Monthly Current Affairs October 2016 “APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS” key points to Remember.
Ravindra – Ambassador of India to the Republic of Guinea
Somesh Sharma – INS President
Dipanjan Basu – Chief Financial Officer -Myntra
Arundhati Bhattacharya (1 year extension) -SBI chief
S SIVAKUMAR –Full time member of 21st Law Commission
Dr. Vinaya Manchaiah-class of Jerger Future Leaders of Audiology.
Anoyara Khatun -International Child Rights Activist
Vinod Sawhny (steps down) – Reliance Communications CEO
M. Sevala Naik – High Commissioner of India to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Ashish Vohra – CEO – Reliance Nippon Life Insurance
Rajeev Sharma – Power Finance CMD
K J Yesudas – brand ambassador of ‘Haritha Keralam’ project
Jawhar Sircar (resigns)- Prasar Bharati CEO
Kersti Kaljulaid –New President of Estonia
Parvez Ahmed -J&K Bank Chairman & CEO
Sushil Chandra- Chairman of CBDT
Justice Mohanty – CJ Of Jharkhand HC
B.V.R Mohan Reddy -honorary consul of Germany
Rajeev Rishi -IBA Chairman for 2016-17
Rafeeque Ahmed as President- South India Chamber of Commerce and Industry(SICCI)
P V Sindhu -New Brand Ambassador Of Vizag Steel.
Luo Zhaohui – China envoy to India
Renu Pall appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Austria
Lieutenant General AK Sharma assumed command of the White Knight Corps (16 Corps) from
Lieutenant General RR Nimbhorkar.
Lieutenant General RR Nimbhorkar.
Indian-origins Valerie Vazand and Shami Chakrabarti appointed to UK shadow cabinet
Moroccan king reappoints Abdelilah Benkirane as PM
Tamil Nadu CM J. Jayalalithaa’s portfolios allocated to FM O. Panneerselvam
NBA Player Yao Ming Appointed as Chinese Ambassador to Mars
G Mahalingam – Whole-Time Member of markets regulator SEBI.
Raghunathan Elected National President Of AIMO
Antonio Guterres – Next Secretary General for UN
Bank of Baroda appoints P V Sindhu and K Srikanth as brand ambassadors
Amrit Lugun concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the State of Eritrea
Asha Kharga – Marketing head of Brooke Bond and Lipton, joins Axis Bank
Valvoline Ropes In Virat Kohli As Brand Ambassador
Ajay Kumar Bhalla – New Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT).
Rajeev Misra – Head of Softbank’s S100 billion tech fund,
Amandeep Singh – next Ambassador/PR of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
James Parker– president of global sales- Tata Communications
Roopa Ganguly, Ganeshan — Rajya Sabha MP
Sanjay Singh –Member Secretary, Law Commission
BCCI President Anurag Thakur – ICC’s Finance and Commercial Affairs committee
Navdeep Singh Suri –envoy to UAE for India
Visa CEO Charles Scharf to resign, ex-AmEx president to take over. He will be replaced by Alfred
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effective from December 1, 2016.
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effective from December 1, 2016.
Ex-Sri Lankan cricket skipper Jayasuriya – brand ambassador of the Stairs School Football League
(SSFL)
(SSFL)
Saina Nehwal – member of IOC’s Athletes’ Commission
S.P Yadav-new President of Urology Society of India
Indian woman wrestler Geeta Phogat — DSP in Haryana Police
Tariq Hameed Karra’s (Resigned)– LS Speaker PDP MP
Japan’s Morinari Watanabe -President of International Gymnastics Federation
The United Nations (UN) has celebrated Wonder Woman’s 75th birthday by naming the comic book
character as its new honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls, despite
frustration from both inside and outside the world organisation that the spot should go to a real and
less-sexualised woman.
character as its new honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls, despite
frustration from both inside and outside the world organisation that the spot should go to a real and
less-sexualised woman.
D. Bala Venkatesh Varma –Ambassador of India to Spain
Former Google Search Head Amit Singhal–Joins Paytm Board of Directors
P. S. Raman -World Free Zones Orgànisation (World FZO) Regional Representative for SAARC
countries
countries
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court Bilal Nazki- chairperson of Jammu &Kashmir Human Rights
Comission.
Comission.
Dr. Ajay M. Gondane-Next High Commissioner of India to Australia
Ratan Tata replaces Cyrus Mistry as Tata Sons chairman
SalimGangadharan to replace AmitabhaGuha as non-executive chairman in South Indian Bank
Flipkart CFO Sanjay Baweja(resigns)
Sunil Bharti Mittal Becomes The First Indian to be Elected Chairman of GSMA
Sunil Gavaskar- ‘Stroke Ambassador for India’
Jason McCracken- New CEO of International Hockey Federation (FIH)
BorjeEkholm- Ericsson’s Board’s new President and CEO
Ananthakrishna– Non-Executive Chairman Karnataka Bank (retires)
Karnal Singh -Chief of Enforcement Directorate
World Bank appointed first adviser to tackle LGBTI discrimination
MadhukarJetley- UP Ambassador of Indian Diaspora Council (IDC)
KristalinaGeorgieva as chief executive officer of World Bank
Mariano Rajoy-Spanish Prime Minister (re-elected)
Deep Kumar Upadhyayas -Nepal’s envoy to India (re-appointed)
Ashok Chawla -Non-Executive Chairman Of Yes Bank
Michel Aoun – Lebanon’s president