IBPS PO Special - New Appointment ( From March 2013...... ) 1. Amol Rajan appointed as Independent editor. 2. Bobby Ghosh is Time International editor. 3. Kamala Devi Harris is an American attorney. 4. Senate approves James Comey as new FBI director. 5. Susan Rice named as Obamas new National Security Advisor. 6. Haryana cadre IPS Sharad Kumar to be new NIA chief. 7. Shashi Kant Sharma, an IAS officer of the 1976 batch from Bihar cadre----------- CAG of India . 8. P. Sathasivam takes oath as new Chief Justice of India 9. World Trade Organization names Brazilian as new chief---------Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo. 10. Antiguas Ambassador to the United Nations, John Ashe, has been elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. 11. Obama Names Veteran Troubleshooter to Afghanistan-Pakistan Post-----------James F. Dobbins. 12. Siddha Ramaiah sworn in as new Karnataka chief minister ------- 22nd . 13. Indian High Commissioner to Maldives Rajeev Shahare. 14. Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. 15. Priyadarshini Govind appointed director of Kalakshetra. 16. Sunil Soni appointed Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards. 17. Hemant Soren becomes Jharkhand CM, heads 9th government in 13 years. 18. Jiji Thomson. Director General, SAI. 19. NRI Sunil Chopra elected as the Deputy Mayor of a London Borough. 20. Kushal Singh appointed as NCPCR chairperson---National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). 21. Laxman Singh Rathore, the Director General of Meteorology & Permanent Representative of India with World Meteorological Organization. 22. Subhash Kumar appointed as the New Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand. 23. Krishnakumar Natarajan------------------ NASSCOM Chairman 24.Som Mittal-------------------------- NASSCOM President 25. Dr Manmohan Singh appoints Rentala Chandrasekhar as NTRO chief---National Technical Research Organisation. 26. Senior IPS officer Krishna Chaudhary --------- Director General, National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence. 27. New chief of Direct Benefits Transfer Scheme--------- S Sundareshan. 28. Qatars new young emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. 29. N. R. Narayana Murthy----------------------(Executive Chairman) Infosys 30. S. D. Shibulal--------------------------------(CEO & MD) Infosys 31. S. Gopalakrishnan-(Executive Vice Chairman, former Co-Chairman) Infosys 32. K. Vaman Kamath is the Lead Independent Director of Infosys Limited , Infosys 33. E.K. Bharat Bhushan has been appointed as the Chief Secretary of Kerala. 34. Hindustan Times has appointed Nicholas Dawes, editor-in-chief of Mail and Guardian (M&G), a leading South African paper. 35. Tomas Brunegård, chairman of Sweden’s Stampen Media Group, is the new president of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. 36. Foreign Minister of Argentina Mr. Hector Marcos. 37. Pak Pong-ju served as the Premier of North Korea since elected by the DPRKs Supreme Peoples Assembly. 38. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the 25th and current Prime Minister of Turkey. 39. Hassan Rohani is Irans president. 40. Foreign Minister of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla.. 41. Gold miner AngloGold Ashanti has appointed Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan as chief executive officer. 42. Dato Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak is a Malaysian politician who has been the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia. 43. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is the 4th and current President of Mongolia. 44. Amisha Sethi appointed chief commercial officer at AirAsia India . 45. AirAsias chief executive officer Tony Fernandes . 46. AirAsia India CEO Mittu Chandilya. 47. AirAsia India appoints TCS S Ramadorai as Chairman. 48. Tata Group chairman emeritus Ratan Tata will be the chief advisor to the board of AirAsia India. 49. AirAsia has been named the Worlds Best and Asias Best Low Cost Airline . 50. Tony Fernandes announced as new owner of Queens Park Rangers. 51. Cabinet Secretary--------------------- Shri Ajit Kumar Seth . 52. Union home secretary---------------- Anil Goswami . 53. Secretary of Defense---------------- R K Mathur . 54. Foreign Secretary------------------- Sujatha Singh. 55. Union finance secretary ------------- Rajiv Takru . 56. Economic Affairs Secretary---------- Arvind Mayaram . 57. Information and broadcasting (I&B) secretary--------Bimal Julka 58. Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)------M F Farooqui 59. PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq elected Speaker of Pak Parliament. 60. Moin Khan, the former Pakistan captain and wicketkeeper, has been appointed the chief selector of the Pakistan national cricket team. 61. Najam Sethi named PCBs interim chairman. 62. Kanji Ram became only the second Hindu to be part of the Pakistans Punjab assembly after Seth Bharta Ram. 63. Pakistan High Commissioner in India---------Salman Bashir . 64. Raja Zafrul Haq---------chairman of PML-N. 65. TCA Raghavan is Indias new envoy to Pakistan. 66. Arunachal Pradesh--- Nirbhay Sharma – 29 May 2013 67. Bihar-------------------------- D. Y. Patil – 9 March 2013 68. Kerala-----------------------Nikhil Kumar 9 March 2013 69. Meghalaya---------------------------K. K. Paul – 1 July 2013 70. Nagaland--------------- Ashwani Kumar – 9 March 2013 71. Odisha----------------- S. C. Jamir 9 March 2013 72. Sikkim------- Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil – 1 July 2013 73. Tripura----------- Devanand Konwar – 9 March 2013 74. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Lieutenant-Governor A. K. Singh – 1 July 2013 75. Delhi---- Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung – 1 July 2013 76. Puducherry------ Lieutenant-Governor Virendra Kataria – 1 July 2013 77. Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak. 78. Paraguayan president Federico Franco (Colorado Party ). 79. Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. 80. Parliamentary Speaker Abdul Hamid sworn in as Bangladesh President to replace Zillur Rahman, who died. 81. .Infosys S Gopalakrishnan is the new CII President. 82. Secretary in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) ---------- Amarjit Singh . 83. Axis new President – Retail Banking ----------------- Rajiv Anand 84. Shri Sunil Kumar has taken over as Managing Director, Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). 85. Senior IAS officer Sudhir Bhargava was Tuesday appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. 86. Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien unanimously elected the Chairman of the prestigious Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) in Bangkok. 87. N. N. Vohra His Excellency Governor of Jammu & Kashmir & Chancellor, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University. 88. New head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission ------- Mary Jo White 89. N Ravi, Director of Kasturi and Sons Limited, publisher of The Hindu newspaper, has been unanimously elected President of the Editors Guild of India. 90. Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Arjan Kumar Sikri and Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court Sharad Arvind Bobde as new judges of Supreme Court. 91. Ajay S Shriram, chairman and senior managing director of DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd (DSCL) is president designate of CII for the year 2013-2014. 92. Ms. Rashida Manjoo (South Africa) was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women. 93. Narendra Kumar has taken over as Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL). 94. Raninder Singh re-elected president of National Rifle Association of India. 95. Jeev Milkha Singh becomes Volvo India brand ambassador. 96. Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA new chairman -------------- Amarnath Sengupta . 97. The Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) Vice Chairman ------------- P. Devadas 98. Hockey India set to appoint foreign goalkeeping coach------------Greg Clarke (junior mens team coach). 99. Sania Mirza joins Indian Tennis Players Association as Vice President. 100. Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) ----- Amitava Bhattacharyya . 101. Computer Society of India elected H.R. Mohan as its Vice-President-Cum-President. 102. Sikkimese woman who captained the U.S. Army------------Former Sikkimese Chief Minister Narbahadur Bhandari’s daughter Perilla Bhandari Swartz . 103. Delhi-born Sunil Chopra elected as the Deputy Mayor of London Borough. 104. Ajay Devgn, Bangladeshi singer Runa Laila and Oscar-winning Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy have been named as SAARC Goodwill Ambassadors for HIV/AIDS. 105. Cognizant CEO Francisco DSouza gets over $10-mn pay package. 106. Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa will run Asian football for the next two years after the Bahraini won a three-way election for the presidency of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). 107. P Sathasivam to be new Chief Justice of India. 