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Appointments 2017(Jan – Nov)

January
Name of the person Name of the Post
BCCI President Anurag The Supreme Court has removed from the Office
Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke
Prof. David R. Syiemlieh Chairman of Union Public Service Commission
Air Marshal SB Deo Vice Chief of the Air Staff of Indian Air Force
ShivpalYadav AkhileshYadav Dismisses him and appoints NareshUttam as Party’s Chief
US Congress Members Kamala Harris
Ami Bera
Ro Khanna
Raja Krishnamoorthi
PramilaJayapal
Paul Ryan re-elected Speaker of US House of Representatives
Robert Lighthizer Chief Trade Negotiator
JovenelMoise President of Haiti
SurekhaMarandi Executive Director Reserve Bank of India
Karan Bajwa Managing Director IBM India
S Padmanabhan Chairman of Tata Power
Kalyan Krishnamurthy Flipkart’s new CEO
Kumar Sharadindu MD & CEO of SBI Pension Funds
Pakistan’s Gen. Raheel Sharif Head of Islamic Military Alliance
Shalabh Seth CEO of Ola Fleet Technologies
Daniel Ortega Nicaragua’s President for Third Consecutive Term
Dr. Ausaf Sayeed High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Seychelles
Vikram Pawah President of BMW Group India
Jimmy Adams, former captain New director of West Indies cricket
Housing’s ex-CEO Jason Kothari chief strategy and investment officer of Snapdeal
Manish Tewari Senior fellow of US think tank Atlantic Council
Rajesh Gopinathan Chief Executive Officer of TCS
TCS CEO N. Chandrasekaran Tata Sons chairman.
Ashish Shelar Maharashtra Cricket Association president
Sanjeev Srinivasan CEO, MD Bharti AXA General
Antonio Tajani President of European Parliament
Birender Singh Yadav High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Sierra Leone
Rajeev Singh Interim CEO of Prasar Bharati after S C Panda
Alok Kumar Verma Director of CBI
Adama Barrow Official President of Gambian
BishwadipDey High Commissioner of India to Grenada
AIFF president Praful Patel FIFA finance committee
Anurag Thakur Himachal Olympic Association Head
Vishal Kaul Chief Operating Officer (COO) of OLA
Anerood Jugnauth (resigns) Mauritius Prime Minister
Indo American Ajit Pai FCC, US communications regulatory agency-chairman
Uttam Dhillon Special assistant to the President on ethics and compliance matters-White
House position.
Rex Tillerson Secretary of State US
Derk Segaar Director of United Nations Information Centre (UNIC)

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Siddhartha Murarka Institute of Company Secretaries of India –Chairman

Mike Pompeo US Central Intelligence Agency –Director
V Shanmuganathan (resigns) Meghalaya Governor
Dushyant Chautala Table Tennis Federation of India President
AP Singh Interim Head of India Post Payment Bank
Amulya Patnaik Delhi Police Chief
Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit Additional charge of Meghalaya
Nagaland governor PB Acharya Additional charge of Arunachal Pradesh
Dr. Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar VC Nalanda University
Chadian foreign affairs minister African Union Commission head
Moussa Faki Mahamat
SanjivRanjan (concurrently) Ambassador of India to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Ivan Rogers(resigns) Britain’s Ambassador to the EU Anil Jalali HR
Sir Tim Barrow Britain’s ambassador to the EU
Ashok Warrier Ambassador of India to the Central African Republic
Birender Singh Yadav Ambassador of India to the Republic of Burkina Faso
Ashok Warrier Ambassador of India to the Republic of Congo
Nikki Haley U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

