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January Name of the person Name of the Post BCCI President Anurag The Supreme Court has removed from the Office Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke Prof. David R. Syiemlieh Chairman of Union Public Service Commission Air Marshal SB Deo Vice Chief of the Air Staff of Indian Air Force Shivpal Yadav Akhilesh Yadav Dismisses him and appoints Naresh Uttam as Party’s Chief US Congress Members Kamala Harris Ami Bera Ro Khanna Raja Krishnamoorthi PramilaJayapal Paul Ryan re-elected Speaker of US House of Representatives Robert Lighthizer Chief Trade Negotiator Jovenel Moise President of Haiti SurekhaMarandi Executive Director Reserve Bank of India Karan Bajwa Managing Director IBM India S Padmanabhan Chairman of Tata Power Kalyan Krishnamurthy Flipkart’s new CEO Kumar Sharadindu MD & CEO of SBI Pension Funds Pakistan’s Gen. Raheel Sharif Head of Islamic Military Alliance Shalabh Seth CEO of Ola Fleet Technologies Daniel Ortega Nicaragua’s President for Third Consecutive Term Dr. Ausaf Sayeed High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Seychelles Vikram Pawah President of BMW Group India Jimmy Adams, former captain New director of West Indies cricket Housing’s ex-CEO Jason Kothari chief strategy and investment officer of Snapdeal Manish Tewari Senior fellow of US think tank Atlantic Council Rajesh Gopinathan Chief Executive Officer of TCS TCS CEO N. Chandrasekaran Tata Sons chairman. Ashish Shelar Maharashtra Cricket Association president Sanjeev Srinivasan CEO, MD Bharti AXA General Antonio Tajani President of European Parliament Birender Singh Yadav High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Sierra Leone Rajeev Singh Interim CEO of Prasar Bharati after S C Panda Alok Kumar Verma Director of CBI Adama Barrow Official President of Gambian BishwadipDey High Commissioner of India to Grenada AIFF president Praful Patel FIFA finance committee Anurag Thakur Himachal Olympic Association Head Vishal Kaul Chief Operating Officer (COO) of OLA Anerood Jugnauth (resigns) Mauritius Prime Minister Indo American Ajit Pai FCC, US communications regulatory agency-chairman Uttam Dhillon Special assistant to the President on ethics and compliance matters-White House position. Rex Tillerson Secretary of State US Derk Segaar Director of United Nations Information Centre (UNIC)

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Siddhartha Murarka Institute of Company Secretaries of India –Chairman Mike Pompeo US Central Intelligence Agency -Director V Shanmuganathan (resigns) Meghalaya Governor Dushyant Chautala Table Tennis Federation of India President AP Singh Interim Head of India Post Payment Bank Amulya Patnaik Delhi Police Chief Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit Additional charge of Meghalaya Nagaland governor PB Acharya Additional charge of Arunachal Pradesh Dr. Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar VC Nalanda University Chadian foreign affairs minister African Union Commission head Moussa Faki Mahamat SanjivRanjan (concurrently) Ambassador of India to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay Ivan Rogers(resigns) Britain’s Ambassador to the EU Anil Jalali HR Sir Tim Barrow Britain’s ambassador to the EU Ashok Warrier Ambassador of India to the Central African Republic Birender Singh Yadav Ambassador of India to the Republic of Burkina Faso Ashok Warrier Ambassador of India to the Republic of Congo Nikki Haley U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

February Name of the person Name of the Post Mehriban Aliyeva Azerbaijan First Vice President Frank Walter Steinmeier President of Germany Hassan Ali Khaire Prime minister Somali Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo New President of Somalia Cressida Dick First woman to lead Scotland Yard Rex Tillerson US secretary of state Achamkulangare Gopinathan UN Joint Inspection Unit Economist Sanjeev Sanyal Principal Economic Adviser Anand Kumar Gupta Director of NTPC Sasikala Natarajan AIADMK Legislative Party leader Satish Menon CEO of Kings XI Punjab Ashok Gulati, Manish Sabharwal, Non-Official Directors On RBI Central Board Rajiv Kumar Hemant Bhargava LIC’s Managing Director Ajay Tyagi SEBI Chairman Sandeep Jajodia President of Assocham Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey President of ICAI CAG Suman Saxena, Mukulita Vijaywargiya Whole-time members in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India Navrang Saini IDFC MD Vikram Limaye CEO & MD of National Stock Exchange (NSE) Tehmina Janjua First Women Foreign Secretary of Pakistan France’s Jean-Pierre Lacroix UN peacekeeping chief Edappadi K Palaniswami Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Vikas Swarup Next envoy to Canada 1.Madras HC Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul 2.Rajasthan HC Chief Justice Naveen 5 new judges to Supreme Court

