Current Affairs - April to September 2018 Month September 2018 Type All 2922 Current Affairs were found in Last Six Months for Type - All Appointments 1. Aashish Kapoor replaced Venkatesh Prasad in three-member All-India Junior Cricket Selection Committee. 2. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been appointed as Egyptian President for second 4 year term. 3. Actor Rituparna Sen gupta is appointed as Chairperson of Shilpi Sansad, an organization that provides financial security to artistes of Bengali film industry. 4. Adarsh Kumar Goel has been appointed as new Chairperson of National Green Tribunal. Also, L. Narasimha Reddy is appointed as Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). 5. Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) appointed D Shivakumar as its chairman for 3 years. 6. Airline GoAir appointed Cornelis Vrieswijk as its new CEO. 7. Airtel Payments Bank appointed Anubrata Biswas as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. 8. Ajay Kumar Mittal has been appointed as acting chief justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court. 9. Alicia Pucheta has been been appointed as South American Nation Paraguay's first woman President (Interim). 10. Amar Devulapalli and Sabina Indrajit have been appointed as President and the Secretary –General of the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) respectively. 11. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been elected as New President of North American nation Mexico. 12. Anil Khosla will be appointed as the new Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force. 13. Anil Kumar Chawla appointed as chief of Southern Naval Command (SNC). 14. Anil Kumar Jha has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Coal India. 15. Anoop Kumar Pandey will be appointed as Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh. 16. Appointments approved by ACC (Appointments Committee of Cabinet) - Juthika Patankar - as Director General in National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD). M. Srinivas Rao - Chief Executive Officer in National e-Governance Division (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology). Rakesh Kumar Gupta - Secretary in Union Public Service Commission. Sameer Sharma - Director General in Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. Rakesh Kumar Vats - Chairperson in National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA). 17. Armenia’s parliament voted to appoint country’s former President Serzh Sargsyanas as New prime minister of Armenia. 18. Arun Jaitley resumed charge of ministries of finance and corporate affairs, after over 100 days of leaves. 19. Arup Kumar Goswami has been appointed acting chief justice of the Gauhati High Court. 20. Arvind Saxena has been appointed as acting chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). 21. Axis Bank appointed Amitabh Chaudhry as its managing director & CEO from January 1, 2019, for 3 years. Mr. Chaudhry is MD & CEO of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company at present. He will replace Shikha Sharma for Top post att Axis Bank. On leaving of Amitabh Chaudhary, Vibha Padalkar has been appointed HDFC Life MD & CEO. 22. B V R Subrahmanyam has been appointed as chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. Also K Vijay Kumar has been appointed as an Advisor to Governor of Jammu & Kashmir governor (N N Vohra Currently). 23. B.Sriram is appointed as MD & CEO of IDBI bank for temporary term of 03 months, replacing Mahesh Kumar Jain who was made Deputy Governor of RBI recently. 24. BCCI appointed Ajit Singh as head of its Anti-Corruption Unit 25. Badminton Association of India (BAI) President Himanta Biswa Sarma has been elected as vice-president of Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC). 26. Bandhan Bank appointed former RBI deputy governor Harun Rashid Khan as non- executive part time chairman, for 3 years. 27. Bangladesh appointed Aziz Ahmed as country’s new army chief for 3 years. 28. Bharti Airtel appointed Ajay Chitkara as Director and CEO of Airtel Business to spearhead domestic and global enterprise business as one unit. 29. Binoy Kumar took over as Secretary in Ministry of Steel. 30. Bipin Puri appointed as Senior Col Commandant of Army Medical Corps. 31. Bollywood singer Mohit Chauhan has been named as Green Ambassador of Sikkim by State government. 32. Brand Ambassadors (April 2018) - Manu Bhaker (Shooter) - Haryana’s Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccination campaign. Argentine Footballer Lionel Messi - UN World Tourism Organization's ambassador to promote responsible tourism. Shooter Gauri Sheoran - Haryana government's brand ambassador for its health-related programmes Including measles-rubella (MR) vaccination campaign. 33. Brand Ambassadors (July 2018) - Vidya Balan (Actress) - Muthoot Pappachan Group. 34. Cab Aggregator Uber promoted its India head Amit Jain as regional general manager for Asia Pacific region (APAC). 35. Cabinet Reshuffle - Coal and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has been given Additional charge of Finance Ministry, until Arun Jaitley is on rest due to health issues. Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore has been given additional charge of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge). 