1. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been appointed as President of _____________________ for 6 years term.
2. Andry Rajoelina won presidential elections of ___________ (East Africa).
3. Atul Sahai has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of PSU _____________________.
4. _____________________ elected as President of Archery Association of India(AAI).
5. ______________________ appoints AS Rajeev as MD and CEO.
6. ______________ appointed as India’s chief boxing coach.
7. Former Indian diplomat __________________ has been elected unopposed to an Asia Pacific seat on United Nation's Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).
8. Governmemnt appointed _________________________ as new Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) for 3 years, replacing Arvind Subramanian.
9. Government appointed ______________________ as New Finance Secretary.
10. Government appointed Arti Chhabra Srivastava as first full-time Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) of _________________ for 3 years.
11. Government appointed _______________________ as President of FTII Society and Chairman of FTII Governing Council.
12. Government appointed ________________ as Chairman of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), replacing S. Ramesh.
13. Government appointed Shaktikanta Das as new (__________________) Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for 3 years term. This appointment is made after Urjit Patel Resigned as RBI Governor recently. Mr. Patel is First RBI governor to resign before completion of term, which was to end in September 2019.
14. Government appointed _________________________ as New Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), along with four new information commissioners - Yashwardhan Kumar Sinha, Vanaja N Sarna, Neeraj Kumar Gupta and Suresh Chandra.
15. Harsh Vardhan Shringla appointed as Ambassador of India to _____________________, replacing Navtej Sarna.
16. India's Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) _____________________ elected as Vice-Chair of United Nations (UN) Panel of Auditors. CAG of UK was also appointed as Chair of Panel for another term (2019).
17. India's _________________ become first Indian to be elected one of the four vice-presidents of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). Also, Pawan Singh become first Indian to be elected one of 7 member's of Judges Committee of International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF).
18. Indian National Congress announced that Bhupesh Baghel will be new chief minister of Chhattisgarh and Ashok Gehlot will be New Chief Minister of Rajasthan, after Congress won recent assembly elections 2018 in both states. All New CMs of 5 States who recent went for state assembly elections -
- ______________________ - Kamal Nath (Indian National Congress)
- Rajasthan - Ashok Gehlot (Indian National Congress), Sachin Pilot (Deputy CM)
- Telangana - K Chandrasekhar Rao (President of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)). Its his 2nd consecutive term as CM.
- Chhattisgarh - Bhupesh Baghel (Indian National Congress)
- Mizoram - Zoramthanga (Mizo National Front (MNF)), Tawnluia (Deputy CM)
19. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) appointed _______________________ as its new CEO.
20. ____________________ appointed as chairman of Beverages Major Coca-Cola, succeeding Muhtar Kent.
21. Kirthiga Reddy (former Facebook India Chief) joined ______________ Investment Giant SoftBank as its first venture partner at its $100 billion Vision Fund. She is first women on board of Softbank.
22. Misc. Appointments (December 2018) -
- National Healthcare Foundation NATHEALTH appointed Siddhartha Bhattacharya as Secretary-General.
- Yes Bank appointed former IRDAI chief T.S. Vijayan as an additional director (Independent).
- Indian-origin Shamila Batohi appointed as ____________________________________________’s first female chief prosecutor.
- Heather Nauert - New US Ambassador to United Nations.
- Mark Milley - Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff of USA (senior most military officer in USA and principal military advisor to President).
- Government appointed Lalit Kumar as new government nominee on private sector ICICI Bank Board.
- Bharat Bhushan Vyas - Member in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
- Anil Srivastava - Re-designated as Principal Adviser in NITI Aayog.
- Ashok Kumar Singh - Appointed as Secretary in National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST).
- Ashley Giles appointed as managing director of England’s cricket team.
- Justice Tarun Agarwala appointed as Securities Appellate Tribunal presiding officer.
- T.C. Barupal appointed new Ambassador of India to Republic of Guinea (West Africa).
- Andreas Goss - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Thyssenkrupp Tata Steel B.V., proposed joint venture (JV) between Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp (Germany based industrial engineering and steel production Firm).
- Madhavi Divan Appointed as ASG (Additional Solicitor General) in Supreme Court.
- Solicitor General of India is subordinate to Attorney General of India. He is 2nd law officer of the country and assists Attorney General. Solicitor General is assisted by 4 Additional Solicitors Generals.
- Current solicitor general of India is Tushar Mehta.
- Current Attorney General of India is K. K. Venugopal.
- Ashok Kumar appointed as Ambassador of India to Djibouti (East Africa).
- M Nageswara Rao - Appointed as Additional Director in CBI.
- Mohinder Pratap Singh appointed as Ambassador of India to Mongolia.
- Infosys appointed Nilanjan Roy as its chief financial officer.
- Sangeeta Verma appointed as a member of Competition Commission of India (CCI). Current chairperson of CCI is Ashok Kumar Gupta.
- Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Secretary General Rajeev Mehta elected as President of South Asian Fencing Federation (SAFF).
- Rajeev Sachdeva apointed as Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Operations) (DCIDS).
- FedEx Express (U.S. multinational courier delivery giant) named Indian-American Rajesh Subramaniam as President & CEO.
- Y.K. Sailas Thangal appointed as New Indian ambassador to Liberia.
- Ambika Prasad Panda appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL).
- Riva Ganguly Das appointed as India's next High Commissioner to Bangladesh.
- Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd appointed Bijay Kumar as its deputy managing director.
- Rahul Chhabra appointed as next Ambassador of India to Somalia.
23. P.V Bharathi is appointed as managing director and chief executive officer of PSB ________________.
24. Patrick Shanahan appointed as acting Defence Secretary of _______________, replacing Jim Mattis who resigned recently.
25. Ramphal Pawar has been appointed as Director in NCRB (___________________).
26. Ranil Wickremesinghe appointd as Prime minister of ________________ by President Maithripala Sirisena, bringing an end to the weeks-long political crisis in country.
- Mr.Wickremesinghe was removed as Prime minister in October and was replaced by Mahinda Rajapaksa who resigned after failing to garner a majority in Parliament.
27. SWIFT India, local unit of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) appointed former _______________ chief Arundhati Bhattacharya as its Chairperson.
28. _________________ has been appointed as President of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) for 2018-19. While, Uday Shankar is appointed as is Vice President of FICCI.
29. Shalindra Kumar appointed as Chief Electoral Officer of _______________________.
30. Sheikh Hasina won her 3rd consecutive term and fourth overall, as Prime Minister of _____________.
31. _______________ appointed as coach of the Indian women’s cricket team.
32. __________________ named Brahm Dutt as bank’s non-executive interim chairman, after Ashok Chawla resigned last month.