1. 85-year-old Paul Biya won ___________________ (Central Africa) presidential elections for seventh time. First elected as the President in 1982, Biya is sub-Saharan Africa’s oldest leader.
2. Adel Abdul Mahdi Appointed as new Prime Minister of _____________.
3. ________________ appointed as Director-General of Railway Protection Force (RPF).
4. Government Appointed ______________________ as Deputy National Security Advisor (Internal Affairs). He will be 3rd deputy NSA to National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval after former Rajinder Khanna and Pankaj Saran.
5. Government appointed _______________________ as interim Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
6. Government appointed ___________________ as Chief statistician of India (CSI), replacing TCA Anant.
7. Government appointed Rakesh Sharma as managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of ___________________a.
8. Government appointed ________________ as chairperson of the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA), which will function as an independent regulator for auditing profession.
9. Government appointed S. S. Deswal as Director General in _____________________. He will also hold additional charge of post of DG, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
10. Government appointed _____________________ as Interim Director of the financial probe agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) for three months.
11. Government appointed ___________________ as Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary in Department of Scientific and Research (DSIR).
12. Government appointed __________________ as Solicitor General of India (second-highest ranking law officer of government) till June 2020.
- Attorney General for India is Indian government's chief legal advisor, and is primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. Currently the post is held by K. K. Venugopal.
13. ________________ appointed as the acting chief justice of Allahabad High Court.
14. India's ______________ appointed as chairman and world president of International Advertising Association (IAA) for 2 years.
15. India-born Harvard University professor Gita Gopinath appointed as Chief Economist of International Monetary Fund (IMF). She will resign as Economic Adviser to __________________ CM.
16. Indian Origin Neil Chatterjee is appointed as chairman of ________________'s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
17.___________________’s parliament elected Kurdish politician Barham Salih as new president.
18. Jair Bolsonaro won ____________________'s presidential elections, securing over 55 % votes.
19. Justice Surya Kant appointed as Chief Justice of ______________ High Court.
20. Lotay Tshering is set to become new Prime Minister of _______________, after his party Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) won majority in National Assembly.
21. Maeen Abdulmalik has been appointed as new Prime Minister of _____________ (Middle East) ?
22. ________________ appointed as its Secretary General of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI).
23. Michael D Higgins re-elected as President of _________________ for his 2nd term, receiving 56 % of votes.
24. Misc. Appointments (October 2018) -
- HDFC Bank appointed Vinay Razdan as its chief human resources officer (CHRO).
- Global Direct Selling Firm Amway appointed Milind Pant as its First Global CEO.
- Former ________________ chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya Joined private equity firm ChrysCapital Advisors LLP as an advisor. It Firm Wipro also appointed Arundhati Bhattacharya as an independent director.
- Government granted a year’s extension to Bank of Baroda’s Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, PS Jayakumar.
- Suchitra Durai - New Indian Ambassador to Kingdom of Thailand.
- Nimesh Shah elected as chairperson of industry body Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).
- Paris Sain-Germain striker Neymar has been appointed as the permanent captain of Brazil’s national team. Brazil’s head coach Tite scrapped captaincy rotation policy of the team to give Neymar the permanent position.
- Amit Dev - Director General Air (OPS).
- VR Chaudhari - Deputy Chief of the Air Staff.
- Raghunath Nambiar - Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Air Command.
- Harjit Singh Arora - Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief South Western Air Command.
- Sunil Bhaskaran - MD & CEO of AirAsia India (Joint venture of Tata Sons and Malaysia’s AirAsia Group).
- Financial Firm BankBazaar appointed former RBI Deputy Governor S S Mundra as an advisor.
- Suresh Nambath has been appoinetd as Editor of The Hindu.
- Satish Kumar Gupta - Paytm Payments Bank MD & CEO.
- Saurabh Kumar - India’s ambassador to Myanmar.
- Cricket Australia (CA) re-appointed David Peever as Chairman.
- Rohini Bopanna - Appointed as Global Hockey Regulator FIH International's Technical Official.
- RBI approved re-appointment of Aditya Puri as Managing Director and CEO of HDFC Bank for two years.
25. Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad elected as new President of _________________ .
26. National Stock Exchange’s (NSE) MD and CEO _________________ is appointed chairman of working committee and director on board by international industry body – World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).
27. Pankaj Sharma appointed as ambassador and India’s permanent representative to United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (___________________), replacing Amandeep Gill.
28. President Ramnath Kovind appointed _______________________ as Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority of India (NALSA).
29. _________________ appointed as Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).
30. ________________ government banned sale of weedicide glyphosatem which is cancer causing, According to Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh. Systemic herbicide is a group 2A cancer causing material and has potential to damage the human DNA. It is 4th State after Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra to regulate sale of herbicide.
31. Ramon Laguarta took charge as chief executive officer (CEO) of PepsiCo. He succeeded India-born __________________, who rermained PepsiCo CEO for for 12 years.
32. Sahle-Work Zewde is appointed as first-ever female President of Ethiopia (___________________Africa).
33. Sajjan Jindal (JSW Steel CMD) elected as treasurer of World Steel Association (WSA), during its general assembly in Toyko (____________________). Tata Steel MD T V Narendran and ArcelorMittal Chief L N Mittal are appointed as members, while Andre Johannpeter elected as Chairman.
34. Sandeep Bakhshi has been appointed as ________________ Bank’s new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, After Chanda Kochhar resigned from the post.
35. Sanjay Verma is appointed as India’s new Ambassador to _________________.
36. ___________________President Maithripala Sirisena removed Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister, amid Political Turmoil because of Differences between President Sirisena and PM Vikramasinghe. Mahinda Rajapaksha is appointed as new Prime Minister.
37. Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi recommended names of 5 Chief Justices to High Courts of -
- _____________ - NH Patil
- Calcutta - DK Gupta
- Uttarakhand - Ramesh Ranganathan
- Gauhati - AS Bopanna
- Sikkim - Vijai Kumar Bist
38. UNICEF appointed India's _______________ as its special representative of young people, to provide strategic guidance and support UNICEF globally.
39. US President Donald Trump nominated Indian-American woman _______________________ to head the nuclear energy division at USA's Department of energy. Her appointment is now pending Senate approval.
40. ______________ has been appointed as Vice-chairman and Managing Director (MD) of the Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS).