6 Month Appointments

Jan-June 2023 With Mnemonics

KICK START QUESTION

Who has been appointed as DG of Geological Survey of India?

Ravi Sinha selected as new Chief of Research and Analysis Wing

(RAW)
Sinha took over from Samant Kumar Goel
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW):
• It is the foreign intelligence agency of India.
• RAW's primary function is to gather foreign intelligence.
• RAW advises Indian policy makers on strategic matters.
• Established - 21 September 1968
• Founder - RN Kao, Indira Gandhi
• Headquarters - New Delhi

Praveen Sood appointed Director of CBI

• He replaced Subodh Jaiswal

• Central Bureau of Investigation - established in 1963

Nitin Agarwal appointed Director General of BSF

• Agarwal's tenure would begin from the date of assuming the post until July
31, 2026
• The position of BSF chief had remained vacant for over five months since
the retirement of Pankaj Kumar Singh on December 31, 2022.
• For the past five months, the additional charge of the BSF has been held by
Sujoy Lal Thaosen, the Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF).

Rashmi Shukla appointed Director-General of Sashastra Seema Bal

• SSB: A border protection force of India deployed along the borders with Nepal
and Bhutan.
• SSB Founded: 1963; Headquarters: New Delhi
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Air Marshal Aman Preet Singh is the new Vice Chief of the Air Force

• Chief of the Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Choudhary

Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh takes charge as Vice Chief of Naval Staff

• Chief of Naval Staff : Admiral R. Hari Kumar

Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar is new Army Vice Chief

• Chief of Army Staff: General Manoj Pande

Manoj Soni took oath as UPSC chairman

• Manoj Soni has taken oath as the chairman of the Union

Public Service Commission (UPSC).

SS Dubey takes charge as 28th Controller General of Accounts

• CGA is ‘the Principal Advisor’ on Accounting matters to the Union

Government.
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BVR Subrahmanyam appointed CEO of Niti Aayog

• He succeeded Parameswaran Iyer

Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi appointed as new DCGI

• Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).

• He replaced Dr. V G Somani

Ravneet Kaur appointed as Chairperson of Competition Commission

of India (CCI)

• She has replaced Sangeeta Verma

Praveen Kumar Srivastava sworn in as Central Vigilance Commissioner

President of India Droupadi Murmu has administered the oath

BARC Director Ajit Kumar Mohanty appointed Chairman of Atomic

Energy Commission & Secretary of Dept of Atomic Energy

• Mohanty succeeds K N Vyas.

• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) was founded by Homi
Jehangir Bhabha in Trombay in 1954
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Vikram Dev Dutt appointed as Director General of DGCA

He succeeded the incumbent DGCA chief, Arun Kumar.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)

• It is a statutory body and formed under the Aircraft

(Amendment) Bill, 2020.
• It enforces all regulations related to aviation.
• It registers and provides certificates to civil aircrafts.

Janardan Prasad appointed as DG of Geological Survey of India

• Geological Survey of India (GSI).

• Prasad succeeds Dr. S. Raju.
About Geological Survey of India (GSI)

• Founded – 4 March 1851

• Founder – Thomas Oldham
• Headquarters – Kolkata, West Bengal
• Parent Government agency – Ministry of Mines

Amit Agarwal appointed CEO of UIDAI

• Amit Agarwal, has been appointed as the

CEO of the Unique Identification Authority
of India (UIDAI).
• Subodh Kumar Singh, has been named the
Director General of the National Testing
Agency (NTA).

Deepak Mohanty appointed as PFRDA Chairman

• Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).

• He replaced Supratim Bandyopadhyay

Parminder appointed as the first woman CMD of Power Finance Corporation

Power Finance Corporation (Maharatna company):

• Incorporated 1986.
• Registered office: New Delhi
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Amarendu Prakash takes charge as SAIL Chairman

• Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)

• He succeeds Soma Mondal
• SAIL, founded 1973, is one of the largest steel-making companies
under the Ministry of Steel.
• It is a Maharatna company

Ajay Yadav appointed MD of Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited

• SECI is a Miniratna Category-I Central Public Sector Enterprise

(CPSE).
• It was incorporated in the year 2011.

