Aspiring candidates, being aware of Current Affairs and General Knowledge is crucial for success in various competitive exams such as RRB NTPC, Banking, SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC MTS, CDS, UPSC, and state PSC exams.
Current Affairs encompasses a vast range of topics, with recent appointments in India being a crucial sub-topic to stay updated on. Keeping track of new appointments made each month can be challenging, which is why we’ve compiled all relevant information into one convenient place, organized into sub-topics for ease of use.
Recent Appointments Current Affairs 2023
List of Recent Appointments in September 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elected Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI) Board | K.N. Shanth Kumar |
| 2 | New Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) | Marico’s Saugata Gupta |
| 3 | Chairman of Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) | Banmali Agarwal |
| 4 | Uniqlo India’s brand ambassador | Katrina Kaif |
| 5 | MD And CEO Of ICICI Lombard | Sanjeev Mantri |
| 6 | Chairman of telecom industry body DIPA (Digital Infrastructure Providers Association) | Dhananjay Joshi |
| 7 | Director of Enforcement Directorate | Rahul Navin Takes Charge |
| 8 | Brand Ambassador for Exxon Mobil’s lubrication brand, Mobil™. | Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan |
| 9 | Chairman of Mastercard India | Former SBI Chief Rajnish Kumar |
| 10 | Nasscom Vice-Chairperson | India’s Sindhu Gangadharan |
| 11 | Brand Ambassador for Women’s fashion brand W | Anushka Sharma |
| 12 | Director of the SS Innovations’s Board of Directors | Dr. Mylswamy Annadurai, famously known as the Moon Man of India |
| 13 | Central Railway’s Principal Chief Operations Manager | Shyam Sunder Gupta |
| 14 | First woman Chairperson of the Railway Board | Jaya Verma Sinha |
| 15 | Brand ambassador of Swaraj Tractors | MS Dhoni |
| 16 | Principal Director General of Akashvani | Dr. Vasudha Gupta |
| 17 | new President of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. | Actor R Madhavan |
List of Recent Appointments in August 2023
Recent Appointments in India August 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) | Sanjay Kumar Agarwal |
| 2. | Chairman of Quantum Ecosystems Technology Council of India (QETCI) | Scientist and defense expert Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat |
| 3. | Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), Engineering Projects (India) Ltd (EPI) | BSNL’s Shivendra Nath |
| 4. | Chairperson of Microfinance Industry Network (MFIN) | Udaya Kumar Hebbar |
| 5. | New Director of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) | Prof Ganesan Kannabiran |
| 6. | Elected as BoD and Constituency Director of BRICS’ NDB BRICS’ New Development Bank (NDB) | Thuraiya Hamid Alhashmi |
| 7. | Chairman of the Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) | Umesh Revankar |
| 8. | Brand Ambassador for Infosys Limited’s brand and Infosys’ Digital Innovation | Spanish Tennis Icon Rafael Nadal |
| 9. | ‘National Icon’ for voter awareness and education for the Election Commission of India(ECI) | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar |
| 10. | Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal(NGT) | Justice Prakash Shrivastava |
| 11. | New brand ambassador for ‘Pure for Sure’ initiative of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) | Former Indian Cricketer Rahul Dravid |
| 12. | MD and CEO of South Indian Bank | PR Seshadri |
| 13. | Full-Time CMD of Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) | Parminder Chopra |
| 14. | MD of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) | R Doraiswamy |
| 15. | Head of the team to to oversee the relief rehabilitation and rebuilding measures in Manipur | Gita Mittal (former J&K CJ ) |
| 16. | MD & CEO of SBI Life Insurance Company Limited (SBI Life) | Amit Jhingran |
| 17. | Brand ambassador for Indian Oil Corporation’s Indane XTRATEJ LPG brand. | Celebrity Chef Sanjeev Kapoor |
| 18. | Brand ambassador of Infosys for promoting Digital Innovation and inspiring women worldwide. | Women’s Tennis Champion Iga Swiatek |
