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 Biplab Kumar Deb 9th March 2018
3. Nagaland Neiphiu Rio 8th March 2018
4. Meghalaya Conrad Sangma 6th March 2018
Latest CM & Governors List India 2018
S. No Name of the State Chief Minister Governor
1. Andhra Pradesh N. Chandra Babu Naidu E. S. L. Narasimhan
2. Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Brigadier BD Mishra (retd)
3. Assam Sarabananda Sonowal Jagdish Mukhi
4. Bihar Nitish Kumar Lalji Tandon
5. Chhattisgarh Dr. Raman Singh Anandiben Patel (additional charge)
6. Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Anil Bajal (Lt. Governor)
7. Goa Manohar Parrikar Mridula Sinha
8. Gujarat Vijaybhai R. Rupani Om Prakash Kohli
9. Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar Satyadev Narayan Arya
10. Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur 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 Pinarayi Vijayan 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. Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Kummanam Rajasekharan
20. Nagaland Neiphiu Rio Padmanabha Acharya
21. Odisha Naveen Patnaik Ganeshi Lal
22. Puducherry V Narayanasamy Kiran Bedi (Lt. Governor)
23. Punjab Amarinder Singh 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 Yogi Adityanath Ram Naik
30. Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat Baby Rani Maurya
31. West Bengal Mamata Banerjee Keshari Nath Tripathi
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 Himanta Biswa Sarma 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 Vijay Rupani 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