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APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS 2019 (Jan - Aug)

Contents
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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Appointments & Resignations 2019 – JANUARY


National
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
Sanjay Jain Additional Supreme Court Additional Solicitor General,
Solicitor General appointed under Law
Officers Act 1987, is the third
largest law officer of
the Central Government.
Lt Gen J S Nain Commander(14th Army’s Rising Star Corps He succeeded Lt Gen Y V K
) Mohan
Vice Admiral G Vice Chief Naval Staff He holded as a deputy Chief
Ashok Kumar of naval Staff from June
6,2016.
Kumar Rajesh Director General Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) He will succeed SS Deswal,
Chandra chief of indo-tibetan border
Prabhat Singh Director General National Human Rights
(Investigation) Commission
Jaideep Govind Secretary General National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC)
Nitin Wakankar Chief Information CBI He succeeded Abhishek
Officer and Dayal who has been
spokesperson transferred to the
Publication Division
M. Nageshwara Chief(Interim) CBI
Rao
Sudhir Bhargava Chief information Central Information The government has
commissioner Commission also appointed four new
information commissioners.
Thottathil Chief Justice Telangana High Court Governor Narasimhan also
Bhaskaran Nair administered oath to Justice
Radhakrishnan Praveen Kumar as the acting
Chief Justice of Andhra
Pradesh High Court in
Vajaywada.
Lingappa Narayana Chief Karnataka High Court
Swamy Justice(Acting)
Dr. T.C.A Anant Member Union Public Service Oath was administered
Commission (UPSC) by Shri Arvind Saxena,
Chairman, UPSC.
Rajiv Nayan Member Union Public Service Aravind
Choubey Commission (UPSC) Saxena administered the
Rajiv Nayan Choubey oath of
office
Piyush Goyal Interim finance
and corporate
affairs minister
Arjan Kumar Sikri Executive National Legal Services
Chairman Authority (NALSA)
Dilip Sadarangani Chairman(Part- Federal Bank
Time)
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Deepak Chief credit Axis Bank


Maheshwari officer (CCO)
Pankaj Sharma Chief Operations RBL Bank Prior to this, Sharma was
Officer (COO) heading retail operations of
Axis Bank.
Hemant Bhargava Acting Chairman LIC’s Financial Services
B Sriram, Rama Independent ICICI Bank
Bijapurkar directors
Parthasarathi MD Lakshmi Vilas Bank
Mukherjee
Amitabh Chaudhry MD and CEO Axis bank Axis Bank Managing Director
(MD) and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) Shikha
Sharma retired from the
services of the bank
V Vaidyanathan MD and CEO IDFC First Bank V Vaidyanathan is the
founder and chairman
of Capital First.
Ravneet Singh Gill MD and CEO Yes bank Ravneet Singh Gill was the
successor to Rana Kapoor
Brahm Dutt Non-executive Yes Bank He succeeded Ashok Chawla
part-time
chairman
Rakesh Aggarwal Director Jawaharlal Institute of He succeeded Dr S
Postgraduate Medical Vivekanandan.
Education & Research
(JIPMER)
PayU India’s CEO Head of Financial Naspers’ fintech business Nasper is South
Amrish Rau technology African parent of PayU.

Indu Shekhar Jha Member Central Electricity Shri Lalchharlian


Regulatory Commission Pachuau was appointed as a
(CERC) member of Joint Electricity
Regulation
Commission for Manipur and
Mizoram by Power Ministry.
Narasimhan Ram President Alliance for Media Freedom
(AFMF)
P.K Singh Secretary Competition Commission of
India (CCI)
Chhabilendra Roul Secretary Department of Fertilizers, He succeeded Smt. Bharathi
Ministry of Chemicals & S. Sihag
Fertilizers
Ajit Mohan Vice President Facebook India He succeeded Umang Bedi
and MD
Mohammed Ali Chief coach India’s women pugilists. Ali is the India’s first
Qamar Commonwealth Games gold
medalist .He replaced
veteran Shiv Singh
Rishi Vasudev to Head Myntra – Jabong’s Fashion
and lifestyle categories
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Daniel Houghes Additional and Tata Consultancy Services


Callahan independent (TCS)
director
Saurabh Kumar Chairman Ordnance Factory He Succeeds P.K.
Board (OFB) Shrivastava in Kolkata.
Aqeel Ahmed Chairman Council for Leather Exports The council also
(CLE) announced Sanjay Leekha as
its new vice chairman.
Ronojoy Dutta CEO Indigo airlines He succeeds Aditya Ghosh.
Vikram Misri Ambassador of China Misri served as Indian envoy
India in Myanmar.
Sunjay Sudhir Ambassador of Maldives Vinay Singh Chauhan as the
India Ambassador of India
to Burkina Faso who is
presently Consulate General
of India.

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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Su Tseng-chang Prime Minister Taiwan Tseng-chang will replace Lai


Ching-te who resigned from
the post following the defeat
in the elections.
Stefan Lofven Prime Minister Sweden He was appointed as Prime
Minister of Sweden for
a second term.
Christophe Joseph Prime Minister Burkina Faso
Marie Dabire
Dr.Poonam Regional Director World Health She is the first woman to
Khetrapal Singh Organization South- become Regional Director of
East Asia WHO South-East Asia
Region.