February
Name of the person Name of the Post
Mehriban Aliyeva Azerbaijan First Vice President
Frank Walter Steinmeier President of Germany
Hassan Ali Khaire Prime minister Somali
Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo New President of Somalia
Cressida Dick First woman to lead Scotland Yard
Rex Tillerson US secretary of state
Achamkulangare Gopinathan UN Joint Inspection Unit
Economist Sanjeev Sanyal Principal Economic Adviser
Anand Kumar Gupta Director of NTPC
Sasikala Natarajan AIADMK Legislative Party leader
Satish Menon CEO of Kings XI Punjab
Ashok Gulati,
Manish Sabharwal, Non-Official Directors On RBI Central Board
Rajiv Kumar
Hemant Bhargava LIC’s Managing Director
Ajay Tyagi SEBI Chairman
Sandeep Jajodia President of Assocham
Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey President of ICAI
CAG Suman Saxena,
Mukulita Vijaywargiya Whole-time members in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
Navrang Saini
IDFC MD Vikram Limaye CEO & MD of National Stock Exchange (NSE)
Tehmina Janjua First Women Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
France’s Jean-Pierre Lacroix UN peacekeeping chief
Edappadi K Palaniswami Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Vikas Swarup Next envoy to Canada
1.Madras HC Chief Justice Sanjay
Kishan Kaul
2.Rajasthan HC Chief Justice Naveen 5 new judges to Supreme Court
Sinha
3.Kerala HC Chief Justice Mohan M
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Shantanagouder
4.Chhattisgarh HC Chief Justice Dipak
Gupta
5.Karnataka HC judge S Abdul
Nazeer.
Norman Isaac First Indian Technical Delegate of International Basketball Federation
Neelam Damodharan , Atanu Kumar EDs in Bank of India.
Das
K Swaminathan ED in Indian Overseas Bank.
Ashok Kumar Pradhan ED in United Bank of India.
P Ramana Murthy Executive Director of Central Bank of India.
Fareed Ahmed Khan ED in Punjab and Sind Bank.
M K Bhattacharya ED of Indian Bank
S Harishankar EDs of Allahabad Bank
Government Cuts SEBI’s Chairman-Designate Ajay Tyagi’s Tenure by Two Years
Ranganathan, Mehta Non-Official Director in IOB, PNB
TR Zeliang (Resigns) Nagaland Chief Minister and Shurhozelie Liezietsu elected in place
Dr Neelu Rohmetra First Woman Indian Institute of Management Director
Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh
Pirojsha Godrej Chairman, Adi Godrej to be Chairman Emeritus- Godrej Properties
Arun M Kumar Chairman and CEO of KPMG India
Govind Rajan Quits FreeCharge Chief executive office
Jonathan Bullock(quits) Boards of Ola and Snapdeal
Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre Head of Cauvery Tribuna
Abhijit Sarkar Vice President of Asian Hockey Federation
Former CM T R Zeliang Finance Advisor to Nagaland government
Shigenori Shiga (Steps Down) Toshiba’s Chairman
Birender Singh Yadav Ambassador of India to the Republic of Togo
Subir Dutta Ambassador of India to the Republic of Madagascar
Narinder Chauhan Ambassador of India to the Republic of Philippines
Renu Pall Ambassador of India to Montenegro

March
Name of the person Name of the Post
Hassan Saleh Sudan’s prime minister
Donald Tusk European Council president
Park Geun-hye (removed) South Korea’s President
Pradeep Nair Regional director for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka- Ford Foundation
David Beasley New head of World Food Programme by UN
ICMR head Soumya Swaminathan UN group on antimicrobial Resistance Member
Amjad Hussain B Sial Secretary general of SAARC
Seema Verma A top healthcare position in the Trump administration
Pakistani American Ali Javed First Muslim of New York City Police Department (NYPD) on Emergency
Iqbal Surve Head of SA's BRICS Business Council
Upendra Tripathy Full Time Interim Director General of ISA
Carrie Lam Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Manohar Parrikar Goa Chief Minister.
Nongthombam Biren Singh CM Manipur
Yogi Adityanath Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Amarinder Singh Chief Minister of Punjab
Trivendra Singh Rawat Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
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Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Deputy Chief Ministers of UP

Sharma
Justice Sharma Upalokayukta of Assam
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Defence Minister-Additional Charge
Narendra Kumar New Chairman of Central Water Commission
Vishwanath Mahadeshwar Mumbai Mayor
Nand Kumar Sai Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
Gopal Baglay Spokesperson of External Affairs Ministry
Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court.
Radhakrishnan
Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court.
Justice Hemant Gupta Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
Justice Rajendra Menon, Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.
Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.
BV Papa Rao, Jwala Gutta Governing body of Sports Authority of India (SAI).
Mohan Das Government Terminates Service of Coal India’s Director
Dr. Randeep Guleria Director of AIIMS Delhi
Siddhartha Upadhyay Governing body of Sports Authority of India
Tanushree Pareek BSF woman field officer
Madhabi Puri Buch SEBI Whole-Time Member
Shri Sudeep Lakhtakia Additional charge as DG CRPF
R Subramania Kumar Additional charge of MD & CEO of IOB
Bibhu Prasad Kanungo Deputy governor of RBI
Mallikarjun Kharge Public’s Account Committee Chairman
Sun Pharma’s Dilip Shanghvi Member on RBI’s western board
Mahesh Kumar Jain, IDBI Bank's MD & CEO
Kishore Piraji Kharat CEO of Indian Bank.
Manhar Valji Bhai Zala Head of Safai Karamcharis Commission
T S Anantharaman Part-time chairman of Catholic Syrian Bank
Sima Kamil First Woman Chief of United Bank Limited (UBL)—Pakistan
Vanaja N Sarna New Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs
Kumar Mangalam Birla Merged entity Chairman of Vodafone and Idea.
Ankur Khanna New Chief Financial Officer of ICC
Shashank Manohar (resigns) ICC chairman
Jason Kothari FreeCharge CEO
Subhankar Roy Chowdhury Heaad HR for Asia Pacific for Lenovo
Babul Supriyo Vice-President Of FIFA U-17 World Cup LOC
P K Purwar MTNL CMD
Baichung Bhutia (Sacked) AIFF advisor
Bill Thomas Global Chairman KPMG
Devang Mody CEO Reliance Commercial Finance
Sam Ghosh (Quits) Reliance Capital’s CEO
Mark Tucker New Chairman HSBC
Manjeev Singh Puri Indian envoy to Nepal
D. Bala Venkatesh Varma Ambassador of India to Andorra
Manjeev Singh Puri Indian envoy to Nepal

