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Appointments of August 2023

  • Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana has been appointed as a member of the International Mediator Panel of Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC).
  • Justice Prakash Shrivastava has been appointed as Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
  • IRS officer Sanjay Kumar Agarwal has taken charge as the Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC).
  • Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will become a “national icon” of the Election Commission (EC) and spread awareness regarding the need for greater voter participation in the electoral process.
  • Geetika Srivastava, currently serving as joint secretary at the headquarters of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), will be India’s new chargé d’affaires at its high commission in Islamabad. After 77 years of Independence, India has appointed a female head of mission in Pakistan.
  • Infosys Enters Partnership with Women’s Tennis Champion Iga Swiatek as Global Brand Ambassador Focused on Advancing Digital Innovation and Empowering Women Globally. Infosys Signs Tennis Legend Rafael Nadal As Ambassador For 3 Years to reshape tennis through AI-powered insights and immersive digital experiences.
  • The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Kamlesh Varshney and Amarjeet Singh as SEBI Whole-Time Members.
  • Justice Subhasis Talapatra has taken the oath as the 33rd Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court.
  • The Central government has granted a one-year extension to Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, making him the longest-serving cabinet secretary in India’s history.
  • The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) recently announced the appointment of Prof Ganesan Kannabiran as its new director.

Appointments of July 2023

  • The government has extended the tenure of Brajendra Navnit as Ambassador of India to the World Trade Organisation for nine months till 31 March next year.
  • The Board of Control of Cricket (BCCI) has appointed Ajit Agarkar as the chairman of the Senior Men’s Cricket Selection Committee.
  • The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet approved the reappointment of Tushar Mehta as the Solicitor General of India for three years.
  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed P. Vasudevan as executive director.
  • Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman has been selected by the government as the new chairperson of the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).
  • Telangana Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Kerala Chief Justice S. Venkatanarayana Bhatti have been appointed as judges of the Supreme Court by the President.
  • Manoj Yadava, a senior IPS officer from the Haryana cadre, has been designated as the new Director General of the Railway Protection Force (RPF).
  • Rakesh Pal has been appointed as the 25th Director General (DG) of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
  • T V Narendran has been reappointed as the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Tata Steel for five years.
  • Supreme Court extended the term of SK Mishra as the Director of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) until September 15.
  • James Ferguson ‘Jim’ Skea of the United Kingdom was elected as the new chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in Nairobi, Kenya.

Appointments of June 2023

  • Ravi Sinha has been appointed as the chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).
  • Janardan Prasad has been appointed as the new Director General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI).
  • Praveen Srivastava’s appointment as the Central Vigilance Commissioner.
  • The government of India has appointed Swaminathan Janakiraman as a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
  • Hasmukh Adhia, a senior retired bureaucrat and former Union Finance Secretary & Revenue Secretary, has been named as the Chairman of GIFT City Ltd.
  • The 193 UN Member States, elected a veteran diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago, Dennis Francis as the President of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.
  • Celeste Saulo of Argentina has been appointed as the first female Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
  • Nusrat Choudhury became the first female Muslim federal judge in the United States. Nusrat Choudhury proudly represents her Bangladeshi-American heritage.
  • Ms. Nirmala Lakshman has been appointed Chairperson of the Board of Directors of The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited (THGPPL) for a term of three years.
  • Latvian Parliament elects foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics as the new president.
  • Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected as President of Turkey.

Appointments of May 2023

  • Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and senior advocate KV Viswanathan will be sworn in as Supreme Court judges.
  • Indian-origin Captain Pratima Bhullar Maldonado has become the highest-ranking South Asian woman in the New York Police Department.
  • The government has appointed Ravneet Kaur as the Chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
  • The US Senate has approved Geeta Rao Gupta, an Indian American, as the Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s Issues in the State Department.
  • Praveen Sood, the Director General of Police in Karnataka, has been appointed as the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
  • Rajiv Dhar is the new MD & CEO of National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited (NIIFL).
  • Ajay Banga has been selected as the 14th President of the World Bank.
  • Ajit Kumar Mohanty is the new Chairman of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
  • Praveen Kumar Srivastava is the new CVC.
  • Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected as President of Turkey.
  • Bola Tinubu was sworn in as the President of Nigeria on May 29.

Appointments of April 2023

  • The government announced the appointment of Siddhartha Mohanty as the Chairperson of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) until June 29, 2024.
  • Anant Maheshwari, the President of Microsoft India, has been appointed as the Chairperson of Nasscom for the period 2023-24.
  • Shantanu Roy is the new CMD of BEML Limited.
  • Arun Sinha is the new Chairman of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO).

Appointments of March 2023

  • Shaktikanta Das, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has been named “Governor of the Year” for 2023 by Central Banking, an international economic research journal.
  • Ram Chandra Poudel, a veteran Nepali Congress leader and former Deputy Prime Minister, was elected as the new President of Nepal.
  • Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav becomes Nepal’s third Vice President.
  • The Indian government has appointed Deepak Mohanty as the new chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).
  • Lalit Kumar Gupta has been approved as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI).
  • S.S. Dubey took charge as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA).
  • Rajesh Malhotra has been appointed as the principal director general of the Press Information Bureau (PIB).

