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1. 2/9/2015 Bankers Adda: Recent Appointments in India
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Recent Appointments in India
POSTS/DEPTT. PERSONS
Foreign Secretary  Subrahmanyam Jaishankar took over as
foreign secretary
 Replaces Sujatha Singh
New Governers
 KK Paul ­ Uttarakhand’s new governor.
 Aziz Qureshi ­ 15th Governor of
Mizoram
 Kalyan Singh ­ took oath as Governor of
Himachal Pradesh
 K K Paul ­ sworn in as sixth Governor of
Uttarakhand
NITI AAYOG
 National Institution for Transforming
India (NITI) Aayog.
 Chairman Narendra Modi
 Vice Chairman: Free market economist
Arvind Panagariya
 CEO: Ms. Sindhushree Khullar (IAS)
 Fulltime Members: Economist Bibek
Debroy and former DRDO Chief V K
Saraswat.
Air India  CMD Rohit Nandan (10 months
extension)
DRDO
 Chief Avinash Chander asked to step
down.
 Defense Secretary RK Mathur is holding
the charge of DRDO (30­Jan­2015).
BSNL  Anupam Shrivastava became new CMD
EC
 Hari Shankar Brahma, became the 19th
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)
of India. He is an Assamese IAS
officer from Andhra Pradesh cadre.
 He replaced V S Sampath
Censor Board
 Pahlaj Nihalani became new chief
 Leela Samson resigned after her decision
against Dera Sachcha Sauda chief
Gurmit Ram Rahim’s movie
“Messanger of God” (MSG) was
overturned by the appellate board.
Prasar Bharati  Chairman Arkalgud Suryaprakash
ISRO  A.S.Kiran Kumar replaced
K.Radhakrishnan as the new ISRO
Chief.
TCA Anant  Chief statistician of India.

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Railway board  New chairman A.K. Mittal.