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April
Name of the person Name of the Post
Ilir Meta President of Albania
Mridul Gehlot President of kabaddi federation
Rajiv Kumar Chander Permanent Representative to Geneva UN offices from India.
Lenin Moreno Ecuador President.
Tapan Singhel (re-appointed) Bajaj Allianz General CEO
Ajit Kumar Srivastava & Shabri CBDT members
Bhattasali
Mahabaleshwara MS MD and CEO of Karnataka Bank
Achim Steiner Administrator of UNDP
Justice Gita Mittal Acting Chief Justice of Delhi HC
B Venugopal, Sunita Sharma Govt MDs at LIC
Sheela Patel named by the UN chief to panel on Urban development
Gynaecologist Dr Duru Shah President of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR).
Himanta Biswa Sarma Badminton Association of India's interim President
Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) chairman
Vinay Shah MD & CEO of LIC Housing Finance
B.N. Mohapatra Railway Financial Commissioner
Iran bars Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running for President
Nita Ambani Member of IOC’s important commissions
Shri Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar DG, CRPF
Shri RK Pachnanda DG, ITBP
T Krishnakumar Coca-cola India’s new chief
Indira Banerjee New Chief Justice of Madras High Court
Mahesh Kumar Jain IDBI bank MD and CEO
K Kharat MD and CEO of Indian Bank
MS Dhoni CEO of Gulf Oil for 1 day
Brayan Jimenez banned for life-time by FIFA
DGP Geetha Johri Gujarat’s first woman police chief
Aliza Knox (quits) Twitter’s VP of Asia Pacific
Prithika Yashini India’s first transgender police officer Tamilnadu Police Dept
Malvika Sinha New Executive Director of RBI
Kenichi Yokoyama New Country Director of India Resident Mission of the Asian Development
Bank (ADB).
Quatrro's Raman Roy CEO of NASSCOM
Rishad Premji vice chairman of NASSCOM
Former Supreme Court judge Shiva Head of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal(TDSAT).
Kirti Singh
Mukta Dutta Tomar New Ambassador of India to Germany
Anuja dhir First non-white circuit judge at Old Bailey in London
Smita Sandhane MD of Saraswat Co-operative Bank.
S.N. Subrahmanyan CEO -Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T)
Foreign Coaches in Athletics
Name Sports
Dave Smith (Australia) Race walking
Galina P Bukharina (USA) 400m and 400m relay
Dmitry Kislev (Russia) Masseur
Elmira Kisleva (Russia) Masseur.

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May
Name of the person Name of the Post
Socialist Lenin Moreno President of Ecuador
Hubert Minnis Prime minister- Bahamas
Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' Nepal Prime Minister.
(Resigns)
Moon Jae-in South Korea President
Edouard Philippe Prime Minister of the France
Justice Mudgal Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee
Mark Lowcock United Nations’ new humanitarian aid chief
Usha Ananthasubramanian MD&CEO -Allahabad Bank
R Subramania Kumar MD&CEO -Indian Overseas Bank
DinabandhuMohapatra MD&CEO -Bank of India
RajkiranRai G MD&CEO -Union Bank of India
Sunil Mehta MD&CEO -Punjab National Bank
R K SankaraNarayana MD&CEO -Vijaya Bank
M O Rego MD&CEO -Syndicate Bank
Mr Anthony Lianzuala Controller General of Accounts (CGA)
Shobana Kamineni First Woman President of Confederation of Indian Industry
Soumen Ghosh MD, Financial Services-- Bharti Enterprises
Mallikarjun Kharge Parliamentary Affairs Committee
Braj Bihari Kumar Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah 1st Non-IAS to head tea board
Sanjay Mitra Defense Secretary
Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has announced to employ 23 members from the transgender community.
Sohail Mahmood, Pakistan's -new High Commissioner to India
R K Mahajan, Mahender Singh CBEC members
V K Saraswat JNU Chancellor
Taranjeet Singh Country Director for India- Twitter
Emmanuel Macron(39) France’s youngest President
Harsh Vardhan Additional Charge Of Environment Ministry
Anil Dua CEO of Dish TV India
A German First female referee in Europe’s top leagues.
policewoman BibianaSteinhaus
Debjani Ghosh Independent director Yes Bank
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani won
re-election by a wide margin.
Aisha Mughal - First ever Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention
transgender lecturer in Quaid-i-Azam on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
University in Islamabad
Anurag Mehrotra MD of Ford India
Air Marshal PN Pradhan Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff
Dr S Christopher DRDO chief
First Indian-born woman Rehana City councillor of London Corporation
Ameer
Tedros Adhanom Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Ghebreyesus (Ethiopia)
Shuva Mundal Group General Counsel of Tata Sons.
P V Sindhu Badminton World Federation Athletes’ Commission