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

Appointments & Resignations 2019 –FEBRUARY


National
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
Sanjiv Ranjan Ambassador Republic of Colombia He is currently Ambassador
to Argentina
B.S. Mubarak Ambassador Republic of Honduras
Dinesh Bhatia Ambassador Republic of Argentina
Sanjay Kumar Ambassador Republic of Marshall
Verma Islands
Ruchira Kamboj Ambassador Bhutan She will succeed Jaideep
Sarkar.
Punit Goenka Chairman BARC India
Pramod Chandra Chairman Central Board of He will succeed Sushil
Mody Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chandra
Govind Prasad Chairman National Book Trust He will be replacing Baldeo
Sharma (NBT) Sharma
Ashwani Lohani Chairman and Air India
Managing Director
(CMD)
B. P. Sharma Chairman & Managing Pawan Hans
Director (CMD)
Ajit Kumar P Chief Western Naval He is an awardee of Vishisht

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Command Seva Medal in 2006, the Ati


Vishisht Seva Medal in 2014
and Param Vishist Seva Medal
in 2019 by the President of
India.
SN Gharmade Chief of Staff Eastern Naval
Command,
Vishakhapatnam
Depinder Singh Chief of Staff Southern Command
Ahuja
Anirban Mukherjee Chief Executive Officer PayU India He will succeed Amrish Rau.
(CEO)
Ajai Kumar CEO (Interim) YES Bank
P V Bharathi Chief Executive Officer Corporation Bank,
(CEO) Mangalore
Chandramouli Controller, Assistant Department of He succeeds Bettina Tucci
Ramanathan Secretary-General Management Strategy, Bartsiotas of Uruguay.
Policy and
Compliance
Vice Admiral MS Deputy Chief Naval Staff He is an awardee of Herbert
Pawar Lott Prize and the Vishist
Seva Medal in 2010 and the
Ati Vishist Seva Medal in
2016.
Rishi K Shukla Director Central Bureau of He is the former Madhya
Investigation (CBI) Pradesh DGP , as the new
director of the Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) for a
fixed tenure of two years.
A.K. Sharma Director (Finance) Indian Oil He was appointed Director
Corporation (IOC) (Finance) of IOC in October
2014 and superannuated on
January 31, 2019.
Rajeev Chopra Director General NCC He has been awarded Ati
Vishisht Seva Medal for his
distinguished service in
January 2018.
Sushil Chandra Election He made this appointment by
Commissioner exercising the powers given
under clause (2) of Article
324 of the Constitution.
Arun Jaitley Finance Minister Government of India
Hina Jaiswal Flight Engineer He is the First Indian Woman
Flight Engineer of the Indian
Air Force (IAF)
Rahul Jain General Manager Integral Coach Earlier he worked as the
Factory Assistant General Manager at
Western Railway
K. J. Srinivasa High Commissioner of Cooperative Republic He will succeed V.
India of Guyana Mahalingam.
Sandeep Mohan Members Central Board of
Bhatnagar and Indirect Taxes and
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Ashok Kumar Customs (CBIC)


Pandey
Hemand Bhargava Non-executive IDBI Bank For a period of 3 years or till
Chairman he continues as the chairman-
in-charge and MD of LIC (Life
Insurance Corporation of
India).
Justice D K Jain Ombudsman Board of Control for He is the first ombudsman for
Cricket in India (BCCI) the Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI). The
ombudsman will be resolving
any issue that comes with
regards to the players, as also
financial issues.
GC Anupama President Astronomical Society She will succeed RK Tyagi
of India and has been elected to this
post for a tenure of 3 years.
Ajay Singh President AIBA (International He has been elected to the
Boxing Association) post for a tenure of four
years.
Brij bhushan Sharan President Wrestling Federation He was appointed for a third
Singh of India (WFI) time for a period of 3 years.
Pradeep Singh Secretary Civil Aviation
Kharola
Ramesh Abhishek Secretary Civil Aviation Earlier,he worked as
secretary of the Department
for Promotion of Industry
and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
Radheyshyam Secretary Union Sports He will succeed Rahul
Julaniya Bhatnagar
Sailesh Secretary Ministry of Minority He will also hold the post of
Affairs Secretary, Department of
Official Language as an
additional charge.
Tarun Shridhar Secretary Department of Animal Department of Fisheries is a
Husbandry and newly created department
Dairying under Ministry of Agriculture
and Farmers Welfare.
Mohd Mushtaque Vice-President Asian Hockey Asima Ali was elected as the
Ahmad Federation(AHF) Executive Committee
member, for a 4-year term in
Gifu, Japan.

