APPOINTMENTS

1.  Actress Sharmila Tagore has been appointed as member of Broadcasting        Content Complaints Council (BCCC) along with Arundhati Nag and Ira         Bhaskar.

2.  American ice hockey Olympic champion Angela Ruggiero was elected as new chairman of International Olympic Committee (IOC’s) Athletes’ Commission.

3.  B Navnit and V Sheshadri have been appointed as Joint Secretaries in Prime Minister's Office.

4.  Bharat Heavy Electricals limited (BHEL) appointed Akhil Joshi as Director (Power).

5.  Bhaskar Khulbe has been appointed as new Secretary to PM Narendra Modi.

6.  Bipin Rawat has been appoinetd as Vice Chief of Indian Army.

7.  Birender Singh Yadav has been appointed High Commissioner of India to Ghana (West Africa).

8.  Communist Party of Nepal¬Maoist Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ elected as 39th Prime Minister of Nepal.

9.  D K Gayen has been appointed as General Manager of East Central Railway (ECR).

10. Dilip Rath appointed as chairman of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).

11. Dilip Sharma has been appointed as Director General of Election Commission of India.

12. Dinesh Kumar Khara has been appointed Managing Director (MD) of State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest Bank. He was previously working as chief of SBI Funds Management Pvt. Ltd.

13. Edgar Lungu has been re¬elected as President of Zambia.

14. Farooq Khan has been appointed as Administrator of Union Territory of Lakshadweep.

15. Filmmaker Aishwaryaa Dhanush has been appointed United Nations Women’s Advocate for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in India.

16. Former CCI chief Ashok Chawla will join Yes Bank as Non¬Executive Chairman.

17. Gautam Eknath Thakur has been elected Chairman of the leading co¬ operative Bank ¬ Saraswat Bank.

18. Government appointmed Ashok Kumar Garg, Raj Kamal Verma, Gopal Murli Bhagat, and Himanshu Joshi as Executive Directors in Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, Corporation Bank, and     Oriental Bank of Commerce respectively.

19. Gurgaon based airline Vistara appointed Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone as brand ambassador.

20. IDFC Bank appointed former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy 

governor Anand Sinha to bank's board.

21. ITC’s health & hygiene brand Savlon appointed badinton player Saina Nehwal as its brand ambassador.

22. Indian Infrastructure Ginat Larsen & Toubro’s named S N Subrahmanyan as Managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO).

23. Indian origin person Ajay Gopal has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ANSYS, a USA company that produces engineering simulation software used for testing product designs     across a wide spectrum of industries including rockets and wearable technology.

24. Indian's pharmaceutical company Cipla appointed Umang Vohra as managing director (MD) & chief executive officer (CEO).

25. Indo¬Canadian Sikh Bardish Chagger named as new Leader of the government in Canada’s House of Commons, becoming first woman to hold this post.

26. K M Hanumantharayappa has been appointed as Chairman of Central Silk Board.

27. Kerala cabinet appointed V S Achuthanandan head of administrative reforms panel.

28. Manjula Chellur has been selected as new Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.

29. Microsoft appointed Sriram Rajamani as managing director of its India lab.

30. Mondelez International appointed Deepak Iyer as Managing Director of its India operation.

31. New Governors Appointed ¬

            Najma A. Heptulla ¬ Manipur.

            Banwarilal Purohit ¬ Assam.

            VP. Singh Badnore ¬ Punjab.

            Jagdish Mukhi ¬ Lieutenant Governor of UT of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

32. P Kumaran has been appointed as India's ambassdor to Qatar.

33. Rajeev Krishnan has been appointed as Managing Director of Max Hypermarkets in India.

34. Rajesh Mokashi has been appointed as Managing Director & CEO of Credit Analysis and Research Limited (CARE).

35. Rani Singh Nair has been appointed as Chairperson (Chairman) of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).

36. SBI Mutual Fund appointed Anuradha Rao as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.

37. Sandeep Kumar is appointed as Transport Commissioner of Delhi.

38. Scientist P D Gupta has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Mumbai¬based Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI).

39. Sudhanshu Mani has been appointed as General Manager of Integral Coach Factory.

40. Sunil Bharti Mittal has been re¬appointed as the Chairman of telecom giant Bharti Airtel for 5 years.

41. Takehiko Nakao has been re¬elected for 2nd term as President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

42. Tata Sons appointed Bain Capital’s Managing Director Amit Chandra as non¬executive director.

43. Tourism Ministry selected PM Narendra Modi as ambassador of Incredible India campaign. Also, PM Modi's monogrammed suit worn by him during meeting with American President Barack Obama last year, has been sold for Rs 4.31 crore, making it a Guinness World Record as most expensive suit sold.

44. Two¬wheeler maker Hero MotoCorp reappointed Pawan Munjal as its chief for 5 years.

45. Urjit R Patel has been appointed as New Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a period of 3 years with effect from 4th September, 2016. He is 24th Governor of RBI.

46. Vijay Rupani has been appointed as new Chief Minister of Gujarat while Nitin Patel as Deputy Chief Minister.

47. Yogeshwar Sangwan (India's Ambassador to Armenia) has been accredited as Ambassador to Georgia.

48. Youssef Chahed appointed as new Prime Minister of Tunisia.

49. Yuriko Koike has been elected as first woman governor of Japanese Capital Tokyo.