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Google's Rajan Anandan Chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).
According to Union Minister Jitendra Singh, the government has forced 129 government officers to retire for non-
performance in the past few months.
Anurag Tripathy Secretary of CBSE
Amul Thapar Second Indian-American judge of US Court of Appeals.
Rakesh Kapur Chairman International Fertiliser Association
Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi Chairman of National Commission for Minorities
Ananya Kamboj Young journalist at the global Football for Friendship (F4F) Social
Programme in Russia.
Manipur Governor, Najma Heptulla Jamia Chancellor
Shubhalaxmi Panse and Pradip Shah Members of Banks Board Bureau
George Kurian Vice-Chairperson Of National Commission for Minorities
Vani Sarraju Rao Ambassador of India to Finland
Jaideep Mazumdar Ambassador of India to Philippines
VenuRajamony India's ambassador to Netherlands
Vinay Mohan Kwatra Ambassador to France

June
Name of the person Name of the Post
Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav President of 72nd session of the UN General Assembly.
Lajcak
Sher Bahadur Deuba Nepal's prime minister for fourth time
Mohammed Bin Salman Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
Aleksandar Vucic New President of Serbia
Indian-origin Leo Varadkar Next Ireland PM
Ana Brnabic First openly gay and first female Prime Minister of Serbia
Mihai Tudose Prime-minister designate in Romania
Kaushik Basu International Economic Association president.
Sushila Karki (retires) First woman Chief Justice of Nepal Supreme Court
Dalveer Bhandari Re-nominated Justice as its candidate for another term as judge at the
International Court of Justice.
J-K Governor N N Vohra President of India International Centre (IIC)
Neeru Chadha First Indian woman member of ITLOS
Indian origin Sikh Palbinder Kaur First turbaned judge in Canada
Preet Gill First female Sikh MP to be elected to the UK's Houses of Parliament
Ram NathKovind (resigns) Bihar Governor
KeshriNathTripathi Bihar Governor
Mukul Rohatgi Country's chief law officer (14th attorney general)
Justice CS Karnan becomes (retires) First High Court Judge to retire while absconding
Shashi Shekhar Vempati CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati
Ramachandra Guha (steps down) BCCI Administrator
Vikram Limaye MD & CEO of National Stock Exchange
Nirupama Rao Public Policy Fellow to US Think-Tank
Shaktikanta Das (retires) Economic Affairs Secretary
Tapan Ray Economic Affairs Secretary
S Ganesh Kumar Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India
Sunil Kakar MD and CEO of IDFC Bank
B K Manjunath Part-time chairman Lakshmi Vilas Bank
RK Sharma Administrator for Sahara India Life Insurance
Jeevandas Narayan Managing director of Manappuram Home Finance
K G Karmakar, Gauri Shankar Directors of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)

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Vinay Dube CEO of Jet Airways

