Recently Appointed Chief Ministers (According to Date) :

S. No Name of the State Chief Minister Sworn in on

1. Karnataka H. D. Kumaraswamy 23rd May 2018

2. Tripura 9th March 2018

3. Nagaland 8th March 2018

4. Meghalaya 6th March 2018

Latest CM & Governors List 2018

S. No Name of the State Chief Minister Governor

1. Andhra Pradesh N. Chandra Babu Naidu E. S. L. Narasimhan

2. Arunachal Pradesh Brigadier BD Mishra (retd)

3. Assam Sarabananda Sonowal Jagdish Mukhi

4. Bihar Lalji Tandon

5. Chhattisgarh Dr. Raman Singh Anandiben Patel (additional charge)

6. Delhi Anil Bajal (Lt. Governor)

7. Goa Manohar Parrikar Mridula Sinha

8. Gujarat Vijaybhai R. Rupani Om Prakash Kohli

9. Haryana Satyadev Narayan Arya

10. Himachal Pradesh Acharya Dev Vrat

11. Jammu and Kashmir Vacant (Governor's Rule) Satya Pal Malik

12. Jharkhand Raghuvar Das Draupadi Murmu

13. Karnataka H. D. Kumaraswamy Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

14. Kerala P. Sathasivam

15. Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan Anandiben Patel

16. Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis C. Vidhya Sagar Rao

17. Manipur N Biren Singh Najma Heptulla

18. Meghalaya Conrad Sangma Tathagata Roy 19. Lal Thanhawla

20. Nagaland Neiphiu Rio Padmanabha Acharya

21. Odisha Ganeshi Lal

22. Puducherry V Narayanasamy (Lt. Governor)

23. Punjab V P Singh Badnore

24. Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje Kalyan Singh

25. Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Ganga Prasad

26. Tamil Nadu Edappadi K. Palaniswami Banwarilal Purohit

27. Telangana K. Chandrasekhar Rao E. S. L. Narasimhan

28. Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb Kaptan Singh Solanki

29. Uttar Pradesh Ram Naik

30. Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat Baby Rani Maurya

31. West Bengal

Current Union Council of Ministers

S.no Portfolio Name

Union Council of Ministers

Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy 1 issues and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister Narendra Modi

Cabinet Ministers

1 Home Affairs Raj Nath Singh

Smt. Sushma 2 External Affairs Swaraj

3 Finance, Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley

Smt. Nirmala 4 Defence Sitaraman

5 Railways & Coal Piyush Goyal

6 Textile, Information & Broadcasting Smriti Irani

7 Road Transport and Highways, Shipping Nitin Gadkari

8 Commerce & Industry Suresh Prabhu

D.V. Sadananda 9 Statistics & Programme Implementation Gowda

10 Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharati

11 Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ramvilas Paswan

Mukhtar Abbas 12 Minority Affairs Naqvi

Smt. Maneka Sanjay 13 Women and Child Development Gandhi

14 Chemicals and Fertilizers, Parliamentary Affairs Ananthkumar

15 Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad

Jagat Prakash 16 Health and Family Welfare Nadda

17 Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu

18 Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Anant Geete

Smt. Harsimrat 19 Food Processing Industries Kaur Badal

Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Narendra Singh 20 Alleviation Tomar

Chaudhary Birender 21 Steel Singh

22 Tribal Affairs Jual Oram

23 Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Radha Mohan Singh

Thawar Chand 24 Social Justice and Empowerment Gehlot

25 Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment Dr. Harsh Vardhan

26 Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar

Dharmendra 27 Petroleum, Natural Gas, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Pradhan

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Planning (Independent Charge), Urban Development, Housing 1 & Urban Poverty Alleviation Rao Inderjit Singh

2 Labour and Employment (Independent Charge) Santosh Gangwar

3 Micro, Medium & Small (Independent Charge) Giriraj Singh

Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Information & Col. Rajyavardhan 4 Broadcasting Singh Rathore 5 AAYUSH (Independent Charge) Shripad Yesso Naik

Shri Hardeep Singh 6 Housing & Urban Affairs Puri

7 Power, New & Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh

Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & 8 Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space Dr. Jitendra Singh

Alphons 9 Tourism, Electronics & Information Technology Kannanthanam

Culture (Independent Charge), (Independent Charge), 10 Environment Forest & Climate Change Dr. Mahesh Sharma

11 Communications (Independent Charge), Railways Manoj Sinha

Ministers of State

General(Retd.) V.K. 1 External Affairs Singh

2 Finance, Shipping Radhakrishnan P.

Faggan Singh 3 Health & Family Welfare Kulaste

4 Drinking Water & Sanitation S.S. Ahluwalia

5 Social Justice & Empowerment Ramdas Athawale

6 Steel Vishnu Deo Sai

7 Rural Development Ram Kripal Yadav

Haribhai Parthibhai 8 Mines & Coals Chaudhari

Hansraj Gangaram 9 Home Affairs Ahir

Ramesh Chandappa 10 Drinking Water & Sanitation Jigajinagi 11 Railways Rajen Gohain

12 Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Panchayati Raj Parshottam Rupala

13 Social Justice & Empowerment Krishan Pal

Jaswansinh 14 Tribal Affairs Sumanbhai Bhabor

15 Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla

Ashwini Kumar 16 Health & Family Welfare Chaubey

17 Tribal Affairs Sudarshan Bhagat

18 Human Resource Development Upendra Kushwaha

19 Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju

20 Women & Child Development, Minority Affairs Virendra Kumar

21 Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Anantkumar Hedge

22 External Affairs MJ Akbar

23 Science Technology & Earth Sciecne Y.S. Chowdary

24 Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha

25 Heavy Industries, Public Enterprises Babul Supriyo

Sadhvi Niranjan 26 Food Processing Industries Jyoti

27 Social Justice & Empowerment Vijay Sampla

28 Water Resources, Rural Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Arjun Ram Meghwal

Human Resource Development, Water Resources, Development 29 & Ganga Rejuvenation Satya Pal Singh

30 Textiles Ajay Tamta

31 Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Smt. Krishna Raj Mansukh L. 32 Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers Mandaviya

33 Health & Family Welfare Smt. Anupriya Patel

Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Commerce 34 Industry C.R. Chaudhary

35 Law & Justice, Corporate Affairs P.P. Chaudhary

Dr. Subhash 36 Defence Ramrao Bhamre

Gajendra Singh 37 Agriculture & Family Welfare Sekhawat

New Appointments in the India 2018

S. No. Name of the person Name of the Post

Lt Gen Harpal Singh 1 Director General Border Roads (DGBR)

2 Chandra Bhushan Kumar Deputy Election Commissioner

3 Subrata Bhattacharjee Ambassador of India to the Republic of Serbia

Director General of Central Industrial Security Force 4 Rajesh Ranjan (CISF)

Lieutenant General PP 5 Director General of National Cadet Corps (NCC) Malhotra

Senior lawyer Indu Sworn in as the judge of Supreme Court 6 Malhotra

IRS officer Vivek R 7 Special Director in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wadekar

National People’s Party 8 CM of Meghalaya President Conrad Sangma

Biplab Kumar Deb 9 CM of Tripura (replaced Manik Sarkar)

10 Jishnu Devvarma Deputy CM of Tripura

Neiphiu Rio (replaced TR 11 CM of Nagaland Zeliang)

12 Sangeeta Bahadur Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus

Ambassador of India to Democratic People’s Republic 13 Atul M. Gotsurve of Korea

Debjani Ghosh (replaced 14 President, NASSCOM R. Chandrashekhar)

Rishad Premji (succeeds Chairman, National Association of Software & Services 15 Raman Roy) Companies (NASSCOM)

16 Keshav Murugesh Vice Chairman, NASSCOM

Indian shuttler Kidambi Deputy Collector in the state government of Andhra 17 Srikanth Pradesh Sanjeev Nautiyal 18 Managing Director & CEO, SBI Life Insurance (replaced Arijit Basu)

19 President, Badminton Association of India (BAI)

Secretary General, Badminton Association of India 20 Ajay Kumar Singhania (BAI)

Balram Bhargava Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research 21 (Succeed Soumya (ICMR) & Secretary, Department of Health Research Swaminathan)

Dilip Chenoy (replaced Secretary-General, Federation of Indian Chambers of 22 Sanjaya Baru) Commerce & Industry (FICCI)

23 Uday Kotak MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Veteran director Shekhar Chairman of central panel of 65th National Film 24 Kapur Awards

25 Janardan Singh Gehlot International Kabaddi Federation Chief

26 Vijay Srinivas New Director & GM of United India Insurance:

27 Saraswati Prasad New CMD of SAIL

28 Vishwas Patel New Chairman of Payments Council of India (PCI)

29 Justice Adarsh Kumar New Chairman of National Green Tribunal (NGT)

New Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes 30 S Ramesh and Customs

Mahesh Kumar Jain (Managing Director, and 31 New RBI Deputy Governor CEO of IDBI Bank, as the RBI’s Deputy Governor.)

