Janardan Singh Gehlot Elected International Kabaddi Federation Chief
ü Janardan Singh
Gehlot was elected the president of the International Kabaddi Federation
(IKF) for the next four years,
ü It was announced
after the Annual General Congress (AGC) of the federation, conducted in Dubai,
the UAE.
Trump appoints Indian-American Uttam Dhillon appointed as new head of key federal agency
ü Uttam Dhillon, an
Indian-American top White House lawyer, has been appointed as the new head of
the crucial Drug Enforcement Agency that combats the smuggling and use of
narcotics in the US.
ü Dhillon replaces Robert Patterson, who
has retired after 30 years of service.
Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel Appointed
NGT Chairperson
ü Justice Adarsh
Kumar Goel, who retired from the Supreme Court of India has been appointed as
the new Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
ü He has been
appointed to the position for a term of five years, as per an order
issued by the personnel ministry.
ü The post of NGT
chairperson had been lying vacant for more than 6 months after the retirement
of Justice Swatanter
Kumar.
Mark Zuckerberg Becomes World’s 3rd-Richest Person
ü Facebook Inc.
co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world’s
third-richest person. Zuckerberg, who trails only Amazon.com Inc.
founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates.
Pedro Sanchez sworn in as new
PM of Spain
ü Spanish Socialist
Pedro Sanchez has been sworn in as the new prime minister of Spain by King
Felipe.
ü He replaced Mariano
Rajoy.
ü He took the oath
to save constitution without a bible or crucifix - a first in Spain's modern
history.
M K Jain has been appointed as RBI deputy governor
ü Mahesh Kumar Jain
(MD & CEO of IDBI Bank) has been appointed as fourth deputy governor of
the Reserve Bank of India for a three year term.
ü Jain was
previously CEO at Chennai based Indian Bank between November 2015 and March
2017.
ü The fourth deputy
governor’s post has been vacant since SS Mundra retired on July 31, 2017. In his new
role, Jain is expected to be put in charge of banking supervision.
H R Khan appointed chairman of Bandhan Bank
ü Former RBI deputy governor H R Khan has been
appointed as the non-executive chairman of Bandhan Bank
ü Appointment of
Khan will be for a period of three years with effect from June 5, 2018.
Arvind Saxena appointed as acting UPSC chief
ü Union Public
Service Commission (UPSC) member Arvind Saxena has been appointed as the acting
chairman of commission from June 20,2018.
ü 1978-batch Indian
Postal Service officer, Saxena will take over the charge from incumbent Vinay
Mittal who completes his term at UPSC
ü Saxena joined the
UPSC in May 2015 after completing his stint in Aviation Research Centre (ARC).
He has also worked in Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Sharad Kumar appointed as vigilance commissioner in CVC
ü Former NIA chief
Sharad Kumar has been appointed as vigilance commissioner in the
probity watchdog Central Vigilance Commission (CVC).
ü Mr. Kumar has
been appointed vigilance commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission for a
term of four years.
ü 62-year-old Mr.
Kumar is a 1979-batch IPS officer of the Haryana cadre. He retired in September
last year after heading the National Investigation Agency, an anti-terror probe
organization, for over four years.
ü T.M Bahism is the 2nd Vigilance Commission. There are two
Vigilance Commission.
ü KV Choudhary is the Central Vigilance Commission.
Bhanu Partap Sharma has been appointed as chairman of Bank Board Bureau
ü Former DoPT
(Department of Personnel and Training) secretory Bhanu Partap Singh has been
appointed as chairman of Bank Board Bureau (BBB) by succeeding Vinod Rai.
ü Vinod Rai has been
appointed as 1st chairman of BBB for two years.
ü Banks Board Bureau (BBB) is
an autonomous body of the Government of India.
ü Tasked to improve the governance of
Public Sector Banks, recommend selection of chiefs of government owned banks
and financial institutions and to help banks in developing strategies and
capital raising plans.
ü In February 2016, the Modi
government approved the proposal for setting up BBB and it started functioning
from April 2016.
ü The BBB works as step towards
governance reforms in Public Sector Banks (PSBs) as recommended by P.J. Nayak
Committee.
ü The BBB was the part of Indradhanush Plan of
government.
Rana Kapoor re-appointed as MD & CEO of Yes Bank for 3 years
ü Private sector
lender YES Bank shareholders have approved re-appointment of Rana Kapoor as
chief executive officer and managing director of bank for three years.
Dr. Inder Jit Singh appointed as Coal Secretary
ü Appointments
Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has appointed Dr. Inder Jit Singh as coal secretary
at Shastri Bhawan office, New Delhi.
ü 1985-batch Kerala
cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Dr. Inder Jit Singh took over
charge of Secretary which fell vacant after superannuation of Susheel Kumar.
Ivan Duque won election to become Colombia's President
ü Colombia has
chosen Youthful right-winger Ivan Duque to be its next president after a
long campaign that often centered on a controversial peace process with leftist
rebels the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
ü With 98% of votes
counted, Mr Duque had 54% of the vote, giving him an unassailable lead over his
only rival, former leftwing Gustavo Petro, who had 41.8%.
ü Duque will be Colombia's
youngest ever President (42 years).
Sandeep Bakhshi appointed as COO of ICICI Bank
ü ICICI Prudential
Life Insurance CEO Sandeep Bakhshi has been appointed as whole-time director
and chief operating officer (COO) of ICICI bank for a period of five years.
ü It is a new
top position at India’s second largest private bank to direct all its
businesses.
ü ICICI Managing
Director & Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar will be on leave till
completion of enquiry. However, she will continue to remain CEO and MD of
bank.