Girish Wagh CV unit head Tata Motors
Imran Khawaja ICC Deputy Chairman.
Travis Kalanick (resigns) Uber CEO and Co -Founder.
Rajiv Gauba Home Secretary
Yudhvir Singh Malik Secretary, Road Transport and Highways.
Subhash C. Garg Secretary of Economic Affairs.
ArunaSundarajan Telecommunications Secretary.
Ajay Prakash Sawhney Electronics and Information Technology Secretary
Avinash K. Srivastava Consumer Affairs Secretary
Jagdish Prasad Meena Secretary, Food Processing Industries
Rajiv Kapoor Secretary, Chemicals and Petrochemicals.
SanjeevaneeKutty, Secretary, Ex-Servicemen Welfare in the Defence Ministry.
Arun Kumar Panda Secretary, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises,.
Ravi Kant, Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping.
Anand Kumar, Secretary, New and Renewable Energy.
Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Power Secretary
Indian origin doctor Kailash Chand Honorary VP of UK medical body
Russian Diplomat Vladimir Voronkov Chief of United Nations CounterTerrorism Centre
Rajesh V. Shah National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)Chairperson.
SN Subrahmanyan CEO & MD of Larsen & Toubro
Hoshiar Singh Chief of Copyrights office
Lt Col Raja Chari First Indian American after Kalpana Chawla to be chosen by NASA for one
of its missions from 18,000 applicants at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in
Houston.
Ruchira Kamboj High Commissioner of India to the Republic of South Africa
Param Jit Mann Ambassador of India to Republic Slovenia
Reenat Sandhu Head of India's diplomatic mission in Italy.
Gaitri Issar Kumar India's next ambassador to Belgium.
Ajit Vinayak Gupte Ambassador to Denmark.
Kenneth I Juster America's new ambassador to India
Indian American Krishna R. Urs Ambassador to Peru for US
Shamma Jain Ambassador of India to Greece

July
Name of the person Name of the Post
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Prime Minister of Pakistan
Carrie Lam Hong Kong's first female leader
Lt General Mahesh Senanayake New Army Commander of Sri Lanka.
Khaltmaa Battulga (Democratic Party) Wins Mongolian presidential election
Sandeep Chakravorty (India's New York Consul General
Ambassador to Peru )
Justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli Chief Justice of Nepal
JDU President Nitish Kumar Chief Minister of Bihar for 6th time
Ram Nath Kovind (NDA) 14th President of India
TR Zeliang 19th Cheif Minister of Nagaland.
KK Venugopal 15th Attorney General of India
Achal Kumar Jyoti 21st Chief Election Commissioner
Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah First Ever black assistant for Queen Elizabeth
M&M's Rajeev Dubey Governing board of the International Labour Organisation
Rajiv Kumar Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh
Dinesh Malkani (quits Office) Cisco India President

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Himachal Pradesh DGP Sanjay Kumar National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Chief
N Chandrasekaran Chairman of Tata Global Beverages
Sanjiv Goenka IIT-Kharagpur chairman
Kewal Handa Non-executive chairman of Union Bank
Melwyn Rego Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Syndicate Bank.
R K Pachnanda Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
John Joseph Director General of GST intelligence agency
Raninder Singh (Re-elected) National Rifle Association of India President
Debi Prasad Dash Director General of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).
Leslie Thng CEO of Vistara
Thomas Kuehl President of Nissan Indian operations
Ravi Shastri New head coach of Indian cricket team
Farzaneh Sharafbani First female CEO Iran Air
Justice Vikramajit Sen Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC-chairperson)
Subra Suresh President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU)-Singapore
Senior IRS Officers Arbind Modi and CBDT Members
Bajrang Dass Vishnoi
Aarthi Subramanian Chief Digital Officer of Tata Sons
Mukesh Kumar Jain MD & CEO of Oriental Bank
Sushant Kumar Panda, Ameeta Suri, Members in the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).
Pranab Kumar Das and Joseph
Farooq Abdullah (Srinagar-Budgam) Lok Sabha members
Kunhalikutty(Malappuram)
UK's first woman Sikh MP Preet Kaur Parliament panel in UK
Gill
Smriti Irani Additional charge as I&B Minister
NarendraTomar Additional charge -Minister for housing and urban affairs.
Swami Smarananandaji Ramakrishna Mission president
Bharat Arun Cricket India bowling coach until 2019 World Cup
Mayawati (resigns) From Rajya Sabha MP post
Shanmugh Natarajan MD of Adobe India operations
Former minister Lord Davies Chair of the UK India Business Council
Sanjay Kothari Secretary to new President Ram Nath Kovind
Brenda Hale UK supreme court's first female president
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Alphabet Board of Directors
Ajay Kanwal Janalakshmi Financial Services- CEO
Subhash Chandra Garg India’s Alternate Governor on the Board of Governors of ADB
Shikha Sharma (Term Extended three- Axis Bank CEO
year from June 2018 )
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif (resigns) Over Panama Papers verdict
Ravi Mittal Part-time member on IRDAI board
Pradeep Kumar Rawat Ambassador of India to the Republic of Indonesia
Bishwadip Dey (concurrently) High Commissioner of India to Montserrat
Sanjiv Kohli (concurrently) High Commissioner of India to Niue

August
Name of the person Name of the Post
M Venkaiah Naidu 13th Vice President of India
Sameer Garde Cisco president for India, Saarc region
Arvind Panagariya (resigns ) As NITI Aayog Vice Chairman
Rajiv Kumar Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog
Lt.Gen. Abhay Krishna Chief of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command
Dhirendra Swarup BSE chairman

