List of Important Appointments (National & International) in September 2017:
Dear Readers, List of Latest Appointments of both National and International in the month of September 2017 was given here, Candidates those who are preparing for the upcoming exams can make use of it.
Important National Appointments in September 2017:
| New Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) | Rajiv Mehrishi
Useful Info: New CAG – Rajiv Mehrishi Preceded by – Shashi Kant Sharma New Home Secretary – Rajiv Gauba Preceded by – Rajiv Mehrishi |
| New Election Commissioner of India | Sunil Arora
Useful Info: Chief Election Commissioner of India – Achal Kumar Joti |
| First brand ambassador of tyre maker Bridgestone India | PV Sindhu
Useful Info: Registered Office of Bridgestone India Private Limited is in Pune, Maharashtra
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| New Chairperson of Central Board of Secondary Education, (CBSE) | Anita Karwal (IAS officer )
Preceded – Rajesh Kumar |
| MD & CEO of Vijaya Bank | Sankara Narayanan (He has taken over the reigns of the bank from Kishore Sansi, who reached superannuation on August 31. He joined Bank of India as a direct recruit officer in 1983 and has headed various branches.)
Useful Info: Vijaya Bank HQ – Bengaluru MD & CEO – R A Sankara Narayanan Tagline Line – A Friend you can bank on. |
| Chairman of Press Trust of India | Viveck Goenka (Chairman and Managing Director of the Express Group) He succeeds Riyad Mathew. N. Ravi, former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu has been elected as the Vice Chairman of PTI. Mr. Ravi succeeds Mr. Goenka as Vice Chairman. |
| New Coach of Indian Men’s Hockey Team | Sjoerd Marijne (He has replaced Roelant Oltmans.) |
| Interim chairman of the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) | A.B. Pandey (CEO of UIDAI) Pandey was given additional charge days after GSTN’s first chairman Navin Kumar completed his term on 29 August. |
| New president of the automobile industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) | Abhay Firodia (Force Motors Chief)
Useful Info: SIAM – Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers SIAM is headquartered in New Delhi New President of SIAM – Abhay Firodia |
| New CMD of United India Insurance Co. Ltd (UIIC) | M. Nagaraja Sarma (Sarma is at present the general manager, Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd.)
Useful Info Head Office of United India Insurance Co. Ltd. is in Chennai |
| Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd | Mahendra Pratap Mall
Useful Info: Corporate Office of IRCTC is situated at New Delhi |
| Chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) | Y.C Modi (Senior IPS officer) He will take over from Sharad Kumar after he completes his tenure on October 30. |
| Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) | Rajni Kant Misra (Mr. Misra is at present the Additional Director General in the Border Security Force (BSF).) |
| India’s New High Commissioner to Pakistan | Ajay Bisaria
Useful Info: Country – Pakistan Capital – Islamabad Currency – Pakistani Rupee |
| New Chairman of NHPC | Balraj Joshi
Useful Info: NHPC Headquarters – Faridabad, India |
| Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of ONGC | Shashi Shankar (He will replace Dinesh K Sarraf) |
| New CEO of Tata Capital | Rajiv Sabharwal (He will be joining Tata Capital in January 2018 and would be taking over from the company’s current Managing Director & CEO Praveen P Kadle.)
Useful Info: N Chandrasekaran is the Chairman of Tata Sons |
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Resignation |
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| Infosys Senior Vice President Sanjay Rajagopalan has resigned from his post. | |
List of New Governor of Indian States:
| State | New Governor | Preceded |
| Tamilnadu | Banwarilal Purohit | Vidyasagar Rao |
| Assam | Prof Jagdish Mukhi | Banwarilal Purohit |
| Bihar | Satya Pal Malik | Keshari Nath Tripathi |
| Meghalaya | Ganga Prasad | Banwarilal Purohit |
| Andaman and Nicobar | Devendra Kumar Joshi | Jagdish Mukhi |
Important International Appointments in August 2017:
| New High Commissioner of India to Cyprus | R.K. Raghavan
Useful Info: Country – Cyprus Capital – Nicosia Currency – Euro, Cypriot pound |
| New head the US space agency NASA | James Bridenstine
Useful Info: Country – United States of America Capital – Washington D.C Currency – US Dollar President – Donald Trump |
| U.S Ambassador to India | Kenneth I. Juster |
| The first Indian woman ambassador in ‘Friends of Australia’ (FOA) advocacy panel by Tourism Australia. | Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra
Useful Info: Country – Australia Capital – Canberra Currency – Australian Dollar |
| 8th President of Singapore | Halimah Yacob (She became the country’s first female President and the first in five decades to come from the Malay ethnicity.)
Useful Info: Country – Singapore Capital – Singapore City Currency – Singapore Dollar |
| Newly elected as Chair of Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) | Ban Ki-moon (Former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General)
Useful Info: IOC – International Olympic Committee Headquarters of IOC – Lausanne, Switzerland President of IOC – Thomas Bach |
| new Prime Minister of Peru | Mercedes Araoz Fernandez (He replaced Fernando Zavala, who lost the vote of confidence by lawmakers on 15 September 2017.)
Useful Info: Country – Peru Capital – Lima Currency – Sol New Prime Minister – Mercedes Araoz Fernandez |
| Uttarakhand Swachh Bharat Mission Brand Ambassador | Akshay Kumar (Bollywood actor) Akshay was also appointed as the brand ambassador for the cleanliness campaign in Uttar Pradesh in August 2017 and his film “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha” was made tax-free in the state.
Useful Info: State – Uttarakhand Capital – Dehradun CM – Trivendra Singh Rawat Governor – Krishan Kant Paul |
| New President of Angola | Joao Lourenco (He is first new President of the country in 38 years)
Useful Info: Country – Angola Capital – Luanda Currency – Angolan kwanza |
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Resignation |
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| Prime Minister of Iceland Mr. Bjarni Benediktsson has resigned from the post
Useful Info: Country – Iceland Capital – Reykjavik Currency – Icelandic króna |
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