List of Recently Appointed Heads of Important Organizations A Anand appointed Director, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Thomas Bach of Germany was elected president of the International Olympic Committee, replacing Jacques Rogge. Ravindra Kumar elected new President of Indian Newspaper Society (INS). Erna Solberg Becomes Norway’s Prime Minister. Rajeev Rishi took over as the CMD of Central Bank of India. Arundhati Bhattacharya was appointed the managing director and chief financial officer of the State Bank of India(SBI). Raghuram Govind Rajan was on 6 August 2013, appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a time period of three years. Tony Abbot elected new Australian Prime Minister. He succeeded Kevin Rudd. Rakesh Sethi took Charge as Executive Director of Union Bank of India. Vinay Mittal appointed as Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) member. D.Bala Venkatesh Varma appointed Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament. Dilip Trivedi appointed Director General of the CRPF on August 17, 2013. Ali Akbar Salehi appointed Head of Atomic Energy Organisation in Iran. Ratan Thiyam Appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama Society on August 19, 2013. Nishi Vasudeva on 22 August 2013 became the first woman to be selected as the head of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL). Ashwani Kumar Appointed as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to Japan. Justice K.N.Basha Appointed as Chairman of the Intellectual Property Appellate Tribunal. Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana Appointed New Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Anil Chait Took over as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC). Najeeb Jung appointed as new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. R. Chandrasekhar appointed President of Nasscom. Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil appointed new Governor of Sikkim. KK Paul took over as the New Governor of Meghalaya. AK Singh sworn in as the new Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Arvind Sharma Re-Elected as the President of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI). Suresh Chandra Mohanty Elected as the New President of ICAI Mamnoon Hussain was elected as the 12th President of Pakistan. Bhim Sain Bassi Took Charge as the 20th Delhi Police Commissioner. Bimal Julka appointed as Secretary of Information & Broadcasting Ministry Darren Lehmann appointed Coach of Australian Cricket Team VK Duggal appointed as Nodal Officer for Relief and Rescue operations in Uttrakhand K R Kamath Re-Elected as the Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) Susan Elizabeth Rice Appointed as the National Security Adviser to Obama Ratan Tata Appointed as Chief Advisor of AirAsia India New Pope becomes the 266th pontiff Ayaz Sadiq Elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan Rami Hamdallah Appointed as the New Prime Minister of Palestine Infosys appointed Narayan Murthy as Executive Chairman of the Board Avinash Chander appointed as the New chief of Defence Research Development Organiastion(DRDO) Sujata Singh Appointed New Foreign Secretary of India. She succeeded Ranjan Mathai. Justice P Sathasivam – New Chief Justice of India(CJI). He Succeeded Altamas Kabir. Avinash Chander – New Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO Chief) replaced V. K. Saraswat Infosys appoints Narayana Murthy as Executive Chairman Sunil Soni appointed as the New Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Shashi Kant Sharma appointed New Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, replaced Vinod Rai. Kushal Singh appointed New Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul takes oath as new CJ of Punjab & Haryana high court K R Kamath Re-Elected as the Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) SK Roy New Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation Asian Athletics Association’) President’s – Dahlan Jumaan Al- Hamad Ratan Tata Appointed as Chief Advisor of AirAsia India Subramanian Ramadorai Appointed Chairman of AirAsia India Mittu Chandilya was named as the CEO of the AirAsia India VK Duggal appointed as Nodal Officer for Relief and Rescue operations in Uttrakhand Hariharan appointed Secy of Indian chess federation Bimal Jhulka appointed I&B secretary. He succeeds U K Varma Aruna Bahuguna – New Special Director General of the CRPF K. Siddaramaiah – New CM of Karnataka replaced Jagadish Shettar Sunil Bharti – Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Dep. Chairman of Rajya Sabha, PJ Kurien – Chairman of Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population & Development (AFPPD). Krishnakumar Natarajan – New Chairman of Nasscom. He