLT Independent, an
insurance broking firm.
Bhagwan Lal Sahni Chairman National Commission Other members of the
for Backward Classes commission are:
(NCBC) Kaushalendra Singh Patel,
Sudha Yadav and Achary
Talloju.
Aditya Kumar Misra Chairman Agricultural Scientific
Recruitment Board
(ASRB)
M.R.Kumar Chairman Life Insurance He will be succeeding V. K
Corporation (LIC) Sharma who had retired on
31st December 2018 after
which Managing Director
Hemant Bhargava was acting
as the interim chairman.
Mr. K M Mammen Chairman Automotive Tyre He will succeed Raghupati
Manufacturers’ Singhania, CMD of JK Tyres &
Association (ATMA) Industries Ltd.
P K Mishra Chief Justice(Acting) Chhattisgarh Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh
High Court A K Tripathi
resigned from the post after
he got appointed as the
Member of the Lokpal.
Karambir Singh Chief of Naval Staff Indian Navy He will succeed present Chief
of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil
Lanba who retires on May
2019.He will be the first
helicopter pilot of the Navy to
become CNS.
Pramod Sawant Chief Minister(13th) Goa He succeeds Manohar
Parrikar, who died due to
Cancer.
Veselin Matic Coach Indian Men’s He will succeed Zoran Visic,
basketball team who is currently on the
charge of coach of Indian
women's basketball team.
Ajit Kumar Mohanty Director Bhabha Atomic By the Ministry of Personnel
Research Centre for 3 years
(BARC)
Vivek Gupta Director(Raw Steel Authority of He joined SAIL in 1980 and
Material& Logistics) India Limited (SAIL) has been working for more
than 38 years in SAIL.
KVS Manian and Director(Whole time) Kotak Mahindra Bank For a three-year term
Gaurang Shah effective from the date of
approval from the Reserve
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Bank of India.
Venkata Ramesh Director General National Archives of The National Archives of
Babu India India comes under the
Ministry of Culture
MA Hampiholi Director General Naval Navy He will succeed Satish
Operations (DGNO) Namdeo Ghormade.
Bhosale, Pradip
Kumar Mohanty,
Abhilasha Kumari
and the Chief
Justice of
Chhattisgarh High
Court Ajay Kumar
Tripathi.
• Non-judicial
members are
former first
women chief of
Sashastra Seema
Bal, Archana
Ramasundaram,
ex-Maharashtra
Chief Secretary,
Dinesh Kumar Jain,
former IPS officer,
Mahendra Singh
and ex-IAS officer,
Indrajeet Prasad
Gautam.
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International
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
Anil Kumble Chairman ICC (International Cricket He is appointed for a final 3 year
Council) Cricket term in a board meeting of cricket
Committee council in Dubai.
Randhir Singh Chairman Coordination Committee of It will be hosted in Hangzhou,
2022 Asian Games China. Randhir Singh is currently
an Honorary Life Vice President Of
the OCA and he is a five time
Olympian Shooter.
Ondrej Vlcek Chief Executive Avast Vince Steckler has decided to
Officer (CEO) retire in the year 2019 after 10
years in the job
Soumya Chief Scientist World Health Organisation She is currently a Deputy Director-
Swaminathan (WHO) General of the World Health
Organisation (WHO).The Chief
Scientist is a newly created
position and division.
Zinedine Coach Spanish football club Real Zinedine was reappointed.He
Zidane Madrid succeeds Santiago Solari from
France, who was removed from
the post less than five months in
charge.
Deepak Kabra Member Asian Gymnastics Union Similarly 4 other members are
– Men’s appointed:
Artistic • Akshata Shete – Rhythmic
Gymnastics Gymnastics
• Sumith MR – Acrobatic
Gymnastics
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Resignations
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
Rahul Bajaj Chairman and non-executive He will be succeeded by the
director company’s Vice-Chairman Nanoo
Pamnani.