32 B. Sriram New MD & CEO of IDBI Bank

33 Arijit Basu New Managing Director of SBI

34 Sandeep Bakhshi New COO of ICICI Bank

New Secretary in the Ministry of Information & 35 Amit Khare Broadcasting

West Bengal Governor 36 Additional charge of Tripura state Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi

New vigilance commissioner in the Central Vigilance 37 Sharad Kumar Commission (CVC) Acting Chairman of the Union Public Service 38 Arvind Saxena Commission (UPSC)

39 HD Kumaraswamy New chief minister of Karnataka

First-ever Chief Financial officer (CFO) of the Reserve 40 Sudha Balakrishnan Bank of India (RBI)

41 Anubrata Biswas New MD & CEO of Airtel Payments Bank

42 C K Prasad New chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI)

43 Sanjay Mitra Get the additional charge of the DRDO Chief

44 Pankaj Saran New deputy National Security Advisor of India

45 Ganeshi Lal New Governor of Odisha

Kummanam 46 New Governor of Mizoram Rajasekharan

47 Uttam Pacharne New Chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi

Justice Ramalingam 48 New Chief Justice of Manipur High Court Sudhakar

49 Ambika Sharma New Head of U.S India Business Council

50 Anil Kumar Jha New CMD of Coal India Limited

Subhash Chandra 51 Khuntia (He replaced TS Chairman of IRDAI Vijayan’s)

52 Pradeep Kumar Sinha Current Cabinet secretary of India

Chairman of the 22-member Public Accounts 53 Mallikarjun Kharge Committee (PAC)

54 Ashok Lahiri Full-time member of – 15th Finance Commission

55 Bhanu Pratap Sharma New Chairman of Banks Board Bureau

56 Rishad Premji New Chairman of NASSCOM for 2018-19

New Director General (DG) of Central Industrial 57 Rajesh Ranjan Security Force (CISF)

New Director General of the Indian Council of Medical 58 Balram Bhargava Research (ICMR)

59 Debjani Ghosh New President of NASSCOM 60 Himanta Biswa Sarma New president of Badminton Association of India (BAI)

61 Chandra Bhushan Kumar New Deputy Election Commissioner of India

New chairman of the central panel of the 65th National 62 Shekhar Kapur Film Awards (NFA)

63 Harpal Singh New Director General Border Roads (DGBR)

64 Indu Bhushan New CEO Of Ayushman Bharat Mission

New Director General of the Press Information Bureau 65 Sitanshu Ranjan Kar (PIB)

Suresh Prabhu given the 66 Ministry of Civil Aviation additional charge of-

First woman officer to be inducted as the first direct- 67 Prakriti entry combat officer in Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)

New Appointments: National

S. No. Name of the person Name of the Post

New Foreign Secretary of 1 Vijay Keshav Gokhale India

New Deputy National 2 Rajinder Khanna Security Adviser

New Managing Director of India Infrastructure 3 Pankaj Jain Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL)

New Chief Minister of 4 Jai Ram Thakur Himachal Pradesh

New Chief Minister of 5 Gujarat

New BCCI General 6 Saba Karim Manager

New Director-General of 7 National Cadet Corps Lt Gen B S Sahrawat (NCC)

New Chairman & 8 Managing Director of Air Pradeep Singh Kharola India

9 RBI Executive Director Uma Shankar

New President of ICCR 10 (Indian Council of Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Cultural Relations)

New acting Chairman of 11 National Green Tribunal Justice U.D. Salvi (NGT)

New Director of National 12 Institute of Nutrition R Hemalatha (NIN)

New Chairman of BARC 13 Nakul Chopra India

New Director General of 14 Abhay Narcotics Control Bureau 15 New Congress President Rahul Gandhi

New President Para 16 Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari Sports Foundation

New India’s Ambassador 17 Azar A.H.Khan to Turkmenistan

Re-appointed Prasar 18 A Surya Prakash Bharati Chairman

Chairman of 15th 19 NK Singh Finance Commission

20 New CEO & MD of Infosys Salil S. Parekh

UN Environment’s 21 Goodwill Ambassador for Dia Mirza India

Chairman of National 22 Anti-Profiteering BN Sharma Authority under GST

New Director-General of 23 Police (DGP) of Andhra N Sambasiva Rao Pradesh

First woman Pilot in 24 Shubhangi Swaroop Indian Navy

25 India’s G20 Sherpa Shaktikanta Das

New Madras High-Court 26 Justice Satrughana Pujahari judge

President of Institute for 27 Defence Studies and Nirmala Sitharaman (Union Defence Minister) Analysis (IDSA)

