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Lists of Important Appointments in 2017 (Last 3 Months)

Lists of Important Appointments in 2017 (Last 3 Months)

Lists of Important Appointments in 2017 (Last 3 Months)

For SSC CGL 2017 & IBPS PO 2017

In this Article we will Share the Complete Updated List of All Appointments in Various Organisation in Last 3 Months (April-May-June). This Lists will help you in your upcoming SSC CGL Exams 2017, IBPS PO Exams 2017, and Other Competitive Exams.

Lists of Top 7 Changes in Banking Sector

  • Usha Ananthasubramanian, MD, and CEO, Punjab National Bank, has been appointed as MD & CEO of Allahabad Bank
  • Sunil Mehta, Executive Director, Corporation Bank, has been appointed as MD & CEO of Punjab National Bank. 
  • Dinabandhu Mohapatra, Executive Director at Canara Bank, Appointed as MD and CEO of Bank of India.
  • G Rajkiran Rai, Executive Director at Oriental Bank of Commerce, has been appointed MD & CEO of Union Bank of India, for a period of three years with effect from July 1. 
  • R Subramaniakumar, Executive Director, Indian Overseas Bank, has been elevated as MD & CEO of the bank. 
  • RA Sankara Narayanan, ED, Bank of India, has been appointed MD & CEO of Vijaya Bank with effect from September 1. 
  • MO Rego, MD & CEO of Bank of India, has been appointed MD & CEO of Syndicate Bank with immediate effect.

Other Major Appointments

  • India's first transgender police officer "Prithika Yashini" appointed in Tamil Nadu.
  • Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman appointed as Crown Prince.
  • Sher Bahadur Deuba elected as 40th Prime Minister of Nepal.
  • Aleksandar Vucic sworn in as new president of Serbia.
  • Ana Brnabic is set to become both the first gay and first female prime minister of Serbia.
  • T Krishnakumar is Appointed as Coca-Cola India’s new chief.
  • India’s first woman International Olympic Committee member Nita Ambani has made it to two important commissions of the global sports governing body, including the prestigious Olympic channel.
  • The White House has named a retired Marine major general Randolph Ailes as the New Director of the Secret Service. Ailes was in the Marine Corps for 35 years.



