IBPS PO Special - New Appointments (From March 2013 to October
2013 )
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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 Obama's 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 newchief---------Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo.
10. Antigua's 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. Qatar's 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-chiefof
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 DPRK's Supreme People's Assembly.
38. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the 25th and
current Prime Minister of Turkey.
39. Hassan Rohani is Iran's president.
40. Foreign Minister of Cuba Bruno
Rodriguez Parrilla..
41. Gold miner AngloGold Ashanti has
appointed Srinivasan
Venkatakrishnanas 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. AirAsia's 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 World's Best
and Asia's 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 PCB's interim
chairman.
62. Kanji Ram became only the second Hindu
to be part of the
Pakistan's 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 India's 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. Venezuela's 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 men's
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 D'Souza 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 ‘Philanthropistof the
Year’ at the third edition of
the annual Asian Awards----- Narayana
Murthy .
111. Professor M Aslam has been appointed
as the vice-chancellorof 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 Women's Cricket team .
114. Tushar Arothe is coach of Indian
women's 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 Children's 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 Iran's
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
Children's 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----------------Krishnakumar
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. Brazil's 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-AmericanNisha 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 People's Party
261. Syria's 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. Germany's 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
