6 Months CA

Appointments
Que: Who took over as the 24th Director General of Indian Coast
Guard?
Que: किसने भारतीय तटरक्षि बल िे 24वें महाननदे शि िे रूप में
पदभार ग्रहण किया?
Ans: Virender Singh Pathania

Que: Who has taken over as Commandant of Air Force Academy, Indian Air Force?
Que:वायु सेना अिादमी, भारतीय वायु सेना िे िमाांडेंट िे रूप में किसने पदभार
सांभाला है ?
Ans: B Chandra Sekhar

IAF is ranked as the fourth largest

operational air force around the world, after
the US, China, and Russia.

Other Chiefs and DGs (Extra Facts)

• Investigation Bureau (IB)- Tapan Deka
• BSF - Pankaj Kumar Singh
• CBI – Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
• Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) - Sheel Vardhan Singh
• NCC - Lt. gen. Gurbirpal Singh
• ITBP- Anish Dayal Singh
• National Security Guard (NSG) – M. A. Ganapathy
• National Disaser Response Force (NDRF)- SN Pradhan
• Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)- Samant Goel
• National Investigation Agency (NIA) - Dinkar Gupta

Anupam Ray appointed as India’s new permanent representative

at UN Conference on Disarmament

अनुपम रे िो ननरस्त्रीिरण पर सांयुक्त राष्ट्र सम्मेलन में भारत िे

नए स्थायी प्रनतनननि िे रूप में ननयुक्त किया गया
 Que: Name the Indian economist who has been appointed by the United Nations as a member of its
newly established Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism?
प्रश्न: उस भारतीय अथथशास्त्री िा नाम बताइए जिसे सांयुक्त राष्ट्र ने प्रभावी बहुपक्षवाद पर अपने नव
स्थापपत सलाहिार बोडथ िे सदस्य िे रूप में शानमल किया है ?
Ans: Jayati Ghosh

The United Nations (UN) Secretary

General Antonio Guterres has
announced the appointment

Que:Who has been appointed as UN Secretary-General Antonio

Guterres’ envoy on technology to coordinate programmes for
international digital cooperation?
Que:अांतराथष्ट्रीय कडजिटल सहयोग िे िायथक्रमों िे समन्वय िे
नलए प्रौद्योनगिी पर सांयुक्त राष्ट्र महासनिव एांटोननयो गुटेरेस िे
दत
ू िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Amandeep Singh Gill

Que:Which cricketer is to continue as UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador for a record 20th year?
Que:ररिॉडथ 20 वें वर्थ िे नलए किस कक्रिेटर िो यूननसेफ िे सद्भावना रािदत
ू िे रूप में िारी रखना
है ?
Ans: Sachin Tendulkar

• He was chosen to take lead in the initiative to create

awareness and promote polio prevention in India in
2003.

• In 2013, he was appointed UNICEF Ambassador for South Asia to

advocate for good hygiene and sanitation across the region.

• UNICEF Headquarters: New York, United States; Founded: 11

December 1946.

Ruchira Kamboj appointed as next Permanent Representative to UN

रुनिरा िांबोि िो सांयुक्त राष्ट्र में अगले स्थायी प्रनतनननि िे रूप में ननयुक्त
किया गया
Que: ONGC had appointed first ever female as the CMD of the company on an interim basis. What is
her name?
प्रश्न: ओएनिीसी ने अांतररम आिार पर िांपनी िे सीएमडी िे रूप में पहली मकहला िो ननयुक्त किया,
नाम बताएां?
Ans: Alka Mittal

She became the first woman to head the top post at the
Maharatna company.

Shri Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, Director (Exploration) has

assumed the additional charge of Chairman and Managing
Director (CMD) of ONGC with effect from 1st September,
2022.
• ONGC Headquarters: New Delhi;
• ONGC Founded: 14 August 1956.

