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HIGH COMMISSIONERS
Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi has been appointed as the next

High Commissioner of India to Niue.
Anumula Gitesh Sarma has been appointed as the next High
Commissioner of India to Australia.
Kishan Dan Dewal has been appointed as the next
Ambassador of India to Georgia.
Upender Singh Rawat appointed as the next Ambassador of
India to the Republic of Nicaragua.
Birender Singh Yadav has been appointed as Indian
Ambassador to Iraq.
Pavan Kapoor - Ambassador of India to UAE.
C. Sugandh Rajaram has been appointed as the next High
Commissioner of India to Ghana.
Amrit Lugun appointed as the next Ambassador of India to
Greece.
Anjani Kumar has been appointed as the next Ambassador of
India to Mali.
Mohammad Imran - High Commissioner of Bangladesh to
India.
BRAND AMBASSADORS
Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt has been appointed as the

brand ambassadors of Lay’s
Start-up cure.fit has appointed Jasprit Bumrah as the Brand
Ambassador for its premium sportswear and shoe range
Cultsport.
Blue Star has appointed Virat Kohli as its brand ambassador.
Yami Gautam appointed as the brand ambassador of the
Rising Himachal Global Investors’ Meet 2019
Skincare brand Joy has appointed Kriti Sanon as its Brand
Ambassador.
Global Brand Ambassador for footwear brand Crocs :
Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
Footwear brand Red Chief has appointed which Bollywood
actor as its brand ambassador : Vicky Kaushal.
Brand Ambassador of NADA : Suniel Shetty.
Brand Ambassador of Pepsi: Salman Khan.
Brand Ambassador of La Liga in India : Rohit Sharma.
INTERNATIONAL
Pravind Jugnauth was appointed as the Prime Minister of

Mauritius.
Pritivirajsing Roopun has been appointed as the President of
Mauritius.
Manuel Marrero Cruz has been appointed Prime Minister of
Cuba.
New Prime Minister of Lebanon : Hassan Diab.
World’s Youngest Serving Prime Minister and the third female
Prime Minister of Finland : Sanna Marin.
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka : Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Sri Lankan President : Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Antonio Costa was re-elected as the Prime Minister of Portugal.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won the Presidential election of
Algeria.
Re-elected as the president of Namibia : Hage Geingob.
President of UAE : Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed.
First Female President of Ethiopia : Sahle-Work Zewde.
President of Mozambique: Filipe Nyusi.
Joko Widodo: President of Indonesia.
Kais Saied is elected as the new President of Tunisia .
Christine Lagarde has been appointed as the new chief of the
European Central Bank.
President of the European Commission : Ursula von der Leyen
President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB): Masatsugu
Asakawa
New Chairman of Unilever : Nils Andersen.
First Indian and Asian to be elected as the General Vice President
(GVP) of International Organisation Development
Association (IODA) : Dr Vinaya Shetty
First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's
powerful Federal Communications Commission : Dr Monisha
Ghosh
UNESCO has appointed Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio as its
goodwill ambassador for indigenous peoples.
Sweden's Thomas Dennerby has been appointment as the Indian
head coach of the Women’s U-17 football team.
Shane Watson has been appointed as President of Australian
GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS
CEO of MyGov India : Abhishekh Singh

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Oil India
Limited : Sushil Chandra Mishra
Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association : Rajnish Kumar
Chairman of Staff Selection Commission : Braj Raj Sharma
President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) for 2019-2021 : K
Satish Reddy
Union Law Secretary : Anoop Kumar Mendiratta. For the first time,
serving judge appointed Union Law Secretary.
New Information And Broadcasting Secretary : Ravi Mittal
Tuhin Kanta Pandey as Secretary Department of Investment and
Public Asset Management.
Sanjeev Nandan Sahai will be the new Power Secretary.
Whole-Time Member (WTM) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board
of India (IBBI) : Sudhaker Shukla
Director-General of the National Security Guard (NSG) : Anup Kumar
Singh
Pankaj Kumar will be the new CEO of Unique Identification Authority
of India
Pramod Kumar Das has been appointed Minority Affairs Secretary.
Chairman of Airports Authority of India : Arvind Singh
Chairman of the Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) : IPS officer
Aditya Mishra
CMD of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) : Kamala
Vardhana Rao
First chairman of the steering committee of the Code for Responsible
Lending (CRL) in micro-credit : H R Khan
Senior Security Advisor in the Home Ministry : K Vijay Kumar
Chief Design Consultant for TRIFED : Ritu Beri
Next Foreign Secretary of India : Harsh Vardhan Shringla
President of FICCI : Sangita Reddy
Chairperson & Managing Director (CMD) of Shipping Corporation of
India : HK Joshi
President of the governing board of the News Broadcasters Federation
(NBF) : Arnab Goswami
President of Gymnastics Federation of India : Sudhir Mital
Sourav Ganguly took over as the 39th President of the Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
OTHERS
Surjit Bhalla appointed as Executive Director for India at

International Monetary Fund for a period of three years.
MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank : SS Mallikarjuna Rao
MD & CEO of the Kerala based CSB Bank, formerly known as
formerly known as Catholic Syrian Bank : Rajendran Chinna
Veerappan
Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde was appointed as the 47th Chief
Justice of India
Lingappa Narayana Swamy has been appointed as the new Chief
Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.
Chairman of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) : Girish Chandra
Chaturvedi
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) And Managing Director (MD) of the
Ashok Leyland Ltd : Vipin Sondhi
Chairman And Managing Director (CMD) of National Aluminium
Company Limited (NALCO) : Sridhar Patra
Chairman and Managing Director of the General Insurance
Corporation India : Devesh Srivastava
Chairman And Managing Director of Ruchi Soya : Acharya
Balkrishna
P.S Sreedharan Pillai has been appointed as the governor of
Mizoram
Anil Kumble has been appointed as the head coach of Kings XI
Punjab
New Coach of Rajasthan Royals : Andrew McDonald (Australian)
Chief Executive Officer of the Alphabet Inc : Sundar Pichai
Google India has appointed Sanjay Gupta as its new country
manager and vice-president of sales and operations for India.
Indian Army's first female Judge Advocate General Officer to be
deployed on a foreign mission (Seychelles) : Jyoti Sharma
In September, Wing Commander Anjali Singh became India’s first
female military diplomat to be posted in any of the Indian missions
abroad. And she joined the Indian Embassy in Russia as the Deputy
Air Attache.
Anbu Ruby become Tamil Nadu’s first transgender staff nurse to be
appointed to a government hospital.
National President of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) : Chirag Paswan

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Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi has been appointed as the next

Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt has been appointed as the

Pravind Jugnauth was appointed as the Prime Minister of

CEO of MyGov India : Abhishekh Singh

Surjit Bhalla appointed as Executive Director for India at

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