69 APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS 1. Who was appointed as the 20th governor of 4. Name the Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) Nagaland ? Officer, who took over as the Controller General of 1) RN Ravi 2) Krishan Kant Paul Accounts (CGA) . 3) Padmanabha Acharya 4) Ashwani Kumar 1) Raosaheb Danve 2) Babul Supriyo 5) None of these 3) Girraj Prasad Gupta 4) Ramdas Athawale 1. Answer – 1) RN Ravi 5) None of these On August 1, 2019, RN Ravi (A 1976-batch Indian 4. Answer – 3) Girraj Prasad Gupta Police Service officer of the Kerala cadre,), a former On August 1, 2019, Girraj Prasad Gupta(a Intelligence Bureau(IB) officer was sworn in as the 1983-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) 20th governor of Nagaland. Arup Kumar Goswami, Officer) took over as the Controller General of Chief Justice (Acting) of Gauhati High Court(HC) Accounts (CGA) in New Delhi. He succeeds Anthony administered the oath of office to Ravi at the Raj Lianzuala as the new CGA, Department of Bhavan in Kohima, Nagaland. Ravi succeeds Expenditure, Ministry of Finance. He held higher Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya, whose tenure positions in the Central Board of Direct Taxes ended on July 19, 2019. (CBDT), Ministry of Rural Development and served 2. To which ministry, Ravi Capoor was appointed as as the Director of National Institute of Financial the secretary ? Management (NIFM), Faridabad.Gupta, as an 1) Ministry of External Affairs Additional Controller General of Accounts, got 2) Ministry of Minority Affairs credit for the work in development and implementation of Public Financial Management 3) Ministry of Finance System (PFMS), a backbone IT (Information 4) Ministry of Textiles Technology) infrastructure for Direct Benefit 5) None of these Transfer (DBT) in Government of India. Answer – 4) Ministry of Textiles 2. 5. To which government agency, Rakesh Asthana was On August 1, 2019, Ravi Capoor (an Indian appointed as the Director General ? Administrative Service (IAS) officer of 1986 batch) 1) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) took charge as secretary in the Ministry of Textiles 2) Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) in New Delhi. He succeeds Raghvendra Singh. He 3) National Investigation Agency(NIA) was in charge of Mines & Minerals, Forest & Environment, Act East Policy Affairs, and Public 4) Intelligence Bureau(IB) Enterprises Department as Additional Chief 5) None of these Secretary, Assam, from the period of 2016 to 2019. 5. Answer – 1) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Besides he also had the portfolios of Industry and The Appointments Committee chaired by Prime Commerce & worked as additional Development Minister Narendra Modi has given additional Commissioner, Handicrafts from 2002 to 2004. charge to 1984-batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer 3. Who was appointed as the Secretary of Department Rakesh Asthana, Director General of Civil Aviation for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade security (DG CAS), as the new DG of Narcotics (DPIIT) ? Control Bureau (NCB) by approving “entrustment of 1) Shripad Yesso Naik 2) Guruprasad Mohapatra the additional charge of the post of Director 3) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi 4) Krishan Pal General Narcotics Control Board”. The post of NCB was lying vacant as incumbent Abhay was 5) None of these appointed as a director Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 3. Answer – 2) Guruprasad Mohapatra National Police Academy, Hyderabad, On August 1, 2019, Guruprasad Mohapatra (an IAS Telangana.Asthana will serve as the DG of NCB for Officer of 1986 batch) assumed charge of the office the next 6 months or till new incumbent is of Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry appointed. and Internal Trade (DPIIT) in New Delhi. He Who was appointed as the Special Secretary to replaces Ramesh Abhishek.Guruprasad Mohapatra. 6. President Ram Nath Kovind ? Prior to this appointment, he served as chairman of 1) Sanjay Agarwal 2) Samant Kumar Goel the Airports Authority of India (AAI), a statutory body working under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, 3) E.L. S.N Bala Prasad 4) Nripendra Misra where he brought many changes in AAI’s strategic 5) None of these operations. 6. Answer – 3) E L S N Bala Prasad 70 On July 31, 2019, According to the Appointments 10. To which entity, Siddhartha Mohanty was Committee of the Cabinet, Government of appointed as the Managing Director & Chief India(GoI), E L S N Bala Prasad, a 1986 batch IAS Executive Officer ? officer of Bihar cadre has been upgraded to the rank 1) Indiabulls Housing Finance of Special Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind 2) LIC Housing Finance in the rank under Central Staffing Scheme.He was 3) Dewan Housing Finance Corporation earlier served as Officer on Special Duty(OSD) to 4) PNB Housing Finance the President. 