New Appointment 2021 – 2022
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Current Affairs – Appointment - May 2022
1. Additional Charge of Lokpal Chairperson: Pradip Kumar Mohanty
2. Advisor in Dept of Economic and Policy Research of RBI: Sitikantha Pattanaik
3. CBDT chairman: Sangeeta Singh
4. CEO of Eicher Motors parent company of Royal Enfield: B Govindarajan
5. CEO of JSW One Platforms: Gaurav Sachdeva
6. Chair of the World Trade organization committee on Technical Barriers to Trade: Indian Officer Anwar Hussain Shaik
7. Chairman & MD of RailTel Corporation of India Limited (RCIL): Aruna Singh
8. Chairman and Managing Director of REC Ltd.: Ravinder Singh Dhillon
9. Chairperson of the Financial and Administrative Committee: Rajesh Bhushan Union Health Secretary
10. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the airline: Pieter Elber
11. CIA's Technology Officer: Nand Mulchandani
12. Delhi Lt Governor: Vinai Kumar Saxena
13. Director-General of WHO: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
14. First Black LGBTQ White House Press Secretary: Jean Pierre
15. First woman combat aviator in the Indian Army: Abhilash Barak
16. Former Deputy Governor of RBI as Chairman: SS Mundra
17. France's New Prime Minister: Elisabeth Borne
18. Hong Kong’s Next Chief Executive: John Lee Ka-Chiu
19. Independent Director For Siemens India Board: Sindhu Gandharan
20. India's Foreign Secretary: Vinay Kwatra
21. Managing Director of Asia Pacific (APAC): Oscar Brodkin
22. MD & CEO of Bharati Airtel: Gopal Vittal
23. MD & CEO of Larsen & Tourbo: SN Subramanyam
24. MD and CEO of Infosys: Salil Parekh
25. Member of the Bank of England: Dr. Swati Dhingra
26. Member of the US Intelligence Advisory Board: Richard Verma
27. Monetary Policy Department & Secretary to MPC of RBI: Rajiv Ranjan
28. New Advisor to the Prime Minister in PMO: Tarun Kapoor
29. New CEO & MD at Jubilant Foodworks: Sameer Khetripal
30. New Chairperson of CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education): Nidhi Chibber
31. New Chief Minister of Tripura: Maha Saha
32. New MD & CEO of Air India: Campbell Wilson
33. New President of Somalia: Hassan Shaikh Mahmud
34. New Prime Minister of Australia: Anthony Albanese
35. New Prime Minister of Sri Lanka: Ranil Wickremasinghe
36. New Secretary of the Ministry of Cooperation: Gyanesh Kumar
37. Next Ambassador to Nepal: Mr. Naveen Srivastava
38. Next Chief Election Commissioner: Rajiv Kumar
39. Next President of the UAE: Sheikh Mohd Zayed Al Nahyan
40. Ninth Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Arvind Krishna
41. Non-Executive Chairman of Gram Unnati an agriculture start-up: Sunil Arora
42. Policy head of Google: Archana Gulati
43. President of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry): Sanjiv Bajaj
44. President of the Philippines: Marcos Junior
45. Prime Minister of Hungary: Viktor Orban
46. Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology: Alkesh Kumar Sharma
47. South Korean president in a huge ceremony at Seoul’s National Assembly: Yoon Suk-yeol
48. Supreme Court Judges: Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Jamshed B Pardiwala
49. US National Academy of Sciences: Kamal Bawa
50. Whole-time Director of Paytm: Madhur Deora
Current Affairs – Appointment - April 2022
1. Brand Ambassador of PharmEasy's: Amir Khan
2. CEO of Capgemini: Ashwin Yardi
3. CEO of P&G India: LV Vaidyanathan
4. Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air India Asset Holding (AIAHL): Vikram Dev Dutt
5. Chairman of Payments Council of India (PCI): Vishwas Patel
6. Chairman of Tata Digital: N Chandrasekaran
7. Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission: Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas
8. Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM): Shri. S. Iqbal Singh
9. Chairperson of the Haj Committee of India: AP Abdullahkutty
10. Chairperson of the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH): Mahesh Verma
11. Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities: Iqbal Singh Lalpura
12. Chief Coordinator for the coming G20 Summit: Harsh Shringla
13. Delhi’s new Chief Secretary: IAS officer Naresh Kumar
14. Director-General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI): Dr. S Raju
15. Former Chairman of SBI: Rajnish Kumar
16. General Secretary of the Communist Party of India: Sitaram Yechury
17. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO) of DCB Bank: Murli Natarajan
18. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Shivalik Small Finance Bank: Anshul Swami
19. MD & CEO of Digit Insurance: Jasleen Kohli
20. MD & CEO of Future Generali India Life Insurance: Bruce de Broize
21. Nasscom Chairperson for 2022-23: Krishnan Ramanujam
22. NCSC Chairperson for Second Time: Vijay Sampla
23. New Army Chief: Lt General Manoj Pande
24. New Chairman of UPSC: Manoj Soni
25. New Chairman of India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA): Bimal Kothari
26. New Defense Advisor to Smt. Kamala Harris (Vice President of USA): Shanti Sethi
27. New Finance Minister of Sri – Lanka: Ali Sabry
28. New Foreign Secretary: Vinay Mohan Kwatra
29. New Global Peace Ambassador 2022: Babita Singh
30. New Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation: Vikas Kumar
31. New Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India: Ajay Sood
32. Next Chief Executive Officer of Aditya Birla Capital: Vishakha Mulye
33. Next Director-General of Military Operations: Lt Gen. Manoj Kumar Katiyar
34. President of France: Emmanuel Macron
35. Principal Scientific Advisor to GoI: Ajay Kumar Sood
36. UN Chief to High-Level expert group on net-zero emissions commitments: Arunabha Ghosh
37. Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Urjit Patel
38. Vice-Chairperson of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Council Standing Committee: Aprajita Sharrma
39. Wipro Country Head of India: Satya Easwaran
Current Affairs – Appointment - March 2022
1. Additional Director and Vice Chairman of Tata Steel: Noel Naval Tata
2. Adviser in Defence Ministry: Lt. Gen. Vinod G. Khandare
3. Brand Ambassador for Lupin Ltd’s Women’s Cardiovascular Health Awareness Initiative named Shakti Campaign: Mary Kom
4. Brand Ambassador of Bharti AXA Life Insurance: Vidya Balan
5. Brand Ambassador of UpGrad: Amitabh Bachchan
6. Brand Ambassadors for My11Circle: Shubman Gill & Ruturaj Gaikwad
7. CEO and MD of Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited: Prabha Narasimhan
8. CEO of FedEx: Indian American Raj Subramaniam
9. CEO of Jet Airways: Sanjiv Kapoor
10. CEO of Yash Raj Films (YRF): Akshaye Widhani
11. CFO of Indigo Airlines: Gaurav Negi
12. Chairman & MD of Oil India Ltd: Ranjit Rath
13. Chairman of Air India: N Chandrasekaran
14. Chairman of the high-powered committee set up to consider the cumulative and independent impact of the Char Dham Mahamarg Vikas Priyojana: Justice AK Sikri
15. Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI): Debasish Panda
16. Chairman of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC): Bhushan Patwardhan
17. Chairman of the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA): Ajay Bhushan Pandey
18. Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI): Madhabi Puri Buch
19. Chairperson of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT): Justice DN Patel
20. Chief HRO for Vahdam India: Kalpesh Tiwari
21. Director of Finance of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL): Rajneesh Narang
22. Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
23. Forest Research Institute (FRI) Director: IFS officer Renu Singh
24. Group Head of Digital Banking at the level of Deputy MD by SBI: Nitin Chugh
25. Interim MD and CEO of CSB Bank: Pralay Mondal
26. Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS): Rajesh Gopinathan
27. Managing Partner at SoftBank: Munish Varma
28. MD & CEO of TATA Coffee: Chacko Purackal
29. MD and CEO of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) Mutual Fund Asset Management Limited: TS Ramakrishnan
30. MD and CEO of Maruti Suzuki: Hisashi Takeuchi
31. Member of UN’s Advisory Board: Indian Economist Jayati Ghosh
32. New CEO of Flipkart Health+: Prashant Jhaveri
33. New Chairman of Broadcast Audience Research Council India: Shashi Sinha
34. New Mumbai Police Commissioner: Sanjay Pandey
35. New President of South Korea: Yoon Suk-yeol
36. New President Of Turkmenistan: Serdar Berdimuhamedow
