Bank of India Sanjiv Chadha - Bank of Baroda Government Also Appointed Challa Sreenivasulu Setty As Managing Director of State Bank of India for 3 Years
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Current Affairs - December 2019 to May 2020 Month May 2020 Type Appointments 149 Current Affairs were found in Last Six Months for Type - Appointments Appointments 1. Govt appointed Chiefs (MD and CEO) of 3 PSU Banks - L V Prabhakar - Canara Bank. Atanu Kumar Das - Bank of India Sanjiv Chadha - Bank of Baroda Government Also appointed Challa Sreenivasulu Setty as managing director of State Bank of India for 3 years. 2. Misc. Appointments (Dec 2019) - Podali Shankar appointed as Commander-in-Chief of Andaman & Nicobar Command (CINCAN) of Indian Army. Kerala based CSB Bank (formerly known as Catholic Syrian Bank) re-appointed Rajendran Chinna Veerappan as MD and CEO of the Bank. Upender Singh Rawat appointed as New Indian Ambassador to Costa Rica (Central America). K Vijay Kumar has been appointed as senior security advisor in home ministry. C. Sugandh Rajaram is appointed as New Indian ambassador to Ghana (West Africa). Cricketer Rohit Sharma named first Indian brand ambassador of La Liga, a professional football division of Spanish football league system. Govt appointed Sridhar Patra as new CMD of Navratna PSU National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO). New Brand Ambassadors - Salman Khan is appointed as New brand ambassador of Benverage Maker Pepsico India. Footballer Sunil Chhetri signed three-year endorsement deal with sports brand Puma. Aditya Mittal, son of ArcelorMittal chairman Lakshmi Mittal, has been appointed as the chairman of Essar Steel after ArcelorMittal took control of Essar Steel. Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited(TAFE), has been appointed to Global Board of U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC). National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) reinstated Cyrus Mistry as executive chairman of Tata Sons Group, coming three years after Mistry was ousted as Tata Son’s Chairman and Ratan Tata returned as interim Chairman of group. Atul Karwal has been appointed as Director of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. Gulzar Ahmed is appointed as New Chief Justice of Neighboring Nation Pakistan. Anand Mahindra will take up role of Non-Executive Chairman at Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) Group from April 2020. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala's tenure as chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has been extnded by 6 months. P R Ravi Mohan has been appointed as the chairman of Kerala-based ESAF Small Finance Bank. Harjeet Kaur Joshi is appointed as CMD of PSU Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), becoming first woman to head SCI. Earlier, government decided to sell privatize its 63.75% stake in SCI. Ajit Pawar is appointed as Maharashtra' deputy chief minister, for his 4th term. 3. Robert Abela has been appointed new prime minister of Malta (Southern European island country). 4. Mustafa Al Kadhimi has been chosen as New Prime Minister of Iraq, after Adel Abdul Mahdi had resigned in November 2019. 5. Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq al Said has been named as New Ruler of Oman, after earlier ruler Qaboos bin Said Al Said passed away. 6. Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al-Thani has been appointed as new Prime Minister of Qatar. 7. Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirtha Kshetra Trust elected Mahant Nritya Gopal Das as its Chairman and vice-president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Champat Rai elected as General Secretary. Also, Former principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Nripendra Misra has been chosen as the chairman of the Ram Temple Complex Development Committee. 8. Tsai Ing-wen won Taiwan presidential elections, winning her second term as Taiwan president. 9. Benjamin Netanyahu secured his 5th term as Israeli Prime Minister. 10. Debasish Panda has been appointed as new finance secretary of India, replacing Rajiv Kumar. 11. Govinda Rajulu Chintala has been appointed as chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). 12. Rajiv Bansal is appointed as CMD of Disinvestment bound ailing airline Air India. 13. UK Govt appointed Indian-Origin person Alok Sharma as minister in charge for UN climate talks in November 2020, known as COP26. 2020 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, is 26th United Nations Climate Change conference. It is scheduled to be held in Glasgow (Scotland) in November 2020 under presidency of UK government. 14. AU Small Finance Bank appointed R V Verma as part-time chairman and Sanjay Agarwal has been re-appointed as MD and CEO. 15. Abdelaziz Djerad is appointed as Prime Minister of Algeria (North Africa). 16. Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been elected as New President of Algeria (North Africa). 17. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has been appointed as Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament. 18. Ajay Bhushan Pandey appointed as new Finance Secretary of India, succeeding Rajiv Kumar. 19. Albin Kurti is appointed as new Prime Minister of Republic of Kosovo (Southeast Europe). 