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Bank. 1. in September 2019, RBI Had Superseded Board of PMC Bank, Due to Fraud and Financial Irregularities Current Affairs - September to December 2020 Month All Type All 1459 Current Affairs were found in Period - Sep - Dec 2020 for Type - All Showing 1246 Important Ones. Appointments 1. RBI appointed AK Dixit as new administrator of Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank. 1. In September 2019, RBI had superseded board of PMC bank, due to fraud and financial irregularities. 2. Aditya Nath Das has been Appointed as New Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh. 3. Alapan Bandyopadhyay has been named new Chief Secretary of West Bengal. 4. Duarte Pacheco (Portugal) has been elected as President of Geneva (Switzerland) based Inter Parliamentary Union. 5. Gyanendra Ningombam from Manipur has been elected as President of Hockey India. He is First Hockey India Chief from Northeast region. 6. Harivansh Narayan Singh has been re-elected as Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha. 1. Rajya Sabha is chaired by Vice President of India, Currently M Venkaiah Naidu. 7. J Venkatramu has been appointed the MD and CEO of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB). 8. Joe Biden won US Presidential elections 2020, defeating Donald Trump. 1. His Oath of Office as 46th President of US will be administered on January 20, 2021. 2. Also, Indian Origin Person Kamala Harris became first woman vice president of US. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan arrived in US from Tamil Nadu, in 1958. 9. M.M. Kutty (Former Chief Secretary of Delhi) has been appointed as 1st Chairperson of newly formed Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM). 10. Narendra Singh Tomar (Agri. and Farmers welfare Minister) has been given additional charge of Ministry of Food Processing Industries, after Serving Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from Central Government Cabinet. 11. Piyush Goyal has been appointed Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. He already holds Charge as Minister of Railways AND Commerce and Industry. 1. It came after earlier Cabinet Minister Ram Vilas Paswan passed away recently. 12. Priyanca Radhakrishnan became New Zealand’s first-ever Indian-origin minister, as Minister for Community and Voluntary Sector. 13. Rajeev Chaudhary has been appointed as Director General of Border Roads Organisation (BRO). 14. Rajkiran Rai G has been elected as Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) for term 2020-21. He is MD and CEO of Union Bank of India. 15. S Aparna has been appointed has been named as Secretary in Department of Pharmaceuticals under Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Pharma Secretary of India). 1. Also, Apurva Chandra has been named as Secretary in Ministry of Labour & Employment. 16. S S Deswal (ITBP DG) has been given additional charge of counter-terrorism force National Security Guard (NSG). 17. Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa has been named as Prime Miniser of Bahrain. He was named after earling serving PM Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa passed away. 18. Siddharth Chatterjee of India has been appointed as United Nations resident coordinator in China, a role which is representative of United Nations Secretary General for development at country level. 19. Vishal V. Sharma has been appointed as next Permanent Representative of India to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), replacing Jawed Ashraf. 20. Yoshihide Suga has been elected as Prime Minister-designate of Japan, to succed Shinzo Abe, longest serving PM of Japan. 21. Zena Wooldridge (England) has been elected as World Squash Federation President. 22. Alexander Lukashenko has been appointed as President of Belarus for his 6th Term. 23. All India Tennis Association (AITA) elected Anil Jain as its new president, with Anil Dhupar as secretary general. 24. American Banking Major Citigroup named Jane Fraser as its next chief executive officer, and first female to hold this post. 25. Amitabh Jain has been Appointed as Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh. 26. Ananda Bazar Group's Aveek Sarkar has been elected as chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI). 27. Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) named Vineet Aggarwal (MD of Transport Corporation of India) as its new President. He will replace Co-founder Niranjan Hiranandani. 28. Australia appointed former cricketer Matthew Hayden and Indian-origin politician Lisa Singh as trade envoys for advancing business ties with India. 29. BCCI appointed Neetu David as Chairman of 5 member women’s national selection panel. 30. Banks Board Bureau (BBB) recommended S Ramann as chairman of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and Shivendra Tomar as MD of IFCI Ltd. 31. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi have been appointed as Deputy chief ministers of Bihar. 1. This came after JDU's Nitish Kumar was recently re-appointed as Chief Minister of Bihar, for his 7th Term. 2. Also, Renu Devi is first Female Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. 32. Cabinet approved appointment of Railway Board Chairman, Vinod Kumar Yadav as CEO of the board, through a long- pending organizational restructuring of Railway Board. Railway Board has now been downsized from 8 members to 5. 