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Christopher Wray FBI Director

Sanjay Baru Secretary General of FICCI
Peter O’Neill Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
Hassan Rouhani President of Iran
Harmanpreet Kaur DSP by Punjab Government
Ushanath Banerjee Chairman of Transfers Dispute Committee
Hemant Narayan Bhagwat Hemant Narayan Bhagwat
Prabhat Kumar Ambassador of India to the Republic of Kazakhstan
Mohammad Mustafa CMD Of SIDBI
Neil Chatterjee Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Krishna R. Urs US Ambassador to Peru
Vishal Amin White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
Gautam Kaushik CEO of Payback
Paul Kagame President of Rwanda
Darshan Lal First Hindu in Pakistan's Cabinet in 20 years

Aparna Executive Director of World Bank

Justice Dipak Misra 45th Cheif Justice of India
Dilip Chauhan Deputy Comptroller to the minority affairs in Nassau County
ReenatSandhu Next Ambassador of lndia to the Republic of San Marino
Prasoon Joshi CBFC chairperson
Uhuru Kenyatta President of Kenya
Gaitri Issar Kumar Ambassador of India to Belgium
Vinay Dube CEO of Jet Airways
David Rasquinha Exim Bank MD
Dilip Asbe Chief executive of NPCI
Lalit Modi Rajasthan Cricket Association
Actress VidyaBalan and Gautami Part of the reconstituted Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)
Sandeep Gupta New India Head of Earthport
Gurdeep Singh Sappal (resigns) RajyaSabha TV CEO
Santosh Sharma CMD of HindustanCopper Limited (HCL)
Sankara Rao IFCI Chief Executive Officer
I.V. SubbaRao Secretary to Vice President
P.B.Balaji Chief Financial Officer of Tata motors
Sanjiv Gupta MD of General Motors (GM) India
Vishal Sikka (resigns) MD & CEO of Infosys
U B PravinRao Interim MD and CEO of Infosys
Dr. Mamta Suri Executive Director of IBBI
Nikolay Kudashev Russia’s new ambassador to India
Travis Sinniah First Tamil Navy chief after four decades
P R Seshadri MD and CEO of Karur Vysya Bank
O Panneerselvam Tamil Nadu Deputy CM
Nandan Nilekani Chairman of Infosys board
Rajiv Bansal Air India chief
Ajay Vipin Nanavati Chairman of Syndicate Bank
Nachiket Mor Re-appointed as a member of the Eastern local board of the Reserve Bank
of India (RBI).
Dharmendra Kumar Director General of RPF
Banmali Agrawala Head of infrastructure, defence and aerospace
Roopa Purushothaman Chief Economist & Head of Policy Advocacy of Tata Sons
Dipak Misra 45th Chief Justice of India
Ashish Chauhan CEO of BSE
Dara Khosrowshahi CEO of Uber
Dr. R.K. Raghavan High Commissioner of India to Cyprus
Rajiv Gauba Union Home Secretary

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Puneet Chhatwal MD and CEO of Indian Hotels

September
Name of the person Name of the Post
Sunil Arora Election Commissioner
Rajiv Mehrishi Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)
Rajiv kumar NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman
J Y Pillai Singapore’s acting president
Rajiv Kumar Department of Financial Services Secretary
U. Kamachi Mudali chief executive of the Heavy Water Board
Anita Karwal CBSE chairperson
Nirmala Sitharaman First independent woman Defence Minister of India
Kenneth I. Juster U.S ambassador to India
Rajyavardhan Singh New Sports Minister
Roelant Oltmans (Resigns ) India Hockey Coach
KV Rama Moorthy
MD & CEO of TMB
Vasant Narasimhan CEO of Novartis
MD and CEO of Vijaya Bank Sankara Narayanan
CMD of Coal India Gopal Singh
Parineeti Chopra 1st Indian woman ambassador for Tourism Australia
Ashish Kashyap resigns MakeMyTrip president

Viveck Goenka PTI Chairman

N. Ravi PTI Vice Chairman
Harshil Mehta MD & CEO of DHFL
Baijendra Kumar NMDC chief

Sjoerd Mrijne India men’s hockey team coach

Harendra Singh India women’s hockey team coach
Halimah Yacob First female President of Singapore
A.B. Pandey Additional Charge as GSTN Chairman
Abhay Firodia Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) president
Pat Hickey (resigns ) Member of International Olympic Committee
Raj Shah Principal Deputy Press Secretary in US
Brian Acton (resigns ) WhatsApp
Mahendra Pratap Mall CMD of IRCTC
Nagaraja Sharma CMD of United India Insurance
Peter Thomson First UN envoy for oceans
Harsh Kumar Jain Ambassador of India to the Slovak Republic
Ban Ki-moon IOC’s Ethics Commission head
Suresh Chitturi Vice-Chairman of International Egg Commission
Vikram Sakhuja Advertising Club President
Abanti Sankaranarayanan Chairperson of ASCI
Bjarni Benediktsson (Resigns) Iceland PM
Sekhar Basu 1 Year Extension as Atomic Energy Secretary
Y C Modi Director General of NIA
Mercedes Araoz Peru PM
Raquel Dodge First woman General Prosecutor of Brazil
Sriram Krishnan Senior Director of Twitter
Ajay Bisaria High Commissioner to Pakistan