Naresh Goyal Founder of Jet Airways (India) Ltd. The lenders will immediately pump
in about 1,500 crore into Jet
Airways by way of issue of
appropriate debt instruments
against security of assets.
Kummanam Rajasekharan Governor of Mizoram Governor of Assam, Jagdish Mukhi
has been appointed in his place
temporarily.
Tan Kim Her India’s doubles badminton coach Badminton Association of India
(BAI)
Gafur Rahimov President of Amateur International Rahimov will be replaced by an
Boxing Federation (AIBA) interim president.
Nursultan Nazarbayev President Kazakhstan.He served as the first
and only President of Kazakhstan.
He be succeeded by Kassym-Jomart
Tokayev (65).
Arjan Kumar Sikri Supreme Court Judge In this regard, President Ram Nath
Kovind has nominated Justice S A
Bobde of the Supreme Court as
executive chairman of the National
Legal Services Authority (NALSA)
in place of Justice Sikri.
National
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
Sairee Chahal Board of Directors Paytm Payments Bank Sairee Chahal is the
(PPB) founder and CEO of
Sheroes which is a
community platform for
women.
Kaushik Shaparia Chief Executive Officer Deutsche Bank He will succeed Ravneet
Gill. Now he took over the
position from Khurshed
Dordi, as Chief Operating
Officer for India, who was
serving as Deutsche Bank’s
interim Chief Country
Officer after Ravneet Gill’s
exit.
Bibhu Kalyan Nayak Chair International Hockey He is first Indian to have
Federation (FIH) Health been nominated by FIH as
and Safety Committee the Medical Officer for a
World Cup.
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Arora.
Rakesh Malhotra High Commissioner of Republic of Cameroon
India
Jaideep Sarkar High Commissioner of Republic of South Africa He will succeed Ruchi
India Ghanashyam.
Dalbir Singh Suhag High Commissioner of Republic of Seychelles He will succeed Ausaf
India Sayeed
International
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
Manu Sawhney Chief Executive International Cricket
Officer (CEO) Council (ICC)
Sheikh Salman Chief Asian football
bin Ebrahim Al
Khalifa
Lori Lightfoot Mayor Chicago She is the first Black Women
Mayor & also the first lesbian
Leader for the City. She will
succeed Rahm Emanue.
Praful Patel Member FIFA Executive Council He has become the first Indian to
enter the elite panel of the game's
global governing body.
Sanjay Kumar Member US’s National Geospatial Sanjay Kumar was honoured
Advisory Committee with the Global Geospatial
(NGAC) Industry Ambassador award by
the United Nations Global
Geospatial Information
Management (UN-GGIM).
Abdelkader President Algeria He has been appointed as the
Bensalah (77) interim President of the country.
Davis Malpass President World bank He will succeed Jim Yong-Kim.
Volodymyr President Ukraine He defeated incumbent Petro
Oleksandrovych Poroshenko of Petro Poroshenko
Zelensky Bloc "Solidarity" party.
Benjamin Prime Minister Israel This is his 5th term
Netanyahu
Jean Michel Prime Minister Haiti He succeeds Jean-Henry Ceant.
Lapin
Mohammed Prime Minister Palestine The new 24 member cabinet
Ishtayeh replaces a technocratic
government, which was formed
by Rami Hamdallah in 2014.
Resignations
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
Nasim Zaidi Non-executive and non- Jet Airways
independent director
Abdelaziz Bouteflika President Algeria
Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga Prime Minister Mali
Uday Kumar Varma Secretary General Associated Chambers of
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Gokuldas Pai Chief Business Officer Karnataka Bank Earlier, he was General
(CBO) Managers of Karnataka
Bank
Balachandra Y V Chief Operation Karnataka Bank The previous COO of
Officer (COO) Karnataka Bank was
Raghavendra Bhat M.