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Sinha 3.Kerala HC Chief Justice Mohan M Shantanagouder 4.Chhattisgarh HC Chief Justice Dipak Gupta 5.Karnataka HC judge S Abdul Nazeer. Norman Isaac First Indian Technical Delegate of International Basketball Federation Neelam Damodharan , Atanu Kumar EDs in Bank of India. Das K Swaminathan ED in Indian Overseas Bank. Ashok Kumar Pradhan ED in United Bank of India. P Ramana Murthy Executive Director of Central Bank of India. Fareed Ahmed Khan ED in Punjab and Sind Bank. M K Bhattacharya ED of Indian Bank S Harishankar EDs of Allahabad Bank Government Cuts SEBI’s Chairman-Designate Ajay Tyagi’s Tenure by Two Years Ranganathan, Mehta Non-Official Director in IOB, PNB TR Zeliang (Resigns) Nagaland Chief Minister and Shurhozelie Liezietsu elected in place Dr Neelu Rohmetra First Woman Indian Institute of Management Director Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh Pirojsha Godrej Chairman, Adi Godrej to be Chairman Emeritus- Godrej Properties Arun M Kumar Chairman and CEO of KPMG India Govind Rajan Quits FreeCharge Chief executive office Jonathan Bullock(quits) Boards of Ola and Snapdeal Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre Head of Cauvery Tribuna Abhijit Sarkar Vice President of Asian Hockey Federation Former CM T R Zeliang Finance Advisor to Nagaland government Shigenori Shiga (Steps Down) Toshiba’s Chairman Birender Singh Yadav Ambassador of India to the Republic of Togo Subir Dutta Ambassador of India to the Republic of Madagascar Narinder Chauhan Ambassador of India to the Republic of Philippines Renu Pall Ambassador of India to Montenegro

March Name of the person Name of the Post Hassan Saleh Sudan’s prime minister Donald Tusk European Council president Park Geun-hye (removed) South Korea’s President Pradeep Nair Regional director for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka- Ford Foundation David Beasley New head of World Food Programme by UN ICMR head Soumya Swaminathan UN group on antimicrobial Resistance Member Amjad Hussain B Sial Secretary general of SAARC Seema Verma A top healthcare position in the Trump administration Pakistani American Ali Javed First Muslim of New York City Police Department (NYPD) on Emergency Iqbal Surve Head of SA's BRICS Business Council Upendra Tripathy Full Time Interim Director General of ISA Carrie Lam Chief Executive of Hong Kong Manohar Parrikar Goa Chief Minister. Nongthombam Biren Singh CM Manipur Yogi Adityanath Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 3 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2017 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Amarinder Singh Chief Minister of Punjab Trivendra Singh Rawat Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Deputy Chief Ministers of UP Sharma Justice Sharma Upalokayukta of Assam Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Defence Minister-Additional Charge Narendra Kumar New Chairman of Central Water Commission Vishwanath Mahadeshwar Mumbai Mayor Nand Kumar Sai Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Gopal Baglay Spokesperson of External Affairs Ministry Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court. Radhakrishnan Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. Justice Hemant Gupta Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. Justice Rajendra Menon, Chief Justice of the Patna High Court. Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court. BV Papa Rao, Jwala Gutta Governing body of Sports Authority of India (SAI). Mohan Das Government Terminates Service of Coal India’s Director Dr. Randeep Guleria Director of AIIMS Delhi Siddhartha Upadhyay Governing body of Sports Authority of India Tanushree Pareek BSF woman field officer Madhabi Puri Buch SEBI Whole-Time Member Shri Sudeep Lakhtakia Additional charge as DG CRPF R Subramania Kumar Additional charge of MD & CEO of IOB Bibhu Prasad Kanungo Deputy governor of RBI Mallikarjun Kharge Public’s Account Committee Chairman Sun Pharma’s Dilip Shanghvi Member on RBI’s western board Mahesh Kumar Jain, IDBI Bank's MD & CEO Kishore Piraji Kharat CEO of Indian Bank. Manhar Valji Bhai Zala Head of Safai Karamcharis Commission T S Anantharaman Part-time chairman of Catholic Syrian Bank Sima Kamil First Woman Chief of United Bank Limited (UBL)—Pakistan Vanaja N Sarna New Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs Kumar Mangalam Birla Merged entity Chairman of Vodafone and Idea. Ankur Khanna New Chief Financial Officer of ICC Shashank Manohar (resigns) ICC chairman Jason Kothari FreeCharge CEO Subhankar Roy Chowdhury Heaad HR for Asia Pacific for Lenovo Babul Supriyo Vice-President Of FIFA U-17 World Cup LOC P K Purwar MTNL CMD Baichung Bhutia (Sacked) AIFF advisor Bill Thomas Global Chairman KPMG Devang Mody CEO Reliance Commercial Finance Sam Ghosh (Quits) Reliance Capital’s CEO Mark Tucker New Chairman HSBC Manjeev Singh Puri Indian envoy to Nepal D. Bala Venkatesh Varma Ambassador of India to Andorra Manjeev Singh Puri Indian envoy to Nepal

