Indian star shuttler Saina Nehwal has been appointed
as a member of the International Olympic
Committee’s Athletes’ Commission. Saina received a
letter from the IOC President Thomas Bach.
S P Yadav has been elected as the new President of
the North Zone of Urology Society of India.
Morinari Watanabe of Japan was elected as the 9th
President of the International Gymnastics Federation
(FIG). He will replace Bruno Grandi.
Former legislative secretary Sanjay Singh has been
appointed as Member Secretary, Law Commission of
India.
Senior IAS officer Ajay Kumar Bhalla appointed as the
Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT). He
succeeds Anup Wadhawan.
Luo Zhaohui appointed as the China's Ambassador to
India. He replaced Le Yucheng.
Senior diplomat Navdeep Singh Suri has been
appointed Ambassador to United Arab Emirates. He is
currently serving as Indian High Commissioner in
Canberra. Suri had served in India’s diplomatic
missions in Cairo, Damascus, Washington, Dar es
Salaam & London & as India’s Consul General in
Johannesburg.
Indian Revenue Service officer Sushil Chandra as the
Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT). He will take over from the current CBDT
Chairperson Rani Singh Nair.
Kersti Kaljulaid elected as the President of Estonia by
the parliament. With this, she will become Estonia’s
first female president.
Amandeep Singh appointed as the next Ambassador
of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament,
Geneva.
The Mizoram government & the Mizoram Journalists'
Association declared Lalbiakthanga Pachuau as the
"oldest working journalist in the country".
Senior IAS officer Ajay Kumar Bhalla has been
appointed as the Director General of Foreign Trade.
He has been appointed to the post in place of Anup
Wadhawan.
Vice Admiral S V Bhokare assumed office as the
Commandant of the Indian Naval Academy at
Ezhimala in Kerala.
India's largest Public sector lender, Bank of Baroda
has sealed a principal sponsorship contract with
badminton Olympians P V Sindhu & K Srikanth.
The 193 member states of the General Assembly
adopted the resolution by acclamation, appointing 67-
year-old Mr. Guterres as the 9th U.N. SecretaryGeneral
to take over from Ban Ki-moon, whose tenure
will end on December 31, 2016.
The government has appointed Reserve Bank's
Executive Director G Mahalingam as a Whole-Time
Member of markets regulator Sebi.
Abdelilah Benkirane, the leader of Morocco's Islamic
Justice & Development Party, has been appointed for
another term as the country's PM.
Former Indian Foreign Service officer Ms. Renu Pall
has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India
to Austria. It was announced by Ministry of External
Affairs.
China's President Xi Jinping appointed Luo Zhaohui, a
senior diplomat with previous assignments in
Pakistan & Canada, as China’s new ambassador to
India. He will take over from former Chinese
ambassador to India Le Yucheng who left New Delhi
in April.
Germany has appointed former Nasscom Chairman B
V R Mohan Reddy as an Honourary Consul of
Germany in Hyderabad. Mohan Reddy will be the
Consul for Germany in Telangana & Hyderabad.
Former PM of Portugal, Antonio Guterres is poised to
become the next Secretary-General of the United
Nations after the Security Council declared him to be
the unanimous choice in the sixth straw poll.
Jawhar Sircar has resigned as the Chief Executive
Officer of Prasar Bharati Corporation.
Reliance Nippon Life Insurance has a new Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) in Ashish Vohra.
Shri R Ravindra, presently Ambassador of India to the
Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, has been concurrently
accredited as the Ambassador of India to the Republic
of Guinea.
M.S. Sahoo, a financial markets expert, was appointed
as IBBI (Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board) Chairperson
for a period of five years.
Rajeev Sharma has taken over as the Chairman &
Managing Director of state-run Power Finance
Corporation (PFC) with immediate effect. Sharma
succeeds M K Goel.
Reliance Communications’ Chief Executive Officer
Vinod Sawhny has stepped down from the post. Mr.
William (Bill) Barney & Mr. Gurdeep Singh, who are
already working with the Company, will function as
acting Co-CEOs of the Company with immediate effect.
Somesh Sharma of Rashtradoot Saptahik has been
elected President of The Indian Newspaper Society
for the year 2016-17. He succeeds PV Chandran of
Grihalakshmi (Mathrubhumi Group)
Mohit Kampani, the former managing director of
Spencer’s Retail, will be joining Aditya Birla Retail as
chief executive officer.