Jagan Mohan Chief Minister Andhra Pradesh Succeeds Chandrababu
Reddy(YSR Naidu of Telugu Desam
Congress) Party
Prem Singh Chief Minister Sikkim He succeeded Pawan
Tamang(Sikkim Kumar Chamling of SDF,
Krantikari Morcha the longest-serving CM of
(SKM)) the country.
Naveen Chief Minister Odisha He is the longest-serving
Patnaik(Biju Janata chief minister of the state.
Dal) The oath-taking ceremony
was administered by the
Governor Prof. Ganeshi Lal
at the Exhibition Ground in
Bhubaneswar. He had
secured 112 seats in the
146 Assembly Seats in the
elections held
simultaneously with the
Lok Sabha elections.
Pema Chief Minister Arunachal Pradesh Governor Brig(Retd) B D
Khandu(Bharatiya Mishra with 11 Cabinet
Janata Party(BJP)) Ministers administered the
oath taking ceremony at
the Dorjee Khandu
Convention Centre,
Itanagar. He becomes the
10th Chief Minister of
Arunachal Pradesh.
AK Dhingra Chief(First) Armed Forces Special The government has set up
Operations Division AFSOD which comprised of
(AFSOD) Special Forces commandos
from Army’s Parachute
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Dinesh Pangtey Chief Executive Officer Life Insurance He succeeds Shri Raj
Corporation (LIC) Kumar.
Mutual Fund
Igor Stimac Coach Indian men’s football He succeeds Stephen
team Constantine
Vice Admiral Atul Flag Indian Navy The Ceremonial parade
Kumar Jain Officer Commanding- was held at the naval base
in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of in Visakhapatnam, Andhra
the Eastern Naval Pradesh.
Command(ENC).
Sujatha V Kumar Head of Marketing for Visa She will succeed Manmeet
India and South Asia Vohra
Ms. Padmaja High Commissioner of Republic of Nauru She succeeds Vishvas Vidu
India Sapkal.
Radha High Commissioner of Kingdom of Eswatini She is currently serving as
Venkataraman India the Director in the Ministry
of External Affairs. She
succeeds Rudra Gaurav
Shresth.
M Jayshree Vyas Independent director Bombay Stock Exchange She is the first
(BSE) independent woman
director
Justices B R Gavai, Judge Supreme Court With these four
Justice Surya Kant, appointments, now the
Justice Aniruddha Supreme Court has
Bose and Justice A S reached its full sanctioned
Bopanna. strength of 31 judges.
Justice VK Jain Judicial Member National Consumer Justice Jain's tenure is
Disputes Redressal extended for 1 year or till
Commission (NCDRC) the process of fresh
appointment is completed,
whichever is earlier. The
decision on the extension
of term was given by Chief
Justice Ranjan Gogoi and
Justice Aniruddha Bose.
Nitin Chugh Managing Director Ujjivan Small Finance The current MD and CEO
(MD) and Chief Bank Samit Ghosh’s tenure will
Executive Officer end on November 30,
(CEO) 2019. Currently, Nitin
Chugh is Group Head of
Digital Banking of HDFC
Bank.
Sandeep Patil Managing Director Truecaller(India) He served as the head of
(MD) consumer and commercial
lending vertical at
Flipkart until his new
appointment with
Truecaller. He will be
supervising the teams
based in Delhi, Mumbai,
and Bengaluru.
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International
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
Dia Mirza Advocates United Nations She was among 17 new
advocates to achieve
Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
Naruhito Emperor Japan He Succeeded Akihito.He
throned the Reiwa era.
Shailesh Tinaikar Force commander United Nations Mission He will succeed Lieutenant
in South Sudan (UNMISS) General Frank Kamanzi of
Rwanda. He will command
over 16,000 peacekeepers
which include nearly 2,400
from India.
Mueenul Haq High Commissioner of India He Succeeded Sohail
Pakistan Mehmood, who was
appointed as Pakistan's
new foreign secretary.
