Current Affairs - June 2020

Month June 2020 Type Appointments

24 Current Affairs were found in Month - June 2020 for Type - Appointments

Appointments 1. Lazarus Chakwera elected as the new President of Malawi (East Africa). 2. Micheal Martin has been elected as new Prime Minister of Ireland, replacing Leo Varadkar. 3. Vini Mahajan has been appointed as First Female Chief Secretary of Punjab. 4. Actor Pankaj Tripathi is appointed as brand ambassador of Patna’s Khadi Mall by Government of Bihar, India’s first ever Kadhi mall. 5. Anandiben Patel (Governor of Uttar Pradesh) has been given additional charge as Governor of Madhya Pradesh. 6. Cricketer is appointed as head coach of team. He is most run-getter in . 7. Former England Cricketer Clare Connor is to become first female president of 233 year old Marylebone Cricket Club. She will replace Kumar Sangakkara from October 1, 2021. Sangakkara is first non-British MCC president. 8. Former Gujarat HC Judge Rajesh Shukla is appointed as 5th Lokayukta of Gujarat State. 9. Govt. appointed Brajendra Navnit as as India's new ambassador to World Trade Organization (WTO), replacing JS Deepak. 10. Indian-Origin Person Krishnendu Majumdar is named as BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Chair. 11. Kathy Lueders became new Associate Administrator of HEO- Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, making her the first female head of the human space flight program. 12. Kotak Mahindra Bank MD & CEO Uday Kotak appointed as President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2020-21, replacing Kirloskar Systems CMD Vikram Kirloskar. 13. Kubatbek Boronov has been Appointed as new new Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan. 14. Maharashtra government appointed Sanjay Kumar as new state chief secretary. 15. Misc. Appointments (June 2020) - Virendra Nath Datt Appointed as Chairman & Managing Director of PSU National Fertilizers Limited. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) reconstituted its advisory committee on service providers. It would now be chaired by Manipal Global Education Services Chairman T V Mohandas Pai. New Indian Ambassadors - Raveesh Kumar - Finland Sushil Kumar Singhal - Papua New Guinea. Sibi George - Kuwait. Gaitri I. Kumar - United Kingdom. Rahul Shrivastava - Romania. Monika Mohta - Switzerland. Shambhu S. Kumaran - Philippines Santosh Jha - Belgium. He will also be accredited as Ambassador of India to the European Union. Vijay Khanduja - Zimbabwe. RBI approved extension of tenure for Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) MD and CEO Subramanian Sundar by 6 months. Twitter appointed ex-Google CFO Patrick Pichette as new board chairman. Universal Sompo General Insurance Company Appointed Sharad Mathur as its MD & CEO. NBFC India Infoline Finance Limited (IIFL) Appointed Cricketer Rohit Sharma as its first-ever brand ambassador. Biswajit Dasgupta is appointed as Chief of Staff of Eastern Naval Command of Indian Navy. President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Javed Iqbal Wani as a Judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Gita Mittal is current chief justice of J&K High Court. Google Appointed India's Prabhakar Raghavan as head Google Search and Assistant. UTI Mutual Fund appointed Imtaiyazur Rahman as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Attorney General of India, KK Venugopal's term has been extended by one year. Anmol Narang becacme 1st observant Sikh to graduate from distinguished United States (US) Military Academy. Devendra Kumar Singh has been appointed as Central Government nominee Director on Board of Directors of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). Mohammad Mustafa is MD and CEO of SIDBI. Former SC judge DK Jain will continue as Board of Control for ’s ethics officer and ombudsman, after getting 1 year extension. RBI approved re-appointment of Kaizad Bharucha as Executive Director of HDFC Bank. Nirakar Pradhan is appointed as new as CEO of Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA). Jaideep Nandi is appointed as new MD of Bajaj Consumer Care. Indian-origin chief of London Stock Exchange, Nikhil Rathi is appointed as new chief executive of UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. 16. RBI Subsidiary IFTAS (Indian Financial Technology & Allied Services) appointed T Rabi Sankar as its Chairman and N Rajendran as CEO. 17. Rajeev Topno has been appointed as Senior Advisor to Executive Director (ED) of World Bank (Aparna Subramaniam). 18. TATA Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran has been re-nominated by Govt as a Part-Time Non-Official Director on RBI Central board for 2 years. RBI Central Board consists of 21 members. Currently, RBI’s central board has 15 directors, including Governor and three Deputy Governors. Governor - Shaktikanta Das Deputy governors - M.D. Patra, M. K. Jain, B.P. Kanungo 19. Tamil Nadu girl M Nethra has been appointed as ‘Goodwill Ambassador for the Poor’ by the United Nations Association for Development and Peace (UNADAP). 20. Turkey''s Volkan Bozkir has been elected as president of 75th UN General Assembly of United Nations, which begins in September 2020. He will take over from Nigeria's Tijjani Muhammad-Bande. 21. U.S. Senate appointed Indian-American scientist Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan as Director of National Science Foundation(NSF). He is 2nd Indian-American to be nominated to this position, with first being Subra Suresh (October 2010 - March 2013). 22. Urjit Patel has been appointed as Chairman of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), an economic think tank based in New Delhi. 23. World Athletics appointed Laurent Boquillet as the Head of Global Development. 24. Évariste Ndayishimiye has been appointed as President of Burundi (East Africa). He replaced Pierre Nkurunziza who died recently. Top

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