Recent Appointment - 4

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1. Alkesh Sharma appointed as CEO and MD of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corp.

2. Telenor appointed Sharad Mehrotra as India CEO

3. Tapan Ray appointed to Board of Securities and Exchange Board of India

4. Sekhar Basu appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy Commission

5. Fiji’s Parliament elected the Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations, Jioji

Konrote, as the country’s next President.

6. Music composer AR Rahman named as Cultural Ambassador of Seychelles

7. Shashank Manohar elected BCCI President

8. K.P. Sharma Oli was elected as the new Prime Minister of Nepal as he defeated Sushil Koirala.

9. Cabinet Minister Rao Inderjit Singh has been appointed unopposed as the new President of the

Paralympics Committee of India (PCI).

10. Steve Simon has been named as the new Chief Executive of the Women's Tennis Association

(WTA).

11. South Korea's Hoesung Lee has been elected as the new head of the Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body tasked with assessing climate science at its 42nd session in

Dubrovnik, Croatia.

12. Ashish Bahuguna, the Chairman of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), was

given an additional charge of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FSSAI.

13. Ajay Sharma, an Indian-origin diplomat, has been appointed the new British Ambassador to Qatar.

14. Flipkart has appointed Sriram Venkataraman as the CFO for its commerce platform and Pramod

Jain as Vice President and Head of Taxation.

15. Sarat Kumar Acharya assumed office as Chairman and Managing Director of Neyveli Lignite

Corporation Limited (NLC).

16. Alok Rawat was appointed as the first male member of the National Commission for Women

(NCW).

17. MK Surana appointed as the CMD of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd

18. Onsari Gharti Magar elected as House speaker of Nepal

19. Kundhavi Kadiresan appointed as FAO Assistant Director-General

20. PS Jayakumar appointed as MD and CEO of Bank of Baroda

21. VK Malhotra appointed as head of the All India Council of Sports

22. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India

23. Captain Krishna Swaminathan took over command of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya

24. Air Marshal Virender Mohan Khanna took over as Maintenance Head of IAF