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Rajat Sharma News Broadcasters Association (NBA) president

B Sambamurthy NPCI interim Board chairman
Vani Sarraju Rao Ambassador of India to the Republic of Estonia
Jaideep Mazumdar Ambassador of India to the Republic of Palau
Umesh Chand Asawa Member of managing committee of the Indian Banks Association (IBA)
Balraj Joshi NHPC chairman
Chuck Robbins Cisco executive chairman
Gautam Bambawale India’s high commissioner to china
Ram Jethmalani Retires as advocate at 94
Binay Tamang Gorkha Territorial Administration chairman
Arvind Subramanian one-year extension as Chief Economic Advisor
Vanlalawmpuii Chawngthu Mizoram’s first woman minister in 30 yrs
Rajnikant Mishra Chief of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany
Rajinder Gupta President of the Punjab Cricket Association
Shashi Shanker ONGC Chairman
Joao Lourenco Angola’s first new president in 38 years
David Harquail Chairman of World Gold Council
Mridul Kumar High Commissioner of India to Malaysia
Rajiv Sabharwal Tata Capital CEO
Royana Singh Banaras Hindu University’s first woman chief proctor
Tony Douglas CEO of Etihad Aviation Group
Banwarilal Purohit Governor of Tamil Nadu

Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi Lieutenant Governor for Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Brigadier (Retd.) BD Mishra Governor ofArunachal Pradesh
Jagdish Mukhi Governor of Assam
Ganga Prasad Governor of Meghalaya
Satya Pal Malik Governor of Bihar

October
Name of the person Name of the Post
Amrender Sharan amicus curiae on a petition seeking re-probe into the assassination
of Mahatma Gandhi.
Sambit Patra NON-Official Director of ONGC
Ms.Eman Al-Ghamidi The assistant mayor of Al Khubar governorate
Jagmeet Singh Non-white politician to lead New Democratic party in Canada.
PV Sindhu Brand ambassador of ‘Swachh Andhra Mission’.
Rahul Bothra First chief financial officer (CFO) for Swiggy.
Gupta, DK Gayen Railway Board members
Birendra Prasad Baishya Chairman of two sub-committees of International Weightlifting
Federation (IWF).
Brenda Hale UK Supreme Court’s first female president
Dr Soumya Swaminathan WHO’s Deputy director general
Rajnish Kumar SBI Chairman
Zafar Mahmood Abbasi Navy Chief of Pakistan.
Jacqueline Fernandez Brand ambassador of Delhi Dynamos(ISL).
Corey Anderson Ambassador for the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2018.
Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh Mangolia Pm
Sangram Singh CEO of Freecharge
John K Paul President of the Federations of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA)

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Ashish Srivastava PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Ltd (PNB MetLife) CEO& MD
Katrina Kaif Lenskart Brand Ambassador
D Shivakumar PepsiCo chairman Quit
Vinit Kumar Kolkata Port Trust chairman
Actor Anupam Kher FTII chairman
Umang Bedi Facebook India MD Quit
Nisha Desai Biswal President of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC).
John Flint CEO of HSBC
Yuvraj Singh Laureus’ first Indian ambassador
Kwon Oh-hyun Samsung CEO Resign
Rukaiya Rangwala Head of MobiKwik Payment Gateway.
Leslie Thng Vistara CEO
France’s Audrey Azoulay next UNESCO chief
Pradeep Bakshi Voltas MD & CEO
Naresh Kumar Gupta Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta
Sunny Verghese World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Chairman.
Ranjit Kumar Solicitor General of India
Jacinda Ardern New Zealand Prime Minister
Sibi George Ambassador of India to Switzerland
Manika Jain Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Cambodia
Vinay Mohan Kwatra Ambassador of India to the Principality of Monaco.

Pooja Kapur Ambassador of India to the Republic of Macedonia.

