All Latest Current Affairs Month All Type Appointments 579 Current Affairs were found in Month ­ All for Type ­ Appointments Appointments 1. P Dhanapal re­elected as Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Speaker. 2. John Pombe Magufuli has been elected as President of Tanzania. 3. Digital payments platform FreeCharge named Kunal Shah as chairman, and Govind Rajan as CEO. 4. Scientist Soumya Swaminathan has been appointed as Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research and and Secretary in Department of Health Research. 5. Suresh Chandra is appointed as Union Law Secretary. 6. Beata Szydło from right­wing Law and Justice party elected as new prime minister of Poland. 7. IDFC Mutual Fund appointed Vishal Kapoor as its chief executive officer. 8. A Ajith Kumar is appointed as Kerala­based Rubber Board's chairman. 9. A K Jha has been appointed as interim Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). 10. A.K. Mittal appointed as Member Engineering of Railway Board. 11. A.K.Mital has been reappointed as Chairman of Railway Board for 2 years. 12. AB Khare is appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Madras Fertilzers Limited. 13. Abdul Bari Siddiqui has been elected as President of Bihar Cricket Association (BCA). 14. Acharya Dev Vrat has been appointed as 26th Governor of Himachal Pradesh. 15. Achyuta Samanta is appointed as President of the 105th Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) for 2017­18. 16. Actor Amitabh Bachchan became Maharashtra's state ambassador for Save the Tiger campaign. 17. Actress Kajol has been appointed as part­time member of Prasar Bharati board. 18. Admiral Sanjay Mahindru is appointed as Flag Officer Submarines. 19. Adobe appointed Kulmeet Bawa as Managing Director (MD) for South Asia. 20. Air Asia India appointed Amar Abrol as new CEO. 21. Air Marshal SB Deo is appointed as new chief of Western Air Command of Indian Air Force. 22. Air vice marshal RD Mathur promoted to rank of Air marshal of Indian Air Force. 23. Ajay Bhushan Pandey is appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). 24. Ajay Mittal appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. 25. Ajit Kumar Seth has been appointed as chairma of Public Enterprises Selection Board. Gauri Kumar and Anshuman Das have been made as members in PESB. 26. Ajit Prakash Shah appointed as ethics officer (ombudsman) at Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). 27. Ajit Singh has been appointed as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court. 28. Ajit Singh was sworn in as Chief Justice (CJ) of the Gauhati High Court. 29. Albert Pahimi Padacke is appointed as new prime minster of Chad (Central Africa). 30. Alexander Lukashenko has been reelected as President of Belarus for fifth term. 31. Alexis Tsipras­led Syriza party won Greece's general elections. It is second election victory for Syriza in nine months after first government falling due to loosing majority in August 2015. 32. Ali Mohamed Shein won Presidential Elections of semi­autonomous region Zanzibar. 33. Alkesh Sharma is appointed as CEO & MD, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation. 34. All India Football Federation appointed former India Football captain Baichung Bhutia as advisor for overall issues of the game and Federation. 35. Alok Rawat became first male person to be appointed as member of National Commission for Women. 36. Alok Verma will be appointed as new Delhi Police Commissioner. 37. Amarendra Sinha is appointed as Secretary in ministry of Minority Affairs. 38. Ameising Luikham is appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. 39. Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra replaced Aamir Khan as 'Incredible India' brand ambassadors. 40. Amitabh Kant appointed as CEO of NITI Aayog. 41. Anant Maheshwari has been appointed as president of Microsoft's India operations. 42. Andhra Pradesh government appointed N Ramesh Kumar as state election commissioner. 43. Anil Khanna re­elected as president of Asian Tennis Federation for four year years. 44. Anil Kumar Jha appointed as CMD of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (subsidiary of Coal India). 45. Anil Wadhwa appointed Ambassador of India to Republic of San Marino. 46. Anil Wadhwa will be new Ambassador to Italy. 47. Anirudh Singh Yadav appointed as chairman of Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC). 48. Anjuly Chib Duggal is appointed as Secretary in Department of Financial Services of Finance Ministry. 49. Anoop Kumar Srivastava is appointed as Secretary in Inter State Council Secretariat. 50. Anup K Pujari has been appointed as CMD of Steel Authority of India Limited. He is also Secretary in Ministry of Steel and secretary in Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. 51. Anup K. Pujari has been appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Steel. He is currently also secretary in Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises . 52. Anurag Thakur elected as 34th President of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) till September 2017. 53. Archana Ramasundram appointed as Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). With this, Ramasundram became first woman to head a paramilitary force in India. 