108. National President of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) --------------------------------- C. Shekhar Reddy . 109. Chief Justice for High Court of Himachal Pradesh -------- Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar . 110. Who was named ‘Philanthropist of the Year’ at the third edition of the annual Asian Awards----- Narayana Murthy . 111. Professor M Aslam has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) . 112. Sundar Pichai, Google senior VP of Chrome and Android. 113. Harmanpreet Kaur Named Captain of the Indian Womens Cricket team . 114. Tushar Arothe is coach of Indian womens cricket team. 115. Harvard professor Ashish Nanda is set to take over as director of IIM Ahmedabad. 116. Italian ambassador Daniele Mancini . 117. SAI (Sports Authority of India ) Director General Jiji Thomson . 118. Prahlad Joshi appointed Karnataka BJP president 119. Bhaichung Bhutia Appointed as the Chairman of the AIFF’s Technical Committee 120. Aniruddha Bahal, Editor, CobraPost 121. India’s new High Commissioner to Maldives – Rajeev Shahare 122. Justice Mukul Mudgal, former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court 123. Julia Pearson New CIA Director 124. Indian ambassador to Egypt Navdeep Suri 125. Chairman of CII Karnataka ------------------ Soumitra Bhattacharya . 126. Dinesh K Sarraf will be the new Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) 127. Deepak Sandhu will be appointed as next Chief Information Officer. 128. Indian Weightlifting Federation president Birendra Prasad Baishya has been appointed as the chairman of the Ethics Commission of the International Weightlifting Federation in the executive board meeting of the world body in Beijing. 129. Malala Yousafzai won 2013 International Childrens Peace Prize 130. Navi Pillay, UN high commissioner for human rights 131. Vice President of Afghanistan Mohammed Karim Khalili 132. Rajeev Rishi took over as the CMD of Central Bank of India 133. ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe,Zimbawe 134. Rakesh Sethi took charge as Executive Director at the Union Bank of India. 135. Special Envoy of India for Sudan and South Sudan,PS Raghavan 136. Ms Runa Laila, SAARC Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS made Maiden Visit to India 137. Ali Asghar Soltanieh is Irans ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Geneva. 138. Nishi Vasudeva was today selected to head Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), the first woman ever to head a Navranta PSU. 139. Bhartiya Mahila Bank Ltd CEO --------- Usha Anatha Subramanyam. 140. Executive Director of the Union Bank of India-------- Rakesh Sethi. 141. US ambassador to United Nations---------- Samantha Power. 142. PM’s Special Envoy to visit Japan ---------------------- Ashwani Kumar. 143. My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions------------ APJ Abdul Kalam. 144. Director General of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) -------------- Dilip Trivedi. 145. Retirement announced Microsoft CEO----------- Steve Ballmer. 146. UNICEF (United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund) Goodwill Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan. 147. Chairperson of the National School of Drama Society -------- Ratan Thiyam. 148. Nepal’s new Indian ambassador----------------- Ranjit Rae. 149. Youngest member of the present Parliament ------------------ Ramya 150. Foreign Minister of Tuvalu----------------- Taukelina Finikaso. 151. Prime Minister of Bhutan-------------------- Tshering Tobgay 152. New Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court ------------------ Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana. 153. Foreign Minister of Nicaragua------------------- Samuel Santos Lopez. 154. Amitabh Bachchan joined UN Campaign The World Needs More. 155. D.Bala Venkatesh Varma appointed Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament. 156. First case of human to human Transmission of H7N9 Bird Flu Virus reported in China. 157. Raghuram Govind Rajan Appointed as the 23rd Governor of RBI. 158. Bhim Sain Bassi Took Charge as the 20th Delhi Police Commissioner . 159. United Bank of India: Ms. Archana Bhargav (Chairman & MD) 160. Allahabad Bank: Ms Shubhalakshmi Panse (Chairman & MD) 161. ICICI Bank: Ms.Chanda Kochhar (MD & CEO) 162. Axis Bank: Ms Shikha Sharma (MD & CEO) 163. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has appointed a Pakistani army general, Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmed, as the Military Adviser for United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. 