37. Next Director-General of International Labour Organization: Gilbert Houngbo
38. President of ASSOCHAM: Sumant Sinha
39. President of Badminton Association Of India: Himanta Biswa Sarma
40. President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF): T Raja Kumar
41. The Lokayukta of Delhi: Harish Chandra Mishra
42. To lead microblogging platform Twitter’s public policy and philanthropy efforts in India and South Asia: Samiran Gupta
43. Vice President of the International Lending Agency: Junaid Kamal Ahmad
44. Vice-President of ASSOCHAM: Ajay Singh
45. Whole-Time member (WTM) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI): Ashwani Bhatia
Current Affairs – Appointment - February 2022
1. Additional Charge of CMD of Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO): S. R. Narasimhan
2. Additional Charge of the Controller General of Accounts (CGA): Sonali Singh
3. Additional Charge of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC): Dr. S Unnikrishnan Nair
4. Board of Directors of the National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India (NCDFI): K S Mani
5. Brand Ambassador for Khadi: Manoj Tiwari
6. Brand Ambassador for Thums Up: Shah Rukh Khan
7. Brand Ambassador of A23: Shah Rukh Khan
8. Brand ambassador of Adidas: Manika Batra
9. Brand Ambassador of Bata India: Disha Patani
10. Brand Ambassador of Dish TV India: Rishabh Pant
11. Brand Ambassador of Krishi Network: Pankaj Tripathi
12. Brand Ambassador of MediBuddy: Amitabh Bachchan
13. Brand Ambassador of RummyCircle by Games 24x7: Hrithik Roshan
14. Brand Ambassador of Uttarakhand: Akshay Kumar
15. CEO and MD of Air India: Ilker Ayci
16. Chairman and Managing Director at the state-run carrier Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI): Captain Binesh Kumar Tyagi
17. Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI): Ravi Mittal
18. Chairman of LIC: MR Kumar
19. Chairman of Pfizer India: Pradip Shah
20. Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE): Vineet Joshi
21. Chairman of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC): S. Kishore
22. Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC): M Jagadesh Kumar
23. Chairperson of the Committee of Administrators which will run the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI): Gita Mittal
24. Chief Justice of the Madras High Court: Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari
25. Director of Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) of the DRDO: GA Srinivasa Murthy
26. Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT): Prof Dinesh Prasad Saklani
27. Director on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI): Sanjay Malhotra
28. Director-General of the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT): Dr. Madan Mohan Tripathi
29. Executive Chairman of Tata Sons Pvt Ltd: N Chandrasekaran
30. First Female President of the Honduras: Xiomara Castro
31. Full-Time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM): Sanjeev Sanyal
32. Interim President of Burkina Faso: Lieutenant colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
33. Managing Director of IndiGo: Rahul Bhatia
34. MD and CEO of IDBI Bank: Rakesh Sharma
35. New Chairman of the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG): K.N. Raghavan
36. New Head of the Defence Intelligence Agency: Lieutenant General GAV Reddy
37. New National e-Governance Division Chief: Abhishek Singh
38. New President & CEO of Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) by Honda Motor Co. Ltd.: Takuya Tsumura
39. Non-Executive Chairman of the Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL): Nitin Paranjpe
40. Norway’s central bank Governor: Jens Stoltenberg
41. President of Germany: Frank-Walter Steinmeier
42. President of Italy: Sergio Matterella
43. President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI): Debashis Mitra
44. Secretary in the Department of Financial Services in the Ministry of Finance: Sanjay Malhotra
45. To chair the advisory committee set up by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Investor Protection and Education Fund (IPEF): G Mahalingam
46. To chair the Alternative Investment Policy Advisory Committee (AIPAC) setup by SEBI: NR Narayana Murthy
47. Vice President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI): Aniket Sunil Talati
48. Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU): Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit
Current Affairs – Appointment - January 2022
1. Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO) of Jammu & Kashmir Bank: Baldev Prakash
2. Chief Secretary of Bihar: Amir Subhani
3. New Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Railway Board: Vinay Kumar Tripathi
4. Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh: Durga Shanker Mishra
5. 24th Director General (DG) of the Indian Coast Guard: VS Pathania
6. Panel head of the primary market advisory committee on data setup by SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India): S Sahoo
7. Energy Transition Advisory Committee (ETAC) set up by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas: Tarun Kapoor
8. CEO of Vistara Airlines: Vinod Kannan
9. 1st woman Chairman and MD (CMD) of ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation): Alka Mittal
10. New Director-General of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Ministry of Jal Shakti: G Asok Kumar
11. President of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) by the US Chambers of Commerce: Atul Keshap
12. New Executive Directors (ED) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI): Deepak Kumar and Ajay Kumar Choudhary
13. Brand Endorser by the Bank of Baroda (BoB): Shafali Verma
14. Chairman of Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP): Vijay Paul Sharma
15. New Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO): Zhang Ming
16. Ambassador to Legends League Cricket’s (LLC): Jhulan Goswami
17. Interim Chairperson of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI): Navrang Saini
18. To head the three-member committee constituted to enquire into the serious lapses in the security arrangements during PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab: Sudhir Kumar Saxena
19. Vice President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): Urjit Patel
20. New Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC): Haitham Al Ghais
21. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan: Alikhan Smailov
22. To head the five-member committee constituted by Supreme Court of India to probe the security breach during the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Punjab: Justice Indu Malhotra
23. Brand Ambassador of RenewBuy: Rajkummar Rao
24. New Chairman and Space Secretary of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO): Dr. S Somanath
25. President of Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega
26. CEO of Adani Power Limited: Shersingh B Khyalia
27. CEO of Britannia Industries Ltd: Amit Doshi
28. Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR): Raghuvendra Tanwar
29. President of the European Union’s parliament: Roberta Metsola
30. CMD of Air India: Vikram Dev Dutt
31. UA Ambassador of Universal Acceptance Steering Group: Vijay Shekhar Sharma
32. 17th Chairman of the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO): Dileep Sanghani
33. MD of National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL): Chanchal Kumar
34. Independent Chairman of Unity Small Finance Bank: Vinod Rai
35. Prime Minister of Barbados: Mia Amor Mottley
36. Brand Ambassador of GoodDot: Neeraj Chopra
37. Chairperson of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA): Vinodanand Jha
38. New Chairman and MD of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL): Pushp Kumar Joshi
39. First Female judge of the Pakistan Supreme Court: Justice Ayesh Malik
40. Chairman of IIFL Finance: Arun Kumar Purwar
41. New Chief Economic Adviser: Dr. V Anantha Nageswaran
Current Affairs – Appointment - December 2021
1. 1st Female Prime Minister of Sweden: Eva Magdalena Andersson
2. Commandant of National Defence College (NDC), New Delhi: Lt Gen Manoj Kumar Mago
3. Head the committee set up by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to review the criteria for reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) category as per the norms of the provisions of the explanation to Article 15 of the Constitution: Ajay Bhushan Pandey