28 SEBI Executive Director Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar

New Chairman of Bombay 29 S. Ravi Stock Exchange (BSE)

President of 36th Intl 30 Vijay Prasad Dimri (Scientist) Geological Congress

First woman President of 31 Debjani Ghosh. NASSCOM in 2018

32 New Secretary (security) K. Sinha. in Cabinet Secretariat

33 New Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia

New Private Secretary to 34 Vikram Singh President

New First Woman Police 35 Neelmani N. Raju Chief of Karnataka

New Director General of 36 National Investigation Yogesh Chander Modi Agency (NIA)

New MD & CEO of India 37 Post Payments Bank Suresh Sethi (IPPB)

New Special Director of 38 Central Bureau of Rakesh Asthana. Investigation (CBI)

New CEO & MD of Tata 39 T. V. Narendran Steel

New CEO of Bharti AXA 40 Vikas Seth Life Insurance

New AIBA Women’s Youth World 41 MC Mary Kom Championships Ambassador

New Vice Chief of Naval 42 Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar Staff

New CEO of Association 43 of Mutual Funds in India N.S. Venkatesh (AMFI)

New as Additional 44 Alok Kumar Pateria Director General of CISF

New Lokayukta of 45 Naresh Kumar Madhya Pradesh

New Chief of Film and 46 Television Institute of Anupam Kher India (FTII)

47 New HSBC India CEO Jayant Rikhye 48 New SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar

New President of US- 49 Nisha Desai Biswal India Business Council

New CMD of Cotton 50 Corporation of India (CCI) P. Alli Rani. Ltd

New CMD of National 51 Hydroelectric Power Balraj Joshi. Corporation (NHPC) Ltd

The first Chairman of the five-member Economic 52 Bibek Debroy Advisory Council (EAC- PM)

New Chairman & Managing Director of 53 Shashi Shanker. ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation)

New CMD of Indian Railway Catering and 54 Mahendra Pratap Mall. Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd

New CMD of the United 55 M. Nagaraja Sarma. India Insurance Co. Ltd

New Director General 56 (DG) of the Sashastra Rajni Kant Misra. Seema Bal (SSB)

NPCI’s (National 57 Payments Corporation of B. Sambamurthy India) interim Chairman

New interim GSTN 58 A.B Panday Chairman

New Brand Ambassador of 59 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Akshay Kumar. in Uttarakhand

Chairman of Press Trust 60 Viveck Goenka. of India (PTI)

New Union Minister of 61 Piyush Goyal. Railways New Election 62 Sunil Arora. Commissioner of India

Chairman of the Central 63 Board of Secondary Anita Karwal Education (CBSE)

64 New Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba

New Comptroller and 65 Auditor General (CAG) of Rajiv Mehrishi India

New Defence Minister of 66 Nirmala Sitharaman. India

New Director General 67 (DG) Railway Protection Dharmendra Kumar. Force (RPF)

New Chairman of Railway 68 Ashwani Lohani. Board

New Executive Director of the Insolvency and 69 Mamta Suri. Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)

New Chairman of the 70 Central Board of Film Prasoon Joshi Certification(CBFC)

New Vice President of 71 Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu India

New Chief Justice of 72 Justice Dipak Misra. India (CJI)

New CMD of Small 73 Industries Development Mohammad Mustafa. Bank of India (SIDBI)

New Chairman of the 74 Bombay Stock Exchange Dhirendra Swarup. (BSE)

New Vice-Chairman of 75 Dr. Rajiv Kumar. NITI Aayog

New secretary general of 76 the Federation of Indian Sanjaya Baru Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)

Re-appointed as Managing Director (MD) & 77 Shikha Sharma Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Axis Bank

New Deputy Chief 78 Sushil Kumar Modi. Minister of Bihar

New Chief Minister of 79 TR Zeliang. Nagaland

New MD & CEO of 80 Oriental Bank of Mukesh Kumar Jain. Commerce

New Director General (DG)of Goods and 81 John Joseph Services Tax Intelligence (GSTI)

Ambassador of India to 82 Shri M. Subbarayudu the Republic of Peru.

