New Appointments – India & International – Current Affairs – 2019

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New Appointments in India – 2019

Political Appointments

Post	Name
Chief Minister of Goa	Pramod Sawant
Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh	Pema Khandu
Chief Minister of Karnataka	B. S. Yediyurappa
Governor of West Bengal	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Governor of Manipur	P B Acharya
Governor of Himachal Pradesh	Bandaru Dattatraya
Governor of Nagaland	R N Ravi
Governor of Gujarat	Acharya Devvrat
Governor of Maharashtra	Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Governor of Andhra Pradesh	Biswa Bhushan Harichandran
Governor of Telangana	Tamilisai Soundararajan
Governor of Chhattisgarh	Anusuiya Uikey
Governor of Uttar Pradesh	Anandiben Patel
Governor of Bihar	Fagu Chauhan
Governor of Madhya Pradesh	Lalji Tandon
Governor of Kerala	Arif Mohammed Khan
Governor of Rajasthan	Kalraj Mishra
Speaker of 17th Lok Sabha	Om Birla
Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

 

Legal & Law Appointments

Post	Name
Chairman of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)	AK Sikri
1st ombudsman of BCCI	DK Jain
1st Lokpal of India	Pinaki Chandra Ghose
1st Chief Justice of Telangana High Court	T B N Radhakrishnan
1st Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court	Vikram Nath
Chief Justice of Bombay High Court	Pradeep Nandrajog
Chief Justice of Delhi High Court	Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel
Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court	Vikram Nath

 

New Appointments under Govt. of India

Post	Name
Election Commissioner of India	Sushil Chandra
Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT)	Pramod Chandra Mody
National Security Advisor	Ajit Doval
Chief of India Meteorological Department (IMD)	Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
CEO of NITI Aayog	Amitabh Kant
Secretary of Overseas Indian Affairs	Vikas Swarup
Cabinet Secretary of India	Rajiv Gauba
Finance Secretary of India	Rajiv Kumar
Defence Secretary of India	Ajay Kumar
Home Secretary of India	Ajay Kumar Bhalla
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister	Pramod Kumar Mishra
Private Secretary to Prime Minister	Vivek Kumar
Principal Advisor to the Prime Minister	Pradeep Kumar Sinha
Lokpal Secretary of India	Brij Kumar Agarwal
Ambassador to UAE	Pavan Kapoor
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia	Dr. Ausaf Sayeed
High Commissioner to South Africa	Jaideep Sarkar
High Commissioner to Seychelles	Dalbir Singh Suhag
Ambassador to Israel	Sanjeev Kumar Singla

 

Important PSUs & Other Posts

Post	Name
Chairman & MD of Coal India	Pramod Agarwal
Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI)	Vijay Kumar Chopra

 

New Appointments in Police & Armed Forces

Post	Name
Director of CBI	Rishi Kumar Shukla
Chief of Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW)	Samant Goel
Director of Intelligence Bureau	Arvind Kumar
Chief of the Naval Staff	Karambir Singh
Vice Chief of the Naval Staff	G Ashok Kumar
Chief of Indian Air Force	Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
1st head of India’s first tri-services Special Operations Division	AK Dhingra
Command Chief of Strategic Forces	NS Dhillon
D.G of Sashastra Seema Bal	Kumar Rajesh Chandra
DG of Indian Coast Guard	K Natarajan
DG of Border Security Force (BSF)	VK Johri
D.G of National Cadet Corps (NCC)	Rajeev Chopra
Police Commissioner of Kolkata	Anuj Sharma
1st Indian women flight Engineer of the Indian Air Force	Hina Jaiswal

 

 

International New Appointments – 2019

Political Heads of Countries

Post	Name	Remarks
Prime Minister of Bangladesh	Sheikh Hasina
1st Hindu woman judge in Pakistan	Suman Kumari
Pakistani Army chief	Qamar Javed Bajwa
Prime Minister of UK	Boris Johnson
Home Secretary of UK	Priti Patel
Secretary of Defense of USA	Mark Esper
National Security Advisor of USA	Robert O’Brien
Emperor of Japan	Naruhito	New imperial era - Reiwa
Prime Minister of Israel	Benjamin Netanyahu
New king of Malaysia	Sultan Abdullah
Prime Minister of Taiwan	Su Tseng-chang
Prime minister of Palestinian	Mohammad Shtayyeh
President of Indonesia	Joko Widodo
Prime Minister of Thailand	Prayuth Chan-ocha
President of Kazakhstan	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Prime Minister of Australia	Scott Morrison
President of Ukraine	Volodymyr Zelensky
Prime Minister of Ukraine	Oleksiy Honcharuk	Youngest-ever PM of Ukraine
Prime Minister of Greece	Kyriakos Mitsotakis
President of North Macedonia	Stevo Pendarovski
1st female President of Slovakia	Zuzana Caputova
President of Venezuela	Nicolás Maduro
President of Panama	Laurentino Cortizo
President of El Salvador	Nayib Bukele
Prime Minister of Haiti	Jean-Michel Lapin
President of South Africa	Cyril Ramaphosa
President of Nigeria	Muhammadu Buhari
President of Congo	Felix Tshisekedi
Prime Minister of Sudan	Abdalla Hamdok
President of Madagascar	Andry Rajoelina

 

New Appointments in International Organizations

Post	Name	Remarks
Chief Economist of IMF	Gita Gopinath
MD & Chairwoman of IMF	Kristalina Georgieva	Bulgaria
President of World Bank	David Malpass
MD & CFO of World Bank	Anshula Kant
External auditor of the World Health Organization (WHO)	Rajiv Mehrishi
President of European Central Bank	Christine Lagarde
President of the United Nations General Assembly	Tijjani Mohammad Bande	Nigeria's Ambassador to UN
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador	Padma Lakshmi
Advocates for Sustainable Development Goals	Dia Mirza
Executive Director of UN-Women	Anita Bhatia
Member of International Narcotics Control Board	Jagjit Pavadia
Chairman of the African Union	Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi	President of Egypt
Association of World Election Bodies	Sunil Arora

 

 

Sports Appointments – India & International 

Post	Name
Indian Chef de Mission for Tokyo Olympics	Birendra Prasad Baishya
President of Wrestling Federation of India	Brijbhushan Sharan Singh
CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC)	Manu Sawhney
1st Indian member of FIFA Executive Council	Praful Patel
Chairman of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation	Vivek Kohli

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