164. L C Goyal has been appointed as the new Secretary in the ministry of Rural Development. 165. India’s IT major Wipro will enter the National Stock Exchange’s 50-share Nifty index. 166. Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corp, Steve Ballmer, announced his retirement as chief executive. Microsoft may consider Satya Nadella, India-born executive, as next Microsoft CEO. 167. V Kannan Chairman & Managing Director of Vijaya Bank. 168. Suresh N Patel as Executive Director of Oriental Bank of Commerce 169. Pumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, of South Africa, took over as the new head of the the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women). 170. Yahoo Inc has appointed veteran technology executive and Silicon Valley investor Maynard Webb as its new chairman. 171. Syndicate Bank has appointed Sankaran Bhaskar Iyer as workmen employee director on the board of directors. 172. Brand ambassadors of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) ------------ Deepika Padukone and Aamir Khan. 173. Chairman of selection committee for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna award--- Billiards legend Michael Ferreira. 174. RBI Governor------------- Raghuram Govinda Rajan. 175. SEBI-------------------------U.K. Sinha 176. NABARD--------------------Prakash Bakshi 177. FICCI----------------------Naina Lal Kidwai 178. NASSCOM----------------Krishna kumar Natrajan 179. ASSOCHAM---------------Rana Kapoor 180. SBI-----------------------Pratip Chaudhary 181. IRDA----------------------T.S.Vijayan 182. World Bank----------------Jim Yong Kim 183. National Stock Exchange-----------------Chitra Ramkrishna 184. Bombay Stock Exchange------------------ Ashish Chauhan 185. CAG-------------------------------Shashi Kant Sharma 186. Chief Economic advisor and Vice President of IMF------Kaushik Bas 187. Union Finance secretary-------------Rajiv Takru 188. Union Economic secretary---------- Aravind Mayaram 189. First women MD in SBI -------------- Arundhathi Bhattacharya. 190. First women Bank CEO---------- Usha Anathasubramanian 191. Standard Chartered-------------Sandeep Das 192. National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL)---------Saji Cherian 193. Rakesh Sethi ------- Executive Director of Union Bank of India . 194. Rajeev Rishi----------------------- CMD of Central Bank of India. 195. Institute of Cost Accountants of India new president------- Suresh Chandra Mohanty. 196. New Chairman of GST Panel--------------Abdul Rahim Rather. 197. Indian Banks Association (IBA) President-------- K R Kamath. 198. President of Asian Development Bank Board ----- Takehiko Nakao 199. S Gopalakrishnan----------- President of the industry body (CII) 200. Rajan Bharti Mittal ------------ President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India. 201. MRP Rao------------------- Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in NTPC 202. CBDT chief---------------- Sudha Sharma 203. Lic Chairman ------------ S K Roy. 204. LIC MD------------- S.B. Mainak . 205. A.K. Roy -----------Chairman cum Managing Director, GIC. 206. M.V. Tanksale---------Chairman & Managing Director, Central Bank of India . 207. Sh. Sharad Kumar, IPS has joined NIA as the Director. 208. Dilip Trivedi appointed Director General of the CRPF. 209. Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana Appointed New Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court 210. Vinay Mittal appointed as Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) member 211. Suresh Chandra Mohanty Elected as the New President of ICAI 212. Arvind Sharma Re-Elected as the President of Advertising Agencies Association of India 213. Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil appointed new Governor of Sikkim 214. Sunil Soni appointed Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards 215. Anil Chait, took over as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) 216. Darren Lehmann appointed Coach of Australian Cricket Team 217. Susan Elizabeth Rice Appointed as the National Security Adviser to Obama 218. Avinash Chander appointed as the New chief of Defence Research Development Organiastion(DRDO) 219. Kushal Singh Appointed as the Chairperson of NCPCR 220. Laxman Singh Rathore Elected as the Member of Executive Council of WMO 221. Brazils Roberto Azevedo appointed Head of World Trade Organization 222. Staffan de Mistura appointed as Italian Special Envoy to India in Marines Case 223. Subhash Kumar appointed as the New Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand. 224. Ramsar Convention appointed Dr. Christopher Briggs as its new Secretary General. 