National Appointments
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1. New Chief Justice of India (CJI) - Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar. He replaces Chief Justice TS Thakur.
2. New Executive Director (ED) of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)____Surekha Marandi.
3. New chairman of Tata Sons _____Natarajan Chandrasekaran
4. New Chief of Army - Lt. Gen. Bipin Rawat. Note: He succeeds Army Chief General Dalbir Singh
5. New Air Chief - BS Dhanoa
6. New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tata Consultancy Services(TCS)___ Rajesh Gopinathan
7. New chief executive officer of Flipkart___ Kalyan Krishnamurthy
8. New chairman of the Union Public Service Commission(UPSC)_____ Prof. David R. Syiemlieh.
9. DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) has elected party treasurer as its Working President____M K Stalin.
10. New president of All India Football Federation (AIFF) for the term 2017-2020____ Praful Patel.
11. Coca-Cola India has signed Bollywood actor as the brand ambassador for its Thumbs Up brand___Ranveer Singh
12. Rajiv Jain has appointed as new chief of Intelligence Bureau.
13. New Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu - O. Panneerselvam
14. New director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) - Alok Verma
15. Non-executive Chairperson of IDFC Bank____Veena Mankar.
16. Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE)____ J Ravichandran.
17. New chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)___ B S Bhullar.
18. New Director-General of Military Operations - Lt. General A K Bhatt.
19. First woman director of LBSNAA - Upma Chowdhary
20. New Chairman of NHAI - Yudhvir Singh Malik
21. Bindeshwar Pathak is the brand ambassador for Swachh Rail Mission..
22. Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India – MS Sahoo.
23. Rajeev Rishi -Indian Bank’s Association Chairman for 2016-17.
24. Bilal Nazki appointed as chairperson of J&K Human Rights Commission.
25. Karnal Singh appointed as Director of Enforcement Directorate.
26. S Sivakumar full-time member of 21st Law Commission of India
27. Junaid Ahmad appointed as the World Bank Country Director for India. Note: He will succeed Onno Ruhl who completed his four-year term recently.
28. New Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) - Sushil Chandra. Note: He will replace Rani Singh Nair.
29. New Director General (DG) of counter-terrorism force National Security Guard (NSG) – Sudhir Pratap Singh.
30. R. K. Pachnanda appointed as Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
31. New Directors General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) – OP Singh 32. New Governor of RBI – Urjit Patel. Note: He succeeds Raghuram Rajan. He assumes charge as the 24th Governor of RBI.
33. New Chancellor of The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) University – Ashok Chawla.
34. New Governor of Manipur – Najma Heptullah.
35. New Chief Minister of Gujarat - Vijay Rupani. Note: He succeeds Anandiben Patel.
36. New Governor of Punjab - V P Singh Badnore
37. New Governor of Assam - Banwarilal Purohit
38. New Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh – Pema Khandu.
39. New MD of SBI – Dinesh Kumar Khara
40. Aishwaryaa R Dhanush appointed as UN Women’s Advocate for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in India.
41. New Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Jagdish Mukhi.
42. Shashi Arora appointed new CEO, MD of Airtel Payments Bank.
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