| 19. | Investor and brand ambassador of Pluckk (engaged in the fresh fruit and vegetables business.) | Kareena Kapoor Khan |
Recent Appointments in the World August 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | New PM of the Kingdom of Cambodia | Hun Manet |
| 2. | First woman Chargé d’Affaires (CDA) at the High Commission of India in Islamabad, Pakistan | Geetika Srivastava |
| 3. | President of Zimbabwe (re-elected) | Emmerson Mnangagwa |
| 4. | 30th Prime Minister (PM) of Thailand | Srettha Thavisin |
| 5. | New President of Guatemala | Bernardo Arevalo |
| 6. | Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan | Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar |
| 7. | New Corporate Vice President of Microsoft India and South Asia | Puneet Chandok |
List of Recent Appointments in July 2023
Recent Appointments in India July 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MD and CEO of SBI Cards and Payment Services Limited (SBICPSL) | Abhijit Chakravorty |
| 2 | CMD of PTC India Limited | Rajib Kumar Mishra |
| 3 | Solicitor General of India (SGI) (Re-appointed) | Tushar Mehta |
| 4 | Newly-appointed Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Coal India Limited (CIL) | PM Prasad |
| 5 | Deputy CM of Maharashtra | AjitPawar |
| 6 | New National Cyber Security Coordinator (NCSC) | Lt Gen M U Nair |
| 7 | Chairman of Senior Men’s Selection Committee (Cricket) | Former Indian Cricketer AjitAgarkar |
| 8 | Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the World Trade Organization (WTO) | Brajendra Navnit |
| 9 | New Chairman of the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) | K Rajaraman |
| 10 | Acting chairperson of National Green Tribunal (NGT) | Sheo Kumar Singh-I |
| 11 | Deputy CM of Chhattisgarh | TS Singh |
| 12 | New MD of Microsoft India | Irina Ghose |
| 13 | MD of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) | Sat Pal Bhanoo |
| 14 | 25th Director General of Indian Coast Guard | Rakesh Pal |
| 15 | MD & CEO of Invest India | Nivruti Rai |
| 16 | CMD of Bharat Dynamics Limited | Madhavarao |
| 17 | Chief Justice of Bombay High Court | Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya |
| 18 | CMD of Tata Steel | TV Narendran |
| 19 | Chief Justice Of Kerala High Court | Justice Ashish Jitendra Desai |
| 20 | Chief Justice of Telangana High Court | Justice Alok Aradhe |
| 21 | DG of Railway Protection Force | IPS officer Manoj Yadava |
| 22 | MD & CEO of Invest India | Ms. Nivruti Rai |
Recent Appointments in the World July 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). | Nisha Biswal |
| 2 | New Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) an intergovernmental body of the United Nations(UN) | James Ferguson ‘Jim’ Skea from United Kingdom (UK) |
| 3 | New President of Olympic Council of Asia | Sheikh Talal Fahad Al-Sabah |
| 4 | Secretary General of NATO (Extended: October 2024) | Jens Stoltenberg |
| 5 | President of Uzbekistan (Re-Elected) | ShavkatMirziyoyev |
List of Recent Appointments in June 2023
Recent Appointments in India June 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MD and CEO of Hindustan Unilever Ltd | Rohit Jawa |
| 2 | MD and head of DBS Institutional Banking Group, India | Rajat Verma |
| 3 | Chairman of GIFT City Ltd (Gujarat International Finance Tec-city co. ltd.) | Hasmukh Adhia |
| 4 | Deputy Governor of RBI | SwaminathanJanakiraman |
| 5 | MD and CEO of Equitas Small Finance Bank (SFB) | P N Vasudevanas |
| 6 | new CEO of UIDAI | Amit Agrawal |
| 7 | Director-General (DG) of the National Testing Agency (NTA) | Subodh Kumar Singh |
| 8 | New Director General (DG) of the Border Security Force (BSF) | Nitin Agarwal |
| 9 | MD of Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited | Ajay Yadav |
| 10 | MD & CEO of UCO Bank | Ashwani Kumar |
Recent Appointments in the World June 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) | Aarti Holla-Maini |
| 2 | Prime Minister(PM) of Greece | Kyriakos Mitsotakis (2nd Term) |
| 3 | New Prime Minister of Finland | Petteri Orpo |
| 4 | Prime Minister(PM) of Kuwait | Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah |
| 5 | New President of Latvia | Edgars Rinkevics |