Appointments of February 2023

Appointment
  • BVR Subrahmanyam is the new CEO of NITI Ayog.
  • Chris Kipkins of New Zealand is to succeed Jacinda Ardern as PM.
  • Retired director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), Shri Pankaj Kumar Singh, was recently appointed as the Deputy National Security Adviser in National Security Council Secretariat for a period of two years.
  • UNICEF India: Ayushmann Khurrana named as National Ambassador of child rights.
  • President Draupadi Murmu named new governors in 12 states and 1 UT
    • Governor of Arunachal Pradesh Lt. General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik (Retired)
    • Governor of Sikkim Lakshman Prasad Acharya,
    • Governor of Jharkhand C P Radhakrishnan,
    • Governor of Himachal Pradesh Shiv Pratap Shukla,
    • Governor of Assam Gulab Chand Kataria,
    • Governor of Andhra Pradesh S. Abdul Nazeer
    • Governor of Andhra Pradesh appointed as Governor of Chhattisgarh Justice (Retd) Biswa Bhusan Harichandan
    • Governor of Chhattisgarh appointed as Governor of Manipur Anusuiya Uikye
    • Governor of Manipur appointed as Governor of Nagaland La. Ganesan
    • Governor of Bihar appointed as Governor of Meghalaya Phagu Chauhan
    • Governor of Himachal Pradesh appointed as Governor of Bihar Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
    • Governor of Arunachal Pradesh appointed as Lt. Governor of Ladakh Brig (Dr) B D Mishra (Retd)
    • Governor of Jharkhand appointed as Governor of Maharashtra Ramesh Bais

Appointments of January 2023

  • Chris Hipkins of New Zealand is to succeed Jacinda Ardern as PM. He belongs to the Labour Party of NZ.
  • India’s Pranesh M Becomes Youngest Grandmaster at 16.
  • Folk singer Maithili Thakur was appointed the state icon for Bihar by the Election Commission.
  • Vikram Dev Dutt was appointed as the next director general in the Directorate of General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
  • Praveen Sharma has been selected for appointment as Director in the National Health Authority (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
  • The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has recommended the name of Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi as the new Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).

Appointments of December 2022

  • Praveen K Srivastava: CVC
  • Arvind Walia: Engineer-in-Chief of Army
  • Santosh Kumar Yadav: Chairman of NHAI
  • Ganji Kamala V Rao: Chief Executive Officer at FSSAI
  • Anil Kumar Lahoti: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Railway Board
  • Suhel Ajaz Khan: Ambassador of India to the Kingdom to Saudi Arabia
  • Hemant Gupta: Chairperson of New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC)
  • Dinesh Kumar Shukla: Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)
  • Ashwini Vaishnaw: Chancellor of Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, Vadodara
  • Jeremy Farrar: Chief Scientist of WHO
  • PT Usha: First woman president of Indian Olympic Association
  • K V Shaji: Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
  • Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC)
  • Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar: Chairperson of the National Statistical Commission
  • Santhi Kumari: First Woman Chief Secretary of Telangana

Appointments of November 2022

  • IAS officer Preeti Sudan was appointed as a member of UPSC.
  • SEBI announced Sundararaman Ramamurthy as the New MD & CEO of BSE.
  • PT Usha was elected to become the first women president of the Indian Olympics Association (IOA).
  • GoI named Deepa Malik as an ambassador of Nikshay Mitra.
  • Professor TG Sitharam has been appointed as the new Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
  • IRSEE Vinit Kumar was appointed as CEO of KVIC.
  • President Droupadi Murmu has appointed retired IAS Arun Goel as the Election Commissioner in the Election Commission with effect from the date he assumes the office.
  • Former Chief Economic Advisor, Arvind Virmani has been appointed as a full-time member of NITI Aayog.
  • Senior IAS officer, Gaurav Dwivedi was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.
  • Switzerland Tourism has appointed Olympic Gold medalist Neeraj Chopra as the ‘Friendship Ambassador’.
  • All India Rubber Industries Association (AIRIA) has announced that it has elected Ramesh Kejriwal as its president.
  • Justice DY Chandrachud becomes the 50th Chief Justice of India.
  • Rituraj Awasthi was appointed as the chairperson of the 22nd law commission.
  • Professor Kishor Kumar Basa has been appointed as the chairman of the National Monument Authority (NMA).
  • Dr Rajesh Ranjan has been appointed as the next Indian Ambassador to the West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire or Ivory Coast.

Appointments in October 2022

  • The government of India appointed Sangeeta Verma as the acting chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
  • Former cricketer Yuvraj Singh named brand ambassador of T20 World Cup for the Blind.
  • Jaxay Shah has been appointed as the chairman of the Quality Council of India (QCI).
  • The Centre has appointed Sanjay Malhotra as the new revenue secretary.
  • Mallikarjun Kharge was elected as the new congress president.
  • Justice DY Chandrachud was named as 50th Chief Justice of India.
  • Apoorva Srivastava has been appointed to serve as India’s Ambassador to the Slovak Republic.
  • Partha Satpathy has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Dr Adarsh Swaika was named India’s next ambassador to Kuwait.
  • Aparajita Sarangi has been elected as a member to the executive committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
  • 1983 World Cup hero Roger Binny set to replace Sourav Ganguly as BCCI president.
  • Actor Pankaj Tripathi was declared ‘National Icon’ by Election Commission of India.
  • Ajay Bhadoo has been appointed as the Deputy Election Commissioner.
  • Lalit Bhasin has been appointed as the national president of Indian American Chambers of Commerce (IACC).
  • Sujoy Lal Thaosen and Anish Dayal Singh have been appointed as the new director generals of the CRPF and ITBP respectively.
  • Sunil Barthwal assumed charge as the commerce secretary.
  • The Indian Space Research Organisation has designated Dr. Sankarasubramanian K as the Principal Scientist of the Aditya-L1 mission.

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