4. Chairman of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet: Sambit Patra
5. Brand Ambassador for the 50th-year celebrations of Arunachal Pradesh: Sanjay Dutt
6. Brand Ambassador of GUVI: Smriti Mandhana
7. UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for cultural and creative industries: Naomi Kawase
8. National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL): Pradip Shah
9. Chief Executive of India Debt Resolution Company (IDRCL): Sanjay Jain
10. IMF’s Deputy Managing Director: Gita Gopinath
11. Chairperson of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI): Alka Upadhyaya
12. Chairman, Inland Waterways Authority of India: Sanjay Bandopadhyay
13. Secretary, Department of Border Management: Dharmendra S Gangwar
14. Director-General, National Productivity Council, Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade: Sundeep Kumar Nayak
15. Brand ambassador of Kinara Capital: Ravindra Jadeja
16. Brand Ambassador of Unix: Jasprit Bumrah
17. President of Gambia: Adama Barrow
18. MD and CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank: Ittira Davis
19. Board of Advisors for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA): Sunil Arora
20. Brand Ambassadors of Disney BYJU’S Early Learn App: Neeraj Chopra and PV Sindhu
21. President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI): Sanjiv Mehta
22. New German Chancellor: Olaf Scholz
23. Director-General of Software Technology Parks of India: Arvind Kumar
24. New Global CEO of Chanel: Leena Nair
25. National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), Films Division, and Children Films Society of India (CFSI): Ravinder Bhakar
26. Head of UN children’s agency UNICEF: Catherine Russell
27. Charge of India's new Chief of Staff Committee (CoSC): Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane
28. Head a 7-member committee set up by SEBI for Leveraging Regulatory and Technology Solutions (ALeRTS): Madhabi Puri Buch
29. President of The Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2021-22: Mohit Jain
30. Brand Ambassador of Uttarakhand: Rishabh Pant
31. President of Austria: Karl Nehammer
32. New CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace Limited: Atul Dinkar Rane
33. India’s next Ambassador to China: Pradeep Kumar Rawat
34. India’s Chef de Mission 2022 Winter Olympics: Harjinder Singh
35. Member of the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) Athletes’: PV Sindhu
36. Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Uttarakhand: Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra
37. MD and CEO of IFFCO-TOKIO General Insurance: HO Suri
38. New MD of RBL Bank: Rajeev Ahuja
39. Co-Chairman of the Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC): Kamlesh Gandhi
40. First non-European president of motorsport’s world governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA): Mohammed Ben Sulayem
41. New Chairman of India Yamaha Motor (IYM) Pvt Ltd: Eishin Chihana
42. South Africa’s highest judicial bench, the Constitutional Court: Narandran ‘Jody’ Kollapen
43. To head the committee setup by GOI to look into the demand for withdrawal of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act ‘AFSPA’ in Nagaland: Vivek Joshi
44. MD & CEO of Punjab National Bank (PNB): Atul Kumar Goel
45. MD & CEO of UCO Bank: Soma Sankara Prasad
46. Director General & Chief Executive Officer, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA): IAS Praveen Kumar
47. CEO of Energy Efficiency Services (EESL): Radhika Jha
48. MD and CEO of Equitas Small Finance Bank: Vasudevan PN
49. Brand Ambassadors of EaseMyTrip: Vijay Raaz and Varun Sharma
50. India’s Permanent Representative at UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva: Dr. Anupam Ray
51. Director-General of Forests & Special Secretary (DGF&SS): Chandra Prakash Goyal
Current Affairs – Appointment - November 2021
1. Head Coach of Indian men’s cricket team by BCCI: Rahul Dravid
2. New director-general of Industry chamber Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI): Arun Chawla
3. India’s ambassador to Hungary: Partha Satpathy
4. India’s ambassador to Switzerland: Sanjay Bhattacharyya
5. India’s ambassador to Estonia: Ajaneesh Kumar
6. Brand ambassador for the Bandhan Bank in Assam: Zubeen Garg
7. New CEO of Barclays: CS Venkatakrishnan
8. President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG): Morinari Watanabe
9. Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal: Justice Ashok Bhushan
10. Chief of Staff of Western Naval Command: Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan
11. CMD of PTC India Ltd (Power Trading Corporation of India Limited): Rajib Kumar Mishra
12. Brand Ambassador for Amway India: Amitabh Bachchan
13. Brand Ambassador of My11Circle: Mohammed Siraj
14. High Representative for Youth by International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF): Spaniard Daniel del Valle
15. Next Chief of the Naval Staff: Vice Admiral R Hari Kumar
16. Prime Minister of Japan: Fumio Kishida
17. Brand ambassador of Novo Nordisk India to create awareness on having better diabetes management and early insulin adoption: Kapil Dev
18. DG of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB): Satya Narayan Pradhan
19. President of Nicaragua for the 4th consecutive term: Jose Daniel Ortega Saavedra
20. Goodwill Ambassador for the UN World Food Programme (UNWFP): Daniel Brul
21. Brand ambassador of Children’s footwear brand Plaeto: Rahul Dravid
22. International Law Commission for a tenure of five-year commencing 1st Jan 2023.: Professor Bimal Patel
23. Secretary-General Rajya Sabha: Pramod Chandra Mody
24. Joint Directors in the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI): Vidya Jayant Kulkarni, Ghanshyam Upadhyaya, and Nawal Bajaj
25. Chairman of the ICC men's Cricket Committee: Sourav Ganguly
26. Head of the National Cricket Academy (NCA): VVS Laxman
27. UN Resident Coordinator in India: Shombi Sharp
28. Permanent CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC).: Geoff Allardice
29. Presidential elections of Bulgaria for the second term: Rumen Radev
30. Brand ambassador of the TRIFED Aadi Mahotsav: MC Mary Kom
31. President of Interpol (International Criminal Police Organisation): Inspector General Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi (from UAE)
32. PM of Kuwait: Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah
33. Brand ambassador of the Magik range of LED from Century LED Limited: Sourav Ganguly
34. Independent non-executive director of Hero MotoCorp: Rajnish Kumar
35. Prime Minister of the Czech Republic: Petr Fiala
36. Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC): Vivek Johri
37. CEO of Twitter: Parag Agrawal
38. New Chief of the Indian Navy: Admiral R Hari Kumar
39. First woman President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF): Harshwanti Bisht
Current Affairs – Appointment - October 2021
1. Advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Amit Khare
2. Ambassador of the Russian Film Festival in India: Imtiaz Ali (Director-Producer)
3. Austria’s Chancellor: Alexander Schellenberg
4. Board of Trustees of Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art: Isha Ambani
5. Brand ambassador for Uttar Pradesh One District One Product Scheme: Kangana Ranaut
6. Brand Ambassador of CoinDCX: Amitabh Bachchan
7. Brand ambassador of Fire-Boltt: Virat Kohli
8. Brand ambassador of Flobiz flagship product named myBillBook: Manoj Bajpayee
9. Brand ambassador of RealMe: KL Rahul
10. Brand ambassadors of Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited: Mirabai Chanu and Bajrang Punia
11. CEO of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL): Arun Kumar Mishra
12. CEO of L&T Edutech: Sabyasachi Das
13. CEO of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: Ritesh Chauhan
14. CEO of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) by the Sports Authority of India (SAI): Commodore PK Garg
15. Chairman & Managing Director of National Research Development Corporation: Commodore Amit Rastogi (Retd)
16. Chairman of Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd: Subhash Khunti
17. Chairman of Karnataka Bank Ltd: Pradeep Kumar Panja
18. Chairman of Paradip Port Trust (PPT): P L Haranadh
19. Chairman of the board of BharatPe: Rajnish Kumar