Arijit Basu appointed as Managing Director of State Bank of India
ü The government
appointed Arijit Basu as managing director of country's largest lender State
Bank of India (SBI).
ü Mr Basu has held
several key positions in various circles of SBI including bank's office in
Tokyo, Japan.
ü Basu started his
career with State Bank of India in 1983 as a probationary officer.
ü Rajnish Kumar as the chairman
of the bank.
B.V.R Subramanyam appointed as J&K Chief Secretary
ü
B.V.R. Subrahmanyam (Senior IAS officer of Chhattisgarh
cadre) was appointed as new chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir.
ü 55-year-old
Subrahmanyam, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, has been appointed in place of
incumbent B B Vyas.
ü
He has also served as Private Secretary of former Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh from 2004-2008.
Ramesh Appointed Chairman Of CBIC- Central Board of Indirect Taxes and
Customs (CBIC)
ü Senior bureaucrat
S Ramesh has been appointed as chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes
and Customs (CBIC),
ü He succeeded Vanaja
N Sarna.
ü Ramesh, a 1981
batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), is at
present the member in the board, mandated with the responsibility of
implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Chandra Bhushan has been appointed as new Deputy Election Commissioner
ü Chandra Bhushan
has been appointed as the Deputy Election Commissioner at joint secretary level
in Election Commission of India.
ü Bhushan, 1995
batch IAS Officer of Union Territories Cadre, has been appointed to the post
for five years.
ü Om Prakash Rawat is the current Chief Election
Commissioner and other Election Commissioners are Sunil Arora and Ashok Lavasa.
Sanjeev Nautiyal appointed as new MD & CEO of SBI Life Insurance
ü SBI Life
Insurance appoints Sanjeev
Nutiyal as its new Managing Director and CEO.
ü He replaced Arijit
Basu who has now been posted as Deputy Managing Director of Corporate
Accounts Groups.
Subrata Bhattacharjee Appointed as Next Ambassador of India to Serbia
ü Joint Secretary
in Ministry of External Affairs Subrata Bhattacharjee has been appointed as
Next Ambassador of India to Serbia.
ü He is 1989 batch
IFS Ofiicer.
Ban Ki-moon elected as new chairman of Boao Forum (BFA)
ü Former UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been elected as chairman of 'Boao Forum for
Asia' (BFA) by replacing former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
His appointment took place at the annual session of the forum called “Asian
Davos”.
ü The BFA is
a non-governmental and non-profit international organisation that promote
regional economic integration and bring Asian countries closer to their
development goals.
Rishad Premji has been appointed as chairman of Nasscom
ü Rishad Premji, Board member of
Wipro Ltd, has been appointed as Nasscom (National Association of Software
and Services Companies) chairman.
ü Premji has been a
member of NASSCOM’s Executive Council.
ü He replaced Raman
Roy, Chairman and Managing Director of Quatrro Global Services.
ü NASSCOM also appointed Keshav
Murugesh as the Vice Chairman for 2018-19.
Balram Bhargava has been appointed as new DG of ICMR
ü Balram Bhargava
has been appointed as the new Director General of the Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR) and Secretary of the Department of Health Research.
ü At present,
Bhargava is a senior consultant cardiologist at the All India Institute of
Medical Science (AIMS).
ü Renu Swaroop has
been appointed as the Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology.
ü Mr. Bhargava will
succeed Soumya Swaminathan.
IPS Officer Rajesh Ranjan has been appointed as DG of CISF
ü Senior IPS
officer Rajesh Ranjan
has been appointed as Director General of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
ü Currently, Mr
Ranjan is at Special Director General at Border Security Force (BSF).
ü He has been
appointed as the chief of the CISF till 2020.
Lt Gen PP Malhotra
appointed as Director-General of NCC
ü Lieutenant
General PP Malhotra became Director General of National Cadet Corps (NCC), the
largest uniformed youth organization in the world.
ü He has been the
Chief Engineer of the Army’s premier Northern Command.
Dilip Chenoy appointed as FICCI Secretary General
ü Dilip Chenoy has
been appointed as the Secretary-General of Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
ü He replaced Sanjaya Baru.
ü Dilip Chenoy was
working as Director General of industry body, FICCI.
Indu Malhotra has been appointed as SC Judge
ü Senior lawyer Indu
Malhotra has been appointed as the judge of the Supreme Court in presence
of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.
ü President Ram
Nath Kovind made this appointment.
ü She has now
become the 1st woman lawyer to be directly appointed as Supreme
Court judge.
Shri Sanjay Mitra New DRDO Chairman-
Shri Sanjay Mitra,
IAS (WB:1982), Defence Secretary, would hold the additional
charge of the post of Secretary, Department of Defence Research &
Development and Chairman, Defence Research & Development Organisation
(DRDO) for a period of three months w.e.f. 29/05/2018 and until further
orders.
Anil kumar Jha new CMD of
Coel-
ü
Anil kumar Jha
will replace acting chairman Suresh Kumar, an IAS officer, who has been holding
the post of additional secretary at the ministry of coal.
ü Jha will remain the chairman till his retirement which falls
due on January 31, 2020 – less than two years from now.
Subhash Chandra Khuntia new Chairman of
(IRDAI)
ü
Former IAS officer Subhash Chandra
Khuntia was today appointed as the new Chairman of Insurance Regulatory
Development Authority of India (IRDAI) for three-years.
ü
His appointment was approved by
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), IRDAI said in a statement
Sitanshu Kar new Chief of PIB
ü
Sitanshu Kar will replace Frank
Noronha as principal director general of the Press Information Bureau,
according to a statement from the information and broadcasting ministry
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