  • Vinay Shah, appointed as new MD & CEO of LIC Housing Finance.
  • Dr. (Ms.) Mukulita Vijayawargiya took charge as Whole Time Member of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) in New Delhi.
  • Mahabaleshwara Mavinakudige Subrahmanya has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of Karnataka Bank Ltd.
  • United Nation (UN) chief Antonio Guterres has named a German Achim Steiner, as the new administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
  • Mukta Dutta Tomar has been appointed as the Next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • Ajit Kumar Srivastava, Shabri Bhattasali named New CBDT members.
  • The government has appointed retired Supreme Court judge Shiva Kirti Singh as the next chairman of the Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) after replacing of  Justice Aftab Alam who was retired in June 2016.
  • Saraswat Bank, the largest lender in the co-operative space, has appointed Smita Sandhane as its Managing Director (MD) with effect from 01st April 2017. She is the first woman chief of India's largest urban co-operative bank.
  • Kristin Davis has been appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador of UNHCR.
  • Chirag Trivedi has been appointed as the President of Indian Society for Clinical Research.
  • Vanaja N. Sarna was appointed as the new chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).
  • Sports Minister Mr. Vijay Goel has approved the appointment of two top foreign athletics coaches Dave Smith(Australian) and Galina P Bukharina(American) one each in race walking and 400m race.
  • Bhimaraya Metri has taken over as Director of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy (IIM Tiruchirappalli).
  • Dr. Chirag Trivedi appointed President of Indian Society for Clinical Research.
  • IDBI has appointed Mahesh Kumar Jain as the Managing Director & CEO with immediate effect. Before his role in IDBI, Jain was the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Indian Bank.
  • Indira Banerjee appointed as new Chief Justice of Madras High Court.
  • The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) appointed Raman Roy (Managing Director of Quatrro Global Services) as its chairman for 2017-2018.
  • A 1982 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) Geetha Johri has been appointed as the first woman Director General of Police (DGP) of Gujarat.
  • Rajiv Kumar Chander appointed as India's Ambassador and permanent representative to the UN.
  • Diplomat Vipul, a 1998 batch Indian Foreign Service officer took up the charge as the new Consul General of Dubai.
  • The ‘Captain Cool’ has been appointed as the CEO of Gulf Oil India.
  • Indian-origin South African billionaire Iqbal Surve has been appointed as chairperson of the country’s BRICS Business Council and has underlined the need for strengthening trade ties with countries like India and China.
  • Vanaja N Sarna appointed Chief of  Central Board of Excise and Customs(CBEC).
  • Indian-Origin Gay Minister Leo Varadkar Set To Be Ireland's Youngest PM.
  • Shashi Shekhar Vempati named as CEO of Prasar Bharati.
  • RBI appoints S. Ganesh Kumar as new Executive Director.
  • Subhash C Garg appointed as new Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Finance Ministry.
  • Lakshmi Vilas Bank appoints B K Manjunath as part-time chairman for 3 years Terms.
  • Ayurveda physician 'Vaidya' Rajesh Kotecha has been appointed as special secretary in Ayush ministry.
  • UNICEF appoints 19-year-old Syrian refugee and education activist Muzoon Almellehan as goodwill ambassador.
  • Manappuram Home Finance announces Jeevandas Narayan as MD,and Subhash Samant as CEO of the Company.
  • UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Ghassan Salamé as his Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which is working to facilitate a Libyan-led political solution to the challenges facing the country.
  • A veteran Indian-origin doctor "Kailash Chand" in the UK has been appointed as honorary vice-president of the country's prominent medical body, becoming the first professional from the community to be appointed to the post.
  • Rajiv Gauba to be next Union home secretary.
  • Durga Shanker Mishra will be the next urban development secretary.
  • NK Sinha will be the Intelligence & Bureau secretary.
  • Ajay Mittal will take over as the secretary, Department of Personnel & Training.
  • Senior bureaucrat Hoshiar Singh has been appointed as Registrar of Copyrights.
  • K G Karmakar & Gauri Shankar appointed directors of Indian Post Payment Bank (IPPB).
  • Sanjiv Singh appointed as new chairman of Indian Oil Corporation(IOC).
  • Citi Bank appoints Shinjini Kumar as Head of Consumer Banking, India.
  • Law Expert Neeru Chadha Becomes First Indian Woman Judge At International Sea Tribunal.
  • Kajal Singh was appointed as Executive Vice President (Services) in Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN).
  • Fairoz Khan appointed new President of National Students Union of India (NSUI).
  • Paytm names vice-president Amit Sinha as chief operating officer (COO) of Paytm Mall.
  • Capital market regulator SEBI has given conditional approval for the appointment of Vikram Limaye as the MD and CEO of the NSE.
  • Ruchira Kamboj appointed as next High Commissioner of India to South Africa.
  • The United Nations General Assembly picked Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs Miroslav Lajcák to be its next president.
  • Private sector lender IDFC Bank announced the elevation of its CFO Sunil Kakar as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.
  • Sikh Woman Palbinder Kaur Shergill Becomes First Turbaned Supreme Court Judge In Canada.
  • Mihai Tudose is the new prime minister of Romania.
  • Eminent scientist and Padma Vibhushan awardee K. Kasturirangan has been appointed the Chairman of the committee to prepare the final draft of the National Education Policy.
  • Former chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu has taken over as president of the International Economic Association (IEA).
  • Rajeev Shukla, a former vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), will head a newly-formed seven-member Special Committee.
  • Dr. Manoj Soni, took the Oath of Office and Secrecy as Member, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
  • Jammu and Kashmir governor NN Vohra became the president of the India International Centre (IIC) — a prestigious cultural hub in the national capital.
  • Union Government has appointed Shri Rajesh V. Shah as Chairperson on the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT).
  • Edouard Philippe has been appointed as the New Prime Minister of France.
  • Emmanuel Macron has been elected as the New President of France.
  • Justice Mukul Mudgal elected head of FIFA Governance Committee.
  • The government has named Road Transport and Highways Secretary Sanjay Mitra as its new defence secretary in a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle.
  • Microblogging platform Twitter has elevated Taranjeet Singh as its Country Director for India.
  • South Korea's liberal leader Moon Jae-In as the new president of South Korea.
  • PM Modi to inaugurate India’s longest  9.15-km-long Dhola-Sadiya bridge near China border.
  • Anurag Tripathy Appointed as Secretary of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
  • Tapan Ray to be the Next Economic Affairs Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, under the Ministry of Finance from June 1, 2017.
  • Banks Board Bureau gets 2 more members, Former Allahabad Bank chairperson and managing director Shubhalaxmi Panse and private equity player Pradip Shah have been inducted into the board as independent members. Banks Board Bureau (BBB) headed by Vinod Rai.
  • Shobana Kamineni is the New President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
  • Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah has been named the New chairman of the Tea Board of India by replacing Shri Santosh Sarangi.
  • Three Indian Scientist named Krishna Chatterjee, Subhash Khot, Yadvinder Malhi have been elected as the Fellows of The Royal Society, a premier scientific academy of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, for their “outstanding contributions to science“.
  • Braj Bihari Kumar, the editor of quarterly journals Dialogue and Chintan Srijan, has been appointed as the chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
  • Mallikarjun Kharge is the new chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
  • Mr. Anthony Lianzuala took over as the New Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance with effect from May 1, 2017, in New Delhi.
  • Bharti Enterprises appoints Soumen Ghosh as MD, financial services.
  • Manipur Governor and former Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla has been appointed as the Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
  • Google’s vice-president for South East Asia and India, Rajan Anandan has been appointed the new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).
  • US Senate confirms Indian-American Amul Thapar to key judicial post.
  • Jaideep Mazumdar appointed Next Ambassador of India to Philippines.
  • Paytm has announced its long-time executive and vice president Renu Satti will be the CEO of its Paytm payments bank.
  • Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the New World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief.
  • Tata Sons appoints Saurabh Agrawal as Group CFO. Tata Sons has appointed a new legal head. The group has appointed Shuva Mandal as the Group General Counsel after incumbent Bharat Vasani quit the role.
  • Hassan Rouhani was re-elected as the President of Iran after winning Iranian presidential elections 2017.
  • Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan was given additional charge of the Environment Ministry following the death of Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave.

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