Justice Madan Member Supreme Court of Fiji’s He was invited by the
Bhimrao Lokur non-resident panel Chief Justice of Fiji and
received the appointment
letter on December 31,
2018.
KS Radhakrishnan Member Commonwealth He had earlier served as a
Secretariat Arbitral Supreme Court judge from
Tribunal (CSAT) November 2009 to May
2014. He has also served
as the Chief Justice of the
High Courts of Gujarat and
J&K.
Jagjit Pavadia Member International Narcotics She was re-elected by the
Control Board UN Economic and Social
Council to a five year term
Tijjani Mohammad President United Nations General He is the second Nigerian
Bande Assembly(UNGA) to be appointed to this
post, prior being Mr.
Joseph Nanven
Garba(1989-1990). Prof.
Tijjani Bande will succeed
María Fernanda Espinosa
Garcés.
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Kumar Sangakkara President Marylebone Cricket Club He was the first non-
(MCC) British president of
MCC.He succeeds Anthony
Wreford.
Stevo Pendarovski President North Macedonia
Laurentino “Nito” President Panama He Succeeded Juan Carlos
Cortizo Varela
Cyril Ramaphosa President South Africa He was elected after
President Jacob Zuma
resigned from the post due
to charges of corruption.
Joko Widodo President Indonesia He defeated his rival
Prabowo Subianto, a
retired general. Joko
Widodo belongs to PDI-P,
political party where as his
rival Prabowo Subianto
belongs to Gerindra.
Volodymyr President Ukraine He succeeded Petro
Zelenskiy Poroshenko. He won 73%
of the vote cast and
became Ukraine's
youngest post-Soviet
President.
Peter Mutharika of President Malawi He won the elections
Democratic against the opposition
Progressive Party candidate Lazarus
(DPP) Chakwera from the Malawi
Congress Party (MCP) who
secured 35.4% of the
votes.
Muhammadu Buhari President Nigeria He belongs to All
Progressives
Congress(APC) Party. He
won 56% of the votes cast.
He was in power since
2015.
Scott Morrison Prime Minister(30th ) Australia Other members include
Deputy PM Michael
McCormack, Australia’s
first Aboriginal federal
cabinet minister, Ken
Wyatt also sworn
alongside with Scott
Morrison at a ceremony in
the Canberra. He replaced
Malcolm Turnbull as chief
of the ruling Liberal Party.
James Marape Prime Minister Papua New Guinea He succeeded Peter O'Neill
of People's National
Congress party.
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Resignations
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
Vinay Dube Chief Executive Officer Jet Airways .Chief Financial Officer
and deputy CEO Amit Agarwal,
Chief People’s Officer Rahul Taneja
and Company Secretary and
Compliance Officer Kuldeep
Sharma resigned from their
positions with immediate effect.
Akihito Emporer Japan
Juan Carlos I Former monarch Spain
Venkataraman Janakiraman Independent Director IL&FS Securities Services Ltd
(ISSL)
B.V.P. Rao President Archery Association of India (AAI)
Bhushan Patil President Paytm
Sarada Kumar Hota Managing Director National Housing Bank He succeeds Sriram
(NHB) Kalyanaraman. Prior to the
appointment, Hota served
as the managing director
of Can Fin Homes, a
subsidiary of Canara Bank.
Krishnamurthy Members(part-time) Insolvency and
Subramanian and B Bankruptcy Board of
Sriram India (IBBI)
V Ravi Anshuman Member(part-time) Securities and Exchange He is currently working as
Board of India (SEBI) a professor in Indian
Institutes of Management,
Bangalore.
Ajit Doval National security India His tenure is extended for
Advisor (NSA) 5 years as well as given
upgraded position from
the minister of state to a
Cabinet rank.
