Anupam Kher, veteran cine star, has been appointed as Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. Shri Kher succeeds Shri Gajendra...
David Rasquinha, who is currently Deputy Managing Director of Exim Bank of India, has been appointed as Managing Director of the bank.
This appointment will...
The Centre has appointed Mohammad Mustafa, a 1995 batch IAS officer, as Chairman and Managing Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
Prior...
Union Government has appointed former Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi as new Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
Mehrishi, a 1978-batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer, will...
The President has appointed Sunil Arora as the Election Commissioner in the Election Commission.
A 1980 batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, Arora has...
Mr. Ashwani Lohani, IRSME has been appointed as Chairman, Railway Board (Ministry of Railways) and ex-officio Principal Secretary to Government of India.
Prior to this...
Dr. (Ms.) Mamta Suri took charge as Executive Director, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) in New Delhi.
Before joining IBBI, Dr. Suri was...
Dilip Rath, Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), has been appointed Chairman of the Institute of Rural Management-Anand (IRMA).
Rath has been instrumental in promoting...
Mr. Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, Government of India has been appointed as India’s Alternate Governor on...
IDFC Ltd appointed Sunil Kakar as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company.
Kakar had joined IDFC as the Group Chief Financial...
1992 batch IRS Officer Kajal Singh was appointed as Executive Vice-President (Services) in Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN).
The GSTN is a special purpose...
1994 batch officer of the Indian Telecom Service Hoshiar Singh has been appointed as Registrar of Copyrights for 5 years.
The Office of Copyrights, under...
Reserve Bank of India has appointed S. Ganesh Kumar as Executive Director. The central bank currently has 11 Executive Directors.
As Executive Director, Ganesh Kumar...
Indian Oil’s Director (Refineries), Sanjiv Singh has been appointed as the Chairman of IOC.
Concurrently, Singh will also be Chairman of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd....
Justice Vikramajit Sen has been appointed as the new Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC).
Justice Sen takes over from former Punjab and Haryana...
Mr. Sanjay Kumar, 1985-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Himachal Pradesh Cadre, has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of the National Disaster Response Force...
Mr. Sanjay Gupta, CEO of Jagran Prakashan Limited has been appointed as Chairman of the Society and Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management...
Dr. Manoj Soni, former Vice Chancellor of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, took the Oath of Office and Secrecy as Member, Union Public Service...
Palbinder Kaur Shergill has been appointed as a Judge at the Supreme Court of British Columbia in New Westminster.
Ms. Shergill is the first turbaned...
Tamil Nadu has reconstituted its Law Commission. Retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice Chockalingam Nagappan has been appointed as the new Chairman of Tamil Nadu’s reconstituted...
President of India has appointed new Additional Judges in Madras (6), Punjab and Haryana (2) and Chattisgarh (3) High Courts.
Following Judges were appointed:
Madras High Court
(i)...
Leo Varadkar, 38, son of an Indian immigrant and is the first Irish leader of Indian descent was elected as Ireland's new Prime Minister.
Varadkar’s...
Mr. Shashi Shekar Vempati has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Prasar Bharati.
He was appointed on the recommendation of the Three...
Dr. Sharad Kumar Jain has assumed the additional charge of Director General, National Water Development Agency (NWDA) under Ministry of Water Resources, River Development...
To mark World Oceans Day (8 June), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) named Australian musician Cody Simpson as its first-ever Ocean Advocate to...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Jan Beagle of New Zealand as the new Under-Secretary-General for Management.
Ms. Beagle is currently the Deputy Executive Director...
The United Nations General Assembly elected by acclamation Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák of Slovakia as President of its upcoming 72nd session.
Mr. Lajčák will assume...
Mr. Ovais Sarmad of India has been appointed the Deputy Executive Secretary in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
He is currently...
Veteran Indian Actor Amitabh Bachchan was appointed the goodwill ambassador for hepatitis in Southeast Asia.
Mr. Bachchan, a survivor of Hepatitis B, will be the...
The President of India has approved the appointment of following persons in the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on 31.5.2017, for a period...
Tata Sons has appointed Saurabh Agrawal as the group Chief Financial Officer.
Agrawal is an investment banker and was Head of Strategy at the Aditya...
Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare congratulated Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on his appointment as Director-General of the World...
The Union government has appointed Braj Bihari Kumar as Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
He replaces eminent academic S.K. Thorat,...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has decisively won the country's presidential election beating his rival Ebrahim Raisi.
Rouhani was re-elected with 57 percent of votes. Raisi...
The Central government granted one-year extension to Cabinet Secretary P.K. Sinha whose two-year term is scheduled to end on June 12.
The Appointments Committee of...
New French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Edouard Philippe as Prime Minister.
