Amina Mohammed assumed charge as new deputy UN secretary-general.
The office of the UN deputy secretary-general was formally established by the UN General Assembly in...
The WTO General Council approved by consensus the following chairpersons for WTO bodies: Mr Xavier Carim of South Africa (General Council) and HMr Junichi...
Tribal leader from Chhattisgarh and ex-parliamentarian Mr. Nand Kuamr Sai assumed charge as the chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) in New Delhi.
He was...
Ms. D. R. Doley Barman, IPS (JK:86), presently working as Director, North East Police Academy (NEPA), Shillong, Meghalaya, has been appointed as Director, Sardar...
The government has appointed Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre of the Supreme Court as chairman of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. He was nominated for the...
Ms. Suman Saxena took charge as the Whole Time Member, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI).
Ms Saxena will look after Research and Regulation...
Air Marshal Ajit Shankarrao Bhonsle, took the oath of office and secrecy as Member, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The oath was administered by...
US President Donald Trump has appointed Lt Gen Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new National Security Advisor following the ouster of Michael Flynn.
The acting...
Former CMD of Exim Bank TCA Ranganathan has been appointed as Chairman of Indian Overseas Bank.
Sunil Mehta has been appointed as non-executive chairman of...
The union government reduced the term of Ajay Tyagi, Chairman-designate of the Securities and Exchange Board of India, by two years.
An officer of the...
Senior IFS Officer Vikas Swarup has been appointed the new High Commissioner to Canada.
Swarup, a well-known author, became the MEA spokesperson in April 2015.
He...
Edappadi K Palaniswami, the leader of the AIADMK Legislature Party, took oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. He heads a 31-member Cabinet.
He was administered...
President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed five new Judges to the Supreme Court of India.
Following have been appointed to the Apex Court by the President:
Rajasthan High...
France's Jean-Pierre Lacroix has been appointed the head of the UN peacekeeping for a year.
He will replace Herve Ladsous who steps down in March after...
Karnal Singh, a 1984-batch IPS officer, has been granted a two-year fixed tenure as the Enforcement Directorate chief following the Supreme Court’s directions. He...
Union government has appointed three part-time non-official directors on the Reserve Bank of India’s Central Board for a four-year term.
They are: Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Dr....
The Press Trust of India has named veteran journalist Vijay Joshi, as its Editor-in-Chief.
Mr. Joshi replaces M.K. Razdan, who retired in September 2016.
Mr. Joshi...
Tehmina Janjua, Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, has been appointed as the Pakistan's first woman Foreign Secretary.
Janjua will replace incumbent Foreign...
Monnet Ispat & Energy Ltd. CMD Sandeep Jajodia has been appointed the new president of industry chamber Assocham.
Balkrishan Goenka, Chairman, Welspun Group and Kiran...
The 40-member Central Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) elected Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey as new President.
It also elected Naveen Gupta as...
Former Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been elected Germany's new president.
Steinmeier is the 12th person to hold this ceremonial post.
He won 931 of the...
Hemant Bhargava was appointed Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India. He is at present LIC’s Zonal Manager, Delhi.
The Appointments Committee of...
Tata Power has appointed Natarajan Chandrasekaran, as its new chairman and an additional director, effective February 11, 2017.
Chandrasekaran is currently the Chief Executive Officer...
The new directors of 10 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have been appointed by the government.
Professor G Raghuram will be the Director of IIM—...
Indian diplomat, Achamkulangare Gopinathan has been re-appointed by the UN General Assembly to the Joint Inspection Unit.
Gopinathan, along with Sukai Prom-Jackson of Gambia, Jean...
ITC’s Board approved the elevation of chief operating officer Sanjiv Puri as chief executive officer to succeed Y.C. Deveshwar.
Mr. Deveshwar relinquished his executive duties...
Australia’s first female Chief Justice of the High Court was officially sworn in Canberra.
Susan Kiefel, who replaces outgoing Chief Justice Robert French, is the...
The Union Cabinet approved the appointment of Sanjeev Sanyal, a former managing director at Deutsche Bank, as the Principal Economic Adviser in the Department...
Lieutenant General Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastava has taken over as the 25th Director General Border Roads (DGBR).
Lt Gen SK Shrivastava was commissioned into the Corps...
Lieutenant General Suresh Sharma took over as Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Army.
In his capacity as Engineer-Chief, in addition to steering the Corps of Engineers,...
Ride-hailing service Ola named Vishal Kaul, a PepsiCo veteran, as its chief operating officer (COO) and elevated current COO Pranay Jivrajika as founding partner.
Kaul,...
Siddhartha Murarka has been appointed as the Chairman of the Eastern India Regional Council of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).
His term...
US President Donald Trump has appointed Indian-American attorney Uttam Dhillon to a key White House position on ethics and compliance matters.
Dhillon, who served as...