Que:Who has been appointed as Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga
(NMCG) under the Ministry of Jal Shakti?
Que:िल शपक्त मांत्रालय िे तहत स्वच्छ गांगा िे नलए राष्ट्रीय नमशन (NMCG) िे महाननदे शि िे रूप
में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: G Asok Kumar

• He succeeded Director-General, Rajiv Ranjan Mishra.

• He is popularly known as ‘the Rain Man of India’ for his
excellent work in rainwater harvesting under the “Jal Shakti
Abhiyan: Catch the Rain” campaign.
• National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was registered as a
society in 2011 under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, towards the
purification of River Ganga.

Que: Central government has reappointed whom as Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural
Costs and Prices (CACP)?
Que:िेंद्र सरिार ने किसे िृ पर् लागत और मूल्य आयोग (CACP) िे अध्यक्ष िे रूप में कफर से
ननयुक्त किया है ?
Ans: Vijay Paul Sharma

• The CACP was established in 1965.

• It is an apex advisory body that works under the
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Que: Who has been appointed as chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)?
Que:किसे भारतीय ऐनतहानसि अनुसांिान पररर्द (ICHR) िे अध्यक्ष िे रूप में ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Raghuvendra Tanwar

• Headquarters: New Delhi

• Founded: 27 March 1972
• The primary aim of ICHR is to promote historical research, and encourage
scientific and objective writing of history

Ques. Who was appointed as India’s Chef de Mission for Commonwealth Games 2022 by Indian
Olympic Association (IOA)?
Ques. भारतीय ओलांपपि सांघ (IOA) द्वारा राष्ट्रमांडल खेलों 2022 िे नलए भारत िे शेफ डी नमशन िे
रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया था?
Ans: Rajesh Bhandari

The CWG 2022 games were organized in

Birmingham, the United Kingdom from July 28 to
August 8, 2022

Who was appointed as India’s Chef de Mission for Asian Games 2022?
किसे एनशयाई खेलों 2022 िे नलए भारत िा शेफ डी नमशन ननयुक्त किया गया था?
Ans: Bhupender Singh Bajwa (President of Wushu Association of India)

Asian Games 2022 were organized

in Hangzhou, China from
September 10 to 25, 2022.

Vinay Kumar Tripathi appointed as new chairman-cum-CEO of Railway Board

पवनय िुमार पत्रपाठी िो रे लवे बोडथ िा नया अध्यक्ष-सह-सीईओ ननयुक्त किया गया
 S Somanath appointed as new Chairman of ISRO, succeeds
K Sivan
एस सोमनाथ िो इसरो िे नए अध्यक्ष िे रूप में ननयुक्त
किया गया, उन्होंने िे नसवन िा स्थान नलया
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Founded: 15 August 1969
Founder: Vikram Sarabhai

Que: Who has been appointed as new chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
(SEBI)?
Que:भारतीय प्रनतभूनत और पवननमय बोडथ (SEBI) िे नए अध्यक्ष िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया
है ?
Ans: Madhabi Puri Buch

Has replaced Ajay Tyagi as the

Chairperson of SEBI.

SEBI Founded: 12th April 1992

Headquarters: Mumbai

Government appoints Justice DN Patel TDSAT Chairperson for 4 years

सरिार ने िजस्टस डीएन पटे ल िो 4 साल िे नलए टीडीसैट िा अध्यक्ष ननयुक्त किया।

• Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT)

• Prior to this Patel was serving as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court

Que:Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Jet Airways?

प्रश्नः िेट एयरवेि िे नए सीईओ िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Sanjiv Kapoor

Que:Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Air India?
प्रश्न: एयर इां कडया िे नए अध्यक्ष िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है
Ans: N Chandrasekaran (Tata Sons Chairman)

• Campbell Wilson Appointed as CEO and

Managing Director of Air India
Que: Rajesh Gopinathan is the MD and CEO of which company?
प्रश्नः रािेश गोपीनाथन किस िांपनी िे प्रबांि ननदे शि (एमडी) और
मुख्य िायथिारी अनििारी (सीईओ) हैं ?
Ans: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

• Founded: 1 April 1968

• Founders: Faquir Chand Kohli, J. R. D. Tata
• Parent organizations: Tata Group, Tata Sons

Que:Who has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the High Powered Committee (HPC) on
the Char Dham project by the Supreme Court?
प्रश्नः उच्ितम न्यायालय द्वारा िारिाम पररयोिना पर उच्िानििार प्राप्त सनमनत (एिपीसी) िे नए
अध्यक्ष िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Justice AK Sikri

• The HPC would look after the environmental

concerns and other issues related to the
Chardham project as well as the cumulative and
independent impact of the Chardham project on
the entire Himalayan valley.