20. Chairman of the Indian Bank’s Association (IBA) for 2021-22: A K Goel
21. Chairman of the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA): Sunil Kataria
22. Chairman of the World Steel Association (WSA): Sajjan Jindal
23. Chairperson of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI): Navrang Saini
24. Chairperson of the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID): K V Kamath
25. Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT): Justice Ashok Bhushan
26. Chairperson of the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA): Ashok Kumar Gupta
27. Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court: Justice Rajesh Bindal
28. Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court: Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra
29. Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court: Justice Prakash Srivastava
30. Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court: Justice Aravind Kumar
31. Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court: Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi
32. Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court: Justice R.V. Malimath
33. Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court: Justice Ranjit V. More
34. Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court: Justice Satish Chandra Sharma
35. Chief secretary of the state: Rebecca Vanessa Suchiang
36. CMD of MTNL: PK Purwar
37. First Director-General of the Ordnance Directorate (Co-ordination and Services): E.R. Sheikh
38. First-ever Female Prime Minister of Tunisia: Najla Bouden Romdhane
39. First-ever president of Barbados: Dame Sandra Mason
40. Global brand ambassador of Adidas: Deepika Padukone
41. Governor of RBI: Shaktikanta Das
42. Head Starlink's Satellite Broadband venture in India: Sanjay Bhargava
43. Independent Director for Hospitality firm Oravel Stays Ltd (OYO): Deepa Malik
44. India Country Head by World Bank’s arm International Finance Corporation (IFC): Wendy Werner
45. Joint Secretary in PMO: Meera Mohanty
46. Managing Director & CEO of Axis Bank: Amitabh Chaudhry
47. MD and CEO of J&K Bank: Baldev Prakash
48. MD and CEO of National Securities Depositories (NSDL): Padmaja Chunduru
49. MD and CEO of rating agency Crisil: Amish Mehta
50. MD and Group CEO of rating agency ICRA: Ramnath Krishnan
51. MD of Eicher Motors Ltd: Siddhartha Lal
52. MD of LIC: BC Patnaik
53. New Chairman of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI): A Balasubramanian
54. President of Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association (CEAMA): Eric Braganza
55. President of the Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC): Vinod Aggarwal
56. President of the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF): Sahdev Yadav
57. President of the quasi-judicial body, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT): Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar
58. President of Uzbekistan: Shavkat Mirziyoyev
59. Prime Minister of Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed
60. Prime Minister of Norway: Jonas Gahr Store
61. Team India’s head coach: Rahul Dravid
62. To head the working group constituted by the central government to overhaul Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) from Kharif 2022: Ritesh Chauhan
Current Affairs – Appointment - September 2021
1. ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ of the water conservation campaign in Haryana: Manika Shyokand
2. 34th Director-General of the National Cadet Corps (NCC): Lieutenant General Gurbirpal Singh
3. 5th President of Estonia: Alar Karis
4. Ambassador for Adidas ‘Stay in Play’ campaign: Mirabai Chanu
5. Ambassador for Global Health Financing of the World Health Organisation (WHO): Gordon Brown
6. Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA) Hall of Fame at AdAsia 2021: Ramesh Narayan
7. Board of directors of the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC): Prashant Kumar
8. Brand ambassador for Fino Payments Bank Limited: Pankaj Tripathi
9. Brand Ambassador of Howzat Fantasy Sports Platform: Suresh Raina
10. Brand Ambassador of Piramal Realty: Rahul Dravid
11. Brand Ambassador of TAGG: Rohit Sharma
12. Brand ambassadors for Equitas Small Finance Bank (ESFB): Rani Rampal (India’s Women Hockey Player) and Smriti Mandhana (India’s Women Cricketer)
13. CEO of the Dating app Tinder by replacing Jim Lanzone: Renate Nyborg
14. CEO of Yahoo: Jim Lanzone
15. Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI): Aveek Sarkar
16. Chairman of the Assembly of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI): G C Murmu
17. Chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the period of 2021-2022: Debabrata Mukherjee
18. Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities: Iqbal Singh Lalpura
19. Chairman-cum-Managing Director of United India Insurance Company Limited: S.L.Tripathy
20. Chairperson of the committee set up by Defence Ministry to review the National Cadet Corps: Baijayant Panda
21. Chairperson of the Indian National Space Promotion Authorization Centre (In-SPACe): Pawan Kumar Goenka
22. Chief Minister of Punjab: Charanjit Singh Channi
23. CMD of National Fertilizer Limited (NFL): Nirlep Singh Rai
24. CMD of National Small Industries Corporation Ltd. (NSIC): Alka Nangia Arora
25. CMD of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL): Atul Bhatt
26. CMD of United India Insurance Company Limited (UIIC): Satyajit Tripathy
27. Deputy chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for a period of 2021-2022: Pratap G. Pawar
28. Director of Public Policy by Facebook India: Rajiv Aggarwal
29. Director-General (DG) of Border Security Force (BSF): Pankaj Kumar Singh
30. Economic Advisor to Andhra Pradesh: Rajnish Kumar
31. Engineer in charge at the Indian Astronomical Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA): Dorje Angchuk
32. First woman Chairperson and MD of Engineers India Ltd: Vartika Shukla
33. Governor of Nagaland: Prof. Jagdish Mukhi
34. Governor of Punjab: Banwarilal Purohit
35. Governor of Tamil Nadu: R.N.Ravi
36. Governor of Uttarakhand: Lt Gen Gurmit Singh
37. Indian Brand Ambassador of FOSSIL: Kriti Sanon
38. Mastercard Global Brand Ambassador: Magnus Carlsen
39. MD & CEO of IDFC First Bank by RBI: V. Vaidyanathan
40. MD of Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI): Suman Sharma
41. MD of SVC Bank: Ashish Singhal
42. Multi-year brand partnership with Tata AIA Life Insurance: Neeraj Chopra
43. New Acting Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT): Justice M. Venugopal
44. New Chief Minister of Gujarat: Bhupendra Patel
45. New Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh: Sameer Sharma
46. New Managing Director (MD) of the Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank): Harsha Bhupendra Bangari
47. New Ombudsman cum Ethics Officer of Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA): Justice (Retired) Indu Malhotra
48. New Prime Minister of Morocco: Aziz Akhannouch
49. New Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocate by United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi
50. Next Chief of Air Staff: Vice Chief of IAF Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari
51. Part-time chairman of the IDFC FIRST Bank Limited by RBI: Sanjeeb Chaudhuri
52. President of All India Management Association (AIMA): CK Ranganathan
53. President of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT): G.S. Pannu
54. President of the India chapter of the International Road Federation (IRF): Satish Parekh
55. President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI): Raninder Singh
56. Prime Minister election of Canada: Justin Trudeau
57. Prime Minister of Japan: Fumio Kishida
58. Rajya Sabha Secretary General by Rajya Sabha Chairman, M Venkaiah Naidu: Dr PPK Ramacharyulu
59. RBI Innovation Hub as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO): Amit Saxena
60. Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation: Rajiv Bansal
61. To chair the Group of Ministers (GoM) set up by GOI to improve the implementation of various schemes for SC, ST, OBC, Minorities, and Women: Rajnath Singh
62. To head a 12-member committee set up by the Education ministry to frame new curriculums for school, early childhood, teacher, and adult education: K Kasturirangan
63. Vice president and managing director for Adobe India: Prativa Mohapatra