36. Caribbean island Nation Barbados elected Mia Mottley as its first female Prime Minister since gaining independence from UK in 1966. 37. Carlos Alvarado has been elected as New president of Costa Rica (Central America). 38. Central government apprved Senior Advocate Indu Malhotra as a Supreme Court judge. She is first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of Supreme Court, instead of being elevated from a high court. 39. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh is re-appointed as MD & CEO of Bandhan Bank for 3 years. Also, Former RBI deputy governor Harun Rasid Khan joined Bandhan Bank board. 40. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan took oath as 22nd prime minister of Pakistan. While, Asad Qaiser is chosen as Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. 41. D C Raina is appointed as Advocate general of Jammu and Kashmir. 42. Debjani Ghosh has been appointed as new president of NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies). Also, Rishad Premji is appointed as NASSCOM chairman for 2018-19. 43. Deepak Raj Joshee has been appointed as new Chief Justice of Nepal. 44. Democratic National Committee (DNC) of USA appointed Indian American Seema Nanda as its new CEO, making her first Indian American to be appointed as operational head of a major American political party. 45. Devraj Anbu has been appointed as new Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS). 46. Dilip Chenoy is appointed as New Secretary-General of industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). 47. Dilip Tirkey has been appointed as chairman of Odisha Tourism Development Corporation. 48. Emmerson Mnangagwa has been re-elected Zimbabwe’s President after winning presidential elections held for first time since ouster of Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa took over as President last year after Mugabe was ousted by the Army, ending Mugabe's rule of over Zimbabwe 37 years. 49. Ethnic Indian lawyer Tommy Thomas is appointed as Malaysia's new attorney general (Top Lawyer of Nation). 50. Facebook appointed Chris Daniels as CEO of Whatsapp after Co-founder Jan Koum resigned amid Recent Data-leak Controversies. 51. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is re-appointed as Leader of Rajya Sabha (RS) following his re-election to House. Leader of the House is a Rajya Sabha member who is either a cabinet minister or another nominated minister. 52. Finance Ministry appointed Bhanu Pratap Sharma as chairman of reconstituted Banks Board Bureau (BBB). It will have a 3 year term. 53. Financial Services Firm Paytm appointed former RBI Deputy Governor Rama Subramaniam Gandhi as an advisor. 54. Football Club FC Pune City appointed Brazilian Marcos Paqueta as head coach. 55. Former Attoney General Mukul Rohatgi has been appointed as an eminent jurist in selection committee for appointment of Lokpal. 56. Former Indian Cricketer Lalchand Rajput has been appointed as head coach of Zimbabwe’s national team. 57. Former Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar has been appointed as the president of Tata Sons’ global corporate affairs. 58. Former Supreme Court Judge C K Prasad is appointed as chairman of Press Council of India (PCI) for second term. 59. Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is elected chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia, currently underway in China’s Hainan province. 60. Giuseppe Conte has been appointed as New Prime Minister of European Nation Italy. 61. Government Appointed Anil Kumar Chaudhary as Chairman and Managing Director of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), for 2 years. 62. Government appointed Anant Barua as whole-time member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). SEBI Chairman is currently Ajay Tyagi. 63. Government appointed Arijit Basu as Managing Director of State Bank of India (SBI), replacing Rajnish Kumar who was elevated as chairman recently. 64. Government appointed Ashish Kumar Bhutani as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), till May 2020. PMFBY was launched in 2016, replacing National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS) and Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS). It aims to reduce premium burden on farmers and ensure early settlement of crop assurance claim for the full insured sum. Under this, farmers need to pay uniform premium of only 2% for all Kharif crops and 1.5% for all Rabi crops. In case of annual commercial and horticultural crops, farmers have to pay premium of only 5%. Balance premium will be paid by Government, without a limit on subsidy. It covers yield losses due to non-preventable risks including natural hazards. 65. Government appointed Balram Bhargava as Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Secretary of Department of Health Research. 66. Government appointed Chief executive officers and managing directors (CEOs and MDs) at 10 public sector banks, as part of 15 names recommended by Bank Boards Bureau for elevation. First 5 People are currently deputy MDs at SBI. Padmaja Chundru - Indian Bank Mrutyunjay Mahapatra - Syndicate Bank Pallav Mohapatra - Central Bank of India Packirisamy - Andhra Bank Karnam Sekar - Dena Bank SS Mallikarajuna Rao - Allahabad Bank AS Rajeev - Bank of Maharashtra Atul Kumar Goel - UCO Bank S Harisankar - Punjab & Sind Bank.