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April Name of the person Name of the Post Ilir Meta President of Albania Mridul Gehlot President of kabaddi federation Rajiv Kumar Chander Permanent Representative to Geneva UN offices from India. Lenin Moreno Ecuador President. Tapan Singhel (re-appointed) Bajaj Allianz General CEO Ajit Kumar Srivastava & Shabri CBDT members Bhattasali Mahabaleshwara MS MD and CEO of Karnataka Bank Achim Steiner Administrator of UNDP Justice Gita Mittal Acting Chief Justice of Delhi HC B Venugopal, Sunita Sharma Govt MDs at LIC Sheela Patel named by the UN chief to panel on Urban development Gynaecologist Dr Duru Shah President of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR). Himanta Biswa Sarma Badminton Association of India's interim President Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) chairman Vinay Shah MD & CEO of LIC Housing Finance B.N. Mohapatra Railway Financial Commissioner Iran bars Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running for President Nita Ambani Member of IOC’s important commissions Shri Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar DG, CRPF Shri RK Pachnanda DG, ITBP T Krishnakumar Coca-cola India’s new chief Indira Banerjee New Chief Justice of Madras High Court Mahesh Kumar Jain IDBI bank MD and CEO K Kharat MD and CEO of Indian Bank MS Dhoni CEO of Gulf Oil for 1 day Brayan Jimenez banned for life-time by FIFA DGP Geetha Johri Gujarat’s first woman police chief Aliza Knox (quits) Twitter’s VP of Asia Pacific Prithika Yashini India’s first transgender police officer Tamilnadu Police Dept Malvika Sinha New Executive Director of RBI Kenichi Yokoyama New Country Director of India Resident Mission of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Quatrro's Raman Roy CEO of NASSCOM Rishad Premji vice chairman of NASSCOM Former Supreme Court judge Shiva Head of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal(TDSAT). Kirti Singh Mukta Dutta Tomar New Ambassador of India to Germany Anuja dhir First non-white circuit judge at Old Bailey in London Smita Sandhane MD of Saraswat Co-operative Bank. S.N. Subrahmanyan CEO -Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) Foreign Coaches in Athletics Name Sports Dave Smith (Australia) Race walking Galina P Bukharina (USA) 400m and 400m relay Dmitry Kislev (Russia) Masseur Elmira Kisleva (Russia) Masseur.

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May Name of the person Name of the Post Socialist Lenin Moreno President of Ecuador Hubert Minnis Prime minister- Bahamas Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' Nepal Prime Minister. (Resigns) Moon Jae-in South Korea President Edouard Philippe Prime Minister of the France Justice Mudgal Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee Mark Lowcock United Nations’ new humanitarian aid chief Usha Ananthasubramanian MD&CEO -Allahabad Bank R Subramania Kumar MD&CEO -Indian Overseas Bank DinabandhuMohapatra MD&CEO -Bank of India RajkiranRai G MD&CEO -Union Bank of India Sunil Mehta MD&CEO -Punjab National Bank R K SankaraNarayana MD&CEO -Vijaya Bank M O Rego MD&CEO -Syndicate Bank Mr Anthony Lianzuala Controller General of Accounts (CGA) Shobana Kamineni First Woman President of Confederation of Indian Industry Soumen Ghosh MD, Financial Services-- Bharti Enterprises Mallikarjun Kharge Parliamentary Affairs Committee Braj Bihari Kumar Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah 1st Non-IAS to head tea board Sanjay Mitra Defense Secretary Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has announced to employ 23 members from the transgender community. Sohail Mahmood, Pakistan's -new High Commissioner to India R K Mahajan, Mahender Singh CBEC members V K Saraswat JNU Chancellor Taranjeet Singh Country Director for India- Twitter Emmanuel Macron(39) France’s youngest President Harsh Vardhan Additional Charge Of Environment Ministry Anil Dua CEO of Dish TV India A German policewoman Bibiana First female referee in Europe’s top leagues. Steinhaus Debjani Ghosh Independent director Yes Bank Iran's President Hassan Rouhani won re-election by a wide margin. Aisha Mughal - First ever Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention transgender lecturer in Quaid-i-Azam on Climate Change (UNFCCC) University in Islamabad Anurag Mehrotra MD of Ford India Air Marshal PN Pradhan Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Dr S Christopher DRDO chief First Indian-born woman Rehana City councillor of London Corporation Ameer Tedros Adhanom Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Ghebreyesus (Ethiopia) Shuva Mundal Group General Counsel of Tata Sons.