83 Deputy CM of Gujarat Nitin Patel

Private Secretary to 84 President Ram Nath Railway officer Vikram Singh Kovind

India‘s High 85 commissioner to Ajay Bisaria Pakistan

Ambassador of India to 86 Sibi George Switzerland

Additional Director 87 Shri Alok Kumar Pateria General, CISF

High Commissioner of 88 India to Republic of N.J.Gangte Zambia

India’s new Ambassador 89 Gautam Bambawale to China

Member (Staff) Railway 90 Board & ex officio D.K. Gayen Secretary to GOI Member(Engr.) Railway 91 Board & ex officio M K Gupta Secretary to GOI

High Commissioner of 92 India to the Republic of Rajesh Vaishnaw Malta

Additional Director 93 Nasir Kamal General of BSF

Ambassador of India to 94 Ravi Bangar Ecuador

Ambassador of India to 95 the Principality of Sibi George Liechtenstein

PETA’s (People for Ethical Treatment of 96 Actress Anushka Sharma Animals) Person of the Year

New Chairman, BARC India (Broadcast 97 Nakul Chopra Audience Research Council)

Chairman & Managing 98 Pradeep Singh Kharola Director of Air India

Secretary General, 99 International Buddhist Buddhist monk Dhammapiya from Tripura Confederation (IBC)

President of the National 100 Restaurant Association of Rahul Singh India

CEO, Online food 101 Vishal Bhatia delivery start-up Swiggy

MD & CEO of Aegon Life 102 Vineet Arora Insurance

Executive Director of 103 Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar SEBI.

Executive Director & 104 Chief Financial Officer of Koushik Chatterjee Tata Steel CFO, Paytm Payments 105 Sudhanshu Jain Bank

CEO of Bharti AXA Life 106 Vikas Seth Insurance

Laureus’ first Brand 107 Indian Cricketer Yuvraj Singh Ambassador

Business Head of 108 ‘MobiKwik Payment Rukaiya Rangwala Gateway

MD & CEO PNB MetLife 109 India Insurance Company Ashish Srivastava Ltd

110 MD & CEO of Vijaya Bank R A Sankara Narayanan

MD & CEO of Tamilnad 111 KV Rama Moorthy Mercantile Bank

CMD of United India 112 M. Nagaraja Sarma Insurance Co. Ltd

President of Society of 113 Indian Automobile Force Motors Chairman Abhay Firodia Manufacturers

New Appointments: International & Others

S. No. Name of the person Name of the Post

1 New President of Liberia George Weah

2 New President of Chile Sebastian Pinera

3 Kenya‘s President Uhuru Kenyatta

UNAIDS Special 4 Ambassador for AIDS researcher Quarraisha Abdool Karim Adolescents & HIV

5 President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa

2nd Woman Director- 6 Audrey Azoulay General of UNESCO

7 President of Slovenia Borut Pahor

New US Ambassador to 8 Kenneth Juster India

9 30th PM of Mongolia Ukhnaa Khurelsukh

8th President of 10 Halimah Yacob Singapore

11 Prime Minister of Peru Mercedes Araoz Fernandez

12 President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Fourth term as 13 Angela Merkel chancellor in Germany

14 Angola‘s New President Joao Lourenco

Mayor of Yuba city in 15 Preet Didbal: 1st Sikh woman to hold position in USA) California

Resigned as 16 International Priti Patel, Britain‘s first Indian-origin Cabinet Minister Development Secretary

UN Environment‘s 17 Goodwill Ambassador for Former Miss Asia Pacific Dia Mirza India

18 Global Goodwill British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding Ambassador for UN Environment

UN Environment‘s 19 Goodwill Ambassador for Former Miss Asia Pacific Dia Mirza India

Global Goodwill 20 Ambassador for UN British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding Environment

President of 36th International Geological 21 Congress Scientist Vijay Prasad Dimri

(IGC)

Ambassador of World 22 Ecobliss India MD AVPS Chakravarthi Packaging Organisation

HSBC‘s Chief Executive 23 Jayant Rikhye Officer for India

Samsung Electronics 24 Kwon Oh-hyun Chief Executive resigned

WHO‘s Deputy Director 25 Soumya Swaminathan General for Programmes

WHO‘s Deputy Director 26 General for Corporate Ms Jane Ellison Operations

Chief of Naval Staff of 27 Vice-Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi Pakistan