Char Dham of Uttarakhand - Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath, and Badrinath.

Que:Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of IRDAI in 2022?

प्रश्न: 2022 में IRDAI िे नए अध्यक्ष िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Debasish Panda

• Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India

(IRDAI).
• For period of 3 years
• tasked with regulating and licensing the insurance and re-
insurance industries in India.
• Founded: 1999
• Sector: Insurance
• Headquarters: Hyderabad

Ranjit Rath selected as new CMD of PSU Oil India Ltd

रां िीत रथ िो पीएसयू ऑयल इां कडया नलनमटे ड िे नए सीएमडी िे रूप में िुना गया

• He replaced Sushil Chandra Mishra.

• Headquarters: Noida
• Founded: 18 February 1959
• It is under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas,
Government of India.
Que: Who has been appointed as India’s new Ambassador to China?
Que: किसे िीन में भारत िा नया रािदत ू ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Pradeep Kumar Rawat

Biocon Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw elected Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh

(RSE) in Scotland
बायोिॉन िी िेयरपसथन किरण मिूमदार-शॉ स्िॉटलैंड में रॉयल सोसाइटी ऑफ एकडनबगथ
(RSE) िी फेलो िुनी गईं

• For the advancement of learning and useful knowledge

• RSE, Scotland’s National Academy was established in 1783.

• She has been recognized with Padma Shri (1989) and the Padma Bhushan (2005).

• She has been conferred with the Order of Australia, Australia’s highest civilian honour, in 2020 and
appointed Knight of the National Order of the French Legion of Honour in 2016.

Que:Who is the first Chairperson of the ‘Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)’?
प्रश्नः ररिवथ बैंि इनोवेशन हब (RBIH) िे पहले अध्यक्ष िौन हैं ?
Ans: Senapathy Kris Gopalakrishnan

Que:Who has been appointed as Adviser in the Ministry of Defence?

Que: किसे रक्षा मांत्रालय में सलाहिार िे रूप में ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Vinod G Khandare

Que: Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC)
India?
Que:ब्रॉडिास्ट ऑकडयांस ररसिथ िाउां नसल (BARC) इां कडया िे नए अध्यक्ष िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया
गया है ?
Ans: Shashi Sinha

• Founded: 2010
• Headquarters: Mumbai
• CEO: Nakul Chopra
Que:Who has been appointed as the new President of Badminton Association
of India (BAI) for four years from 2022-2026?
प्रश्नः 2022-2026 ति िार वर्ों िे नलए भारतीय बैडनमांटन सांघ (बीएआई) िे
नए अध्यक्ष िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam CM)

Badminton Association of India (BAI):

• President: Himanta Biswa Sarma
• Founded: 1934
• Headquarters: New Delhi

Natarajan Sundar appointed as MD & CEO of NARCL

• National Assets Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL).

• NARCL Incorporated in 2021
• Public Sector Banks will maintain 51% ownership in NARCL.

National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (NARCL) was

incorporated in July 2021 as a ‘bad bank’ to help dispose of the stressed
assets of the commercial banks.

