New Appointment in India (JULY-2015)

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1. Gulshan Rai takes charge as India‘s first cyber security chief.

2. Lt General (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma sworn in as Governor of Mizoram.

3. Mayilsamy Annadurai appointed as Director of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC).

4. President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed the senior-most Election Commissioner, Dr Nasim Zaidi, as the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC).

5. Sumit Mazumder, Chairman & Managing Director, TIL Limited, has been elected as the President of CII for the year 2015-16. He succeeds Mr Ajay Shriram as the new President.

6. Arun Kumar Jha was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Mumbai.

7. Meenakshi Madan Rai sworn in as the first lady judge of the Sikkim High Court. Her oath of the office was administered by the Governor Srinivas Patil at Ashirwad Hall at Raj Bhavan in Gangtok.

8. Senior diplomat Mohan Kumar, currently India's top envoy to Bahrain, has been appointed the next Ambassador to France to succeed Arun Kumar.

9. IDFC appoints former CAG Vinod Rai as independent director.

10. Rahul Agarwal is Lenovo India MD

11. Ericsson appoints Paolo Colella as new head of region India.

12. State Bank of India (SBI) announced the appointment of Anshula Kant as its chief financial officer (CFO). Kant has been designated as the deputy managing director and CFO of the bank, SBI said in a filing on BSE.

13. Beno Zephine becomes first 100% blind officer in IFS.

14. Senior IPS officer Archana Ramasundaram has been moved out of the CBI and appointed as Director, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

15. LIC Nomura Mutual Fund CEO Nilesh Sathe appointed member, life at IRDAI.

16. New chairman of Engineers India Ltd - Sanjay Gupta . He replaced A K Purwaha.

17. K.Sivan becomes the new VSSC chief replacing M.S. Dathan.

18. General Lalit Bhanot was elected vice-President of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA).

19. Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa sworn-in as Arunachal Pradesh Governor.

20. Ravi Shastri to continue as Indian team director.

21. Ex-IB chief Asif Ibrahim was the PM‘s ‗Special Envoy on Countering Terrorism and Extremism,‘ with a charter to liaise with governments in West Asia, Af-Pak and South East Asia.

22. Infosys Limited appoints R. Seshasayee as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board.

23. S Christopher appointed as Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development-cum-Director General, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

24. K.V. Chowdary appointed as new Central Vigilance Commissioner.

25. Vijai Sharma appointed as Chief Information Commissioner.

26. Yes Bank reappoints Rana Kapoor as MD.

27. Government extends Bank of Baroda interim chief Ranjan Dhawan's term for 3 months.

28. R C Tayal appointed as new Director General of National Security Guard.

29. Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar was appointed Director of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) a premier research institute of Union Government based in Hyderabad, Telangana.

30. Shri Ameising Luikham, IAS took over as Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises in the M/o Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises.

31. Achal Kumar Jyoti, a former Gujarat Chief Secretary, was appointed as the Election Commissioner.

32. President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Justice Cyriac Joseph as acting Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

33. Sanjay Gupta today took over as chairman and managing director of Engineers India Ltd.

34. Power Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha was appointed as the next Cabinet Secretary of the government.

35. Alok Kumar and Jitendra Kumar have been appointed as advisers in Niti Aayog for five years.

36. Eminent scientist Dr. Selvin Christopher has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) along with the rank of a secretary.

37. 23-year-old US-educated Yaduveer crowned ‗Maharaja of Mysuru‘.

38. In a first in India, Manabi Bandopadhyay has been appointed the first transgender principal at a college in West Bengal.

39. Manoj Mishra appointed as CMD of National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL).

40. AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa sworn in for the fifth time as Tamil Nadu chief minister.