| 6 | First female Secretary-General(SG) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations’ (UN) specialised agency for meteorology. | Argentina’s Celeste Saulo |
| 7 | President of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) | Dennis Francis |
| 8 | President of Türkiye (3rd consecutive term) | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
List of Recent Appointments in May 2023
Recent Appointments in India May 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brand Ambassador of Sony Sports Network | Sania Mirza |
| 2 | Deputy Managing Director of IDBI Bank | Jayakumar S. Pillai |
| 3 | New Brand Ambassador of Realme, a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer | Shah Rukh Khan |
| 4 | MD & CEO of Karnataka Bank | rikrishnan Hari Hara Sarma |
| 5 | Member of the Advisory Committee to the President of the 28th Session of the COP28 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). | MukeshAmbani, CMD of Reliance Industries |
| 6 | First woman Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) | Parminder Chopra |
| 7 | Central Vigilance Commissioner | Praveen Kumar Srivastava |
| 8 | LIC Chairperson and First CEO | Siddhartha Mohanty |
| 9 | Next CMD of BEML Limited | Shantanu Roy |
| 10 | First Indian-American to be appointed as 14th World Bank President | Ajay Banga |
| 11 | Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited | Anuj Tyagi |
| 12 | 1st Indian global ambassador for Gucci, a high-end luxury fashion house based in Florence, Italy | Alia Bhatt |
| 13 | New director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) | Praveen Sood |
| 14 | Chairperson of Competition Commission of India (CCI) | Ravneet Kaur |
| 15 | New Chairman of the Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). | Anil Kumar Jain |
| 16 | President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Paytm | Bhavesh Gupta |
| 17 | Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) | Manoj Soni |
| 18 | Minister of Earth Sciences | Kiren Rijiju |
| 19 | New CM of Karnataka | Siddaramaiah |
Recent Appointments in the World May 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New President of Nigeria | Bola Ahmed Tinubu |
| 2 | Next President of Paraguay | Santiago Peña |
| 3 | King of the United Kingdom(UK) | King Charles III |
| 4 | 10th President of the Federated States of Micronesia | Wesley W Simina |
| 5 | Twitter CEO | Linda Yaccarino |
| 6 | 1st woman Director General (DG) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations(UN) Migration Agency. | Amy E. Pope |
List of Recent Appointments in April 2023
Recent Appointments in India April 2023
| Sl.No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MD & CEO of AU Small Finance Bank | Sanjay Agarwal |
| 2 | Whole Time Director of AU Small Finance Bank | Uttam Tibrewal |
| 3 | MD & CEO of Axis Securities Limited | Pranav Haridasan |
| 4 | National President of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) | Sudha Shivkumar |
| 5 | Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of PTC India Limited | Dr Rajib Kumar Mishra |
| 6 | MD & CEO of City Union Bank | N Kamakodi |
| 7 | CEO of Association of Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) | Hari Hara Mishra |
| 8 | Chairman of National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) | Arun Kumar Sinha |
| 9 | Chairman of Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) | Shreekant M Bhandiwad |
| 10 | Brand Ambassador of Star Sports Network India | Rishabh Pant |
| 11 | Chief Justice of Tripura High Court | Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh |
| 12 | Brand Ambassador of JioCinema | Rohit Sharma |
| 13 | Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of HDFC Bank | Kaizad Bharucha |
| 14 | Executive Director (ED) of HDFC Bank | Bhavesh Zaveri |
| 15 | Interim Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Karnataka Bank | Sekhar Rao |
Recent Appointments in the World April 2023
| Sl. No. | Designation/Position | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CEO of Vodafone | Margherita Della Valle |
| 2 | Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi | Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