64. Vice-Chairman of Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (GSDS): Vijay Goel
65. Vice-President of the Asian Squash Federation (ASF): Cyrus Poncha
Current Affairs – Appointment - August 2021
1. Vice Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral SN Ghormade
2. Controller General of Accounts (CGA): Deepak Das
3. New Prime Minister of Peru: Guido Bellido
4. Prime Minister of Myanmar: Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
5. Brand Ambassador for Bvlgari: Priyanka Chopra Jonas
6. Prime Minister of Armenia: Nikol Pashinyan
7. Director-General of Artillery: Lt Gen Tarun Kumar Chawla
8. New Lokayukta of Maharashtra: Justice V M Kanade
9. Brand Ambassador for HomeLane: MS Dhoni
10. MD of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC): Mini Ipe
11. Non-Executive (Part-time) Chairman of RBL Bank: Prakash Chandra
12. Director of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI): Dr Dhriti Banerjee
13. New President of Iran: Ebrahim Raisi
14. CEO of BOI AXA Investment Mangers Private Limited: Anthony Heredia
15. Indian brand ambassador for MotoGP: John Abraham
16. Cabinet Secretary of India: Rajiv Gauba
17. Chairperson of the National Commission for Woman (NCW): Rekha Sharma
18. Brand Ambassador of Uttarakhand Department of Women Empowerment and Child Development: Vandana Kataria
19. Brand Ambassador of RBI’s public awareness campaign to warn people against digital banking frauds: Neeraj Chopra
20. First Vice-President of Iran: Mohammad Mokhber
21. New chairman of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA): Kamlesh Kumar Pant
22. Brand Ambassador of Cashify: Rajkummar Rao
23. CMD of THDC India Limited (THDCIL): RK Vishnoi
24. Additional Charge of Governor of Mizoram: BD Mishra
25. Additional charge of Governor of Manipur: Ganga Prasad
26. Brand Ambassador of JK Tyre & Industries Ltd: Narain Karthikeyan
27. CEO of NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd. (NBBL) by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI): Noopur Chaturvedi
28. President of Zambia: Hakainde Hichilema
29. Brand ambassador of Adventure Tourism in Kerala: P R Sreejesh
30. Chairperson of Jio MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image ) Film Festival: Priyanka Chopra Jonas
31. Brand ambassador for Amway India: Mirabai Chanu
32. MD and CEO of Indian Bank: Shanti Lal Jain
33. Brand Ambassador of Neuberg Diagnostics: MS Dhoni
34. New President of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) Society: NK Singh
35. Chairman of the Advisory Board for Banking and Financial Frauds (ABBFF): Dr Tejendra M Bhasin
36. New Prime Minister of Malaysia: Ismail Sabri Yaakob
37. New Governor of Manipur: La. Ganesan
38. CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC): Nakul Chopra
39. To head the committee set up by GOI to work for doubling the production and quadrupling the exports in the Handloom sector: Sunil Sethi
40. MD & CEO of ICICI Bank by RBI: Sandeep Bakhshi
41. Brand Ambassador of Samsung India: Alia Bhat
42. Brand ambassador of Uttarakhand art, tourism and culture: Pawandeep Rajan
43. Executive Director of RBI: Ajay Kumar
44. Interim CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank: Carol Furtado
45. CEO of HSBC Bank (India): Hitendra Dave
46. Chairperson of the Stop TB Partnership Board: Mansukh Mandaviya
47. Brand ambassador of the Delhi government’s ‘Desh Ke Mentors’ programme: Sonu Sood
48. Additional charge of Governor of Punjab and Administrator of UT of Chandigarh: Banwarilal Purohit
49. Strategic Advisor and Brand Ambassador for India’s sports edtech startup named ‘Sporjo’: Leander Paes
50. CMD of BEML (Bharat Earth Movers Limited): Amit Banerjee
51. Independent director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Asia: Rajnish Kumar
Current Affairs – Appointment - July 2021
1. Brand Ambassador for SDG Choupal: Sanjay Rai ‘Sherpuria’
2. Brand Ambassador of Fun88: Daren Sammy and Saint Lucian
3. Brand Ambassador of Khadi Prakritk Paint: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari
4. CEO for Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS): Noopur Chaturvedi
5. CEO for India and managing director, market development, for Asia for Colliers which is the Property consultant company: Ramesh Nair
6. CEO of NITI Aayog: Amitabh Kant
7. CEO of Waze: Neha Parikh
8. Chairman and MD of North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited (NEDFi): PVSLN Murty
9. Chairman of Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO): Apurva Chandra
10. Chairman of the Indian Federation of United Nations Associations (IFUNA): Shambhu Nath Srivastava
11. Chief justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court: Justice Ravi Vijaykumar Malimath
12. Chief Minister of Uttarakhand: Pushkar Singh Dhami
13. Commissioner of Delhi Police: Rakesh Asthana
14. Deputy leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
15. Director-General of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS): Nasir Kamal
16. Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of electric vehicle arm Switch Mobility of Ashok Leyland: Andy Palmer
17. Governor of Goa: P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
18. Governor of Haryana: Bandaru Dattatraya
19. Governor of Himachal Pradesh: Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
20. Governor of Jharkhand: Ramesh Bais
21. Governor of Karnataka: Thawarchand Gehlot
22. Governor of Madhya Pradesh: Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
23. Governor of Mizoram: Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati
24. Governor of Tripura: Satyadev Narayan Arya
25. Head of Data Science Unit of ICICI Securities (I-Sec): Nilotpal Gupta
26. Honorary Consul General of Vietnam for Bangalore: NS Srinivasa Murthy
27. Joint Secretary of NRAI (National Rifle Association of India): Pawan Singh
28. MD and CEO of Federal Bank: Shyam Srinivasan
29. MD of HCL Technologies: C Vijayakumar
30. MD of National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd. (NHSRCL): Satish Agnihotri
31. Member of the UN tax committee from 2021-2025: Rasmi Ranjan Das
32. Nepal’s Prime Minister: Sher Bahadur Deuba
33. New Chief Minister of Karnataka: Basavaraj S Bommai
34. New Lokayukta of Tripura: Advocate Kalyan Narayan Bhattacharya
35. New Prime Minister-Designate of Lebanon: Najib Mikati
36. Presidency of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA): Abdulla Shahid
37. President of Kho Kho Federation of India (KKFI) during the Annual General Meeting (AGM): Sudhanshu Mittal
38. President-Elect of the Republic of Peru: Jose Pedro Castillo Terrones
39. Prime Minister of Haiti: Ariel Henry
40. Prime Minister of Sweden: Stefan Lofven
41. Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Eswatini: Cleopas Dlamini
42. Prime Minister of Vietnam: Pham Minh Chinh
43. Resident grievance officer for India by Twitter: Vinay Prakash
44. Vice-Chairman of Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ADCCI): M A Yusuff Ali
Current Affairs – Appointment - June 2021
1. 13th Prime Minister of Israel: Naftali Bennett
2. 6th President of Mongolia: Ukhnaa Khurelsukh
3. Acting Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) of India: Suresh N Patel
4. Acting Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court: Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari
5. Additional charge of Chairman of CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes): J B Mohapatra
6. Additional charge of DG of National Investigation Agency (NIA): Kuldiep Singh
7. Ambassador of Forest Frontline Heroes by the World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India): Upasana Kamineni
8. Asia and Oceania Representative in the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) Executive Council for 2021-25: Nagaraj Adiga
9. Board of the International Dairy Federation (IDF): R S Sodhi
10. Brand Ambassador of Biotechnology Firm Mylab Discovery Solutions: Akshay Kumar
11. Brand Ambassador of OnePlus Wearables including the OnePlus Watch and the OnePlus Band: Jasprit Bumrah
12. Brand Ambassador of PUMA Motorsports in India: Yuvraj Singh
13. Captain for India’s Men’s Hockey Team for Tokyo Olympics: Manpreet Singh
14. Captain for India’s Women’s Hockey Team for Tokyo Olympics: Rani Rampal
15. CEO of Ferrari: Benedetto Vigna
16. CEO of HSBC India: Hitendra Dave
17. CEO of Magma Fincorp: Vijay Deshwal