President Draupadi Murmu appoints new governors in 13 states

• 2 Governors resigned: Bhagat Singh Koshyari as Governor of

Maharashtra and of Radha Krishnan Mathur as Lt. Governor of
Ladakh
6 fresh appointments:

• Lt. General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik, (Retired) - Arunachal

Pradesh
• Lakshman Prasad Acharya - Sikkim
• C P Radhakrishnan - Jharkhand
• Shiv Pratap Shukla - Himachal Pradesh
• S. Abdul Nazeer - Andhra Pradesh
• Gulab Chand Kataria - Assam

Change of states of 7 current governors:

• Justice (Retd) Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh appointed as Governor of
Chhattisgarh.
• Anusuiya Uikye, Governor of Chhattisgarh appointed as Governor of Manipur.
• La. Ganesan, Governor of Manipur appointed as Governor of Nagaland.

Change of states of 7 current governors:

• Phagu Chauhan, Governor of Bihar appointed as Governor of Meghalaya.

• Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Governor of Himachal Pradesh appointed as Governor of Bihar.
• Ramesh Bais, Governor of Jharkhand appointed as Governor of Maharashtra.
• Brig (Dr) B D Mishra (Retd), Governor of Arunachal Pradesh appointed as Lt. Governor of Ladakh.
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Conrad Sangma & Neiphiu Rio sworn-in as Chief Ministers for

another term

• National People's Party president, Conrad K Sangma, has

taken oath as the chief minister of Meghalaya for the
second consecutive term.
• Governor Phagu Chauhan has administered the oath
• Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) leader
Neiphiu Rio took oath as the Chief Minister of Nagaland for the fifth term.
• Governor La Ganesan administered the oath.

Manik Saha sworn in as chief minister of Tripura for second time

• Tripura governor Satyadeo Narain Arya administered the oath

Siddaramaiah took oath as Chief Minister of Karnataka, D K Shivakumar

Deputy Chief Minister

• Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah took the oath

of office as the 24th Chief Minister of Karnataka (he won from
Varuna constituency)
• Karnataka Pradesh Congress Comittee (KPCC) president D.K.
Shivakumar was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister.

TS Singh Deo appointed as deputy Chief Minister in Chhattisgarh

• CM - Bhupesh Baghel
• Governor - Biswabhusan Harichandan

Arjun Ram Meghwal replaced Kiren Rijiju as Law Minister

• Arjun Ram Meghwal, a Minister of State for Parliamentary
Affairs, has been made Minister of State with independent
charge of the Law and Justice Ministry, in addition to his other
responsibilities
• Kiren Rijiju will now handle the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
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Aniket Sunil Talati takes over as ICAI President

• He replaced Debashis Mitra

• Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI):
• India's largest professional accounting body under Ministry of
Corporate Affairs.
• It was established on 1 July 1949

G Kamala Vardhan Rao appointed CEO of FSSAI

FSSAI –

• Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

R Dinesh Appointed as CII President for 2023-24

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) appointed R. Dinesh as the President
of the industry body for 2023-24.

NASSCOM appoints Anant Maheshwari as new Chairperson

• National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

• Anant Maheshwari is the President & CEO at Microsoft India.
• He replaced Krishnan Ramanujam

Cotton Corporation of India appoints Lalit Kumar Gupta as CMD

• CCI is a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Textiles.

• Establishment - 1970
• Headquarters -Mumbai
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Que:Who has taken over as the new President of Assocham?

Ans: Ajay Singh
• Ajay Singh, the Chief of SpiceJet, has been appointed as the new
President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of
India (ASSOCHAM).
• He has replaced Sumant Sinha

Que:Who has been elected as the Vice President of the International

Boxing Association (IBA)?
Ans: Ajay Singh
• Boxing Federation of India (BFI) Chief Ajay Singh has been elected
as the International Boxing Association (IBA) Vice-President.

Pankaj Singh elected President of Indian Cycling Federation

• Son of Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh

Kalikesh Singh Deo appointed as NRAI President

• National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).

• NRAI Headquarters: New Delhi

Hockey India appoints South African Craig Fulton as Chief Coach

of Indian men's hockey team

• Craig Fulton replaced Graham Reid who resigned in

January 2023.
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BSE appoints Sundararaman Ramamurthy as MD, CEO

• for a five-year term

• He succeded Ashish Kumar Chauhan who resigned from the post to join
the National Stock Exchange (NSE).

Ajay Kumar Srivastava appointed MD and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank

• He will replace Partha Pratim Sengupta

• The Indian Overseas bank was founded by M. Chidambaram Chettyar
in 1937.

Canara bank appoints K Satyanarayana Raju as the new MD and CEO

• He has replaced L V Prabhakar

Sumant Kathpalia reappointed as MD, CEO of IndusInd Bank

• for two years from 24 March 2023.

• He has been an MD & CEO of the bank since March 2020.
• Headquarters: Mumbai
• Founder: S. P. Hinduja

Siddhartha Mohanty has been named as Managing Director (MD) and the
first Chief Executive Officer of LIC.