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P V Sindhu Badminton World Federation Athletes’ Commission Google's Rajan Anandan Chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). According to Union Minister Jitendra Singh, the government has forced 129 government officers to retire for non- performance in the past few months. Anurag Tripathy Secretary of CBSE Amul Thapar Second Indian-American judge of US Court of Appeals. Rakesh Kapur Chairman International Fertiliser Association Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi Chairman of National Commission for Minorities Ananya Kamboj Young journalist at the global Football for Friendship (F4F) Social Programme in Russia. Manipur Governor, Najma Heptulla Jamia Chancellor Shubhalaxmi Panse and Pradip Shah Members of Banks Board Bureau George Kurian Vice-Chairperson Of National Commission for Minorities Vani Sarraju Rao Ambassador of India to Finland Jaideep Mazumdar Ambassador of India to Philippines Venu Rajamony India's ambassador to Netherlands Vinay Mohan Kwatra Ambassador to France

June Name of the person Name of the Post Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav President of 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. Lajcak Sher Bahadur Deuba Nepal's prime minister for fourth time Mohammed Bin Salman Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Aleksandar Vucic New President of Serbia Indian-origin Leo Varadkar Next Ireland PM Ana Brnabic First openly gay and first female Prime Minister of Serbia Mihai Tudose Prime-minister designate in Romania Kaushik Basu International Economic Association president. Sushila Karki (retires) First woman Chief Justice of Nepal Supreme Court Dalveer Bhandari Re-nominated Justice as its candidate for another term as judge at the International Court of Justice. J-K Governor N N Vohra President of India International Centre (IIC) Neeru Chadha First Indian woman member of ITLOS Indian origin Sikh Palbinder Kaur First turbaned judge in Canada Preet Gill First female Sikh MP to be elected to the UK's Houses of Parliament Ram Nath Kovind (resigns) Bihar Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi Bihar Governor Mukul Rohatgi Country's chief law officer (14th attorney general) Justice CS Karnan becomes (retires) First High Court Judge to retire while absconding Shashi Shekhar Vempati CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati Ramachandra Guha (steps down) BCCI Administrator Vikram Limaye MD & CEO of National Stock Exchange Nirupama Rao Public Policy Fellow to US Think-Tank Shaktikanta Das (retires) Economic Affairs Secretary Tapan Ray Economic Affairs Secretary S Ganesh Kumar Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India Sunil Kakar MD and CEO of IDFC Bank B K Manjunath Part-time chairman Lakshmi Vilas Bank