| 3 | Chairperson of NASSCOM | Anant Maheshwari |
| 4 | President of Bangladesh | Mohammed Sahabuddin |
| 5 | Deputy Prime Minister of UK | Oliver Dowden |
| 6 | President of Cuba | Miguel Diaz-Canel |
List of Recent Appointments in March 2023
Recent Appointments in India March 2023
| Sl.No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CEO of Hero MotoCorp | Niranjan Gupta |
| 2 | CEO and Managing Director of Tata Power | Praveer Sinha |
| 3 | Brand Ambassador of Star Sports | Ranveer Singh |
| 4 | President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) | Ajay Singh |
| 5 | Non-Executive Chairperson and Independent Director of NDTV Board | Upendra Kumar Sinha |
| 6 | AHF Athletes Ambassador from India | Salima Tete |
| 7 | Managing Director and CEO of CEAT | Arnab Banerjee |
| 8 | Managing Director and CEO of Invest India | Manmeet K Nanda |
| 9 | MD & CEO of ICICI Prudential Life | Anup Bagchi |
| 10 | Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) | G. Krishnakumar |
| 11 | Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) | Lalit Kumar Gupta |
| 12 | Brand Ambassador of Luxor Writing Instruments Pvt Ltd | Virat Kohli |
| 13 | Chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) | Deepak Mohanty |
| 14 | Brand Ambassador of Viacom18 for promoting digital sports viewing | MS Dhoni |
| 15 | CEO-designate of TCS | K Krithivasan |
| 16 | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Honeywell International HON | Vimal Kapur |
| 17 | India’s ambassador for She Changes Climate campaign | Shreya Ghodawat |
| 18 | Managing Directors of Life Insurance Company (LIC) | Tablesh Pandey and M. Jagannath |
| 19 | Managing Director and CEO of Infosys | Mohit Joshi |
| 20 | CEO of Axis Mutual Fund | B Gopkumar |
| 21 | Command of a frontline combat unit in the Western sector | Group Captain Shaliza Dhami |
| 22 | Swasth India Mission’s ‘Hand Ambassador’ | Sachin Tendulkar |
| 23 | Controller General of Accounts (CGA) | S.S. Dubey |
| 24 | MD and CEO of Pramerica Life Insurance | Pankaj Gupta |
| 25 | Chairperson of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission | Jishnu Barua |
| 26 | Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau | Rajesh Malhotra |
| 27 | Chief Executive Officer-Designate of GIL-Chemicals Business | Vishal Sharma |
Recent Appointments in the World March 2023
| Sl.No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CEO of Silicon Valley Bank | Tim Mayopoulos |
| 2 | Managing Director and CEO of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. | Rohit Jawa |
| 3 | First Indian American Judge of Manhattan Federal District Court in New York | Arun Subramanian |
| 4 | First Justice of a District Court in Massachusetts | Tejal Mehta |
List of Recent Appointments in February 2023
Recent Appointments in India February 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Drug Controller General of India | Rajeev Raghuvanshi |
| 2 | Chief Business Officer(CBO) of ALTBalaji | Vivek Koka |
| 3 | MD & Additional Director of Pfizer India Limited | Meenakshi Nevatia |
| 4 | MD & CEO-Designate of Mahindra Finance | Raul Rebello |
| 5 | New MD & CEO of Canara Bank | K Satyanarayana Raju |
| 6 | Brand Ambassador of Myntra | Ranbir Kapoor |
| 7 | Brand Ambassador of Puma India | Indian Cricket Harmanpreet Kaur |
| 8 | Brand Ambassador for Nutella | Ranveer Singh |
| 9 | Fulltime Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) | Shamika Ravi |
| 10 | Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court | Justice Sonia G Gokani |
| 11 | Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court | Justice Sandeep Mehta |
| 12 | Chief Justice of Tripura High Court | Justice Jaswant Singh |
| 13 | Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir(J&K) and Ladakh High Court | Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh |
| 14 | 14th chief justice of Jharkhand High Court | Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra |
| 15 | Brand Ambassadors of Hyundai Motors | Indian Women Cricketers Yastika Bhatia & Renuka Singh Thakur |
| 16 | New Vice-President of Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM) | Sanjay Nayar |
| 17 | New CEO of NITI Aayog | BVR Subrahmanyam |