Que:Who has been appointed as the Director-General, National Informatics

Centre (NIC)?
प्रश्नः राष्ट्रीय सूिना पवज्ञान िेंद्र (एनआईसी) िे महाननदे शि िे रूप में किसे
ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Rajesh Gera
• under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY).
• NIC Headquarters: New Delhi; Founded: 1976

Que: Chennai-based Garuda Aerospace, India’s leading drone-as-a-service (DaaS)

provider has appointed whom as its brand ambassador?
प्रश्न: िेन्नई जस्थत गरुड़ एयरोस्पेस, भारत िे अग्रणी ड्रोन-ए-ए-सपवथस (डीएएएस)
प्रदाता ने किसे अपना ब्राांड एांबेसडर ननयुक्त किया है ?
Ans: MS Dhoni
• Garuda Aerospace was started in 2015.
• Founder & CEO: Agnishwar Jayaprakash
• Garuda Aerospace HQ: Chennai
Who has/have been appointed as part-time non-official Directors on the central board
of RBI?
(a) Anand Mahindra
(b) Venu Srinivasan
(c) Pankaj Patel
(d) Ravindra Dholakia
(e) All of the above

RBI Founded: April 1, 1935

Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Governor: Shaktikanta Das
Deputy Governors: M.K. Jain, M.D. Patra, M Rajeshwar Rao, T Rabi Sankar

Parameswaran Iyer becomes CEO of NITI Aayog

परमेश्वरन अय्यर नीनत आयोग िे सीईओ बने

• for two years.

• Replaced Amitabh Kant

Que: Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Tax (CBDT)?
Que:िेंद्रीय प्रत्यक्ष िर बोडथ (CBDT) िे नए अध्यक्ष िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans:Nitin Gupta

• It is the administrative body for the Income Tax department.

• It is a statutory body established as per the Central Board of Revenue
Act, 1963.
• Headquarters – New Delhi
• Ministry responsible – Ministry of Finance

Que: Who has been appointed as the new Chief of Press Council of India?
Que:भारतीय प्रेस पररर्द िे नए प्रमुख िे रूप में किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Ranjana Prakash Desai (Former Supreme Court judge)

• She became the first women chairperson of Press Council

of India
• She succeeded Justice CK Prasad

• She also headed the Delimitation Commission on J&K

• PCI: statutory regulatory watchdog of the press, founded

in 1966
 Que: Which Indian umpire has been retained in the ICC Elite Panel?
Que: ICC एलीट पैनल में किस भारतीय अांपायर िो बरिरार रखा गया है ?
Ans: Nitin Menon

• He is the only Indian in the 11- member Elite Panel.

• Menon first made it to the Elite Panel in 2020, becoming only the third Indian umpire after S
Venkataraghavan and S Ravi to be on the list.
• ICC Formation: 15 June 1909
• Headquarters: Dubai, UAE
• Chairman: Greg Barclay (New Zealand)
• New CEO: Geoff Allardice (Australia)

Que:Who has become the first woman President of the Federation of International Cricketers’
Association (FICA)?
Que:फेडरे शन ऑफ इां टरनेशनल कक्रिेटसथ एसोनसएशन (FICA) िी पहली मकहला अध्यक्ष िौन बनी हैं ?
Ans: Lisa Sthalekar (नलसा स्टालेिर)

• Legendary Australian Cricketer

• She was the first woman to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets
in ODI Cricket.

Que: Who has been elected as the new Secretary General of OPEC?
प्रश्नः ओपेि िे नए महासनिव िे रूप में किसे िुना गया है ?
Ans: Haitham Al-Ghais (Kuwait)

• from August 01 2022, for a period of three years.

OPEC - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental

organization or cartel of 13 countries.

Que: Who has been named as the new Chief Economist of the IMF to replace Gita Gopinath?
Que:गीता गोपीनाथ िी िगह लेने िे नलए अांतराथष्ट्रीय मुद्रा िोर् (IMF) िे नए मुख्य अथथशास्त्री िे
रूप में किसे नानमत किया गया है ?
Ans: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Gita Gopinath is now the First Deputy

Managing Director (FDMD) of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Que:Alikhan Smailov has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of which country?
Que:अलीखान स्माइलोव िो किस दे श िा नया प्रिान मांत्री ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Kazakhstan

• capital: Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana

• Currency: Kazakhstani Tenge

Que:Name the Prime Minister of Barbados who has been sworn in for a second straight term in
office in January 2022?
प्रश्न: बारबाडोस िे प्रिान मांत्री िा नाम बताइए, जिन्होंने िनवरी 2022 में लगातार दस
ू रे
िायथिाल िे नलए शपथ ली है ?
Ans:Mia Mottley

• Mottley is serving as the Prime Minister of

Barbados since 2018.