succeeded N Chandrasekaran. S Gopalakrishnan – New President of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry). He succeeded Adi Godrej Rajeev Shahare – New High Commissioner of Maldives. N. Ravi – President of Editors Guild of India. Archana Bhargava – New Chairman and MD of UBI (United Bank of India) Anil Goswami – New Union Home Sec. He succeded RK Singh Vijay Shankar appointed as new Karnataka Advocate General Gulzar new chancellor of Assam University M.F. Farooqui – Telecom Secretary replaced R. Chandrashekhar. Abhay Chautala- New President of Indian Olympic Association Vinod Rai – Re-Elected As Chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors Sidharth Birla (Chairman of Xpro India Ltd and Digjam Ltd) – Senior Vice-President of FICCI. Anil Dev Singh – Chairperson of IOA Election Panel (after S.Y. Quraishi). Prahlad Joshi – Karnataka BJP President Justice D.K. Jain – new Chairman of Law Commission. Shyamala Gopinath – New Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL)Chairperson. Urjit Patel -New Deputy Governer of RBI (replaced Subir Gokarn). Naina Lal Kidwai – New President of FICCI- (replaced R.V. Kanoria). Rajiv Takru – Secretary of Financial Services in the Finance Ministry replacing Dinesh Kumar. Rajnath Singh- new BJP president. P.R. Vasudeva Rao – Director of the IGCAR (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research) replacing S.C Chetal. Mukund Govind Rajan – Group Spokesperson and Brand Custodian of Tata Group. Justice Y Bhaskar Rao – New Lokayukta of K’taka. Asoke Kumar Mukerji – Next Permanent Representative of India to the UN. T. S. Vijayan – Chairman of IRDA replaced J. Hari Narayan. Manik Sarkar – CM of Tripura for 5th time. Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapliyal – New Director General of Indian Coast Guard. Mukul Sangma – CM of Meghalaya. Neiphiu Rio CM of Nagaland for the 3rd consecutive time. Virbhadra Singh – CM of Himachal Pradesh for 6th time. Narendra Modi – CM of Gujarat for 4th time. Justice Swatanter Kumar – NGT (National Green tribunal) Chairperson. Cyrus Mistry – New Chairman of TATA Group after the retirement of Ratan tata. MS Sahoo – Secretary of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). S Raman – Whole Time Member of Security and Exchange Board of India(SEBI). S. Ramakrishnan – new Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (replaced P S Veeraraghavan). Roelant Oltmans – New Director (High Performance) for Indian Hockey Team. S. Ramakrishnan – Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre replacing P S Veeraraghava. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as International Goodwill Ambassador – UNAIDS (UN Programme on HIV/AIDS). Mary Kom – Brand Ambassador of Super Fight League (SPL) . Kenichi Ayukawa – new MD of Maruti Suzuki (replaced Shinzo Nakanishi). Justice B.Sudarshan Reddy – first Lokayukta of Goa. B Ashok Reddy – Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Andhra Pradesh, for 2013-14. Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar- new Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court Rajan Bharti Mittal – president of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India. Justice Ujjal Bhuyan – new Judge of the Guwahati High Court Parthasarathi Shome Appointed As the Adviser to Finance Minister of India Bhaichung Bhutia – Chairman of All India Football Federation’s Technical commiittee Jagat Singh Negi Elected As the Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly of Himachal. President of India, Pranab Mukherjee appointed Ali Mohd. Magrey and Dhiraj Singh Thakur as the Judges of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Wei Wei – China’s new ambassador for India in place of Zhang Yang. Patrick Suckling – Australia’s next High Commissioner to India (replacing Peter Varghese). John Kerry- The secretary of state (US). Head of WTO (World Trade Organisation): Roberto Azevedo New President of ADB (Asian Development Bank): Takehiko Nakao. He succeeded Haruhiko Kuroda Burundi’s Lydia Nsekera became the first woman to be elected to the FIFA Executive Committee (ExCo) for a full term of four years Srikanth Srinivasan – first ever Indian-American judge in the U.S. Supreme Court Susan Elizabeth Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations was appointed as the National Security Adviser of US President Barack Obama New Prime Minister of Palestine – Rami Hamdallah Libya Deborah Jones New US Ambassador to Libya James Comey next FBI director. He succeeded Robert Mueller. Sheikh Abdullah to be Qatar’s new PM Ayaz Sadiq elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan New Pakistan P.M : Nawaz Sharif, Political Party[Pakistan Muslim League (N)] Bangladesh first woman Speaker: Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury New Malaysia Prime Minister: Najib Razak Enrico Letta – New PM of Italy Li Keqiang – New Prime Minister of China (succeeded Wen Jiabao). Shinzo Abe – New PM of Japan. New Appointments (Previous Updates) Gen Bikram Singh assumes charge as new Army Chief DK Joshi will be the next Chief of the Indian Navy VS Sampath – 18th Chief Election Commissioner of India P. Dwarakanath new CMD of BEML Gambian lawyer Fatou Bensouda, first African, to head International Criminal Court Sachin Tendulkar takes oath as Rajya Sabha member DK Mehrotra has taken charge of new chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). Justice Madan Bhimrao joined the esteemed panel of Supreme Court Judges Jawahar Thakur country’s new Controller General of Accounts. Sayed Nasir Ali new Joint MD in Air India B Surendra Mohan – Chairman and Managing Director of Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) Sekhar Basu took over as Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Dlamini-Zuma became the first Female Chief of African Union. Dr Srikumar Banerjee Appointed first Chancellor of Kashmir’s Central University Praveen Mahajan appointed as the chairperson of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) Bimal Gurung, was elected Chief Executive Officer of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) P. Chidambaram become the new Finance Minister Sushilkumar Shinde replaced Chidambaram as new Home Minister. World Bank has appointed Kaushik Basu as its Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President YC Deveshwar appointed as Director of RBI Central Board. Tulsi Gabbard became the first Hindu-American to be elected to the House of Representatives. Justice Altamas Kabir sworn in as New Chief Justice of India. Atanu Sen New MD and CEO of SBI Life Insurance. Manbir Singh took the oath of office and secrecy as Member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Abhishek Matoria elected the president of the Indian Boxing Federation (IBF) Sandeep Patil replaces K Srikkanth as chief BCCI selector. New CMD of Allahabad Bank. Shubhalakshmi Panse Tilak Raj Bajalia appointed Deputy Managing Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). Milind Kharat New CMD of United India Insurance. Pranay Sahay appointed new DG of CRPF. Michael Corbat new CEO of Citigroup Sanjay Mitra has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of West Bengal Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission – Ratan Kumar Sinha (replaced Srikumar Banerjee) Attorney-General – Goolam E. Vahanvati (re-appointed) Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for six- year tenure – Dalveer Bhandari (Judge of Supreme Court) President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for four-year term – India-born Suma Chakrabarti Chairman and MD of General Insurance Corporation (GIC) – Mr Ashok Kumar Roy New Pakistan High Commissioner to India – Salman Bashir New president of World Bank – Jim Yong Kim (Korean-born) American citizen. Governor of Uttarakhand – Aziz Qureshi Governor of Goa – Bharat Vir Vanchu Governor of Andhra Pradesh – E S L Narasimhan (re- elected) Governor of Maharashtra – K. Sankaranarayanan (re- elected) Governor of Rajasthan – Margaret Alva President of International Chamber of Commerce India (ICC India) – Harsh Pati Singhania Chairman & MD of India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO)- Smt. Rita Menon Secretary General of SAARC – Ahmad Saleem President of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) – M. Rafeeque Ahmed Delhi Metro Rail Corporation ‘s new MD – Mr. Mangu Singh (previously E Sreedharan) CEO of Prasar Bharti – Jawhar Sircar Chairperson of the National Film Development Corporation – Ramesh Sippy Next General president of the Indian Science Congress – Manmohan singh CMD of Coal India Limited – S Narsing Rao President of Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) – Mr Rajkumar Dhoot Indian High commissioner to U.K. – Jaimini Bhagwati President of FICCI – Mr R.V. Kanoria President of Asian organisation of the Institution of the Accountants General (ASOASI) – Mr Vinod Rai (Comptroller and Auditor General of India). Editor-In-Chief of The Hindu group – Siddharth varadarajan New king of Malaysia – Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah Union Aviation Minister – Ajit Singh (Party – Rashtriya Lok dal) Chief Minister of U.P. – Akhilesh Yadav (Party – Samajwadi party) Chief Minister of Punjab – Prakash singh badal (Party – Akali dal) Chief Minister of Goa – Manohar Parikar (Bharatiya Janata party) Chief Minister of Uttrakhand – Vijay Bahuguna (Party – Indian national congress) Chief Minister of Manipur – Okram Ibobi Singh (Party – Indian national congress)
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