Rakesh Makhija Non-Executive (Part- Axis Bank He will succeed current
Time) Chairman Sanjiv Mishra
Debendranath President Squash Rackets Cyrus Poncha was made
Sarangi Federation of India secretary-general. They
(SRFI) were elected unopposed
for a period of four years
from 2019 to 2023.
Sharad Kumar Saraf President Federation of Indian He succeeded Ganesh
Export Organisations Kumar Gupta. He is the
(FIEO) Chairman and Founder of
Technocraft Industries
(India).
Nripendra Misra Principal Secretary Prime Minister Narendra Pramod Kumar Mishra was
(PS) Modi re-appointed as Additional
Principal Secretary (Addl
PS) to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
Om Birla Speaker 17th Lok Sabha He will succeed Sumitra
Mahajan (2014-2019) and
pro-tem speaker of 17th
Lok Sabha Virendra
Kumar.
International
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
MD Ajay Singh Board Member International Air The new board would be
Transport Association chaired by Lufthansa
(IATA) Group CEO Carsten Spohr.
Pradeep Kumar Cabinet Secretary India He was appointed in 2015
Sinha for two years. He became
the longest-serving
bureaucrat in the post in
the last seven decades.
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Resignations
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
Azim Premji Executive Chairman Wipro
Mukesh Sabharwal Independent director Yes Bank
Ajai Kumar Interim Managing Director (MD) Yes Bank
and Chief Executive (CEO)
Viral Acharya Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India
Pankaj Razdan Chief Executive Officer Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance
(ABSLI).Kotak Securities Kamlesh
Rao will replace Razdan as CEO.
Razdan also resigned from his
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M Nageswar Rao Director General Fire Services, Civil He will continue this post
Defence and Home till July 2020. He will
Guard by Central succeed S.N Pradhan.
Government
Arun Kumar Director General Directorate General of He will succeed B S Bhullar
Civil Aviation (DGCA) (IAS officer of Uttar
Pradesh cadre).
Paramjit Singh Director General Military Operations He will succeed Lt Gen Anil
(DGMO) of the Indian Chauhan, who has been
Army appointed new General
Officer Commanding-in-
Chief of the Eastern
Command by replacing Lt-
Gen M.M. Naravane.
V K Johri Director General Border Security Force He will succeed Rajni Kanti
(BSF) Mishra.
S.S Deswal Director General National Security Guard He succeeds Sudeep
(NSG) Lakhtakia.
Kalraj Mishra Governor(19th) Himachal Pradesh He will replace Acharya
Devvrat.
Acharya Devvrat Governor(20th) Gujarat He will replace Om
Prakash Kohli.
Anusuiya Uikey Governor(6th) Chhattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey replaced
Anandiben Patel
Biswa Bhusan Governor(23rd) Andhra Pradesh Harichandran (84), has
Harichandan replaced ESL Narasimhan
Lal Ji Tandon Governor(28th) Madhya Pradesh He will replace Anandi Ben
Patel
Anandi Ben Patel Governor(21st) Uttar Pradesh He will replace Ram Naik
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Rahul Dravid Head of Cricket National Cricket He will look after all
Academy (NCA) cricket related activities at
NCA.
Ajay Bhadoo Joint Secretary President Ram Nath He is a 1999 batch Indian
Kovind Administrative Service
(IAS) officer of Gujarat. He
will succeed Randhir
Kumar Jaiswal.
Karnam Sekar Managing Director Indian Overseas Bank He replaces R
(MD)and Chief (IOB) Subramaniakumar
Executive Officer(CEO)
BP Kanungo Monetary policy He assumed charge after
portfolio the resignation of fellow
Deputy Governor Viral V.
Acharya. Kanungo will
retain his currency
management portfolio
would become the 6th
member of the RBI’s
Monetary Policy
Committee, which will next
meet on August 5-7,2019.
Ajay Kumar Bhalla Officer on Special Duty Ministry of Home Affairs He succeeds Rajiv Gauba
(OSD) (MHA) who retires on August 31,
2019. He will serve in the
office for 2 years till
August 2021.Click here to
read more.
