New Appointments (National & International) in November 2017

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• Ajay Bisaria is currently ambassador to Poland.
• He takes over from Gautam Bambawale

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• Sarah Clarke, who is currently championships director at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, will take on the historic post early next year.
• She will be known as Lady Usher of the Black Rod

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• The permanent members of the Security Council — USA, Russia, France and China and UK
• ICJ Headquarters=> The Hague, Netherlands
• ICJ Head=> Hisashi Owada

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• UNICEF Headquarters=> New York
• UNICEF CEO=> Anthony Lake

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• He is country’s second leader since independence.

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• AIBA Women’s Youth World Championships, which is being hosted at Guwahati, Assam

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• 36th International Geological Congress (IGC)to be held in 2020

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• World Packaging Organisation’s 99th board meeting held at Rio de Geneiro, Brazil.

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• Founder of TATA Steels – Jamsetji Tata
• Headquarters – Mumbai

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• Bharti AXA Life Insurance (a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and AXA)
• started in 2006.
• It brings together the Paris-headquartered AXA Group and Bharti Enterprises.
• The joint venture has a 51% stake from Bharti and 49% stake from AXA

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• Minister of State for Commerce and Industry C R Chaudhary.

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• Shubhangi Swaroop, who hails from Uttar Pradesh.
• Three other women cadets, Astha Segal from New Delhi, Roopa A from Puducherry and Sakthi Maya S from Kerala, also created history by becoming the country’s first women officers at the Naval Armament Inspectorate (NAI) branch of the Navy.
• Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba.

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• Senior Deputy Director General of Tamilnadu, the position comes under Telecom Enforcement Resource Monitoring (TERM), Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
• Governor of Tamilnadu- Banwarilal Purohit

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• Preceded by – Ashok Lavasa
• There are five departments under the Finance Ministry- Expenditure, Economic Affairs, Financial Services, Revenue and Department of Investment and Public Asset management (DIPAM).

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• Second World Hindu Congress 2018 to be held at Chicago in USA  World Hindu Congress(WHC) is organized by the World Hindu Foundation.
• WHC is a global platform for Hindus held once in every four years.
• 1^st World Hindu Congress, 2014=> New Delhi, India

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• USISPF => US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum
• USISPF President=> Dr. Mukesh Aghi
• Aravind Pangariya=> Former Vice Chairman of the NITI(National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog.
• Dr. Rajiv Kumar =>Current Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog
• Amitab Kant =>Current CEO of NITI Aayog

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• He will succeed R Chandrashekhar after completion of his tenure in March next year.
• NASSCOM=>The National Association of Software and Services Companies.
• Headquarters‎=> New Delhi
• Chairman‎=>‎Raman Roy
• Vice Chairman‎=>Rishad Premji

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• Earlier he worked as Director general of Press Information Bureau(PIB).

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• Succeeded by K S Gopalakrishnan
• Aegon Life Insurance Headquarters=> Mumbai

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• Succeeded by Anoop Mishra
• Rajya Sabha has had a woman secretary-general =>B S Rama Devi

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• Previously he worked as Managing Director of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.

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• National Anti-Profiteering Authority Members=> JC Chauhan,Bijay Kumar,
• CL Mahar and R Bhagyadevi.

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• All India Football Federation (AIFF) Ombudsman appointed by Supreme Court.

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• Other executive directors are P K Nagpal, S Ravindran, S V Murali Dhar Rao, S K Mohanty and Ananta Barua.

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• Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis=>(IDSA)
• Succeeded by Goa’s CM Manohar Parrikar

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14th Finance Commission chairman=> Y. Venugopal Reddy.