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– Important News of January Month www.caforexam.com – Important News of January Month Appointment and Resignation as the Acting Chairman. The move comes after VK Sharma retired from the top job at LIC on December 31. Piyush Goyal - Railways and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal appointed interim Finance Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan - Justice Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs for Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan was on January 1, 2018 second time in the absence of Arun Jaitley, will sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court. present the upcoming Budget 2019. Mr. Jaitley With this, the state of Telangana will have its first independent would be designated as a Minister without a portfolio till the time high court. Prior to this, Justice Radhakrishnan had been serving he is able to resume work. as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for both the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Gita Gopinath - India born Gita Gopinath joined the International Monetary Fund as Amitabh Chaudhry - Axis Bank announced its its Chief Economist. She is the first woman Managing Director and CEO Shikha and second Indian after Raghuram rajan to Sharma has retired from the post occupy the top IMF post. Gopinath is the and Amitabh Chaudhry will be the new 11th chief economist of the IMF. managing director and CEO of the bank with effect from January 1, 2019. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra - Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on January 23, 2019 appointed AICC Ravneet Singh Gill - YES Bank appointed Deutsche Bank’s Ravneet general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East by her Singh Gill as its MD and CEO, who will succeed Rana Kapoor. Gill brother and party chief Rahul Gandhi. will join the private lender on or before March 1, 2019. Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah - Sultan Abdullah Sultan Vivek Joshi - The Centre has appointed Vivek Joshi, an 1989 batch Ahmad Shah was elected as Malaysia's new king by the members IAS officer from Haryana cadre, as the new Registrar General and of the country's royal families. He replaced Sultan Muhammad V Census Commissioner of India. of Kelantan, who stepped down recently, making it the first Rajeev Chopra - Lt Gen Rajeev Chopra assumed the appointment abdication in Malaysia's history. of Director General of NCC (DGNCC). Jair Bolsonaro - Jair Bolsonaro, was sworn in as president of Nicolás Maduro - Nicolás Maduro was sworn Brazil. Contesting from Social liberal party, Mr Bolsonaro, won in for a second term as Venezuela's the presidential election by a wide margin against Fernando President amid the economic and Haddad of the left-wing Workers Party on 28 October. humanitarian crisis. Maduro was re-elected Nancy Pelosi - In US, Veteran Democratic leader last year. The US, EU and 13 other countries Nancy Pelosi, considered an ardent supporter of have stated that they would not recognise Maduro's Presidency. India-US ties, has been elected as Speaker of the Juan Guaido - Germany has said, it will recognize Venezuelan House of Representatives for the second time, Opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country's interim President thus becoming the most powerful elected woman in America. unless an election is announced within eight days. The statement Hemant Bhargava - The government has appointed Hemant comes after USA, France and Spain made the same Bhargava, Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation of India, announcements earlier in the day. President Nicolas Maduro was 1 www.caforexam.com – Important News of January Month sworn-in for a second term earlier this month, after polls marred Manu Sawhney - The International Cricket by an opposition boycott and allegations of vote-rigging. Council (ICC) announced that Manu Sawhney has been appointed as Stefan Lofven - In Sweden, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has the organization's new Chief Executive Officer been elected for a second term, ending a four-month political (CEO). vacuum. Ronojoy Dutta - IndiGo owner InterGlobe Aviation has Andry Rajoelina - Andry Rajoelina was sworn in as President of appointed Ronojoy Dutta as the new Chief Executive Officer Madagascar at capital city of Antananarivo. (CEO) of the company with immediate effect for the next five Su Tseng-chang - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen appointed Su years. Tseng-chang as Prime Minister of the state. Kamala Harris - Kamala Harris, a U.S. Senator from California of Felix Tshisekedi - Congo's Constitutional Court has declared the African and Indian descent, officially launched her 2020 election of Felix Tshisekedi as the President and has rejected the presidential campaign from her hometown of Oakland. challenges to the vote by runner-up Martin Fayulu. Ambassadors Appointed - Modi Pranav R Mehta - Chairman of National Solar Energy Federation, government nominated Pranav R Mehta, has taken over as the president of Global Solar ambassadors to some key Council (GSC). He has become the first Indian to head the countries – GSC. The Global Solar Council (GSC) has its headquarters in Sanjeev Singla - New ambassador to Israel Washington D.C., USA. Ruchira Kamboj - Next Ambassador to Bhutan