225. Subhash Kumar appointed as the New Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand 226. Giorgio Napolitano Re-elected as the President of Italy to serve a Second Term 227. Aruna Bahuguna became First Women Special DG of CRPF 228. H.R. Mohan elected as the New Vice President of Computer Society 229. Sunil Kumar Took Over as the Managing Director of CRIS 230. Uhuru Kenyatta Sworn-In as the President of Kenya. 231. Narendra Kumar Verma appointed Director for Exploration of ONGC 232. United Nation (UN) Women chief ---------------- Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka 233. New High Commissioner of Singapore to India------------- Lim Thuan Kuan. 234. Depty Head of UN Mission in Mali ----------------- Abdoulaye Bathily. 235. President of Mali ----------------- Ibrahim Boubacar Keits 236. National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) appointed Saji Cherian. 237. Prime Minister of Italy---------------------------Enrico Letta. 238. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for the second term-------------N N Vohra. 239. Coach of the Junior Hockey Men’s National Team------------------Gregg Clark. 240. Vice Chairman of Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) for fiscal 2013-14----------P. Devadas 241. President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI)--------------Raninder Singh. 242. Chairman Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA)-----------Amarnath Sengupta 243. Secretary in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)------------------Amarjit Singh 244. Director (Personnel) of Electronics Corporation of India Ltd-------------V.S.B. Babu 245. Next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York--------------Asoke Kumar Mukerji 246. Head of the Securities and Exchange Commission---------------------Mary Jo White. 247. Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL)---------------------Narendra Kumar 248. Chairman of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd-----------------------------------G V Prasad 249. Governor of the Bank of Japan------------------------------------------Haruhiko Kuroda 250. John Ashe elected as the President of UN General Assembly: 251. Elbegdorj Tsakhia new Mongolia President 252. New Bangladesh President: Abdul Hamid 253. New King of Netherlands: Willem-Alexander 254. Nicolas Maduro – New President of Venezuela 255. Horacio Cartes – New President of Paraguay’s 256. XI Jinping – New President of China (succeeded Hu Jintao). 257. Rafael Correa – Ecuador’s President 258. Indian-American Nisha Biswal to be US assistant secretary of state for South Asia 259. Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia Region---------------------Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh 260. Hun Sen is the Prime Minister of Cambodia and leader of the Cambodian Peoples Party 261. Syrias Opposition National Council elected Ahmad Toameh as its Interim Prime Minister 262. President of Mali --------------------------- Ibrahim Boubacar Keits 263. New United states ambassador to the united nations -------------- Samantha Power 264. Head of Atomic Energy organisation in Iran----------------Ali Akbar Salehi 265. Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Mr. Filippo Grandi 266. iGate names former Infosys board member Ashok Vemuri as CEO 267. Cabinet Secretary--------------------- Shri Ajit Kumar Seth . 268. Union home secretary---------------- Anil Goswami . 269. Secretary of Defense---------------- R K Mathur . 270. Foreign Secretary------------------- Sujatha Singh. 271. Union finance secretary ------------- Rajiv Takru . 272. Economic Affairs Secretary---------- Arvind Mayaram . 273. Information and broadcasting (I&B) secretary--------Bimal Julka . 274. Former Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal has been appointed as member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). 275. Germanys Thomas Bach -------------- IOC president 276. Bal Sekhar, the new secretary general of Lok Sabha 277. Cabinet ministers: • Oscar Fernandes gets roads and highways ministry • Girija Vyas becomes housing and urban development and poverty alleviation minister • Sis Ram Ola becomes labour and employment minister • K S Rao gets textiles ministry 278. Ministers of state: • EMS Natchiyappan takes oath as MoS commerce and industry • J D Seelam becomes MoS finance • Manikrao Gavit gets social justice and empowerment • Santosh Chowdhury gets health & family welfare
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