Philippe, a little known 46-year-old MP and mayor of the northern port of Le...
Twitter Inc. has elevated Taranjeet Singh as its Country Director for India. Singh was earlier leading the charge for sales and marketing support for...
Usha Ananthasubramanian has been appointed as the MD & CEO of Allahabad Bank. Her term ends on August 13, 2018.
Prior to her joining, Ananthasubramanian was...
Mr. Srinivasa Rao has been named the new Director of the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM).
The NAARM is a constituent of the...
Tata Communications has appointed Renuka Ramnath as the new Chairperson of the board of directors and the successor to Subodh Bhargava.
An independent director of...
N Purnachandra Rao has been appointed as the Director, National Centre for Earch Sciences Studies (NCESS), Thiruvananthapuram.
A chief scientist at the CSIR-National Geophysical Research...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres appoints Mark Lowcock, a national of the United Kingdom, as the United Nation’s highest official on humanitarian assistance and aid...
India Ratings and Research, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fitch Group, has appointed Rohit Sawhney as its Chief Executive Officer.
Headquartered in Mumbai with six branch...
Raman Roy has been appointed as the chairman of The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) for 2017-2018.
Roy, Chairman and Managing Director...
Justice Indira Banerjee was sworn-in as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.
Tamil Nadu Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao administered the oath of office...
Government of India has appointed Mr. Anthony Lianzuala, a 1982-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) Officer, as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA),...
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appointed Yusra Mardini – a Syrian refugee who together with her sister swam...
The Government has appointed Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar, IPS (UP:1983), Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau to the post of Director General, Central Reserve Police Force.
The...
Sulkhan Singh has been appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP) by the Yogi Adityanath-led state government.
Sulkhan Singh replaced Javeed Ahmed, the...
Indian-American Vanita Gupta has been appointed as president and CEO of ‘The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’, becoming the first woman to...
President Donald Trump has tapped Indian-American Vishal Amin as his new ‘IP czar’ to coordinate US law-enforcement strategy around copyright, patents and trademarks.
Amin has...
The Reserve Bank has appointed Malvika Sinha as Executive Director following the appointment of B P Kanungo as Deputy Governor.
As Executive Director, she will...
Shri B.N.Mohapatra has been appointed as the new Financial Commissioner (FC) (Railways) and ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India and has taken over...
Jen Rae Wang has been selected by Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot as NASA's Associate Administrator for the Office of Communications.
Wang joins NASA with more...
The WTO General Council, on 7 April 2017, noted the consensus on a slate of names of chairpersons for WTO bodies.
Regular bodies
Trade Policy Review...
Dr. (Ms.) Mukulita Vijayawargiya took charge as Whole Time Member, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India in New Delhi.
Dr. (Ms.) Vijayawargiya will look...
Ms. Vanaja N. Sarna, IRS presently holding the charge as Member (Administration), has been appointed as Chairman, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)....
Shri Rajiv Kumar Chander, (IFS: 1983), presently Consul General, Consulate General of India, Vancouver, has been appointed as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India...
Senior Doctor Randeep Guleria has been appointed the director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
He currently holds the post of professor...
The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), a statutory advisory body under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF), will now...
VIP Industries appointed its Chairman Dilip G Piramal as the Managing Director of the company for two years with effect from March 25.
Piramal succeeds...
Pawan Goenka, Managing Director, Mahindra and Mahindra, has been granted second term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT-Madras for three years with...
The Centre has swapped the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of state-owned Indian Bank and IDBI Bank.
Mahesh Kumar Jain, who was Managing Director & CEO...
Madhabi Puri Buch was appointed as a Whole-Time Member of capital markets regulator SEBI.
She is founder-director of Agora Advisory Pvt Ltd and currently at...
Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani has been inducted into the international advisory board of global think-tank The Atlantic Council.
Other global business leaders include Thomas...
Amul Thapar, an Indian-American legal luminary, has been nominated by US President Donald Trump in powerful US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The United States...
India and France jointly decided to appoint Mr. Upendra Tripathy, as the Interim Director General (IDG) of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) on a...
President of India has appointed new Chief Justices in Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Patna and Jharkhand High Courts.
Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan, Judge of...
The newly appointed Chairman of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis Shri Manhar Valji Bhai Zala along with two members Smt. Manju Diler and Shri...
Shri Narendra Kumar, an officer of Central Water Engineering Service (1979 batch) has assumed the charge of Chairman, Central Water Commission (CWC).
He has served...
Diagnostics company SRL Diagnostics has appointed Arindam Haldar as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Haldar has worked with brands like Colgate, Pillsbury, Hen-Dazs and Sterlite.
Entertainment Channel Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has appointed an India Advisory Board comprising experts from corporate, digital media and public policy.
This is the first of its...