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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El Sisi President Paul Kagame.32nd AU


Summit held in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
Faizel Ismail Director South Africa’s Nelson He is a professor at the University
Mandela School of Public of Cape Town (UCT)’s School of
Governance Economics.
Juan Guaido Interim President Venezuela
Nayib Bukele President El Salvador He will assume the chair of
President on June 1 ,2019.
Muhammadu President Nigeria He defeated Atiku Abubakar
Buhari
Mohamed Prime Minister Sudan
Tahir Ayala

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)

Appointments & Resignations 2019 – MARCH


National
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
Air Marshal R D Air Officer Eastern Air Command He was awarded the Vishisht
Mathur Commanding-in-Chief Seva Medal in 2003 and Ati
Vishisht Seva Medal in 2014.
Air Marshal Air Officer Western Air
Raghunath Nambiar Commanding-in-Chief Command
Pranay Kumar Ambassador of India Republic of Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma is an
Verma 1994 cadre Indian Foreign
Services Officer and presently
working as the Joint secretary
at Ministry of External Affairs
(MEA).
Dr. Ausaf Sayeed Ambassador of India Saudi Arabia
Manpreet Vohra Ambassador of India Mexico He will succeed Muktesh K.
Pardeshi.
B. S. Mubarak Ambassador of India Republic of Guatemala
Kishan Dan Dewal Ambassador of India Republic of Mauritius He will succeed Yogeshwar
Sangwan.
Santosh Jha Ambassador of India Republic of He will be succeeding Mr.
Uzbekistan Vinod Kumar.
Shambhu S Ambassador of India Kingdom of Morocco He will succeed Dr. Kheya
Kumaran Bhattacharya.
Abhay Thakur Ambassador of India Republic of Benin High Commissioner of India
to Nigeria, Ashok R.
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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.

Subhash Chandra Finance Secretary India He has succeeded Ajay


Garg Narayan Jha.
Krishna Flag Officer Sea Kochi He will succeed Rear Admiral
Swaminathan Training (FOST) Sanjay J Singh.
Rajesh Pendharkar Flag Officer Maharashtra Naval He is a recipient of the
Commanding Area Vishisht Seva Medal for
distinguished service. He will
succeed Rear Admiral Puneet
Kumar Bahl, VSM.
Suraj Berry Flag Officer Indian Navy He will succeed Rear Admiral
Commanding Eastern Dinesh K Tripathi, AVSM, NM
Fleet
Ashu Khullar Head Citibank(India) He currently holds the
position of head of Asia-
Pacific capital markets. He
succeeds Pramit Jhaveri.
Ms. Padmaja High Commissioner of Republic of Fiji She will succeed Vishvas
India Sapkal.She is presently
working as Deputy Director
General of Indian Council for
Cultural Relations (ICCR).
Anurag Bhushan High Commissioner of Malawi He will succeed Mr.
India Vanlalhuma.He is presently
Joint Secretary in the
Ministry of External Affairs
Pinaki Chandra Lokpal or the anti- India Former Chief Justices Dilip B.
Ghose corruption Bhosale, Pradip Kumar
ombudsman(First) Mohanty, and Abhilasha
Kumari and current Chief
Justice of Chhattisgarh High
Court Ajay Kumar Tripathi
have been appointed as
judicial members under the
Lokpal.
Rustom Irani Managing Director Hitachi Payment He will succeed Loney Antony
Services
Vijay Chandok MD and CEO ICICI Securities He will succeed Shilpa Naval
Kumar
Ajay Narayan Jha Member 15th Finance He replaced Shri Shaktikanta
Commission Das.
• Four judicial Member Anti-corruption Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose
members are ombudsman Lokpal administered the oath.
former Chief
Justices – Dilip B
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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.

P. S. Narasimha Mediator Cricket It has restrained all other


administration,India courts in India from
entertaining for proceeding
with any matter pertaining to
BCCI and state cricket
associations.
Hasmukh Adhia Non-executive Bank of Baroda He has been assigned the post
chairman of part-time non-official
director and non-executive
chairman by the
Appointments Committee of
the Cabinet. He would serve
for a duration of 3 years.
N S Srinath Non-executive Karur Vysya Bank He will be appointed for a
chairman period of 3 years
S.S. Srinivas Officer on Special Duty South Coast Railway He is an Indian Railways
(OSD) Personnel Service (IRPS)
officer who previously held
the post of Chief Personnel
Officer (Administration),
South Central Railway.
DK Jain Ombudsman BCCI (Board of
Control for Cricket in
India)

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Sanjeev Ranjan Secretary Ministry of Road He will succeed Yudhvir


Transport and Singh Malik.
Highways (MoRTH)
Rakesh Kumar Vats Secretary-General Medical Council of He is currently Additional
India Secretary and Financial
Adviser, Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare.
Shailendra Handa Special expenditure India They are retired Indian
and Madhu Mahajan observers Revenue Service(IRS) officers
of the Income Tax
Department
Navkaranjit Singh Strategic Forces Indian Navy He will succeed Jasbir Walia
Dhillon Command Chief
Sanjay Jasjit Singh Western Fleet Indian Navy He will succeed Rear Admiral
Commander MA Hampiholi, AVSM, NM
who has been appointed as
Director General Naval
Operations in the rank of Vice
Admiral.

