Current Affairs - June to August 2019 Month August 2019 Type Appointments 86 Current Affairs were found in Last Three Months for Type - Appointments Appointments 1. Abdalla Hamdok is appointed as prime minister of Repiblic of Sudan (Northeast Africa). 2. Abhay Thakur has been appointed as New Indian permanent representative to economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS). 3. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha) appointed as Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC). PAC has 15 members from Lok Sabha and seven from Rajya Sabha. Term of office of members of PAC committee does not exceed 1 year at a time. Notably, Girish Bapat was appointed as chairman of estimates committee. 4. Ajay Kumar Bhalla appointed as new Union Home Secretary, succeeding Rajiv Gauba. Other Misc. ACC Appointments - Secretaries (Ministeries) - Subhash Chandra Garg - Secretary in Ministry of Power. R. S. Shukla - Secretary in Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. Ravi Capoor - Secretary in Ministry of Textiles. Secretaries (Departments) - Atanu Chakraborty - Secretary in Department of Economic Affairs (Ministry of Finance). Anuradha Mitra - Secretary in Department of Official Language (Ministry of Home Affairs). Anshu Prakash - Secretary in Department of Telecommunications (Ministry of Communications). Anil Kumar Khachi - Secretary in Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (Ministry of Finance). Guruprasad Mohapatra - Secretary in Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (Ministry of Commerce & Industry). Atul Chaturvedi - Secretary in Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying). P.O. Vaghela - Secretary in Department of Pharmaceuticals (Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers). Chairperson - S.P. Singh Parihar - Chairman in Central Pollution Control Board (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change). 5. Ajit Doval has been Re-appointed as National Security Adviser (NSA). He has also been given cabinet rank (with tenure of five years), as recognition of his contribution in national security. 6. Alejandro Giammattei has been elected as new president of Guatemala (Central America). 7. Amit Agarwal (Former Amazon India head) has been appointed as new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). 8. Arun Kumar has been given additional charge of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). He currently holds position of an additional secretary at aviation ministry. 9. BJP's BS Yeddyurappa has been appointed as chief minister of Karnataka for his 4th term. Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri elected as Speaker of Karnataka Assembly. BJP staked claim for government formation after HD Kumaraswamy's government failed to prove majority. HD Kumaraswamy resigned as Karnataka CM after Congress-JD(S) coalition government lost trust vote in Karnataka floor test. Floor test took place after 15 rebel legislators submitted their resignation to speaker of house and two independents withdrew their support to Congress-JD(S) coalition. 10. Bharatiya Janta Party’s (BJP) Virendra Kumar appointed as Pro-tem Speaker of Newly Elected 17th Lok Sabha. After formation of a new government, a pro tem speaker is selected to chair first meeting after election when Speaker and Deputy Speaker are selected. 11. Boris Johnson took charge as new Prime Minister of United Kingdom (UK). He replaced outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May, who was forced to step aside after failing to deliver a Brexit deal. Newly appointed UK Cabinet has 3 Indian-origin ministers - Priti Patel - UK home secretary Alok Sharma - International development secretary Rishi Sunak - Chief secretary to the Treasury. 12. Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Krishnamurthy Subramanian and B. Sriram former (MD and CEO of IDBI Bank) are appointed part-time members of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI). IBBI is headed by M. S. Sahoo. 13. China’s Qu Dongyu elected as new director general of United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at Rome (Italy) for 4 years. 14. Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Rajiv Mehrishi has been elected as external auditor of World Health Organization (WHO) for four years term (2020 to 2023. 15. Cricket Administrator Body BCCI appointed Rahul Dravid as Head of National Cricket Academy (NCA), Located in Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bengaluru). 16. Denmark’s Inger Andersen appointed as new Executive Director (ED) of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), for 4 years term. 17. Eastern Army Commander Manoj Mukund Naravane has been appointed as next vice-chief of Indian Army. He will succeed D Anbu. 18. Exporters body Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has elected Sharad Kumar Saraf as its new president. 