A. K. Sikri Ombudsman Indian Federation of This is India's first and
Sports Gaming (IFSG) only Sports Gaming self-
regulatory industry body.
Vivek Kumar Private secretary Prime Minister Narendra He replaces Sanjeev Kumar
Modi Singla, who has been
appointed India's
ambassador to Israel.
Rabindra Panwar Secretary Ministry of Textiles He succeeded Raghvendra
Singh.
Subhash Chandra Secretary Ministry of Power He will succeeded by
Garg Atanu Chakraborty as the
new Finance Secretary in
the Department of
Economic Affairs.
Rajiv Kumar Secretary Ministry of Finance He succeeds Subhash
Chandra Garg, who took
charge as Power Secretary.
Sanjay Kothari Secretary President(Ram Nath He gets 3 year extension in
Kovind) post
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INTERNATIONAL
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
Kishen Mangaldas Chairman Asian Boxing His appointment has been
Narsi Confederation’s (ASBC) made under ASBC
competitions Constitution Article
commission 38.3/F. It was confirmed
by the ASBC President
Anas Naser Al Otaiba.
Vivek Kohli Chairman Commonwealth Table M P Singh have been
Tennis Federation elected as secretary-
(CTTF) general respectively of the
Commonwealth Table
Tennis Federation (CTTF).
TTFI chief Dushyant
Chautala is already held
the CTTF president's post.
This is the first time all the
three positions in CTTF
are being held by Indians.
Ehsan Mani Chairman ICCs Finance &
Commercial Affairs
(F&CA) committee
Julie Sweet Chief Executive Accenture Inc He will succeed David
Officer (CEO) Rowland. She is currently
the CEO of Accenture’s
business in North America.
David Rowland was
appointed as Executive
Chairman of Accenture.
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Priti Patel Home secretary United Kingdom (UK) She was appointed by new
UK Prime Minister Boris
Johnson. She succeeds
Sajid Javid.
David Lipton Interim leader International Monetary He replaces Christine
Fund(IMF) Lagarde who was
nominated to head the
European Central Bank.
Kiran Shankar More Interim coach United States of He replaces the head
America(USA) Cricket coach Pubudu
Team Dassanayake of Sri Lanka,
whose contract was to end
by March 2019 but was
extended to December
2019 had resigned due to
differences with USA
Cricket Board.
Justice AK Sikri International judge Singapore International His term will expire on
Commercial Court (SICC) January 4, 2021. At
present, SICC has 16
international judges.
Anshula Kant Managing director World Bank(WB) Since September 2018 she
(MD)and chief has been a Managing
financial officer(CFO) Director and member of
the World Bank Board.
Kant is from Jamshedpur,
Jharkhand. In her role as
CFO in SBI, she managed
$38 billion worth revenue
and total assets of $500
billion.
Sanjeev Kumar Private Secretary Prime Minister (PM) He succeeds Vivek Kumar.
Singla Narendra Modi He was the PS to PM since
2014. But was recently
appointed as the next
Ambassador of India to the
State of Israel.
Ursula von der President European Commission She will be replacing Jean-
Leyen Claude Juncker.
Christine Lagarde President(Nominated) European Central EU (European Union)
Bank(ECB) leaders nominated
France's Christine
Lagarde(first woman )as
president of the ECB in a
meeting in Brussels,
Belgium. She would
succeed current ECB
president Mario Draghi .
Kyriakos Mitsotakis Prime Minister Greece He received 39.85% of the
votes against 31.53% for
Syriza, led by outgoing
Prime Minister Alexis
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Tsipras.
Benjamin Prime Minister Israel He has become Israel‘s
Netanyahu longest-serving prime
minister, surpassing the
record of David Ben-
Gurion, country’s founding
father, and first leader.