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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• Makarand Joshi – Aerobic


Gymnastics

• Narayan Shashi – Gymnastics for


All

Sardar Singh Member Standing Committees of This is decided in 38th General


the Olympic Council of Asia Assembly which held in Bangkok.
(OCA) He has been appointed in the
athletes standing committee.
Macky Sall President Senegal He is reappointed for the second
term.
Sheikh President Olympic Council of Asia He is appointed for five-year term
Ahmad Al- until 2024
Fahad Al-
Sabah
Sanjiv Mehta President Unilever, South Asia He will also be a part of the
Unilever Leadership Executive
(ULE).
K. Govindaraj President Basketball Federation of
India (BFI)
Azali President Comoros He was re-elected as the President
Assoumani of Comoros after defeating his
closest rival, Mohamoudou
Ahamada.
Zuzana President Slovakia She will succeed Andrej Kiska. She
Caputova(45) has deafeated high-profile
diplomat Maros Sefcovic by
winning 58% votes.
Kaja Kallas Prime Minister Estonia She is the first female Prime
Minister of Estonia, after the
liberal Reform Party declared
victory in the elections against
centre-left Prime Minister Juri
Ratas’s party.
Juha Sipila Prime Minister Finland He resigned along with his cabinet,
after failing to push through
parliament plans to overhaul
health services and social care in
the face of an aging population
Mahmoud Prime Minister Palestine He succeeds Rami al-Hamdallah
Abbas who resigned from this post 6
weeks ago.
Krishna Senator(First Pakistan She is also the first Thari Hindu
Kumari Kohli Female) woman to be elected to the
Pakistan senate. She has earlier
worked as a crusader for the rights
of bonded labourers in Pakistan.

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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.

Appointments & Resignations 2019 – APRIL

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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Keshav Murugesh Chairman NASSCOM (National Nasscom also designated


Association of Software Pravin Rao, Infosys COO
and services companies) UB as its Vice Chairman for
2019-20.
Jitendra Chaddah Chairman India Electronics and He succeeds Anil Kumar
Semiconductor Muniswamy
Association (IESA)
Ravinder Kumar Chairman Export Promotion He will take charge for the
Passi Council for Handicraft post of Chairman shortly
(EPCH) from his predecessor O P
Prahladka.
Usha Padhee Chairman & Managing Pawan Hans Ltd The post was vacant since
Director the superannuation of then
incumbent B P Sharma.She
becomes the first woman
CMD of the mini ratna-I
category PSU.
Shiv Das Meena Chairman & Managing National Buildings He will succeed Dr. Anoop
Director Construction Kumar Mittal.
Corporation (NBCC)
Vinod K. Dasari Chief Executive OfficerRoyal Enfield He will succeed Siddhartha
(CEO) Lal for CEO post.
Rajendra Kumar Controller General of He will succeed Smt.
Nayak Defence Accounts Madhulika P Sukul
(CGDA)(52nd)
Siddhartha Chief Operating Officer LIC Housing Finance He started his career with
Mohanty (COO) LIC of India in 1985.
Padmaja Chief people officer PwC India She takes over the role
Alaganandan from Jagjit Singh
Rajesh Kumar Executive Director Punjab National Bank Currently PNB has three
Yaduvanshi (PNB) Executive Directors,
namely, Yaduvanshi, L V
Prabhakar and A K Azad.
M S Yadav General Secretary All India Federation of
PTI Employees' Unions
(AIFPTIEU)
Mukesh Kumar General Secretary Judo Union, the Asian The present President of
governing body Judo Federation of India,
Partap Singh Bajwa was
elected as Vice President of
Judo Union of Asia and as
president of South Asia
Judo Federation.
Pierre-Dimitri Gore- Head of Asia-Pacific Uber He will succeed Amit Jain
Coty region
Manish Maheshwari Head India Twitter He will succeed Balaji
Krish who was serving as
the interim head after
Taranjeet Singh had
stepped down from the
same role.
Mayoori Kango Industry head Google India She will lead Google
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engagement with Publicis


(Parent Company of
Performics) and DAN.
Sanjay Manohar Managing Director McAfee India He will succeed Venkat
Krishnapur
Vipin Anand Managing Director Life Insurance He will succeed interim
Corporation of India chairman, Hemant
(LIC) Bhargava.
Karnam Sekar MD and CEO Indian Overseas Bank He is currently the CEO
and MD of Dena bank.
V.P. Pathak Member (Materials Railway Board Previously, he had been
Management) working as Director
General (RS), Railway
Board since June 2018, and
General Manager of
Chittaranjan Locomotive
Works since December
2016.
N. Kashinath Member (Signal & Railway Board He was associated with
Telecom) Train Describer Project,
Survey for the Mobile
Train Radio
Communication in
Northeast Frontier
Railway, etc.
Dilip Kumar Officer on Special Duty Lok Sabha
(OSD)
Vikram Kirloskar President Confederation of Indian He succeeded Rakesh
Industry(CII) Bharti Mittal who is Vice
Chairman of Bharti
Enterprises.
Vikramjit Singh President International Chamber He will succeed Jawahar
Sahney of Commerce- India Vadivelu.
Gargi Kaul Secretary Defence Finance The senior bureaucrat,
Kaul is currently serving as
Financial Advisor (Defence
Services), Ministry of
Defence.
Air Marshal D Senior Air Staff Officer Western Air Command
Choudhury AVSM
VM VSM
Doru Isac Technical director All India Football He succeeds Savio Madeira
Federation(AIFF)
Najma Akhtar Vice-chancellor Jamia Millia Islamia She will succeed Talat
University (JMI) Ahmad
WhileAir Marshal Vice Chief Indian Air Force(IAF) He succeeds Air Marshal
Rakesh Kumar Anil Khosla
Singh Bhadauria
Anwar Haleem Ambassador of India Hashemite Kingdom of He will succeed Mrs.
Jordan Shubhdarshini Tripathi.
Dr.Suhel Ajaz khan Ambassador of India Republic of Lebanon He will succeed Sanjiv