Mauritian Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth handed over power to his son Pravind.
Jugnauth, 86, officially handed his resignation to President Ameenah Gurib Fakim –...
China has appointed Lieutenant Admiral Shen Jinlong as new naval chief.
In 2014, Shen led several Chinese warships at the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC)...
Bharti AXA General Insurance has appointed Sanjeev Srinivasan as CEO and Managing Director.
Srinivasan joined Bharti AXA General Insurance in August 2016 as Chief Commercial...
The Board of Directors have appointed Natarajan Chandrasekaran as Additional Director and Chairman of the board with immediate effect.
He will be the first non-Parsi...
Snapdeal has appointed former Housing.com CEO Jason Kothari as its Chief Strategy & Investment Officer.
In the new role, Mr. Kothari’s “duties will include leading strategy;...
One of India’s oldest and biggest corporate groups, Tata Sons appointed Mr. N Chandrasekaran as its new Chairman.
Chandrasekaran had joined TCS in 1987 and...
Transportation app Ola has appointed Shalabh Seth as the chief executive officer of Ola Fleet Technologies.
Seth will drive supply growth through leasing and other...
Flipkart has appointed Kalyan Krishnamurthy as the new chief executive to run the operations of India’s largest online retailer.
Mr. Krishnamurthy, who joined Flipkart in...
German luxury carmaker BMW has appointed Vikram Pawah (45) as the president of India operations with effect from March 1, 2017.
Pawah brings more than...
US President-elect Donald Trump has named Dan Coats as his National Intelligence Director.
The Indiana ex-senator formerly served on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Coats would provide...
Justice Dipak Misra of the Supreme Court has been appointed as the Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), with effect from 4th...
Technology giant IBM has appointed Karan Bajwa as new Managing Director of its India operations.
He succeeds Vanitha Narayana, who has been elevated as Chairman...
U.S. Representative Paul Ryan was re-elected speaker of the House of Representatives. Ryan was first elected speaker in October 2015.
House members voted 239 to...
Former Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Vice-Chancellor Panjab Singh is appointed as president of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) for a period of...
The Reserve Bank of India has appointed Surekha Marandi as Executive Director (ED) consequent to the superannuation of US Paliwal, who retired on December...
An IAS officer of 1976 batch, Rajen Habib Khwaja has appointed as the Director General of the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad.
Established in...
The United Nations has appointed a Somali-born official as UNHCR’s director for global emergencies, staff security, safety and supply services.
Ahmed Warsame has been a representative...
The Central government has appointed Archana Nigam as the next Controller General of Accounts in the Finance Ministry.
Nigam, has been appointed in the place...
Indian Police Services (IPS) officer S.P. Vaid was appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP) of Jammu and Kashmir.
Hailing from Jammu and...
Lt General Santosh Kumar Upadhya has been appointed the new commandant of the prestigious Indian Military Academy (IMA).
In 1981, he was commissioned to the...
Audi, the German luxury car manufacturer, has appointed Rahil Ansari as the Head of Audi India, effective February 1, 2017.
He replaces Joe King, whose...
Jharkhand cadre IPS officer Rajiv Jain was appointed as the new chief of Intelligence Bureau (IB) while Anil Dhasmana will head external intelligence agency...
Indian actress Priyanka Chopra has been appointed as UNICEF's newest global Goodwill Ambassador.
Footballer David Beckham and 12-year-old British actress Millie Bobby Brown announced Chopra's...
Former Prime Minister of Portugal António Guterres is sworn in as the new United Nations Secretary-General, succeeding Ban Ki-moon.
Mr. Guterres, 67, was Prime Minister...
New Zealand’s ruling National Party appointed the experienced Bill English as the country’s new prime minister following the resignation of PM John Key.
State Services...
B.S. Bhullar, a 1986-batch IAS officer, has been appointed chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)...
Former Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O Panneerselvam was sworn in as the new chief minister of Tamil Nadu after AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa's death.
He...
Appa Rao Podile, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been unanimously elected as the president of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI).
He was...
Cipla has appointed Ireena Vittal as an independent director on its board with effect from December 1, 2016.
Vittal, a former partner with McKinsey &...
Lt. Gen. A.K. Bhatt is appointed the Army’s next Director General of Military Operations (DGMO).
He replaced Lt. Gen. Singh, who took over command of...
Gopal Jiwarajka is elected as new President of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI).
Prior to this elevation he was PHDCCI's Senior Vice President.
A...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Lieutenant General Qamar Javed Bajwa to replace outgoing army chief Raheel Sharif.
Bajwa has been heading the army's Training...
Nikki Haley was named as US envoy to the United Nations by President-elect Donald Trump.
She has become the first-ever Indian-American to be appointed to...
Government of India has appointed Judge of Supreme Court of India, Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, as the new Executive Chairman of the National Legal...