Resignations
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
Navjot Singh Sidhu Cabinet Minister Punjab
H D Kumaraswamy Chief Minister (CM) Karnataka
JB Straubel Co-founder and Chief Technology Tesla
Officer (CFO)
Christine Lagarde Managing Director (MD) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Rahul Gandhi President Congress(Political Party)
Ramush Haradinaj Prime Minister Kosovo
CBDT.
Police Academy,
Hyderabad, Telangana.
VG Somani Drug Controller Central Drugs Standard He is currently Joint Drugs
General of India Control Organisation Controller of India. He
(DCGI) (CDSCO) succeeds Dr. S. Eswara
Reddy.
RN Ravi Governor(20th) Nagaland Arup Kumar Goswami,
Chief Justice (Acting) of
Gauhati High Court(HC)
administered the oath of
office to Ravi at the Raj
Bhavan in Kohima,
Nagaland. Ravi succeeds
Padmanabha Balakrishna
Acharya, whose tenure
ended on July 19, 2019.
Madhumita High Commissioner of Republic of Cyprus She is a 1999 batch Indian
Hazarika Bhagat India Foreign Service(IFS)
Officer presently working
as Joint Secretary in the
Ministry of External
Affairs. She succeeds RK
Raghavan.
Ms. Padmaja High Commissioner of Cook Islands She is presently the High
India Commissioner of India to
the Republic of Fiji. She
succeeds Vishvas Vidu
Sapkal.
Ajay Kumar Bhalla Home Secretary India He has been appointed as
the new Union home
secretary with fixed two-
year tenure till August
2021. He succeeds Rajiv
Gauba, who was appointed
as the new cabinet
secretary.
S.V. Ranganath Interim chairman Coffee Day Enterprises He was appointed after
Ltd founder V.G. Siddhartha
was confirmed dead.
Siddhartha MD (Managing LIC Housing Finance He replaces Shri Vinay
Mohanty Director) & CEO (Chief (Life Insurance Shah.
Executive Officer) Corporation HFL)
International
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
Noel Quinn Chief Executive HSBC bank He replaces John Flint
Officer
(CEO)(Interim)
Atish Dabholkar Director International Centre for He was appointed for a
Theoretical Physics five year term starting in
(ICTP) November 2019 with the
rank of Assistant Director-
General of the United
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Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO).
He succeeds Fernando
Quevedo, who has led the
centre since 2009.
P T Usha Member Asian Athletics She was appointed as one
(Pilavullakandi Association’s (AAA) of the six members of the
Thekkeparambil Athletes Commission Asian Athletics
Usha) Association’s (AAA)
Athletes Commission, in
recognition of her
outstanding achievements
at the continental stage.
The commission will be
headed by Andrey
Abduvaliyev (Uzbekistan).
Alejandro Eduardo President Guatemala He is from Vamos party
Giammattei Falla defeating Sandra Torres,
Former first lady(spouse
of Alvaro Colom- 47th
Guatemala president) by
gaining more than 58% of
the votes. Giammattei
succeeds outgoing
corruption-tainted
President Jimmy Morales
(50th president of
Guatemala).
Lionel Aingimea President(15) Nauru He defeated his rival David
Adeang.He succeeds the
outgoing President Baron
Waqa.
Abdalla Hamdok Prime Minister(15th) Sudan
Justice Madan Lokur Supreme Court (SC) Fiji He will serve as the judge
judge of the non-resident panel
of the Supreme Court of
Fiji. This is the first time
ever an Indian has been
appointed to the Supreme
Court of another country.
Resignation
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
Parthasarathi Mukherjee Managing Director(MD) and Chief Lakshmi Vilas Bank(LVB)
Executive Officer(CEO)
Naresh Takkar Managing Director (MD) and Group ICRA (formerly Investment
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Information and Credit Rating
Agency of India Limited)
Giuseppe Conte Prime Minister Italy
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