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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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Commerce and Industry


(Assocham)
Rajan Anandan Vice president Google India and South East
Asia

Appointments & Resignations 2019 – MAY


National
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
Sunil Sharma Acting president Archery Association of Sunil Sharma was
India (AAI) preceded by BVP Rao.
Rama Subramaniam Additional director Yes Bank The appointment was
Gandhi made under Sub-section
(1) of Section 36 AB of the
Banking Regulation Act,
1949.
Godavarthi Venkata Ambassador of India Republic of Senegal He succeeds Shri Rajeev
Srinivas Kumars
Shri Subhash Chand Ambassador of India State of Eritrea He will succeed Ravindra
Prasad Jaiswal. He is
presently serving as the
Deputy High
Commissioner in the High
Commission of India,
Abuja.
Shri Kumar Tuhin Ambassador of India Bosnia & Herzegovina He is currently serving as
the Ambassador of India to
the Republic of Hungary.
He succeeds Rahul
Chhabra.
Abhay Kumar Ambassador of India Comoros Comoros a strategically
located country in the
Indian Ocean off the coast
of Africa is also a member
of OIC (Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation).
Sanjiv Puri Chairman ITC Limited Now Sanjiv Puri became
the Chairman and
Managing Director (CMD)
of ITC. Previous Manager
of ITC Yogesh Chander
Deveshwar has passed
away recently.
Birender Singh Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee Now BS Dhanoa will be the
Dhanoa (COSC) Chairman of COSC with
effect from May 31, 2019
due to the retirement of
Admiral Sunil Lamba
Arjan Kumar Sikri Chairperson News Broadcasting His predecessor is Justice
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Standards Authority (retd) R V Raveendran


Admiral Karambir Chief of Naval Indian Navy He succeeded Chief
Singh Staff(24th) Admiral Sunil Lanba, who
retired from the service
after completion of 3 years.
Singh was the Flag Officer
Commanding-in-Chief
(FOC-in-C) of the Eastern
Naval Command(ENC)
headquartered at
Visakhapatnam, Andhra
Pradesh.

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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Chief Economic Member Advisory Council to the The commission is headed


Adviser (CEA), Dr. 15th Finance by N.K. Singh. The
Krishnamurthy Commission Advisory Council now has
Subramanian 12 members..
National Prime Minister India He sworn in for the second
Democratic Alliance consecutive term,Click
(NDA) here to read more.
leader Narendra
Damodardas Modi

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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Tod D. Wolters Supreme Allied Europe He has served in


Commander Afghanistan and Iraq as
pilot earlier..
Rakesh Sharma Vice President International Motorcycle Decision was taken during
Manufactures the annual general
Association(IMMA) meeting of (IMMA) at
Yogyakarta in Indonesia.
Complete List of Council of Ministers 2019 with their Constituency
Total 57 council of ministers, 24 cabinet ministers had taken oath including Amit Shah, Rajnath
Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani and Piyush Goyal, 9 as Minister of State with
Independent Charge and another 24 as Minister of State. Nirmala Sitharaman has become the
first full-time female Finance Minister of India. Read full details here:

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

Appointments & Resignations 2019 – JUNE


National
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
S S Chahar Additional Director Border Security Force’s He hails from Agra and
General (ADG) (BSF)- Tekanpur, 13th person to be elevated
Madhya Pradesh to this post.
Amit Agarwal Chairman Internet and Mobile He succeeds Rajan
Association of India Anandan, who was the
(IAMAI) former Google India
Managing Director (MD).
Dhruv Shringi, Co-founder
and Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of Yatra was
appointed as the Vice
Chairman of IAMAI.
Bhola Nath Shukla Chairman-cum- Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd He succeeds Shri Rajiv
Managing Director Ranjan Mishra.
Arvind Kumar Chief Intelligence Bureau (IB) He is currently serving as
special director in the IB.
He will succeed Rajiv Jain.
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Samant Kumar Goel Chief Research and Analysis He is presently serving as


Wing(RAW) Special Secretary in the
RAW. He will succeed Anil
K Dhasmana.
Amitabh Kant Chief Executive Officer NITI Aayog His tenure was extended
by two years, up to June
30, 2021.
Mrutyunjay Chief or Director India Meteorological He is from Bhadrak district
Mohapatra General (DG) Department (IMD) of Odisha. He succeeds KJ
Ramesh.
Dinesh K Tripathi Commandant(7th ) Indian Naval Academy He succeeded Vice Admiral
(INA) RB Pandit, AVSM, who
completed his tenure of
over 15 months.
Sanjay Mitra Defence Secretary India He was appointed as the
defence secretary on May
24, 2017 succeeding G.
Mohan Kumar.
Lt Gen PJS Pannu Deputy Chief Integrated Defence staff He will look after Air
(operations) Marshal Rajeev Sachdeva
with effect from June 1.
Mr. Ravinder Singh Director (Projects) Power Finance He is currently serving as
Dhillon Corporation Ltd (PFC) an Executive Director in
PFC.
Arun Kumar Director General (DG) Directorate General of He assumed the charge on
Civil Aviation (DGCA) June 1, 2019, succeeding B
S Bhullar who retired on
May 31, 2019.
V.S. Kaumudi Director General (ADG Bureau of Police He succeeded Sudeep
level) Research and Lakhtakia, a 1984 batch
Development (BPR&D) IPS Officer.
Alok Vardhan Director General Directorate General of
Chaturvedi Foreign Trade (DGFT)
Krishnaswamy Director General Indian Coast Guard (ICG) He succeeds Rajendra
Natarajan Singh who will be retiring
on 30 June 2019. At
present, he is serving as
Additional Director
General (ADG) of ICG’s
Western SeaBoard.
N Gopalaswami Electoral officer to BCCI's Annual General
supervise Meeting (AGM) election
P Jayadevan Executive director Indian Oil Corporation He succeeds R Sitharthan.
Ltd for Tamil Nadu and He will be coordinating Oil
Puducherry Company. He was
previously heading
Chairman's Secretariat at
the corporate office, New
Delhi.
Rabi N Mishra Executive director Reserve Bank of India He succeeds Rosemary
(RBI) Sebastian's retirement.
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Previously, Rabi N Mishra