5) None of these 7. Name the Indian theoretical physicist, who was 10. Answer – 2) LIC Housing Finance appointed as the new director of Italy based On August 3, 2019, Siddhartha Mohanty(Odisha) International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has assumed charge as MD(Managing Director) & for a five year term . CEO(Chief Executive Officer) of LIC Housing 1) Atish Dabholkar 2) Jayant Narlikar Finance (Life Insurance Corporation HFL) one of the 3) Abhas Mitra 4) Thanu Padmanabhan largest housing finance companies in India. He 5) None of these replaces Shri Vinay Shah. Prior to this appointment, 7. Answer – 1) Atish Dabholkar Mohanty was Chief Operating Officer (COO)with LIC Atish Dabholkar(56), an Indian theoretical HFL.In 1985, Mohanty started his career as a direct physicist from Kolhapur, Maharashtra has been recruit officer with LIC of India. He was also the appointed as the new director of Italy based Executive Director(Legal)with LIC prior to joining International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) to the LIC HFL.He also worked as Chief of for a five year term starting in November 2019 with Investments(Monitoring), Regional Head of the rank of Assistant Director-General of the United marketing in LIC in the States of Maharashtra, Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Gujarat, and Goa.In LIC, he has a vast experience in Organization (UNESCO). He succeeds Fernando the areas of Marketing, HR, Investments, and Legal. Quevedo, who has led the centre since 2009. He is 11. Who was appointed as the next High Commissioner currently the head of ICTP’s high energy, cosmology of India to the Republic of Cyprus on 2nd August, and astroparticle physics section. He joined ICTP in 2019? 2014 on secondment from Sorbonne Université and 1) Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat the National Center for Scientific Research, where 2) Naveen Srivastava he has been a research director since 2007. 3) Renu Pall 8. Who has been accredited concurrently as the next 4) Alok Kumar Sinha permanent representative of India to the economic 5) None of these Community of West African States ( ECOWAS) ? Answer – 1) Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 1) Natarajan Krishnan 2) Abhay Thakur 11. On August 2, 2019, Ministry of External Affairs Ms. 3) B. N. Chakrvarthy 4) Rikhi Jaipal Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat was appointed as the 5) None of these next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of 8. Answer – 2) Abhay Thakur Cyprus. She is a 1999 batch Indian Foreign Current high Commissioner of India to the Federal Service(IFS) Officer presently working as Joint Republic of Nigeria, Shri Abhay Thakur has been Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. She accredited concurrently as the next permanent succeeds RK Raghavan. representative of India to the economic Community 12. Who was appointed as the interim Chief Executive of West African States ( ECOWAS). He is 1992 batch Officer (CEO) of HSBC ? Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer. He will be 1) Yun Lien Lee 2) Ewen James Stevenson residing in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. 3) NoelQuinn 4) Mark Edward Tucker 9. Who was appointed as the director (operations) in 5) None of these Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)? Answer – 3) NoelQuinn 1) C.B. Ananthakrishnan 2) R Madhavan 12. HSBC bank announced that the Chief Executive 3) M S Velpari 4) V. M. Chamola Officer (CEO) of HSBC John Flint steps down from 5) None of these his post after 1.5years and is to be replaced by 9. Answer – 3) M S Velpari NoelQuinn, head of HSBC’s global commercial M S Velpari replaces Sunil Kumar as the director banking unit, as the new interim CEO. (operations) at the Bengaluru based Hindustan 13. Who was appointed as the new director Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). The appointment comes (exploration) in Oil and Natural Gas after Sunil Kumar was superannuated from his Corporation(ONGC) ? service.Mr. Velpari joined HAL as a management 1) Shashi Shanker 2) Ajay Kumar Dwivedi trainee in 1985 and also held various posts like 3) Subhash Kumar 4) Rajesh Kumar Srivastava Chief of Project of LCA-(Light Combat Aircraft)- Tejas at the LCA division. 5) None of these 13. Answer – 4) Rajesh Kumar Srivastava 71 On August 5, 2019, Indian multinational oil and gas On August 8,2019, Five Rajya Sabha members company, ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) include Mahesh Poddar (BJP), K Keshava Rao (TRS), has appointed Rajesh Kumar Srivastava as its new Vijayasai Reddy (YSRCP), Dola Sen (TMC) and director (exploration). He replaces Mr. A K Dwivedi, Sasmit Patra (BJD) have been elected unopposed to who superannuated on 31 July 2019.Srivastava the parliamentary joint committee on office of earned his Master’s Degree in Engineering Geology profit. The chairman of the committee is yet to be from IIT(Indian Institute of Technology), Kanpur, nominated. while Rakesh Sinha , BJP (Bharatiya joined ONGC as Geologist in 1984 at Krishna Janata Party) MP(member of parliament)has been Godavari Basin, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. nominated as a member of the Press Council of 14. To which entity, Sandeep Kumar Gupta was India(PCI)by Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah appointed as the new Director (Finance)? Naidu.