19. Former Indian Cricketer Vikram Rathour has beee appointed as India's new batting coach, replacing Sanjay Bangar. Bharath Arun and R. Sridhar were retained as bowling and fielding coaches. Ravi Shastri was earlier retained as head coach. 20. Former International Monetary Funf (IMF) Chief Christine Lagarde will now be new head of European Central bank (ECB), replacing Mario Draghi. Christine Lagarde will become first woman to lead ECB. She will step down 2 years before end of her second five-year term as IMF Chief. 21. Former Supreme Court judge A K Sikri has been appointed as an International Judge of Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). 22. Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen appointed as President-designate of the European Commission, replacing Jean-Claude Juncker. 23. Giriraj Prasad Gupta appointed as Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in Department of Expenditure (Ministry of Finance). 24. Government Appointed Shefali Juneja as India’s representative in Council of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), for 3 years. ICAO is a United Nations agency, tasked with regulating international air travel. ICAO was established in 1944 by Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention). It is headquartered in Quartier International of Montreal (Canada). 25. Government appointed V.S. Kaumudi as Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), lowering the post to the rank of Additional Director General. 26. Government appointed VG Somani as Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), to head Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). 27. Government gave additional charge of post of Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau to Rakesh Asthana (Director General of Civil Aviation Security (DG CAS)). 28. Govt Appointed M Nageswar Rao (Former Additional Director of CBI) as Director General of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard. 29. Govt. Appointed Amita Prasad as Chairperson in Inland Waterways Authority of India. Also, Arun Kumar Jha has been appointed as Director General in National Productivity Council. Amita Prasad was earlier posted as Chairperson in National Productivity Council. 30. Govt. Appointed Arun Kumar as new Director General (DG) in Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). 31. Govt. Appointed Rajiv Kumar as new Finance Secretary of India, to replace Subhash Chandra Garg, who has been sent to Power Ministry. 32. Govt. Appointed Vivek Kumar as Private Secretary to Prime Minister. He was earlier working as Director in Prime Minister’s Office. 33. Govt. appointed Ajay Kumar Bhalla as Union Home Secretary. Previous Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba was recently appointed as cabinet secrtetary. 34. Govt. appointed Arvind Kumar as Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) for 2 years, succeeding Rajiv Jain. Govt also appointed Samant Kumar Goel as Director of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), for 2 years, succeeding Anil K Dhasmana. Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) also approved extension of tenure of Amitabh Kant as CEO of NITI Aayog for 2 years. 35. Govt. appointed Vikas Swarup as Secretary, (consular, passport, visa and Overseas Indian affairs) in External Affairs Ministry. 36. Govt. made several key Appointments - Rajiv Gauba as Cabinet Secretary, for 2 years term. Ajay Kumar as Secretary in Department of Defence (Ministry of Defence) (called defence secretary). Brij Kumar Agarwal as Secretary to the Lokpal. Subash Chandra as as Secretary in Department of Defence Production (Ministry of Defence). 37. Govt. reappointed NS Vishwanathan as Deputy Governor of RBI for one year. Other RBI Deputy Governors are - M. K. Jain, B.P. Kanungo. Another Deputy Governor Viral Acharya Resigned recently. 38. ITBP Director General S S Deswal has been given additional charge of counter-terror force National Security Guard (NSG). 39. Indian Airline SpiceJet Chairman and Managing Director Ajay Singh elected to board of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). 40. Indian Author Amish Tripathi named as the director of London’s Nehru Centre, under Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). London’s Nehru Centre was established in 1992, to promote cultural exchange between India and UK. 41. Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra has been elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee. 42. Indian theoretical physicist Atish Dabholkar has been appointed as new director of Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. 43. International Monetary Fund (IMF) appointed American economist David Lipton as its interim leader, replacing Christine Lagarde. Christine Lagarde will now be new head of European Central bank (ECB), replacing Mario Draghi. Christine Lagarde will become first woman to lead ECB. She will step down