18. Chair the Grievance Redressal Board which is part of the DPCGC (Digital Publisher Content Grievance Council): Former Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri
19. Chairman of LIC: M R Kumar
20. Chairman of Magma Fincorp: Adar Poonawalla
21. Chairman of the Digital Media Content Regulatory Council (DMRC) by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF): Justice Vikramjit Sen
22. Chairman of the Indian Federation of United Nations Associations (IFUNA): Shambhu Nath Srivastava
23. Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for a tenure of 6 months: Meenesh Shah
24. Chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB): Sanjeev Sahai
25. Chairman of the WHO Executive Board: Dr Patrick Amoth
26. Chairperson of task force committee set up to help the government to bring major bureaucratic reforms through mission Karmayogi: SD Shibu Lal
27. Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC): Justice A K Mishra
28. Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court: Sanjay Yadav
29. Coach by Inter Milan for two years: Simone Inzaghi
30. Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission in the World Wide Organisation (WTO): Aashish Chandorkar
31. Deputy Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral Ravneet Singh
32. Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India by the Appointment Committee of Cabinet: M K Jain
33. Deputy Governors of RBI: Michael Patra, MK Jain, Rabi Sankar and M Rajeshwar Rao
34. DG of the Assam Rifles: Lt. Gen. Pradeep Chandran Nair
35. Director for CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB): Dr Vinay K Nandicoori
36. Director General Naval Operations: Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar
37. Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS): Dr Pratima Murthy
38. Election Commissioner by Union Government for the tenure of 3 years: Anup Chandra Pandey
39. First Chairwoman of England’s Football Association: Debbie Hewitt
40. First Vice-Chancellor of Delhi Sports University: Karnam Malleswari
41. First woman from Jammu and Kashmir to be inducted as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force: Mawya Sudan
42. Grievance Officer for India: Spoorthi Priya
43. Grievance Officer for India by WhatsApp: Paresh B Lal
44. Grievances Officer for India by Twitter: Jeremy Kessel
45. High-level advisory group of sustainable and inclusive recovery and growth formed by the World Bank and IMF: Montek Singh Ahluwalia
46. Honorary Member of WHO’s Global Air Pollution and Health-Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG): Mukesh Sharma
47. Managing Director and CEO of RBL Bank: Vishwavir Ahuja
48. Match referee for the World Test Championship Final of Cricket which will be held between India and New Zealand: Chris Broad
49. MD and CEO of Bandhan Bank by RBI: Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
50. MD of Magma Fincorp: Abhay Bhutada
51. Member of the Board of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI): Anand Mohan Bajaj
52. Member of the Coaches Committee of the International Boxing Association (AIBA): Dr Tadang Minu
53. Member of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Bureau at the FINA General Congress: Virendra Nanavati
54. Microsoft Corporation appointed CEO Satya Nadella to be their Chairman: Satya Nadella
55. New Chief Prosecutor of the International Cricket Council (ICC): Karim Khan
56. New member of the Takeover Panel set up by SEBI: N Venkatram
57. Part-time Chairman of ICICI Bank by RBI: Girish Chandra Chaturvedi
58. President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2021-22: T V Narendran
59. President of Iran: Ebrahim Raisi
60. President of Israel: Isaac Herzog
61. President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly: Abdulla Shahid
62. President of the International Swimming Federation (FINA): Kuwait’s Husain Al-Musallam
63. Pro-tem Chairman for the Telangana State Legislative Council: V Bhoopal Reddy
64. Secretary of United Nations for the 2nd 5-year tenure: Antonio Guterres
65. Secretary-General of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development): Rebeca Grynspan
66. Special Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI): Praveen Sinha
67. To head the committee set up by International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA) to examine best practices in ship financing and leasing and frame a roadmap to enable these activities from GIFT IFSC: Vandana Aggarwal
68. To head the committee to grant technical support and suggestions to fix minimum wages and national floor minimum wages: Professor Ajit Mishra
69. Transitional PM of Mali: Choguel Kokalla Maiga
70. UN Chief for the second term beginning 1st Jan 2022 by United Nations Security Council: Secretary-General António Guterres
71. Vice Chief of Air Staff in the Air headquarters: Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari
72. Vice-President and Country Director for India by Thales: Ashish Saraf
73. Weightlifter from New Zealand: Laurel Hubbard
74. WhatsApp as the Head of Payments in India: Manesh Mahatme
75. World Bank Education Advisor for the period June 2021 to June 2024: Ranjitsinh Disale
Current Affairs – Appointment - May 2021
1. 14th Administrator of NASA: Bill Nelson
2. 23rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu: M K Stalin
3. 38th National President of FLO (FICCI Ladies Organisation): Ujjwala Singhania
4. 4th Deputy Governor of RBI: T Rabi Sankar
5. Acting Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC): Justice PC Pant
6. Acting Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court: Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra
7. Badminton World Federation (BWF) council for the period 2021-25: Himanta Biswa Sarma
8. CEO of Bata India: Gunjan Shah
9. CEO of National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd: Padmakumar Nair
10. CEO of Reserve Bank of Innovation Hub (RBIH): Rajesh Bansal
11. CEO of VMware: Raghu Raghuram
12. Chairman Emeritus for a tenure of five years by Bajaj Auto: Rahul Bajaj
13. Chairman of Bajaj Auto: Niraj Bajaj
14. Chief Election Commissioner of India: Sushil Chandra
15. Chief Minister of Union Territory of Puducherry: N Rangasamy
16. Chief Secretary of Bihar for a period of two months: Tripurari Sharan
17. CMD of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) by the PESB panel: Arun Kumar Singh
18. CMD of THDC India Ltd: Vijay Goel
19. Company Head by Suzuki Motorcycle India: Satoshi Uchida
20. Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI): Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
21. Director of the Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR): RM Sundaram
22. Executive Committee of International Council for Advertising Self-Regulation (ICAS): Manisha Kapoor
23. Executive Director of RBI: Jose J Kattoor
24. First female flight test engineer in the Indian Air Force: Squadron LeaderAashritha V Olety
25. First Female President of Musee Du Louvre: Laurence Des Cars
26. First Female Prime Minister of Samoa: Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
27. Head Coach of the Indian Women’s Cricket Team by BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India): Ramesh Powar
28. Head of Israel’s Spy Agency named Mossad: David Barnea
29. Head the committee constituted by the International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA) to suggest a roadmap to promote Investment Funds at IFSC: Nilesh Shah
30. Interim President of Mali: Colonel Assimi Goita
31. International Olympic Committee's (IOC) 'Believe in Sport' campaign: P.V. Sindhu and Michelle Li
32. Mali’s interim President: Interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane
33. MD and CEO of Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Ltd (SUD LIFE): Abhay Tewari
34. MD of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL): Arvind Kumar
35. MD of Kotak Mahindra Life insurance Company Limited (KLI): Mahesh Balasubramanian
36. Member of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Athletes’ Committee: PR Sreejesh
37. National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research: Sankar Ghosh
38. New Chief Minister of Assam: Biswa Sarma
39. Post of CEO for Amazon from 5th July: Andy Jassy
40. Presidency of Ecuador: Guillermo Lasso
41. President of International Hockey Federation (FIH): Narinder Batra
42. President of Syria for the fourth term: Bashar Hafez al-Assad