| 18 | National Ambassador of UNICEF | Bollywood Actor Ayushmann Khurrana |
Recent Appointments in the World, February 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New PM of Moldova | Dorin Recean |
| 2 | CEO of Unilever, the British multinational consumer goods company | Hein Schumacher |
| 3 | Morgan Stanley’s New Country Head for India | Arun Kohli |
| 4 | 1st Female Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea | Manuela Roka Botey |
| 5 | 8th Cyprus President | Nikos Christodoulides |
| 6 | 1st Indian to be Nominated as President of FIBA (Federation Internationale de Basketball Amateur) Asia | Govindaraj Kempareddy |
| 7 | Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement (announced by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres) | Indo-Canadian Afshan Khan |
| 8 | New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of YouTube | Neal Mohan |
| 9 | Next President of Bangladesh | Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu |
List of Recent Appointments in January 2023
Recent Appointments in India January 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) | Air Marshal Amanpreet Singh |
| 2 | Brand Ambassador of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) | Champion Boxer Nikhat Zareen |
| 3 | New CEO of Tata Trusts | Siddharth Sharma |
| 4 | New CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co (India) | PrabdevSingh |
| 5 | New Chairman of Amul | Shamalbhai B Patel |
| 6 | Director general of Civil Aviation (DGCA) | IAS officer Vikram Dev Dutt |
| 7 | Director of the National Health Authority (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) | Praveen Sharma |
| 8 | Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) | Pankaj Kumar Singh |
| 9 | New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vedanta’s Cairn Oil & Gas | Nick Walker |
| 10 | New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cognizant | Ravi Kumar |
| 11 | First woman chief secretary of Telangana | Santhi Kumari |
| 12 | First woman officer of the Border Roads Organization (BRO) | Captain Surbhi Jakhmola |
| 13 | Director of Meta’s Global Business Group in India. | Vikas Purohit |
| 14 | Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court | Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh |
| 15 | Brand Ambassador for Nutrition Company Herbalife Nutrition India Private Limited | Smriti Mandhana |
| 16 | New MD & CEO Paytm bank | Surinder Chawla |
| 17 | State icon for Bihar by the Election Commission. | Folk singer Maithili Thakur |
| 18 | Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BharatPe | Nalin Negi |
| 19 | Additional charge as Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) | Sujoy Lal Thaosen |
| 20 | Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board | Dinesh Shukla |
| 21 | Chairman-Cum-Managing Director of the public sector enterprise MOIL Limited | Ajit Kumar Saxena |
| 22 | Head of the new Economic Advisory Council of Maharashtra | N Chandrasekaran |
| 23 | MD and CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Limited | Sundararaman Ramamurthy |
| 24 | MD and CEO of the Indian Overseas Bank | Ajay Kumar Srivastava |
Recent Appointments in the World, January 2023
| Sl. No | Designation | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Air Force Brigadier General | Raja Chari |
| 2 | President of the Czech Republic | Petr Pavel |
| 3 | Special envoy for human rights in North Korea | Julie Turner |
| 4 | Maryland’s first Indian-American Lt. Governor | Aruna Miller |
| 5 | New prime minister of New Zealand | Chris Hipkins |
| 6 | Youngest and the first LGBTQ woman of colour to serve on Oakland City Council in the US state of California. | Janani Ramachandran |
| 7 | New Chief Economist of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | UK Treasury Adviser Clare Lombardelli |
| 8 | First minister of the new Ministry of Indigenous People | Sônia Guajajara |
| 9 | New chief technologist of NASA. | Indian origin AC Charania |
| 10 | New speaker of the US House of Representatives | Kevin McCarthy |
| 11 | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bank of Singapore | Jason Moo |
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