50 Most Important Appointments National & International January To July 2018

Chef de Mission of the Asian Games 2018 – Wrestling Federation of India
(WFI) president Brij Bhushan Saran Singh
Third transgender judge of India : Swati Bidhan Baruah
Coach of Indian women’s cricket team : Ramesh Powar
Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) : Anil D Sahasrabudhe
Film and Television Institute of India Chairman – Anupam Kher
New Foreign Secretary of Britain : Jeremy Hunt
Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) – Prasoon Joshi
President of NASSCOM : Debjani Ghosh
Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) chairman : Rishad
Premji
Chairman of the National Green tribunal : Adarsh Kumar Goel
Sebi whole-time member : Anant Barua President of the Payments Council of
India : Vishwas Patel
New President of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) : Justice L Narasimha Red
President of Mexico : Andrés Manuel López Obrado
Chairperson of Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) :Journalist Rajat
Sharma
New Managing Director of State Bank of India : Arijit Basu
Seven new members take oath in Rajya Sabha
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue Rakesh Sinha
Classical dancer Sonal Mansingh
Sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra
Former BJP lawmaker Ram Shakal
Kerala — CPI(M) leader and CITU state general secretary Elamaram
Kareem,
CPI’s Binoy Viswam and Jose K Mani of Kerala Congress (Mani).
President of Columbia : Ivan Duque Marquez
Central Board of Indirect Tax and Customs (CBIC) New Chairman –
S RAMESH
President of the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF) : Janardhan Singh Gehlot
Vigilance commissioner : Sharad Kumar
Acting chairman of Union Public Service
Commission (UPSC) : Arvind Saxena
President of the 73rd United Nations
General Assembly : Maria Fernanda Espinosa ( Foreign minister of Ecuador)
Ambassador for “For Girls and Science” initiative in France : Priyanka Das
Managing Board of World Economic Forum (WEF) : Sarita Nayyar
New Attorney General of Malaysia : Tommy Thomas
Deputy National Security Advisor : Pankaj Saran
First woman president of Paraguay : Alicia Pucheta
President of Egypt : Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Prime Minister of Lebanon : Saad alHariri
First female Prime Minister of Barbados : Mia Amor Mottley
Chairperson of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of
India Ltd. (TRIFED) : Ramesh Chand Meena
T Latha Appointed New MD & CEO Of Dhanlaxmi Bank Interim prime minister of Pakistan until General Elections are held : Nasir-ul-Mulk
Governor of Odisha : Ganeshi Lal
Giuseppe Conte Sworn In As Italian PM Pedro Sanchez Sworn In As Spain’s New
Prime Minister
Saraswati Prasad Assumes Charge As SAIL CMD
Airtel Payments Bank Appoints Anubrata Biswas As MD And CEO
Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra Gets Additional Charge Of DRDO Chairman
MK Jain Appointed RBI Deputy Governor
HD Kumaraswamy Took Oath As New Karnataka CM
Anil Kumar Jha Appointed CMD Of Coal India
Venezuela’s President Maduro Wins ReElection
Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Prime Minister of Malaysia
Nikol Pashinyan Becomes Prime Minister Of Armenia
Gina Haspel Confirmed As 1st Female Director Of CIA
Subhash Chandra Khuntia Appointed Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI) New Chairman
Sitanshu Kar Takes Over As DG Of Press Information Bureau
Carlos Alvarado Sworn In As Costa Rican President
Indu Malhotra, 1st Woman Lawyer Appointed As SC Judge
Sjoerd Marijne will take over as chief coach of women’s side
Hockey India Appoints Harendra Singh As Chief Coach Of Men’s Team
Director General of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) : Rajesh Ranjan
Lt Gen PP Malhotra Takes Over As Director-General Of NCC
Dilip Chenoy Takes Over As Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI), Secretary General
Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) : Balram
Bhargava
Chairman of ‘Boao Forum for Asia’ (BFA) : Ban Ki-moon
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) elected South Africa, Indonesia, Dominican
Republic, Germany and Belgium as non-permanent members of UN Security Council
(UNSC). They will have two-year term beginning January 1,
2019.
ASSOCHAM – President – Sandeep Jajodia
R K Pachnanda : Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
Director General of Border Security Force : K K Sharma
Rajnikant Mishra new Chief of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)