Appointments 2017(Jan-July)
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Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF Appointments 2017(Jan-July) 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) 1 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2017 @ AffairsCloud.Com Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF 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 2 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2017 @ AffairsCloud.Com Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF 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 Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF 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