• Mottley is the first woman prime minister of the

country as well as first PM under a republic
system.

Capital: Bridgetown
Currency: Barbados dollar

Chinese diplomat Zhang Ming takes over as new Secretary-General of SCO (Shanghai
Cooperation Organization
िीनी रािननयि झाांग नमांग ने एससीओ (शांघाई सहयोग सांगठन) िे नए महासनिव
िे रूप में िायथभार सांभाला

Zhang has taken charge from Vladimir Norov,

former Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan from
January 1 for a three-year term.
Que:Name the secretary general of NATO whose tenure has been extended for one year till 2023?
प्रश्न: नाटो िे महासनिव िा नाम बताइए जिनिा िायथिाल एि वर्थ िे नलए 2023 ति बढा कदया
गया है ?
Ans: Jens Stoltenberg

• until September 30, 2023.

• Stoltenberg was named NATO Secretary-General
in October 2014.
• Stoltenberg is the former Prime Minister of
Norway.
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Que: Which country’s Gilbert Houngbo has been selected the next Director-General of the
International Labour Organization (ILO)?
Que:किस दे श िे नगल्बटथ हौंगबो िो अांतराथष्ट्रीय श्रम सांगठन (ILO) िा अगला महाननदे शि िुना गया
है ?
Ans: Togo

• Houngbo, former Prime Minister of Togo, is the

first African to hold the post.

• His five-year term began on October 1, 2022.

ILO Founded: 1919

Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
Member Nations: 187

Former RBI Governor Urjit Patel appointed Vice President of Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank

आरबीआई िे पूवथ गवनथर उजिथत पटे ल िो एनशयन इन्रास्रक्िर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंि िा

उपाध्यक्ष ननयुक्त किया गया

Headquarters: Beijing, China

Membership: 104 Members
Formation: 16 January 2016
Region served: Asia and Oceania

Que: Who has been appointed as MD and CEO of Jammu & Kashmir
Bank?
Que:िम्मू और िश्मीर बैंि िे प्रबांि ननदे शि और सीईओ िे रूप में
किसे ननयुक्त किया गया है ?
Ans: Baldev Prakash
Que: Name the newly appointed MD & CEO of Punjab & Sind Bank
Limited.
Que: हाल ही में पांिाब एांड नसांि बैंि नलनमटे ड में ननयुक्त एमडी और
सीईओ िा नाम बताइए ।
Ans: Swarup Kumar Saha

Other Banking appointments:

• A Manimekhalai becomes the first woman MD of Union Bank

of India.

• Ajay Kumar Srivastava has been appointed MD and CEO of

Indian Overseas Bank.

Other Bank Heads (Extra Facts):

• Bank of Baroda: Sanjiv Chadha

• Bank of India: Atanu Kumar Das
• Central Bank of India: M. Venkata Rao
• Indian Bank: Shanti Lal Jain
• UCO Bank: Soma Sankara Prasad
• Indian Overseas Bank: Partha Pratim Sengupta

Que: Bank of Baroda (BoB) has appointed which Indian woman cricketer as the Brand
Endorser of the bank?
Que:बैंि ऑफ बड़ौदा (BoB) ने किस भारतीय मकहला कक्रिेटर िो बैंि िा ब्राांड एांडोसथर
ननयुक्त किया है ?
Ans: Shafali Verma

• In 2019, at the age of 15, Shafali became the youngest cricketer to

play in a Women’s Twenty20 International match for India.

• In 2021, she became the 1st Women Cricketer to Hit 3 Sixes in Test
Match.
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• Dish TV India Limited’s DTH brand D2H: Rishabh Pant