43. President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB): Jagjit Pavadia
44. President of Tibetan Government-in-exile: Penpa Tsering
45. President of Uganda for the 6th term: Yoweri Museveni
46. President of VMware: Sumit Dhawan
47. Prime Minister of Nepal: KP Sharma Oli
48. Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo: Anatole Collinet Makosso
49. Secretary for the Department of Commerce: B. V. R. Subrahmanyam
50. Senior Advisor to US President Joe Biden: Neera Tanden
51. UN Humanitarian Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator: Martin Griffiths
Current Affairs – Appointment - April 2021
1. Chairman and MD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC): Subhash Kumar
2. DG of Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC): Mukhmeet S Bhatia
3. Chairman and MD of Jammu and Kashmir Bank: R K Chhibber
4. Additional Director of Britannia Industries: Urjit Patel
5. Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB): Mallika Srinivasan
6. Heads of the committee set up by the Ministry of Labour and Employment to review the standards under occupational safety, health and working conditions code, 2020: Dr R K Elangovan, P L N Murthy and D K Shami
7. Prime Minister of Slovakia: Eduard Heger
8. Chairman of Capacity Building Commission: Adil Zainulbhai
9. Brand Ambassador of Digit Insurance: Virat Kohli
10. MD and CEO of L&T Technology Services: Amit Chadha
11. Revenue Secretary under Finance Ministry: Tarun Bajaj
12. Economic Affairs Secretary: Ajay Seth
13. Secretary for Department of Fisheries in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying: Jatindra Nath Swain
14. Secretary for the Department of Public Enterprises: Ali Raza Rizvi
15. Secretary in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs: Gyanesh Kumar
16. Secretary in the Department of empowerment of persons with disabilities: Anjali Bhawra
17. BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit Chief: Shabir Khandwawala
18. President of Kosovo: Vjosa Osmani Sadriu
19. President of Vietnam: Nguyen Xuan Phuc
20. Prime Minister of Vietnam: Pham Minh Chinh
21. Mission Director of Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog: Dr Chintan Vaishnav
22. Prime Minister of Niger: Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou
23. Brand Ambassador of Vivo Communication Technology Co. Ltd (Vivo): Virat Kohli
24. CMD of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI): S Ramann
25. DG of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER): Poonam Gupta
26. Brand Ambassador for Punjab’s Anti-Coronavirus Vaccination Programme: Sonu Sood
27. DG of NADA (National Anti-Doping Agency): Siddharth Logjam
28. Chief Election Commissioner of India: Sushil Chandra
29. Brand Ambassador of SportzXchange: Prithvi Shaw
30. President of Ecuador: Guillermo Lasso
31. Prime Minister of Haiti: Claude Joseph
32. Brand Ambassador for ‘Elista’: Suresh Raina
33. President for Tata Consumer Products (TCP) for India and South Asia region: Puneet Das
34. Chief Financial Officer of Chinese home appliances giant Midea Group Co.: Jeremy Choy
35. MD and CEO of DCB Bank: Murali M Natrajan
36. President of Cuba: Miguel Diaz Canel
37. Prime Minister of South Korea: Kim Boo Kyum
38. Brand Ambassadors of Puma India: Washington Sundar and Devdutt Padikkal
39. External Auditor of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for a tenure of three years: CAG G C Murmu
40. Part-Time Chairman of HDFC Bank by RBI for the tenure of three years: Atanu Chakraborty
41. 1st woman Chairperson of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM): Rekha Menon
42. MD and CEO of National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) by SEBI: Arun Raste
43. Director of the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI): Ajay Seth
44. Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court by President Ram Nath Kovind: Justice Rajesh Bindal
45. Brand Ambassador of ASICS, Japanese Sports Brand: Ravindra Jadeja
46. First Woman commanding officer in BRO (Border Roads Organisation): Vaishali Hiwase
47. CMD of Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML): Amit Banerjee
48. Head of Real Estate strategy for IIFL Asset Management Company: Amar Merani
49. Finance Secretary: TV Somanathan
50. MD and CEO of Axis Bank: Amitabh Chaudhry
51. Judge of Chhattisgarh High Court: Justice Vimla Singh Kapoor
Current Affairs – Appointment - March 2021
1. Additional Charge of DG of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force): Kuldeep Singh
2. Additional charge of Revenue Secretary: Tarun Bajaj
3. Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner: Nilam Sawhney
4. Assistant Secretary General and Head of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): Ligia Noronha
5. Board Member of the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI): Kapil Dev
6. Brand Ambassador for NeoGrowth Credit Pvt Ltd: Ajinkya Rahane
7. Brand Ambassador of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited: Rohit Sharma
8. Brand Ambassador of Plant-based nutrition brand OZiva: Deepika Padukone
9. Captain in the Territorial Army: Union Minister Anurag Thakur
10. Chairman and MD of Food Corporation of India (FCI): Atish Chandra
11. Chairman of Asia Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA): G R Chintala
12. Chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI): Sanjeev Kumar
13. Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT): Pramod Chandra Mody
14. Chairman of the Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations: Girish Chandra Murmu (CAG of India)
15. Chairman of the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE): Soma Mondal
16. Chairman of the Stop TB Partnership Board: Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan
17. Chairperson of AIBA Champion and Veterans Committee: Mary Kom
18. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI): Saurabh Garg
19. Chief Minister of Uttarakhand: Tirath Singh Rawat
20. Chief Product Officer of Robinhood: Aparna Chennapragada
21. Chief Secretary of Bihar: Arun Kumar Singh
22. Chief Statistician of India: Dr GP Samanta
23. Commander of Kashmir based 15 Corps: Lt Gen DP Pandey
24. Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER): Deepak Mishra
25. Director-General of Central Reserve Police Force: Kuldeep Singh
26. Director-General of International Solar Alliance (ISA): Dr Ajay Mathur
27. Director-General of the National Security Guard: M A Ganapathy
28. First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank: Naureen Hassan
29. First Woman President of Tanzania: Samia Suluhu Hassan
30. Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Naval Command: Vice Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh
31. General Secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS): Dattatreya Hosabale
32. Head of the committee which is set up by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to have the multidisciplinary study of the Sarasvati River: Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel
33. India’s High Commissioner to Australia: Manpreet Vohra
34. MD and CEO of Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd (Arcil): Pallav Mohapatra
35. MD and CEO of Mahindra and Mahindra: Anish Shah
36. MD and CEO of the Central Bank of India: Matam Venkata Rao
37. National Head of Sales and Marketing for Kia Motors India Ltd: Hardeep Singh Brar
38. Next Chief Justice of India: Justice NV Ramana
39. Official spokesperson of the Union ministry of external affairs: Arindam Bagchi
40. President and CTO of AU Small Finance Bank: Sharad Goklani
41. President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC): Thomas Bach
42. President of the Republic of Congo: Denis Sassou Nguesso
43. Prime Minister of the Netherland for the 4th term: Mark Rutte
44. Principal Director General of Press Information Bureau (PIB): Jaideep Bhatnagar
45. Surgeon General under US President Biden’s administration: Dr Vivek Murthy
46. To head an expert committee to explore the potential of Yoga as a productivity-enhancing tool for the population: Dr HR Nagendra
47. To head the 3 member committee to review medical care arrangements for the Haridwar Kumbh Mela: Dr SK Singh
48. To head the committee set up by GOI to execute and monitor the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme: H K Mittal