1. Pradeep Kumar, PC Sharma, PS Mishra, and Manjula Rangarajan ae named as Members. 33. Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Girish Chandra Murmu has been elected as External Auditor of Geneva based Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), for 3 year term. 1. Duarte Pacheco (Portugal) was recently elected as President of Geneva (Switzerland) based Inter Parliamentary Union. 34. Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has been appointed President of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and chairman of FTII governing council. 35. Former Infosys Chief Kris Gopalakrishnan has been appointed as first Chairperson of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub, which has been set up to promote innovation across financial sector. 36. Government appointed Dinesh Khara as New State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman, to replace Rajneesh Kumar, for 3 years term. 1. Along with Chairman, SBI has 4 Managing Directors. 2. Two Current SBI MDs - C.S. Setty, Ashwani Bhatia. Currently 2 MD Posts are vacant. Dinesh Khara has been elevated from MD to Chairman. 37. Government appointed Jayant R Varma, Shashank Bhide and Ashima Goyal as members of Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). 1. MPC comprises six members - three officials of RBI and 3 external members nominated by Government. 2. Governor of RBI is chairperson ex officio of committee (Shashikanta Das Currently). 3. Other 2 Members (RBI Officials) - RBI Deputy Governor Michael Debrata Patra and Mridul Saggar (Executive director of Bank in charge of monetary policy). 38. Government appointed M Rajeshwar Rao as new Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, to fill post which was vacant since N R Vishwanathan's resignation in March 2020. 1. Other RBI DGs are M. D. Patra, M. K. Jain, B.P. Kanungo. RBI Governor is Shaktikanta Das. 39. Government appointed S Krishnan as MD & CEO of Punjab & Sind Bank. 40. Government appointed Simanchala Dash as an advisor to Executive Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF). 1. Surjit Singh Bhalla is current executive Director at IMF, Representing India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. 41. Govt Appointed PD Vaghela as new Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), replacing RS Sharma. 42. Govt. appointed Yashvardhan K. Sinha as new Chief Information Commissioner, replacing Bimal Julka. 1. Central Information Commission includes 1 Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and maximum 10 Information Commissioners. 43. Haryana government appointed Vijai Vardhan as new state chief secretary. 44. Heeralal Samariya, Saroj Punhani and Uday Mahurkar have been appointed as Information Commissioners of India. 1. Y.K. Sinha was recently appointed as Chief Information Commissioner. 2. Now, number of Information Commissioners (apart from Chief Information Commissioner) has risen to 7. 3. Central Information commission includes 1 chief information commissioner and not more than 10 information commissioners. 45. India appointed Sameer Kumar Khare as new Executive Director at Asian Development Bank (ADB). 1. Also, Rajesh Khullar has been appointed by India as Executive Director at World Bank. 46. India's Khushi Chindaliya has been appointed as Regional Ambassador for India by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)- Tunza Eco-Generation. 47. Indian diplomat Vidisha Maitra has been elected to the UN’s Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ). 48. Indian-American Vivek Murthy has been appointed as US Surgeon general under New President Joe Biden's administration. 1. Earlier, he had served as US Surgeon general under former President Barack Obama. 2. Also, US President Elect Joe Biden nominated Lloyd J. Austin III as 28th US Secretary of Defense. If confirmed, he would be first African American to lead US Department of Defense. 49. Indian-origin Person Wavel Ramkalawan has been apponted President of Seychelles. 50. Indian-origin global health expert Anil Soni has been appointed as first Chief Executive Officer of newly launched WHO Foundation, which works alongside the World Health Organization to address most pressing health challenges across world. 51. International Golf Federation (IGF) elected Annika Sorenstam (Sweden) as its new president. 52. Jacinda Ardern has been re-elected as Prime Minister of New Zealand, for her 2nd term. 53. Japan formally proclaimed Crown Prince Akishino to the throne, after his elder brother Emperor Naruhito, became monarch last year following their father’s abdication. 54. Jishnu Baruah has been appointed as new chief secretary of Assam. 55. Jordan King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein appointed Bishr al-Khasawneh as new Prime Minister of The country. 56. Kuwait’s Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah became Kuwait’s new ruling emir, after earlier emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah passed away recently. 1. India observed one day’s State Mourning on passing away of earllier Kuwait Ruler Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. 2. Also, Kuwaiti government, chaired by Prime Minister Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah, submitted its resignation to newly apponted Emir Nawaf Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah.
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