was the principal chief
general manager of the
bank's risk management
department.

Padmanabha Governor Manipur Justice Lanusungkum


Balakrishna Jamir of the High Court of
Acharya Manipur administered the
swearing in ceremony at
the Darbar Hall of the Raj
Bhavan, Imphal.
Arun Kumar Sahu High Commissioner of Republic of Trinidad and He is currently serving as
India Tobago Deputy High
Commissioner in the High
Commission of India,
Ottawa. He succeeds
Biswadip Dey.
Manpreet Vohra High commissioner of Belize He succeeds Muktesh
India Kumar Pardeshi.
Ms. Padmaja High Commissioner of Republic of Tuvalu She succeeds Shri Vishvas
India Vidu Sapkal.
Sachin Bansal Independent director Ujjivan Small Finance This step is taken in order
bank to achieve the banks plan
to upgrade itself as an
state-of-the-art mass
market bank.
Abhinav Bindra Independent person World Archery To sort out the ongoing
trouble in the Archery
Association of India (AAI).
AAI, headquartered at New
Delhi, had violated the
constitution by
unanimously electing two
parallel bodies in
Chandigarh and New Delhi.
R K Chibber Interim Chief Jammu and Kashmir He Succeeded Parvez
Bank Ahmed
Sharad Kumar Interim Central India The move comes after the
Vigilance Central Vigilance
Commissioner (CVC) Commissioner (CVC) KV
Chowdary completed his
tenure at anti-graft body.
Thawar Chand Leader Rajya Sabha He succeeds former Union
Gehlot Minister of Finance and
Corporate Affairs, Arun
Jaitley. He served as
the Minister of Social
Justice and
Empowerment from 2014
to 2019.
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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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Abhishek Singh Chief Marketing BharatPe Abhishek Singh played an


Officer important role in building
World’s largest furniture
retailer IKEA’s India setup
in August 2018 at
Hyderabad,Telangana.
Anita Bhatia Deputy Executive UN (United Nations) She has a famed career at
Director Entity for Gender the World Bank, serving in
Equality and the various senior leadership
Empowerment of and management
Women (UN Women) positions.
Amish Tripathi Director Nehru Centre in London It works under the Indian
Council for Cultural
Relations (ICCR). He
succeeds Srinivas Gotru.
Lt Gen Faiz Hameed Director General Inter-Services He was the Adjutant
Intelligence (ISI) spy General at the General
agency Headquarters (GHQ),
Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He
succeeded Lt General Asim
Munir.
Qu Dongyu Director General United Nation's Food and He will succeed Brazil’s
Agriculture Organization Jose Graziano da Silva.
(FAO)
Inger Andersen Executive Director United Nations She succeeded Joyce
Environment Msuya of Tanzania.
Programme’s (UNEP)
Rajiv Mehrishi External Auditor World Health For four years from 2020
Organization (WHO) to 2023. He takes the
charge from the Supreme
Audit Institution of
Philippines.
Romila Thapar International member American Philospohical Her APS citation regarded
Society her as the "greatest living
historian of India".
Tapan Ray Managing Director Gujarat International He succeeded Ajay Pandey.
(MD) Finance Tec-City (Gift Recently, he was also given
City) the additional charge as
interim Economic Affairs
Secretary.
Narinder Batra Member International Olympic He is the first Indian to
Committee (IOC) become a member while
holding as President of
Indian Olympic
Association (IOA) and
Fédération Internationale
de Hockey (FIH)
Gianni Infantino President Federation For a global governing
Internationale de body of football till 2023.
Football Association He was elected President
(FIFA) of FIFA in 2016.
Anton Aditya President Badminton Asia There were seven people
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subowo selected as the vice-


presidents. India’s
Badminton Asia’s
president Himanta Biswa
Sarma was one among
them.
Tijjani Muhammad- President 74th session of United He will be succeeding
Bande Nations General Maria Fernanda Espinosa.
Assembly (UNGA) He is the second Nigerian
UNGA president after
Joseph Nanven Garba.
Nayib Bukele President El Salvador He will succeed Salvador
Sanchez Ceren, a leftist
former guerrill.

Kassym-Jomart President Kazakhstan He is the successor of


Tokayev veteran ruler Nursultan
Nazarbayev. Kassym-
Jomart Tokayev belonged
to Nur Otan party.