Dilip Sadarangani - Kerala based private sector lender Federal Bank has appointed Dilip Sadarangani as the part-time chairman. Jaideep Sarkar - New Ambassador to South Africa. The appointment of Sadarangani has been cleared by the Reserve Sunjay Sudhir - New ambassador to Maldives Bank. Pranay Verma - Next ambassador to Vietnam Pavan Vaish - Ride hailing platform Uber said it has appointed Daksh e-services co-founder Pavan Vaish as the head of central Muktesh Pardeshi – New ambassador to New Zealand, operations in India. Manpreet Vohra – New ambassador to Mexico. Kumar Rajesh Chandra - Civil Aviation Security head and senior Sanjeev Kohli - New ambassador to Tanzania. IPS officer Kumar Rajesh Chandra was appointed as the director general of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). The SSB guards India's Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul - Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul have borders with Nepal and Bhutan. been suspended pending an inquiry into their comments during a TV show ‘Koffee with Karan’, ruling them out of the ODI series Sheila Dikshit - Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was against Australia starting. appointed the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president days after Ajay Maken resigned from the post citing ill health. Ashok Chawla - Ashok Chawla Former Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla has resigned as chairman of The Energy Resources Institute (TERI). Earlier, Mr. Chawla had stepped down as 2 www.caforexam.com – Important News of January Month chairman of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) after the Central allegations of conflict of interest against Ms. Kochhar in relation Bureau of Investigation (CBI) received the Finance Ministry’s to a loan given to Videocon Industries. approval to prosecute him in the Aircel-Maxis bribery scandal. Awards and Honours Alok Verma - The sacked CBI Chief, Alok Pranab Mukherjee, Nanaji Verma announced his resignation from Deshmukh and Dr. Bhupen service, refusing to take charge of the new Hazarika - On the eve of role as DG, Fire Services. The move comes a the 70th Republic Day, day after a high-powered selection former President Pranab committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi removed Mukherjee, social activist Nanaji Deshmukh and musician Dr. him from the post of CBI Director, less than 48 hours after he was Bhupen Hazarika have been awarded the Bharat Ratna. Mr. reinstated to the position by the Supreme Court after he was sent Deshmukh and Dr. Hazarika have been bestowed the nation's on forced leave by the government. Additional Director M. highest civilian honour posthumously. Nageswara Rao has again been appointed interim CBI Director. Bharat Ratna - Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award Jim Yong Kim - World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim has made the instituted in 1954, is given in recognition of exceptional service, surprise announcement that he is stepping down after six years in performance of the highest order in any field of human the post. His resignation will take effect from 1 February. Mr. Kim endeavour. Any person without distinction of race, occupation, was not due to leave until 2022 after he was re-elected for a position or sex is eligible for this award. The number of annual second five-year term in 2017. awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular years. Sultan Muhammad V - Malaysia’s king has Gandhi Peace Prize - Gandhi Peace Prize for 2018 will be abdicated in a historic first for the country. conferred on Yohei Sasakawa who is Goodwill Ambassador of the Sultan Muhammad V’s decision marks the first World Health Organization for eradication of Leprosy disease in time a king has abdicated in the country since India and across the world. Ekal Abhiyan Trust has been chosen it gained independence from Britain in 1957. for the award for the year 2017 while Akshaya Patra Foundation Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy. and Sulabh International will share the award for 2016. Kevin Sweeney - Kevin Sweeney, the chief of staff of the US Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari bagged the award for 2015. Department of Defence, has announced his resignation from the Gallantry Awards - The post. The move comes a month after the Defence Secretary Jim President approved the Mattis resigned in protest after Trump announced the withdrawal award of 411 gallantry and of U.S. troops from Syria. distinguished service medals. Chanda Kochhar - The ICICI Bank has decided These include one Ashoka Chakra, four Kirti Chakra, 11 Shaurya to terminate the contract of former managing Chakra. The Kirti Chakras were awarded to Major Tushar Gauba director and CEO, Chanda Kochhar after the and posthumously to Sowar Vijay Kumar, Constable Rajendra B.N. Srikrishna panel found that she violated Kumar Nain and Constable Pradip Kumar Panda. the bank’s code of conduct. In June last year, Ashoka Chakra - India’s highest peacetime gallantry medal, the the bank formed the one-member panel to look into the Ashoka Chakra, will be awarded posthumously to Lance Naik 3 www.caforexam.com – Important News of January Month Nazir Ahmad Wani, who laid down his life during an anti-terror his poetry collection in Gujarati named “Vakhar”.
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