54. Argentinian Football Player Lionel Messi has been named as global ambassador for Chinese tech company Huawei. 55. Argentinian Footballer Lionel Messi has been made Global Ambassador of Tata Motors. 56. Arun Kumar Jain has been appointed as chief of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). 57. Aruna Sethi appointed as head of Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS). She is first lady officer to this post. 58. Aruna Sharma is appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Steel. 59. Aruna Sundararajan is appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. 60. Arvind Panagariya (vice­chairman of Niti Aayog) has been appointed as sherpa for G20 negotiations, replacing Suresh Prabhu. 61. Ashish Bahuguna, Chairman of the food regulator FSSAI has been given additional charge of its CEO. 62. Ashok Chawla is Appointed As New Chairman of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute). Previous DG R.K. Pachauri is appointed Executive Vice Chairman. 63. Ashok Lavasa appointed as Finance Secretary of India. 64. Ashok Leyland re­appointmented Vinod K Dasari as Managing Director(MD) for 5 years. 65. Ashwani Kumar Kapoor appointed as New Member Electrical, Railway Board. 66. Ashwani Lohani has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Air India Limited for 3 Years. 67. Ashwini Nangia appointed as Director of CSIR­National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. 68. Atonio Costa of Socialist Party is named as Prime Minister of Portugal. 69. Atul Kumar Jain appointed as Chief of Eastern Naval Command and Bimal Verma appointed as Chief of Andaman and Nicobar Naval Command. 70. Atul Sobti took charge as CMD of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) for a period of five years. 71. Atulesh Jindal is appointed as Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). 72. BCCI president Shanshank Manohar will be new Chairman of International Cricket Council. He will replace former N. Srinivasan. 73. Baciro Dja named as new Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau (Country in West Africa). 74. Bangladesh Government appointed Fazle Kabir as new Governor of Bangladesh's central bank. 75. Belgium's Mourad Laachraoui won gold in European Taekwondo Championships and will nocompete in this summer's Rio Olympics. Note that hs is brother of Paris Blasts Accused Najim Laachraoui. 76. Bhanumurthy B M is appointed as chief operating officer (COO) of WIPRO. 77. Bharti Airtel appointed Ashok Ganapathy as Director (Airtel Business). 78. Bharti Group Chief Sunil Bharti Mittal has been elected chairman of International Chambers of Commerce (ICC). 79. Bhartiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd (BHAVINI) appointed Kallol Roy as its new chairman and managing director (CMD). 80. Bhim Sain Bassi appointed as Member of Union Public Service Commission. 81. Bhupendra Kainthola appointed as Director of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). 82. Bidhya Devi Bhandari has been elected as President of Nepal (Third overall and First Female). 83. Binali Yildirim chosen as Turkey’s Prime Minster. 84. Bipin R Patel appointed as President of Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) for2016­17. 85. BlackBerry appoints Narendra Nayak as Managing Director of India operations. 86. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) appointed Anil Kumble as head coach of Indian Cricket Team. 87. Bollywood Actor R Madhavan became goodwill ambassador of LEPRA India organization that fights against diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis. 88. Bollywood actor Anupam Kher has been named an advocate for United Nations campaign on gender equality. 89. Bollywood actress Dia Mirza was named as the ambassador for Swachh Saathi (student internship) programme. 90. Bombay High Court Advocate Atma Ram Nadkarni is appointed as Additional Solicitor General. 91. Bounnhang Vorachith is appointed as President of Laos and Thongloun Sisoulith is appointed as Prime Minister of Laos. 92. Brij Raj Sharma has been appointed as Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. 93. Brijesh Mehra is appointed as head of corporate banking at RBL (Formerly Ratnakar Bank Limited). 94. Britain's Sebastian Coe has been elected as President of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). India's Adille Sumariwalla has been elected as a member of IAAF. 95. British bank Barclays appointed James Staley as new CEO. 96. British lawyer Patricia Scotland has been appointed as Secretary General of Commonwealth of Nations. She became first woman to hold this role in 66­year old 53­member Commonwealth. 97. Budha Rashmi Mani appointed as Director General (DG) of National Museum. 98. CR Sasikumar is appointed as Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore (SBT). 99. Cab operator OlaCabs has appointed Rajiv Bansal as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). 100. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved Hybrid Annuity Model for implementing National Highway Projects ­ Government will invest 40 % of construction cost and balance 60 % will come from private developer.