NEW APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA & WORLD | JULY

2018

1. Vishwas Patel was on 2nd July 2018 appointed as the Chairman of

Payment Council of India

2. General Jose Eladio Alcain was on 4th July 2018 appointed as the
Head to United Nations Military Observer Group in India and
Pakistan (UNMOGIP)

3. Adarsh Kumar Goel was on 7th July 2018 appointed as the

Chairman of National Green Tribunal

4. T. C. A. Raghavan was on 24th July 2018 appointed as the Director

General of Indian Council of World Affairs

NEW APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA & WORLD | AUGUST

2018

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5. Harivansh Narayan Singh was on 9th August 2018 appointed as the

Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha

6. R. S. Sharma was on 9th August 2018 appointed as the Chairman of

TRAI

7. Justice Gita Mittal was on 11th August 2018 appointed as the Chief
Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court
 8. G. Satheesh Reddy was on 25th August 2018 appointed as the
Chairman of Defence Research and Development Organization

9. Emmerson Mnangagwa on on 26th August 2018 appointed as the

President of Zimbabwe

NEW APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA & WORLD |

SEPTEMBER 2018

10. Michelle Bachelet was on 1st September 2018 appointed as the UN

High Commissioner for Human Rights

11. Sunil Mehta was on 1st September 2018 appointed as Chairman of

Indian Bank’s Association

12. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was on 4th September 2018 appointed as

the President of Mali

13. Anshula Kant was on 7th September 2018 appointed as the

Managing Director of State Bank of India

14. L. K. Advani was on 12th September appointed as the Chairman of

the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha

15. Moutaz Mousa Abdallah was on 17th September 2018 appointed as

Prime Minister of Sudan

16. Anil Kumar Chaudhary was on 22nd September 2018 appointed

Chairman of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).
 17. S S Deswal was on 27th September 2018 appointed as the DG of
Sashatra Seema Bal.

18. Rajni Kant Mishra was on 28th September 2018 appointed as the
Director General of Border Security Force (BSF).

NEW APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA & WORLD | OCTOBER

2018

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19. Gita Gopinath was on 2nd October 2018 appointed as Chief

Economist at International Monetary Fund (IMF).

20. R. N. Ravi was on 5th October 2018 appointed as Deputy National

Security Advisor.

21. Tushar Mehta was on 11th October 2018 appointed as the Solicitor
General of India.

22. Mehinda Rajapaksha was on 27th October 2018 appointed as the

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

NEW APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA & WORLD |

NOVEMBER 2018

23. Lt General Rajeshwar was on 2nd November 2018 appointed as the

Chief of Integrated Defence Staff.
 24. Ashok Kumar Gupta was on 10th November 2018 appointed as the
Chairperson of Competition Commission of India.

25. Jalaj Srivastava was on 20th November 2018 appointed as the

Chairperson of Inland Waterways Authority of India.

26. Kim Jong Yang was on 21st November 2018 appointed as the
President of Interpol.

27. Nageshwara Rao was on 27th November 2018 appointed Chairman

of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.

28. Sunil Arora was on 27th November 2018 appointed as the Chief
Election Commissioner.

29. Arvind Saxena was on 29th November 2018 appointed as the

Chairman of UPSC.

NEW APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA & WORLD |

DECEMBER 2018

30. Shaktikanta Das was on 13th December 2018 appointed as the

Governor of Reserve Bank of India.

31. Nageswara Rao was on 19th December 2018 appointed as CBI

Additional Director.

32. Nilanjan Roy was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of

Infosys.
 33. Suman Kumari was appointed Pakistan’s first ever Hindu female
civil judge.

NEW APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA & WORLD | JANUARY

2019

34. Senior IPS Officer Prabhat Singh has been appointed as Director
General (Investigation) in the National Human Rights Commission.

35. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the appointment of

Manu Sawhney as its new Chief Executive Officer.

36. Sudhir Bhargava was appointed as Chief Information

Commissioner (CIC), along with four information commissioners.

37. Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan sworn in as the

first Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court.

38. Civil Aviation Security head and senior IPS officer Kumar Rajesh
Chandra was appointed as the director general of the Sashastra
Seema Bal (SSB).

39. Pranav R Mehta, has taken over as the president of Global Solar
Council (GSC). He has become the first India to hold this position.

40. Gita Gopinath has joined International Monetary Fund as its chief
economist. She is the first woman to this post.
41. Additional Director M. Nageswara Rao again took charge of the office
of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director.

42. Mohammed Ali Qamar, the man who won India’s first
Commonwealth Games gold medal in boxing, has taken over as the
chief coach for the country’s female boxers.