Gautam H. Bambawale Indian ambassador to China.
Izham Ismail Malaysia Airlines (MAS) CEO
Jayant Rikhye India HSBC CEO
Kakha Kaladze Former AC Milan football star Kakha Kaladze had been elected as the
mayor of its capital Tbilisi.
Robert Mugabe WHO withdraws Mugabe’s goodwill ambassador title
Dineshwar Sharma Former director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), has taken charge as the
interlocutor, for peace talks in Jammu and Kashmir.
Rakesh Asthana CBI Special Director
Ngangom Sarat Singh Member of the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for
Manipur and Mizoram member of the Joint Electricity Regulatory
Commission (JERC) for Manipur and Mizoram.
Suresh Sethi IPPB MD & CEO
Kanwaljit Singh Cheema Principal secretary of Board of Administrators (BoA) in Darjeeling
NS Venkatesh Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) chairman
Deep Kumar Upadhyay Nepal government accepts resignation of its Ambassador to India
Alok Kumar Pateria Additional Director General (ADG) of Central Industrial Security Force
(CISF).
Utpal Kumar Singh Uttarakhand Chief Secretary
Kenneth Chenault American Express CEO Step Down
Richard Verma US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) New Board Member.
N.J.Gangte High Commissioner of India to Republic of Zambia
Satya Gopal chief secretary of Arunchal Pradesh
Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar Vice Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS)
Suresh Raina Brand ambassador of Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation
SK Sinha Secretary (security) in Cabinet Secretariat
AP Maheshwari Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development.
T V Narendran Tata Steel CEO & MD
Vikram Singh Private Secretary to President
Birendra Prasad Baishya President of IWLF

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November
Name of the person Name of the Post
Suresh Chukkapalli Honorary Consul General in Hyderabad, by South Korea
Knut Ostby Resident representative for U.N.Development Program in Myanmar
Neelmani N. Raju Karnataka’s first woman police chief
Vikas Seth CEO of Bharti AXA Life Insurance
Sudhanshu Jain CFO of Paytm Payments Bank
Rajesh Vaishnaw High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Malta
Nasir Kamal Additional Director General of Border Security Force
Shamika Ravi Part-time member of Economic Advisory Council to PM
MC Mary Kom Youth World Championships ambassador
Kenneth Juster US Ambassador to India
Madhu Azad First ever female mayor of Gurgaon
Ashwani Kumar Chief Secretary for Puducherry
N Poonguzhali First woman senior DDG of Tamilnadu
Binoy Kumar Special Secretary in the Commerce Ministry
Hasmukh Adhia New Finance Secretary of India
Sanjeev Kaushik whole-time member of SEBI
Urjit Patel Financial Stability Institute Advisory Board of the Bank of
International Settlement (BIS)
Ravinder Singh Bhalla First ever Sikh mayor of New Jersey’s Hoboken city
Priti Patel Resigns as British Minister
Alphons Kannanthanam Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan
Ravi Bangar Ambassador of India to Ecuador
Debjani Ghosh First woman President of NASSCOM in 2018
Gautam Gambhir Govt nominee in DDCA managing committee
Phanindra Sama Chief Innovation Officer for Telangana state
Tulsi Gabbard Chairperson of World Hindu Congress 2018
M. Mahender Reddy DGP of Telangana
Bhaskar Ganguly Ombudsman of All India Football Federation
Surendra Kumar Sinha Resigns as Bangladesh Chief Justice
Vijay Prasad Dimri President of 36th International Geological Congress
Borut Pahor Slovenian President
Ganga Kumari First transgender in Rajasthan Police.
Sethurathnam Ravi BSE Chairman
Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar SEBI executive director
Sibi George Ambassador of India to the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Sarah Clarke First female Black Rod in UK parliament
Dalveer Bhandari Judge in International Court of Justice

Quarraisha Abdool Karim Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Ira Joshi DG of Doordarshan News
Robert Mugabe Resigns as ZimbabwePresident
Shubhangi Swaroop First-ever woman pilot of Indian Navy
Aashish Kamat Resigns as UBS India Chief Executive Officer

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Emmerson Mnangagwa Zimbabwe’s second president since independence

N Sambasiva Rao Andhra Pradesh DGP
Nirmala Sitharaman Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis President
Vineet Arora Aegon Life Insurance MD and CEO
Pradeep Singh Kharola Air India CMD
Bill Gates along with 17 foreigners Foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
Shaktikanta Das India’s G 20 Sherpa
NK Singh Chairman of 15th Finance Commission
Badri Narain Sharma First Chairman of National Anti-Profiteering Authority
Karen Pierce UK’s first ever female ambassador to the UN
Upendra Prasad Singh Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and
Ganga Rejuvenation
Snehlata Shrivastava First woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha
Sibi George Ambassador of India to the Holy See
K Ratna Prabha New chief secretary of Karnataka
Ajay Kumar Secretary in Department of Defence Production

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