New Appointments in India – January 2018
2018 Important New Appointments in India & World
National Appointments:
January 2018 New Appointments in India | |
Name | Designation |
Om Prakash Rawat | Chief Election Commissioner. |
Vijay Keshav Gokhale | India’s foreign secretary. |
Rajinder Khanna | Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) |
T S Tirumurti | Secretary (Economic Relations) |
Lt. Gen Anil Chauhan | Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of the Indian Army. |
Senior IPS officer Sudeep Lakhtakia | Director General (DG) of the ‘black cats’ commando force National Security Guard (NSG). |
Lieutenant General Yenduru Venkata Krishna Mohan | 13th Corps Commander of the Rising Star Corps. |
Vice Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, AVSM, | Chief of Staff, Western Naval Command |
V J Mathew | Chairman of Maritime Board. |
Sivan K | Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). |
S Somanath | Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Bangalore |
Dr V Narayanan | Director of ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, at Valiamala, Kerala. |
Anandiben Patel | Governor of Madhya Pradesh. |
Retired Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra | Head of a new committee to re- investigate 186 closed cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. |
Srikumar Menon | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Angola. |
Rajesh Agarwal | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Niger. |
Tsewang Namgyal | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Poland. |
Indu Malhotra | First woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of Supreme Court. |
Usha Ananthasubramanian | First woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) |
Vijay Kumar | National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX). |
S Selvakumar | Chairman and Manging Director (CMD) of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd (SPMCIL). |
Rajesh Ranjan | High Commissioner of India to Botswana. |
Dilip Asbe | MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). |
Dilip Chenoy | Director General of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) |
Anil Khanna | Chairman of the Finance Commission of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). |
Pawan Deep Singh Kohli, | Chairman of the Medical Commission |
Gopal Guru | Editor of the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) |
Pankaj Jain | MD of India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) |
Devika Shah | MD & CEO of Indian Clearing Corporation Ltd (ICCL). |
Sunny Verghese | Chairman of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). |
Pramod Agarwal | Chairman of Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) |
Colin Shah | Vice Chairman of GJEPC |
AR Rahman | Brand ambassador of Sikkim |
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar | Partner with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to promote cleanliness in Mumbai as part of the Swachh Survekshan 2018 |
Actress Kajol | Advocacy ambassador for Swachh Aadat Swachh Bharat |
State Appointments:
State Appointments | |
Name | Designation |
Himachal Pradesh | |
Sita Ram Mardi | Director General of Police (DGP) |
Uttar Pradesh | |
O P Singh | DGP (Director General of Police) |
Jammu & Kashmir | |
Hemant Kumar Sharma | Divisional Commissioner of Jammu. |
Telangana | |
Shailendra Kumar Joshi | Chief Secretary of Telangana. |
Assam | |
AB Mathur | Interlocutor on its behalf to hold talks with the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) |
Tamil Nadu | |
B. Rajendran | Chairperson of the Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (REAT) |
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