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Last 6 Months Important Appointments 2019 Imporant Appointments from Last 6 Months (Jan to June 2019) We Exam Pundit Team, has made “BOOST UP PDFS” Series to provide The Best Free PDF Study Materials on All Topics of Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude & English Section. This Boost Up PDFs brings you questions in different level, Easy, Moderate & Hard, and also in New Pattern Questions. Each PDFs contains 50 Questions along with Explanation. For More PDF Visit: pdf.exampundit.in Last 6 Months Important Appointments 2019 S. No Topics Page No 1. January 2019 – Important Appointments 2 2. February 2019 – Important Appointments 3 3. March 2019 – Important Appointments 4 4. April 2019 – Important Appointments 6 5. May 2019 – Important Appointments 8 6. June 2019 – Important Appointments 10 Page 1 of 12 Join Our Telegram Group to Get Instant Notifications, Study Materials, Quizzes & PDFs: https://t.me/exampunditofficial For Quality Study Materials & Practice Quiz Visit: www.exampundit.in | For Free PDF Materials Visit: pdf.exampundi.in Imporant Appointments from Last 6 Months (Jan to June 2019) January 2019 – Important Appointments Person Name Appointed as Organisation/Country Vinod Yadav Chairman Railway Board Sudhir Bhargava Chief Information Commissioner Central Information Commission (CIC) Sudhi Ranjan Mohanty Chief Secretary Madhya Pradesh Hemant Bhargava Interim Chairman Life Insurance Corporation of India Pramod Kumar Singh Secretary Competition Commission of India T C A Anant Member Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Brahm Dutt non-executive part-time chairman YES Bank Daniel Houghes Callahan Independent Director Tata Consultancy Services C.P Joshi Speaker Rajasthan Assembly Justice Sanjiv Khanna Judge Supreme Court Justice Dinesh Judge Supreme Court Maheshwari V Vaidyanathan MD & CEO IDFC First Bank Indu Shekhar Jha Member Central Electricity Regulatory Commission Priyanka Gandhi AICC general secretary Uttar Pradesh East Ravneet Gill MD & CEO YES Bank Skandan Krishnan Advisor Jammu & Kashmir Governor Parthasarathi Mukherjee MD & CEO Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ronojoy Dutta CEO IndiGo Meleveetil Damodaran Chairman IndiGo Deepika Padukone Chairperson Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of USA Representatives Gita Gopinath Chief Economist (First Woman) International Monetary Fund Su Tseng-chang Prime Minister Taiwan Charles Kupperman Deputy National Security Advisor USA Pawan Singh Arora Public Relations Officer (PRO) at Pakistan Page 2 of 12 Join Our Telegram Group to Get Instant Notifications, Study Materials, Quizzes & PDFs: https://t.me/exampunditofficial For Quality Study Materials & Practice Quiz Visit: www.exampundit.in | For Free PDF Materials Visit: pdf.exampundi.in Imporant Appointments from Last 6 Months (Jan to June 2019) Punjab Governor House Justice Asif Saeed Khosa Chief Justice Pakistan Poonam Singh Regional Director WHO Southeast Asia February 2019 – Important Appointments Person Appointed as Organisation/State Mohit Malhotra CEO Dabur India Gupteshwar Pandey Director General of Police Bihar Ajit Kumar P Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command in Mumbai P V Bharathi MD & CEO Corporation Bank Rishi Kumar Shukla Director Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Praveen Sinha Additional Director Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Pradeep Singh Kharola Secretary Civil Aviation Dinkar Gupta Director General of Police Punjab Sailesh Secretary Ministry of Minority Affairs Rina Mitra Principal Advisor West Bengal Sushil Chandra Election Commissioner Election Commission of India Flight Lieutenant Hina the first Indian Woman Flight Engineer Indian Air Force Jaiswal Pramod Chandra Mody Chairman Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Manoj Yadava Director General of Police Haryana G C Anupama first woman president Astronomical Society of India Anuj Sharma Commissioner Kolkata Police Justice Uma Nath Singh First Lokayukta Nagaland Justice DK Jain First court-appointed ombudsman BCCI Sanjiv Ranjan Indian Ambassador Republic of Columbia Nilambar Acharya Nepal Ambassador India David Bernhardt Interior Secretary United States of America Nayib Bukele President Elect El Salvador William Barr Attorney General USA Page 3 of 12 Join Our Telegram Group to Get Instant Notifications, Study Materials, Quizzes & PDFs: https://t.me/exampunditofficial For Quality Study Materials & Practice Quiz Visit: www.exampundit.in | For Free PDF Materials Visit: pdf.exampundi.in Imporant Appointments from Last 6 Months (Jan to June 2019) Major Gopal Mitra First differently-abled person from United Nations International Children's India Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Raya Al-Hassan First Female Arab Interior Minister Lebanon Megha Tata Managing Director Discovery, South Asia Muhammadu Buhari President Nigeria March 2019 – Important Appointments Person Designation Non-executive chairman of Bank of Baroda Hasmukh Adhia Secretary at MoRTH Sanjeev Ranjan chairman of Coordination Committee for 2022 Asian Games Randhir Singh Finance Secretary Subhas Chandra Garg Special expenditure observers Shailendra Handa and Madhu Mahajan Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Air Command Raghunath Nambiar Member of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Standing Committee Sardar Singh Brand ambassador of MG Motors for India Benedict Cumberbatch Chairman of National Commission for Backward Classes Bhagwan Lal Sahni Ambassador of India to the Republic of Benin Abhay Thakur High Commissioner of India to Malawi Anurag Bhushan Member of the 15th Finance Commission Ajay Narayan Jha Director General Naval Operations Vice Admiral MA Hampiholi New ASRB chief Aditya Kumar Misra Western Fleet Commander Rear Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh India’s Ambassador to Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma First female prime minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas Director of SAIL in Raw Materials and Logistics Vivek Gupta Indian Ambassador to Republic of Uzbekistan Santosh Jha President of Olympic Council of Asia Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah Goodwill Ambassador of UNDP Padma Lakshmi Next Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Karambir Singh Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Air Command R D Mathur Chief Scientist at WHO Soumya Swaminathan High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Fiji Ms Padmaja Secretary-General of the Medical Council of India Rakesh Kumar Vats ICC Cricket Committee Chairman Anil Kumble Senegal’s President Macky Sall Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia Ausaf Sayeed Page 4 of 12 Join Our Telegram Group to Get Instant Notifications, Study Materials, Quizzes & PDFs: https://t.me/exampunditofficial For Quality Study Materials & Practice Quiz Visit: www.exampundit.in | For Free PDF Materials Visit: pdf.exampundi.in Imporant Appointments from Last 6 Months (Jan to June 2019) Officer on Special Duty, South Coast Railway by the Ministry of Shri S.S. Srinivas Railways Director General of National Archives of India Venkata Ramesh Babu First female senator of Pakistan Krishna Kumari Kohli Citibank India head Ashu Khullar New chairman of LIC M.R.Kumar President of Comoros Azali Assoumani Special directors in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Anup Kumar Dubey and Sushil Kumar Chairman & Managing Director of Madras Rubber Factory K M Mammen Limited(MRF) Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Ajit Kumar Mohanty BCCI’s ad-hoc Ethics Officer DK Jain New Flag Officer Sea Training Krishna Swaminathan New Strategic Forces Command (SFC) Chief Air Marshal NS Dhillon Prime Minister of Palestine Mohammad Shtayyeh India’s Ambassador to Mexico Manpreet Vohra Ambassador to Armenia Kishan Dan Dewal Ambassador of India to the Republic of El Salvador B.S. Mubarak Kotak Mahindra Bank’s whole-time directors KVS Manian and Gaurang Shah Brand Ambassador of PhonePe Aamir Khan Non-Executive Chairman of Karur Vysya Bank N S Srinath President of Unilever, South Asia Sanjiv Mehta Brand Ambassador of PolicyX.com Virender Sehwag India’s first Lokpal Justice PC Ghose Non-executive Chairman of Axis Bank Rakesh Makhija First transgender election ambassador Gauri Sawant 13th Chief Minister of Goa Pramod Sawant CEO of Mercer India Arvind Laddha Flag Officer Commanding Maharashtra Naval Area Rear Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar Brand Ambassador of Aeronutrix’s Fast&Up Mayank Agarwal Ambassador of TIFF’s ‘Share Her Journey’ Rima Das MD and CEO of ICICI Securities Vijay Chandok Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Morocco Shambhu S Kumaran Hitachi Payment Services’ Managing Director Rustom Irani Slovakia’s president Zuzana Caputova Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet Rear Admiral Suraj Berry Coach for Indian Men’s basketball team Veselin Matic BFI President K. Govindaraj Page 5 of 12 Join Our Telegram Group to Get Instant Notifications, Study Materials, Quizzes & PDFs: https://t.me/exampunditofficial For Quality Study Materials & Practice Quiz Visit: www.exampundit.in | For Free PDF Materials Visit: pdf.exampundi.in Imporant Appointments from Last 6 Months (Jan to June 2019) RESIGNS/RETIREMENT Person Designation India’s doubles badminton coach Tan Kim Her 2nd Senior-most Judge of SC Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan Avast CEO Vince Steckler Bajaj Finserv’s chairman Rahul Bajaj Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev AIBA President Gafur Rahimov Founder of Jet Airways Naresh Goyal April 2019 – Important Appointments Person Designation Manu Sawhney ICC Chief Executive D Choudhury Senior Air Staff Officer, Western Air Command Vipin Anand Managing Director of LIC Shri Rakesh Malhotra High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Cameroon Vinod K. 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