Chairperson of World 28 Hindu Congress, Tulsi Gabbard Chicago-2018

List of International Appointments 2018

S. No. Name of the person Name of the Post

1 Tayyip Erdogan New President of Turkey

2 Ivan Duque New President of Colombia

3 Pedro Sanchez New Prime Minister of Spain

4 Giuseppe Conte New Prime Minister of Italy

5 Alicia Pucheta First interim woman President of Paraguay

6 Omar al-Razzaz New Prime Minister of Jordan

7 Nicolas Maduro New President of Venezuela

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has named its 8 Stacey Cunningham first female chief

9 Justice Nasir ul Mulk Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan

First female director of Central Intelligence Agency 10 Gina Haspel (CIA)

11 Shashank Manohar Re-elected ICC Chairman

New Vice-President of Badminton Asia Confederation 12 Himanta Biswa Sarma (BAC)

Global Leadership Ambassador for Women in Public 13 Shabana Azmi Service Project (WPSP)

14 Nikol Pashinyan New Prime Minister of Armenia

Carlos Alvarado (48th 15 New President of Costa Rica President of Costa Rica)

16 Mahathir bin Mohamad New Prime Minister of Malaysia

17 Jim Bridenstine New Chief of NASA

18 Mike Pompeo New US Secretary of State

19 Miguel Diaz-Canel New President of Cuba

20 Prince Charles New ‘Head of the Commonwealth

21 Ban Ki-moon New Chairman of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA)

22 Viktor Orban New Prime Minister of Hungary 23 Julius Maada Bio New President of Sierra Leone

24 Subrata Bhattacharjee Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Serbia

25 Mario Abdo Benitez New President of Paraguay

26 Abiye Ahmed New Prime Minister of Ethiopia

27 Rosemary DiCarlo First female Chief of the UN Political Affairs

28 Abdel Fattah al-Sisi New President of Egypt

29 Win Myint New President of Myanmar

India’s representative to the Executive Board (EXB) of 30 J S Rajput UNESCO

31 Bidya Devi Bhandari New President of Nepal

32 Sangeeta Bahadur New Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus

Armen Vardani 33 New president of Republic of Armenia Sarkissian

34 Martin Vizcarra New President of Peru

35 John Bolton New National Security Advisor of the United States

Next Ambassador of India to the Democratic People’s 36 Atul M. Gotsurve Republic of Korea

37 Nanda Bahadur Pun New Vice-President of Nepal

Yi Gang (replaced Zhou New Governor of the Central Bank of China “People’s 38 Xiaochuan) Bank of China”

Rosemary DiCarlo 39 (replaced Jeffrey First woman to head UN political affairs Feltman)

40 Larry Kudlow Head of the White House National Economic Council

Chairpersons of Important Commissions

Sl No. Organisation Chairperson

1. 15th Finance Commission Shri N.K. Singh

2. 21th Law Commission Dr. Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan

3. Union Public Service Commission Shri Vinay Mittal

4. University Grants Commission Prof DP Singh

5. Indian Space Research Organisation Shri Kailasavadivoo Sivan

6. Atomic Energy Commission Shri KN Vyas

7. National Human Rights Commission Justice HL Dattu

8. National Commission for Minorities Gairul Hasan Rizvi

9. National Commission for Women Smt Rekha Sharma

National Commission for Protection of 10. Ms. Stuti Kacker Child Rights

11. Securities Exchange Board of India Shri Ajay Tyagi

12. Central Board of Film Censors Shri Prasun Joshi

13. Central Board of Direct Taxes Shri Sushil Chandra

Defence related appointments

Sl No. Appointment Name

1. Supreme Commander of Armed Forces Shri Ram Nath Kovind

2. Defence Minister Smt Nirmala Seetharaman

3. Minister of State for Defence Sri Subhash Bhamre

4. Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat

5. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lamba

6. Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshall BS Dhanoa

7. Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Lt Gen Satish Dua

8. Director General, Indian Coast Guard DG Rajendra Singh

9. Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee Admiral Sunil Lamba

Commissioners

Sl No. Appointment Name

1. Chief Election Commissioner Shri Om Prakash Rawat

2. Chief Information Commissioner Shri RK Mathur

3. Central Vigilance Commissioner Shri KV Choudhary

Appointments related to Law and Justice

Sl No. Appointment Name

1. Minister of Law and Justice Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

2. Chief Justice of India Justice Dipak Misra

3. Attorney General of India Shri KK Venugopal

4. Solicitor General of India Vacant Chiefs of Sports Bodies

Sl No. Appointment Chairman

1. President, BCCI Vinod Rai (Interim)

2. DG, Sports Authority of India Smt Neelam Kapoor

3. President, Indian Olympic Association Shri Narinder Batra

4. President, Hockey India Shri Rajinder Singh