49. Vice-Chairman of Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE): Pradip Kumar Das
50. Vice-Chairperson of AIBA Champion and Veterans Committee: Michael Philip Carruth
Current Affairs – Appointment - February 2021
1. Acting Chief of Staff of NASA: Bhavya Lal
2. Agriculture Ambassador of the Department of Karnataka by the state government: Darshan
3. Brand Ambassador for Levi’s: Deepika Padukone
4. Brand Ambassador of CEAT: Rana Daggubati
5. Brand Ambassador of Unacademy: Sachin Tendulkar
6. CEO of Amazon: Andy Jassy
7. CEO of Ayushman Bharat Scheme: R S Sharma
8. Chairman of IRDAI: Subhash Chandra Khuntia
9. Chairman of National Safety Council (NSC) by Ministry of Labour and Employment: SN Subrahmanyan
10. Chairman of the board of Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services (Mahindra Finance): Anish Shah
11. Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC): Vijay Sampla
12. Chairperson of the governing council of NITI Aayog set up by the Central Government: PM Narendra Modi
13. Chairperson of the United Nations Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council: Ajai Malhotra
14. Chief Justice of Manipur High Court: Justice Puligoru Venkata Sanjay Kumar
15. Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC): Karim Khan
16. Chief Secretary of Kerala: VP Joy
17. Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu: Rajeev Ranjan
18. Country Head and MD for Germany and Austria by Wipro Limited: Michael Seiger
19. Country Head and MD for Japan by Wipro Limited: Tomoaki Takeuchi
20. Deputy Superintendent of Police by Assam Government: Hima Das
21. Director-General of International Solar Alliance (ISA): Ajay Mathur
22. Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO): Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
23. Drive the public awareness campaign on cyber frauds by the Reserve Bank of India: Viruss (Punjabi Singer and Rapper)
24. Executive Secretary of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF): Preeti Sinha
25. First Chief Compliance Officer of Facebook: Henry Moniz
26. First Female DG of World Trade Organisation (WTO): Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
27. Global CEO of OLX Autos: Gautam Thakar
28. Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): Natalia Vodianova
29. India’s Youngest Female Pilot: Ayesha Aziz
30. Interim Director of CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation): Praveen Sinha
31. Interim Head of Presidential Council of Libya: Mohammad Younes Menfi
32. Interim Prime Minister of Libya: Abdul Hamid Dbeibah
33. Japan based Softbank Group’s Vision Fund as their Managing Partner: Nagraj Kashyap
34. Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry: Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan
35. Managing Director General of Asian Development Bank (ADB): Woochong Um
36. MD and CEO of Aegon Life Insurance: Satishwar Balakrishnan
37. MD and CEO of SBI Card: Rama Mohan Rao Amara
38. MD and CEO of Tata Motors Limited: Marc Llistosella
39. MD of Google Cloud’s Business in India: Bikram Singh
40. National Security Advisory Board (NSAB): Sridhar Vembu
41. President of Asian Cricket Council: Jay Shah
42. President of Boxing Federation of India (BFI): Ajay Singh
43. President of Niger: Mohamed Bazoum
44. President of Oxford Student’s Union: Rashmi Samant
45. President of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO): Dr A Sakthivel
46. President of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI): Dushyant Chautala
47. Prime Minister of Congo: Jean Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge
48. Prime Minister of Georgia: Irakli Garibashvili
49. Prime Minister of Italy: Mario Draghi
50. To head an expert committee which will review the objections of the industry to the proposed ban on 27 pesticides, which are harmful to animals and humans: TP Rajendran
51. To head the committee set up by IRDAI to review its information and security guidelines: Prof Janakiram
52. Tokyo Olympic President: Seiko Hashimoto
53. Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Usha Rao Monari
54. United Nations Climate Envoy: Michael Bloomberg
Current Affairs – Appointment - January 2021
1. Chairman of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL): Soma Mondal
2. Chairman and CEO of Railway Board: Suneet Sharma
3. 38th Chief Secretary of Karnataka: P Ravi Kumar
4. ISRO Chairman and Secretary of Department of Space: K. Sivan
5. Deputy Election Commissioner in Election Commission of India: Umesh Sinha
6. Chief Justice of the common High Court of UT of Jammu and Kashmir and UT of Ladakh: Justice Pankaj Mithal
7. President of All India Chess Federation (AICF): Sanjay Kapoor
8. Chairman of All India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council (GJC): Ashish Pethe
9. Vice-Chairman of All India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council (GJC): Saiyam Mehra
10. Head the committee set up by the central government named as ‘South Asia Group for Energy (SAGE)’: Ram Vinay Shahi
11. Deputy Chief of Army Staff: Lt Gen Shantanu Dayal
12. Head the Google Cloud in the Asia Pacific. Currently, he heads the Google Cloud in India: Karan Bajwa
13. 1st Deputy General Secretary of All India Football Federation (AIFF): Abhishek Yadav
14. British High Commissioner to India: Alex Ellis
15. Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court: Arup Kumar Goswami
16. Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court: J K Maheshwari
17. Chief Justice of Telangana High Court: Hima Kohli
18. Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court: Raghvendra Singh Chauhan
19. Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court: Sudhanshu Dhulia
20. US President Joe Biden for the post of United State’s Attorney General: Judge Merrick Garland
21. To head the academic advisory council committee called ‘College of Supervisors’ formed by RBI: N S Viswanathan
22. To head the committee which will work to protect language, cultural identity and land of UT Ladakh: G Kishan Reddy
23. Chief Information Officer of the US Army: Dr Raj Iyer
24. Senior Director for South Asia by US President Joe Biden: Sumona Guha
25. Senior Director for Technology and National Security by US President Joe Biden: Tarun Chhabra
26. President of the Central African Republic: Faustin-Archange Touadera
27. To head the expert panel which will examine the findings of National Family Health Survey-5: Preeti Pant
28. To head the 10 member panel which will look after the administration of COVID-19 vaccine: RS Sharma
29. BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) for the ICC (International Cricket Council) board meetings: Jay Shah
30. President of Kyrgyzstan: Japarov Sadyr Nurgojoevich
31. To head the expert committee called ‘Health Insurance Advisory Committee’ formed by IRDAI: Subhash Chandra Khuntia
32. Chairman for the committee setup by RBI to regulate digital lending frauds: Jayant Kumar Dash
33. CEO of Intel: Pet Gelsinger
34. Vice-Chairs of US-India Business Council (USIBC) for 2021: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Milind Pant and Edward Knight
35. Chairman of Telecomm Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC): Sandeep Aggarwal
36. UN Human Rights Council’s President for 2021: Nazhat Shameem Khan
37. Chairman of the Trust which manages Somnath temple in Gujarat: PM Narendra Modi
38. President of Uganda: Yoweri Museveni
39. MD and CEO of RBL Bank : Vishwavir Ahuja
40. Officiating Chairperson of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT): Justice Bansi Lal Bhat
41. MD of LIC (Life Insurance Corporation): Siddhartha Mohanty
42. MD of Sundaram Finance Ltd: Rajiv Lochan
43. Chairman and MD of TCIL (Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd): Sanjeev Kumar
44. Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy): Kiren Rijiju
45. India’s next Ambassador to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Secretariat: Jayant N Khobragade
46. Manage commercial interest and marketing rights of JSW Sports: Rishabh Pant
47. MD and CEO of Dhanlaxmi Bank: J K Shivan
48. President of Portugal for 2nd term: Marcelo Rebelo De Sousa
49. UN to its 2nd term of the high-level advisory board on economic and social affairs: Jayati Ghosh
50. Vice-Chief of Army Staff: Lt Gen Chandi Prasad Mohanty
51. Managing Directors of SBI: Swaminathan Janakiraman and Ashwini Kumar Tewari
52. First female Prime Minister of Estonia: Kaja Kallas