New Appointment in India

1. Surya Prakash appointed as Chairman of Prasar Bharti Board. He succeeded Mrin

al Pande
2. Devendra Fadnavis : New Chief Minister of Maharashtra
3. Manohar Lal Khattar: New Chief Minister of Haryana
Note: Khattar won the Assembly polls from Karnal seat.
4. Arvind Subramanian appointed new Chief Economic Advisor.
5. Rajiv Mehrishi appointed new finance secretary. He replace Arvind Mayaram
6. Atul Kumar Jain: New Chief of staff for Southern Naval Command
7. Narinder Batra elected President of the Hockey India.
8. Murali Lanka: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WalMart India
9. Kaushal Srivastava: Chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Custom (CBEC)
10. Syed Muazzem Ali new Bangladesh Envoy to India. He replace Tariq A. Karim
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11. Rajiv
appointed acting Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). He replace Prad
eep Kumar
12. Hemant Contractor
New Chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory Fund and Developme
nt Authority (PFRDA).
13. O. Panneerselvam: new chief minister of Tamil Nadu. He replace J. Jayalalith
aa
Note: He is 28th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
14. Justice HL Dattu: new Chief Justice of India. He replace CJI RM Lodha
15. Le Yucheng appointed China's New Ambassador to India. He replace replaced We
i Wei
16. P Sathasivam appointed new Governor of Kerala. He replace Sheila Dikshit
17. Lalitha Kumaramangalam appointed new chief of the National Commission for Wo
men (NCW). She replaces Mamta
Sharma.
18. K.K. Paul, Governor of Meghalya take additional charge of Manipur, Mizoram
19. Narendra Ambwani elected as Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of
India (ASCI).
20. BJP veteran L.K. Advani appointed as the chairman of the prestigious Ethics
Committee of Lok Sabha.
21. Shah Rukh Khan appointed Ambassador of Interpol s initiative Turn Back Crime cam
paign, aimed at promoting greater
awareness on how to prevent crime.
22. Adil Zainulbhai appointed as the Chairman of Quality Council of India (QCI).
23. Amit Mathew elected as chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations
24. Suresh Prabhu appointed as PM Narendra Modi s Sherpa for the Group of 20 annua
l Summit 2014.
Note: The G-20 annual summit will be held in Brisbane from 15 November to 16 Nov
ember 2014.
ii. Suresh Prabhu will attend the G20 Sherpa s meeting that is going to be held in
Canberra, Australia from 30 September to
1 October 2014.
iii. Sherpa is a senior official responsible for preparing the agenda for leader
s to consider during the summit.
25. India TV chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma appointed as the presiden
t of News Broadcasting Association
26. Former Union Home Secretary GK Pillai appointed Vice Chairman of Tata Steel
27. Hardeep Singh Puri appointed as Secretary General of Independent Commission
on Multilateralism (ICM)
28. RN Ravi appointed as new chief of Joint Intelligence Committee.
Note: Intelligence Committee is a body tasked to assess intelligence gathered by
various intelligence agencies including IB
and RAW.
29. Chandrakala Padia appointed as first women chairperson of Indian Institute o
f Advanced Study (IIAS).
30. C.S.Verma elected as First President of Indian Steel Association.