20. Anamika Roy Rashtrawar has been appointed by IFFCO Tokio General Insurance as its new MD & CEO. 21. Arjun Munda has been elected as new President of Archery Association of India (AAI), to serve term of 4 years. World Archery had appointed Kazi Rajib Uddin Ahmed Chapol as observer for elections of Archery Association of India (AAI), to be held in January 2020. Observer will submit report on his observations and based on report, World Archery will consider 'conditional lifting' of suspension on Indian Archery Federation, which was put in July 2019. 22. Assam-based entrepreneur Jahnabi Phookan has been appointed as National President of FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO), women wing of FICCI. 23. Atul Kumar Gupta has been appointed as President of Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) for 2020-21, with Nihar Niranjan Jambusaria as Vice President. 24. BRICS Nations' Bank New Development Bank (NDB) elected Marcos Troyjo from Brazil as its new president, as term of India's KV Kamath as NDB President has ended. Anil Kishora from India will be new vice-president. 25. Banks Board Bureau appointed SN Rajeswari as Chairman and MD of Oriental Insurance Company (OIC). 26. Banks Board Bureau (BBB) recommended names of Ashwini Bhatia, M V Rao and P P Sengupta for post of managing director of State Bank of India, Central Bank of India and Indian Overseas Bank, respectively. 27. Bhaskar Khulbe & Amarjeet Sinha have been appointed as Advisor to Prime Minister. 28. Bhushan P Dharmadhikari is appointed as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court (Maharashtra). 29. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) appointed new members for its 3-member Cricket Advisory Committee(CAC). New Members are Madan Lal, Rudra Pratap Singh and Sulakshana Naik. Kapil Dev had recently resigned as CAC Chairman. 30. Boris Johnson got re-elected as Britain’s prime minister for his 2nd term, after 3rd general election in Britain in four years was won by Conservative Party. 31. British Telecom Major Vodafone appointed Jean-Francois Van Boxmeer (CEO of brewer Heineken), to succeed Gerard Kleisterlee as chairman from November 2020. 32. Charles Michel (Belgium) has been appointed as New President of European Council, replacing Donald Tusk. 33. Credit information bureau TransUnion Cibil appointed Rajesh Kumar as its new MD and CEO. 34. Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) appointed Sunil Joshi as new Chief Selector of Indian Cricket Team. 35. D Choudhury is appointed as new Commandant of National Defence College (New Delhi), the highest seat of strategic learning for officers of Indian Armed Forces and Civil Services of India. 36. DPS Negi has been appointed as Director-General of Labour Bureau in Ministry of Labour and Employment. 37. Devesh Srivastava has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (MD) of General Insurance Corporation India (GIC Re). 38. Ford India MD Anurag Mehrotra is appointed as CEO for New joint venture formed by Mahindra and Ford. This JV will sell Ford branded cars in India and other emerging markets. Mahindra will own controlling stakes of 51 %, while Ford will having 49 %. 39. Former Indian Army Chief Bipin Rawat has been named as the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), a 4-star General and principal military advisor to defence minister. He will head new Department of Military Affairs. CODS will ensure jointness in training, logistics and procurement of three services. Government amended rules putting maximum age limit of 65 years for the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to serve. The changes have been made in the Army Rules 1954. 40. Former Indian Cricketer Robin Singh appointed as director of cricket of United Arab Emirates. 41. Former Karnataka cricketer J. Arunkumar has been appointed the head coach of USA Cricket team. 42. Former Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic won Croatia’s presidential elections. 43. Former SC judge A K Sikri inaugurated Indian Dispute Resolution Centre (IDRC) in New Delhi, which aims at providing a completely paperless dispute resolution environment. The centre offers offline also as e-alternate dispute resolution (ADR) facility through its state-of- the-art e-arbitration, e-meditation and e-conciliation software portal. 44. Government Appointed Harsh Vardhan Shringla as Foreign Secretary of India, replacing Vijay Keshav Gokhale. 45. Government announced new appointments at Secretary level - Ministeries - Sanjeev Ranjan - Ministry of Shipping. Arvind Kumar Sharma - MSME Ministry. Aramane Girdhar - Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. Ajay Tirkey - Ministry of Women & Child Development Rajesh Verma - Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Tarun Kapoor - Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi - Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. Rameshwar Prasad Gupta - Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Pradip Kumar - Ministry of Steel. Anand Kumar - Ministry of Culture. Amit Khare - Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Notable Departments under Ministeries - Ravi Mittal - Department of Sports (Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports). Tarun Bajaj - Department of Economic Affairs (Ministry of Finance).