1. P.K. Sinha has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in Prime Minister's Office, after ____________________, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister submitted his resignation.
2. Abdalla Hamdok is appointed as prime minister of ________________ (Northeast Africa).
3. Abhay Thakur has been appointed as New Indian permanent representative to ______________________ (ECOWAS).
4. Alejandro Giammattei has been elected as new president of _____________________ (Central America).
5. Former Indian Cricketer Vikram Rathour has beee appointed as India's new batting coach, replacing ____________________. Bharath Arun and R. Sridhar were retained as bowling and fielding coaches. Ravi Shastri was earlier retained as head coach.
6. Government appointed ___________ as Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), to head Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO).
7. Government gave additional charge of post of Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau to _____________ (Director General of Civil Aviation Security (DG CAS)).
8. Govt. appointed ________________ as Union Home Secretary. Previous Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba was recently appointed as cabinet secrtetary.
9. Govt. made several key Appointments -
- _______________ 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).
10. Indian theoretical physicist Atish Dabholkar has been appointed as new director of Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, _______________.
11. ___________________ Chief Minister Yediyurappa appointed Govind Makthappa Karajol, Ashwath Narayan CN and Laxman Sangappa Savadi as deputy chief ministers. Its first time that 3 deputy CMs have been appointed in state.
12. Lionel Aingimea has been appointed as new president of pacific nation _____________.
13. Misc. Appointments (August 2019) -
- Govt. appointed Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat as New Indian Ambassador to Republic of Cyprus.
- PSU Power Grid Corporation appointed Kandikuppa Sreekant as its chairman and managing director.
- Global Financial Firm HSBC appointed Noel Quinn as interim CEO.
- Indian IT Firm Mindtree appointed Debashis Chatterjee as its new MD & CEO.
- Government extended tenure of __________________________ Managing Director (MD)Dinesh Kumar Khara by 2 years.
- Government appointed Ghotu Ram Meena as New Indian Ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo (Central Africa).
- Elangbam Valentina Devi, a 9-year-old girl from Manipur was made the ambassador of ‘Chief Minister’s Green Manipur Mission’. She had planted two Gulmohar trees near her house in Kakching district of Manipur when she was in class 1. She wept immensely when she saw the trees uprooted after coming from school.
- Yes Bank appointed Anurag Adlakha as Group Chief Financial Officer and Raj Ahuja as Group Chief Strategy Officer.
- Former New Zealand Cricketer Brendon McCullum appointed as head coach of IPL Team Kolkata Knight Riders, replacing Jacques Kallis.
- Financial Firm Paytm Appointed Madhur Deora as its President.
- National Housing Bank (NHB) appointed Jaishankar R. Padmanabhan as Executive Director (special grade).
- Shavendra Silva is appointed as Sri Lankan Army Chief. He has earlier been accused of war crimes.
- HDFC Bank appointed Srinivasan Vaidyanathan as Chief Financial Officer.
- Ms. Padmaja appointed as New India High Commissioner to Cook Islands.
- Government appointed Pavan Kapoor as New Indian Ambassador to United Arab Emirates(UAE).
- Pramod Agrawal will be appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Coal India Limited.
- Former Delhi HC Judge Sunil Gaur has been appointed as Chairperson of PMLA Appellate Tribunal.
- Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Shalija Dhami became 1st female officer to be appointed as flight commander of a flying unit, after she took over a Chetak helicopter unit at Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad.
- Govt. approved extension of tenure of CBDT Chairman Pramod Chandra Mody, by one year.
14. New Governors Appointed -
- _____________________ - Bandaru Dattatreya
- Kerala - Arif Mohammad Khan
- Maharashtra - Bhagat Singh Koshyari
- Rajasthan - Kalraj Mishra
- Telangana - Tamilisai Soundararajan (First Separate Governor of Telangana).
15. Noted Indian sprinter _________________ has been appointed as a member of the Asian Athletics Association’s (AAA) Athletes Commission, as her 2nd appointment at the post.
16. Noted biologist Chandrima Shaha became first woman to get elected as President of _____________ (INSA), for 3 years.
17. Ravinder Takkar has been appointed as MD and CEO of Telecom Firm _______________, replacing Balesh Sharma.
18. Russell Domingo (________________) has been head coach of Bangladesh Cricket Team (Men), replacing Steve Rhodes(England).