Zuzana Caputova President Slovakia She is the first female


president. She defeated
Smer-SD candidate Maros
Sefcovic. She is the fifth
president of Slovakia.
Mohamed Ould President Mauritania He will succeed Mohamed
Ghazouani Ould Abdel Aziz.
Prayuth Chan-ocha Prime Minister Thailand For a second term. He
of Palang Pracharat defeated Thanathorn
party Juangroongruangkit leader
of Future Forward party
Shefali Juneja Representative of of International Civil She will replace Alok
India Aviation Organisation Shekhar (IAS officer ) who
(ICAO) named for the post in
October 2015.
Pramila Jayapal Speaker(temporary) U.S. first South Asian
American woman to
preside over the US House
of Representatives

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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other position as deputy chief


executive officer of financial
services firm, Aditya Birla Capital.

Appointments & Resignations 2019 – JULY


NATIONAL
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
AK Misra Additional director on Jammu and Kashmir He was the former
Board of Directors Bank executive director of RBI.
(BOD) His appointment shall be
for a period of two years.
Sanjeev Kumar Ambassador of India State of Israel He is a 1997 Indian
Singla Foreign Service (IFS)
Officer. He is serving as the
Private Secretary (PS) to
Prime Minister (PM)
Narendra Modi since 2014.
He succeeds Pavan Kapoor.
Upender Singh Ambassador of India Republic of Panama He is a 1998 Indian
Rawat Foreign Service (IFS)
Officer. He succeeds Ravi
Thapar.
Shri Dinesh Bhatia Ambassador of India Republic of Paraguay

Bookanakere Chief Minister(19th) Karnataka He succeeded H. D.


Siddalingapp (BS) Kumaraswamy of Janata
Yediyurappa of BJP Dal (Secular) party.
Manoj Kumar Chairman Microfinance He succeeds Udaya Kumar
Nambiar Institutions Network Hebbar. Vineet Chattreem,
(MFIN) director of Svatantra
Microfin, was selected as
the vice chairman
succeeding Dibyajyoti
Pattanaik.
Adhir Ranjan Chairman Public Accounts
Chowdhury Committee (PAC)
Girish Chairman Estimates committee It is one of the three
Bhalchandra Bapat financial standing
committees of the
parliament apart from the
public accounts
committee(PAC) and
committee on public
undertakings.
Dr.Nalin Shinghal Chairman and Bharat Heavy Electricals He succeeded D.
Managing Director Limited (BHEL) Bandyopadhyay who was
(CMD) given Additional Charge of
Chairman & Managing
Director after the
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retirement of Atul Sobti.

P.K. Purwar Chairman and Bharat Sanchar Nigam He succeeds Anupam


Managing Director Ltd (BSNL) Shrivastava who has
(CMD) resigned on 30.06.2019.
Sunil Kumar Chairman and Mahanagar Telephone He succeeds P K Purwar
Managing Director Nigam Limited(MTNL) who was recently
(CMD) appointed the chairman
and managing Director of
BSNL(Bharat Sanchar
Nigam Limited).
Amita Prasad Chairperson Inland Waterways She replaces Shri Jalaj
Authority of India(IWAI) Shrivastava. Arun Kumar
Jha (AK Jha), 1985 batch
Indian Economic Service
(IES) officer, has been
appointed as National
Productivity Council
(NPC), Department for
Promotion of Industry and
Internal Trade, as its
Director-General. He
replaces Amita Prasad.
Badri Narain Chairperson National Anti- Currently, NAA has three
Sharma profiteering Authority members including J C
(NAA) Chauhan (Chairman, Tax
tribunal, Himachal
Pradesh) and Indian
Revenue Service (IRS)
officers R Bhagyadevi and
Amand Shah.
Ashutosh Gupta Country manager for LinkedIn He will replace Mahesh
India Narayanan, who was the
country manager for India
from January to June 2019.
N S Vishwanathan Deputy governor Reserve Bank of India He is in charge of
(RBI) regulation of banks, non-
banking finance
companies, and
cooperative banks. Besides
N S Vishwanathan, B P
Kanungo and M K Jain
were the two other deputy
governors of RBI.
B Harideesh Kumar Director Institute of Banking Earlier he served as the
Personnel Selection Executive Director of
(IBPS) Canara Bank. He succeeded
Anup Sankar Bhattacharya,
who has retired from his
services.

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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

Phagu Chauhan Governor(29th) Bihar He will replace Lal Ji


Tandon
Jagdeep Dhankhar Governor(28th) West Bengal He will replace Keshari
Nath Tripathi
Ramesh Bais Governor(18th) Tripura He will replace Kaptan
Singh Solanki
RN Ravi Governor(20th) Nagaland He will replace
Padmanabha Acharya
Dejan Papicas of Head Coach Table Tennis Federation He has signed a one-year
Canada of India (TTFI) contract which was offered
by the Sports Authority of
India (SAI).
Sanjeev Naryani Head of Business Bandhan Bank He will lead the branch
banking, wholesale
banking, agri-business,
retail lending, third-party
products and digital

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banking verticals at the


bank.

