Important Appointments in 2020
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Important Appointments in 2020 Features Overview – ▪ Access to 80+ Complimentary Concept videos with mains level new pattern questions ▪ Complete Updated Current Affairs until September 2020 ▪ Special Focus on Banking & Financial Awareness ▪ Complete Static GK Coverage ▪ Live Practice Sessions for English, Reasoning, Quant with Exact Mains Level Questions ▪ Special Coverage of Entire Static GK ▪ Entire SBI Clerk Mains preparation covered in only 1299/- Question Who has been appointed Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Shipyard Ltd Name Position a) Hemant Khatri Aveek Sarkar Chairman of Press Trust of India b) Aveek Sarkar c) V K Yadav V K Yadav CEO of Railway Board d) K Padmakar K Padmakar Chairman and MD of Bharat Petroleum e) Subhash Kamath Corporation Limited Subhash Kamath Chairman of Advertising Standards Council of India Question Who has been appointed as Chairman of Women’s National Selection Panel by BCCI ? a) Moctar Ouane b) Neetu David c) Khushi Chindaliya d) Sanyukta Samaddar e) Soma Mondal Name Position Moctar Ouane Prime Minister of Mali Khushi Chindaliya Regional Ambassador for India by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)- Tunza Eco Generation Sanyukta Head the Multidimensional Poverty Index Samaddar Coordination Committee Soma Mondal Chairman of SAIL Question Who has been appointed as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of SBI with effect from 01 October 2020. a) Prashant Kumar b) Vinay Tonse c) Prakesh Chandra Kandpal d) Charanjit Singh Attra e) Ashwini Ku Tiwari Question Who is the head of 3-member Committee of Directors (CoD) to look after the affairs of Lakshmi Vilas Bank, appointed by RBI ? a) Shakti Sinha b) Meeta Makhan c) Satish Kumar Kalra d) S Sundar e) None of these ▪ The three members are- Meeta Makhan, Shakti Sinha, and Satish Kumar Kalra. ▪ Meeta Makhan is the head of this Committee of Directors (CoD). ▪ Shri S Sundar: Managing Director & CEO Question Ravi Santhanam is the Chief Marketing Officer of which Bank has been recognised in the Forbes list of ’The World’s Most Influential CMOs and ranked at Number 39. a) ICICI b) HDFC c) Axis Bank d) SBI e) BOB ▪ #HumHaarNahiMaanenge ▪ #HDFCBankSafetyGrid campaign 1. Phil Schiller: Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing, Apple 2. Stephanie McMahon: Chief Brand Officer, WWE Question Who has been appointed as the Chairman of TRAI. a) Rajat Saud b) Suresh Chandra Sharma c) Balram Bhargava d) Subash Kamath e) P. D. Vaghela ▪ He will replace R.S. Sharma. Mr Vaghela will hold the post for a period of 3yr or until he attains the age of 65 years. ▪ Telecom Regulatory Authority of India founded: 20th Feb. 1997 Name Position GP Garg New Executive Director of SEBI Satya Pal Malik Governor of Meghalaya Bhagat Singh Koshyari Governor of Goa Jasneet Kaur Chief Human resource Officer of BharatPe Sanjay Dwivedi Director General of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Ravinder Bhakar CEO of the Central Board of Film Certifications Alok Mishra CEO and Director of Microfinance Institutions Network Question Who has been appointed as new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India ? a) C S Attra b) D K Khara c) M Rajeshwar Rao d) Sameer Kumar Khare e) Simanchala Das Question Who has been appointed as the MD&CEO of India Post Payments Bank? a) J Venkatramu b) Ramesh Babu c) A K Dixit d) Parth Pratim Sengupta e) Anil Kishora ▪ He is presently working as the chief digital officer at Equitas Small Finance Bank. ▪ Venkatramu has been appointed to the post for a period of three years. Question Which bank has appointed Prashant Joshi as Managing Director & Head of National Distribution. a) DCB Bank b) Federal Bank c) Lakshmi Vilas Bank d) City Union Bank e) None of these ▪ He will report to Surojit Shome, MD & CEO of DBS Bank India Ltd. ▪ DBS Bank India (Development Bank of Singapore) is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Marina Bay, Singapore. Question Ashwani Bhatia recently appointed as the Managing Director of which bank ? a) Yes Bank b) Bank of Baroda c) Union Bank of India d) SBI e) PNB ▪ Bhatia is currently the deputy MD and CEO of SBI Mutual Fund. Bhatia will be appointed in place of P K Gupta who superannuated on March 31. ▪ Bhatia has been appointed as the managing director up to the date of his superannuation, that is May 31, 2022. Question. Who has been recently appointed as the Chairman of the Social Media giant, Twitter? a) Chris Hughes b) Steve Chen c) Patrick Pichette d) Jan Koum e) Mike Krieger ➢ Twitter Inc has appointed Patrick Pichette, a former chief financial officer (CFO) at Google, as the new chairman of the company’s board. ▪ HQ: San Francisco, California, United States ▪ CEO: Jack Dorsey Question. Who has been appointed as the chairman of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India's advisory committee on service providers? a) Uday Kotak b) T V Narendran c) M. S. Sahoo d) Arun Singh e) Mohandas Pai ▪ T V Mohandas Pai. The 12-member panel would advise and provide professional support on regulation and development of the service providers dealt with by the IBBI. Question. How many members are present in the reconstituted IBBI advisory panel on insolvency and liquidation? a) 12 b) 14 c) 13 d) 11 e) 15 Question. Who has been appointed as the President Designate of the Confederation of Indian Industry for the year 2020-21? a) Uday Kotak b) Vikram Kirloskar c) Sanjiv Bajaj d) T V Narendran e) Virendra Nath ➢ Md & & CEO of Kota Mahindra Bank, Uday Kotak has been appointed as the new President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the financial year 2020-21. ▪ Sanjiv Bajaj, CMD of Bajaj Finserv: Vice President of CII Question. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India board has restructured an advisory committee on Corporate Insolvency Resolution and Liquidation process by including four new members. Who is the chairman this advisory committee ? a) Uday Kotak b) T V Narendran c) M. S. Sahoo d) Sanjiv Bajaj e) Methil Unnikrishnan • Methil Unnikrishnan, General Manager is designated as the secretary of this Advisory Committee. ▪ Chairperson– M. S. Sahoo Question. Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana has been appointed the chief of the BSF. He will continue to hold the additional charge of DG of ______ a) MP Police b) Bureau of Civil Aviation Security c) Narcotics Control Bureau d) ITBP e) Gujrat Police ▪ At present, Asthana is working as the director-general of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security ▪ The BSF has been working without a regular chief since V.K. Johri took over as DGP of Madhya Pradesh. Question. Who has been appointed as DG of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security ? a) M A Ganapathy b) Usha Padhee c) Samant Goel d) Rajesh Ranjan e) Arvind Kumar ▪ Usha Padhee, joint secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, has been given additional charge as director general of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security List of Chiefs and DGS ▪ Army Chief– Manoj Mukund Naravane ▪ Navel Chief- Karambir Singh ▪ Air Chief– Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria ▪ IB- Arvind Kumar ▪ BSF- Rakesh Asthana ▪ CRPF- AP Maheshwari ▪ CISF- Rajesh Ranjan ▪ ITBP- SS Deswal ▪ NDRF- SN Pradhan ▪ RAW- Samant Goel ▪ ITBP Director General, S S Deswal Question. The Central Authority nominated to whom as the chairperson of Supreme Court Legal Services Committee. a) R.F Nariman b) BVR Mohan Reddy c) D P Singh d) Neerab Kumar Das e) Arun Mishra ▪ SCLSC is constituted for implementing legal services programme insofar as it relates to the Supreme Court. ▪ Justice R.F Nariman will replace Justice Arun Mishra. Question. Mustapha Adib is set to become the Prime Minister of which nation. a) Surinam b) Lebanon c) Tunisia d) Somalia e) Singapore ▪ Lebanon's Ambassador to Germany, ▪ Capital: Beirut ▪ Currency: Lebanese pound Question. Shri R. Masakui has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to which of the following Nation ? a) Taiwan b) Turkmenistan c) Chez Republic d) Jamaica e) Zimbabwe ▪ Presently Ambassador of India to the Republic of Zimbabwe ▪ Jamaica Capital: Kingston. ▪ Currency: Dollar. ▪ PM: Andrew Holness. Question. Yoshihide Suga has been elected as the new Prime Minister of which of the following country? a) China b) Singapore c) Philippines d) Thailand e) Japan ➢ Japan's ruling party elected Yoshihide Suga as its new leader replacing Shinzo Abe as the country's next prime minister. Question. Mohamed Irfaan Ali became the President of which nation ? a) Indonesia b) Yemen c) Mauritania d) Guyana e) Iran ➢ He succeeds David Arthur ▪ Brigadier Mark Phillips was also sworn in as Prime Minister. ▪ Additionally, former President Bharrat Jagdeo was named Vice President. ➢ Capital– Georgetown ➢ Currency- Guyanese Dollar Question. A 16-year-old girl Aava Murto assumed the post of the Prime Minister of which nation for one day, under the Girls Takeover program, organised as a part of the U.N a) Norway b) Switzerland c) Finland d) Iceland e) Sweden ▪ Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin handed over her power to Murto on 7th October 2020 for a day. Question. Which of the following nation has been re-elected with India as the Co- President of the International Solar Alliance for 2 Years ? a) Russia b) USA c) Japan d) Australia e) France ▪ ISA HQs: Gurugram, India; ▪ Founded: 30 November 2015. Question. Who has been chosen as the Prime Minister of New Zealand for the 2nd term? a) Jacinda Ardern b) Yoshihide Suga c) Mohamed Hussein Roble d) Hichem Mechichi e) Lee Hsien Loong ▪ Capital: Wellington ▪ Currency: New Zealand dollar Appointment (International) ▪ King of Jordan, Abdullah II, has designated his chief policy adviser, Bishr al- Khasawneh, as the country’s new Prime Minister ▪ Bishr Al-Khasawneh will succeed the previous government of Omar Al- Razzaz, which resigned recently amid criticism of it’s handling of the virus pandemic.