• Siddhartha Mohanty will lead the insurance firm as its Chairman till
June 2024, after which the position will be done away with, and
then he will continue as MD & CEO till June 2025.
• Founded: 1 September 1956
• Headquarters: Mumbai
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Ajay Banga appointed as 14th President of World Bank

• Indian-origin Ajay Banga has been officially elected as the new

President of the World Bank.
• Ajay Banga will hold the position for a period of five years from
June 2.
• In 2016, he was awarded the fourth-highest civilian award, Padma
Shri.

Debadatta Chand appointed as new Chief of Bank of Baroda

• He succeeded Sanjiv Chadha

• BOI founded - 1906
• Headquarter - Mumbai

Rajneesh Karnatak appointed as MD & CEO of Bank of India (BoI)

• He succeeded AK Das
• BOI founded - 1906
• Headquarter - Mumbai

Karnataka Bank appoints Srikrishnan Harihara Sarma as MD and CEO

• He succeeds Mahabaleshwara MS

Govt appoints Ashwani Kumar as UCO Bank MD & CEO

• He has replaced Soma Sankara Prasad

• UCO Bank, formerly United Commercial Bank, is an Indian public sector
bank, established in 1943 in Kolkata.
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Government appoints Swaminathan Janakiraman as RBI Deputy

Governor

• Swaminathan Janakiraman replaced Mahesh Kumar Jain.

NMDC signs up Champion Boxer Nikhat Zareen as its Brand

AmbassadorHyderabad-based Navratna mining PSU NMDC Limited,
formerly National Mineral Development Corporation:

• Nikhat Zareen was born in Telangana.

• She became the fifth Indian woman to win a boxing world
championships gold medal, after Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, Jenny RL and
Lekha KC
• Medal won by Nikhat Zareen
• Gold medal : World Boxing Championships 2022, Istanbul
• Gold medal : Commonwealth Games 2022, Birmingham

UNICEF India Names Ayushmann Khurrana as Its National Ambassador

For Child Rights
About UNICEF India

• UNICEF India works to promote and protect the rights of

children across the country.
• The partnership of UNICEF with India began in 1949.
• The Ministry of Women and Child Development is a nodal
agency in India.

Salima Tete appointed as the AHF Athletes Ambassador

• From India for a term of two years between 25th March

2023, to 25th March 2025.
• The Asian Hockey Federation is the governing body for the
sport of field hockey in Asia. It now has 33 member
associations.
• AHF Headquarters: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Alia Bhatt Becomes Gucci’s First Indian Global Ambassador

• Alia Bhatt has been appointed as Gucci’s global ambassador.

• She has become the first Indian to be the face of the Italian luxury
fashion house.

Sourav Ganguly appointed brand ambassador of Tripura tourism

Maharashtra govt names Sachin Tendulkar as 'Smile Ambassador’

• The Maharashtra govt has named cricket legend, Sachin Tendulkar as

'Smile Ambassador' under the state medical education & drug
department’s 'Swachh Mukh Abhiyan.
• Aim: To spread awareness about oral health and hygiene

Viacom18 announces MS Dhoni as their brand ambassador

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Luxor Writing Instruments Private Limited, a stationery making

company, has signed cricketer Virat Kohli as its new brand
ambassador.

Ranveer Singh appointed as the brand ambassador of Pepsi co

Prashant Agrawal appointed as the Ambassador of India to Laos

• Capital: Vientiane
• Currency: Laotian Kip

Que:Who has been appointed as the new Ambassador of India to the Republic of Armenia?
Ans:Nilakshi Saha Sinha

• In addition, M Sreedharan appointed as the next

Ambassador of India to Azerbaijan.
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US Senate confirms Eric Garcetti as Ambassador to India

Indian-American Neal Mohan appointed as the new CEO of YouTube

• He will replace the current head, Susan Wojcicki

The founder of start-up Dream11, Harsh Jain elected IAMAI Chairperson

• Harsh Jain, co-founder, and CEO of Dream Sports, has

been elected the Chairman of the Internet and Mobile
Association of India (IAMAI) for 2023-25.
• He has replaced Sanjay Gupta
• IAMAI Headquarters: Mumbai
• Founded: 2004

Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Advisory Committee of COP28

• provide guidance and counsel to the Presidency of

the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties
(COP28), to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) UAE.
• He is among 31 international experts named on
the panel.

SIGNING OFF QUESTION

Who has been appointed the Director General of Indian Coast Guard?