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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B Murli Kumar Special Expenditure 8-Vellore Parliamentary The election in this


Observer Constituency particular constituency
was called off after
detecting a systematic
design to influence voters.
Manoj Mukund Vice chief of the army Indian Army He succeeds Lieutenant
Naravane staff General D. Anbu.
Sarvita Sethi Vice-President (VP) Coca-Cola India She was appointed for
Merger and Acquisitions
(M&A) and new ventures
for Coke’s India and
Southwest Asia region
with effect from August 1,
2019. She will be
responsible for any new
acquisition. Harsh Bhutani
was appointed as the Chief
Financial Officer (CFO)
with effect from August 1,
2019. He will succeed
Sarvita Sethi.

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.

Boris de Pfeffel Prime Minister British He has promised to lead


Johnson Britain out of the
European Union (28-
nation bloc) with or
without a deal by the end
of October 2019 won the
contest to be the British
prime minister (PM)
succeeding Theresa May.

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

Appointments & Resignations 2019 – AUGUST


National
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
Ghotu Ram Meena Ambassador of India Republic of Congo He is presently serving as
Counsellor, Embassy of
India, Kyiv, Ukraine
Ministry of External Affairs
(MEA). He replaces Ms.
Nina Tshering La.
Pavan Kapoor Ambassador of India United Arab He replaces Navdeep Singh
Emirates(UAE) Puri, who has been
heading the Indian mission
in UAE since October 2016.
Rajiv Gauba Cabinet Secretary India He will be replacing PK
Sinha.
Pramod Chandra Chairman Central Board of Direct The ACC has also
Mody Taxes (CBDT) appointed 1983-batch IRS
(Indian Revenue Service)
officer Prabhash Shankar
as a new member in the
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CBDT.

Kandikuppa Chairman and MD Power Grid Corporation He replaces Ravi P Singh


Sreekant of India Ltd. (director (personnel), who
held the post of chairman
& MD of the company give
away the additional
charge.
Pramod Agrawal Chairman-cum- Coal India Limited (CIL) He will succeed incumbent
Managing Director Anil Kumar Jha retiring in
January 2020.
Sonia Gandhi Chief(Interim) Indian National She had held the post of
Congress Congress President
between 1998 and 2017.
She succeeds Rahul
Gandhi.
Anurag Adlakha Chief Financial Officer YES bank He replaces Raj Ahuja who
(CFO) previously served as the
senior group president and
head of financial
management of YES bank,
will now be in charge of
strategy, planning, and
functions of the bank.
Girraj Prasad Gupta Controller General of Ministry of Finance He succeeds Anthony
Accounts (CGA) Lianzuala as the new CGA,
Department of
Expenditure, Ministry of
Finance.
Harshad Pandurang Director National Institute of He replaces Shri. Sudhansh
Thakur Health and Family Pant. Prior to this
Welfare(NIHFW) appointment, Thakur was
a professor at Tata
Institute of Social Sciences
(TISS), Mumbai.
M S Velpari Director (operations) Hindustan Aeronautics He replaces Sunil Kumar.
Ltd (HAL) The appointment comes
after Sunil Kumar was
superannuated from his
service.
Rajesh Kumar Director (exploration) ONGC (Oil and Natural He replaces Mr. A K
Srivastava Gas Corporation) Dwivedi, who
superannuated on 31 July
2019.
Mr. Sandeep Kumar Director (Finance) Indian Oil Corporation He replaces A K Sharma,
Gupta (IOC) who retired as finance
director in May 2019.
Rakesh Asthana Director General Narcotics Control The post of NCB was lying
Bureau (NCB) vacant as incumbent
Abhay was appointed as a
director Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel National
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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)

Ravinder Takkar MD (Managing Vodafone India Takkar replaces CEO


Director) & CEO (Chief Balesh Sharma, who has
Executive Officer) stepped down citing
personal reasons. Read full
details here: Ravinder
Takkar Appointed As
The New CEO Of
Vodafone India
Replacing Balesh Sharma
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Pradeep Kumar(PK) Officer on Special Duty Prime Minister's He Succeeds Nripendra


Sinha (OSD) Office(PMO) Misra
Shri Abhay Thakur Permanent Economic Community Of He is 1992 batch Indian
Representative of West African States Foreign Service (IFS)
India (ECOWAS) officer.
Ms Chandrima President Indian National Science She is all set to become the
Shaha (66) Academy (INSA) first woman president of
the Indian National Science
Academy (INSA) from
January 1, 2020. She will
succeed Ajay K. Sood.
Shaha will assume her new
office along with the newly
elected council of 30 other
members from January.
Amit Nayyar President Paytm His appointment comes a
week after Madhur Deora,
the Chief Financial
Officer(CFO) was also
elected as the President of
Paytm. Before joining
Paytm, he worked as
Managing Director(MD) at
Mumbai-based investment
bank Arpwood Capital.
Guruprasad Secretary Department for He replaces Ramesh
Mohapatra Promotion of Industry Abhishek. Prior to this
and Internal Trade appointment, he served as
(DPIIT) chairman of the Airports
Authority of India (AAI).
Ravi Capoor Secretary Ministry of Textiles He succeeds Raghvendra
Singh.
Ajay Kumar Secretary Defence He will replace Sanjay
Mitra (a 1982 batch West
Bengal-cadre IAS officer)
whose term ends on
August 23, 2019.
E L S N Bala Prasad Special Secretary President Ram Nath He was appointed under
Kovind the Central Staffing
Scheme.

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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