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RK Sharma Administrator for Sahara India Life Insurance Jeevandas Narayan Managing director of Manappuram Home Finance K G Karmakar, Gauri Shankar Directors of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) Vinay Dube CEO of Jet Airways Girish Wagh CV unit head Tata Motors Imran Khawaja ICC Deputy Chairman. Travis Kalanick (resigns) Uber CEO and Co -Founder. Rajiv Gauba Home Secretary Yudhvir Singh Malik Secretary, Road Transport and Highways. Subhash C. Garg Secretary of Economic Affairs. ArunaSundarajan Telecommunications Secretary. Ajay Prakash Sawhney Electronics and Information Technology Secretary Avinash K. Srivastava Consumer Affairs Secretary Jagdish Prasad Meena Secretary, Food Processing Industries Rajiv Kapoor Secretary, Chemicals and Petrochemicals. SanjeevaneeKutty, Secretary, Ex-Servicemen Welfare in the Defence Ministry. Arun Kumar Panda Secretary, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises,. Ravi Kant, Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping. Anand Kumar, Secretary, New and Renewable Energy. Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Power Secretary Indian origin doctor Kailash Chand Honorary VP of UK medical body Russian Diplomat Vladimir Voronkov Chief of United Nations Counter Terrorism Centre Rajesh V. Shah National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)Chairperson. SN Subrahmanyan CEO & MD of Larsen & Toubro Hoshiar Singh Chief of Copyrights office Lt Col Raja Chari First Indian American after Kalpana Chawla to be chosen by NASA for one of its missions from 18,000 applicants at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Ruchira Kamboj High Commissioner of India to the Republic of South Africa Param Jit Mann Ambassador of India to Republic Slovenia Reenat Sandhu Head of India's diplomatic mission in Italy. Gaitri Issar Kumar India's next ambassador to Belgium. Ajit Vinayak Gupte Ambassador to Denmark. Kenneth I Juster America's new ambassador to India Indian American Krishna R. Urs Ambassador to Peru for US Shamma Jain Ambassador of India to Greece

July Name of the person Name of the Post Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Prime Minister of Pakistan Carrie Lam Hong Kong's first female leader Lt General Mahesh Senanayake New Army Commander of Sri Lanka. Khaltmaa Battulga (Democratic Party) Wins Mongolian presidential election Sandeep Chakravorty (India's New York Consul General Ambassador to Peru ) Justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli Chief Justice of Nepal JDU President Nitish Kumar Chief Minister of Bihar for 6th time Ram Nath Kovind (NDA) 14th President of India TR Zeliang 19th Cheif Minister of Nagaland. KK Venugopal 15th Attorney General of India Achal Kumar Jyoti 21st Chief Election Commissioner Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah First Ever black assistant for Queen Elizabeth 8 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2017 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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M&M's Rajeev Dubey Governing board of the International Labour Organisation Rajiv Kumar Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Dinesh Malkani (quits Office) Cisco India President Himachal Pradesh DGP Sanjay Kumar National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Chief N Chandrasekaran Chairman of Tata Global Beverages Sanjiv Goenka IIT-Kharagpur chairman Kewal Handa Non-executive chairman of Union Bank Melwyn Rego Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Syndicate Bank. R K Pachnanda Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). John Joseph Director General of GST intelligence agency Raninder Singh (Re-elected) National Rifle Association of India President Debi Prasad Dash Director General of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). Leslie Thng CEO of Vistara Thomas Kuehl President of Nissan Indian operations Ravi Shastri New head coach of Indian cricket team Farzaneh Sharafbani First female CEO Iran Air Justice Vikramajit Sen Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC-chairperson) Subra Suresh President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU)-Singapore Senior IRS Officers Arbind Modi and CBDT Members Bajrang Dass Vishnoi Aarthi Subramanian Chief Digital Officer of Tata Sons Mukesh Kumar Jain MD & CEO of Oriental Bank Sushant Kumar Panda, Ameeta Suri, Members in the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). Pranab Kumar Das and Joseph Farooq Abdullah (Srinagar-Budgam) Lok Sabha members Kunhalikutty(Malappuram) UK's first woman Sikh MP Preet Kaur Parliament panel in UK Gill Smriti Irani Additional charge as I&B Minister NarendraTomar Additional charge -Minister for housing and urban affairs. Swami Smarananandaji Ramakrishna Mission president Bharat Arun Cricket India bowling coach until 2019 World Cup Mayawati (resigns) From Rajya Sabha MP post Shanmugh Natarajan MD of Adobe India operations Former minister Lord Davies Chair of the UK India Business Council Sanjay Kothari Secretary to new President Ram Nath Kovind Brenda Hale UK supreme court's first female president Google CEO Sundar Pichai Alphabet Board of Directors Ajay Kanwal Janalakshmi Financial Services- CEO Subhash Chandra Garg India’s Alternate Governor on the Board of Governors of ADB Shikha Sharma (Term Extended three- Axis Bank CEO year from June 2018 ) Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif (resigns) Over Panama Papers verdict Ravi Mittal Part-time member on IRDAI board Pradeep Kumar Rawat Ambassador of India to the Republic of Indonesia Bishwadip Dey (concurrently) High Commissioner of India to Montserrat Sanjiv Kohli (concurrently) High Commissioner of India to Niue