1. Arun Kumar Jain appointed Central Board of Direct Taxes
Chairman
2. Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmad Javed appointed as
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
3. Mauricio Macri Blanco sworn in as President of Argentina
Justice Tirath Singh Thakur sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice
of India
4. Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan assumed Presidency of
the Royal Society
5. Patricia Scotland appointed as Secretary General of
Commonwealth of Nations
6. Sunil Kanoria appointed as President of ASSOCHAM
7. Michael Keating appointed as Special Representative for
Somalia and Head of UNSOM
8. Swati Dandekar appointed Executive Director to Asian
Development Bank
9. Harshavardhan Neotia elected as President of FICCI
10. Syed Akbaruddin appointed as next Permanent
Representative of India to UN
11. RBI Governor Dr Raghuram Rajan elected as Vice-
Chairman on BIS Board
12. Subir Gokarn appointed as IMF’s Executive Director
13. Justice AP Shah appointed as the Ethics Officer
(Ombudsman) at BCCI
14. Indian-born Harjit Sajjan sworn-in as Defence Minister
of Canada
15. Navtej Singh Sarna appointed as Indian High
Commissioner to United Kingdom
16. Suresh N Patel appointed as MD & CEO of Andhra Bank
Captain Krishna Swaminathan took over command of
aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya
17. Deepak Singhal appointed Executive Director of Reserve
Bank of India
18. AK Jha took over as CMD of Mahanadi Coalfields
Limited
Air Marshal Virender Mohan Khanna took over as
Maintenance Head of IAF
19. Paul Ryan elected as 54th Speaker of US House of
Representatives
20. Shaktikanta Das nominated on RBI Central Board of
Directors
21. Najib Shah appointed as Chairman of CBEC
22. Sylvie Lucas appointed as Chair of the IGN on UNSC
reforms
23. US President designated Brett McGurk as Envoy to US-
led coalition fighting ISIS
24. Indian-origin Ashok-Alexander Sridharan sworn in as
mayor of Bonn in Germany
25. Justice Vaiphei appointed as acting Chief Justice of the
Gauhati High Court
26. VK Malhotra appointed as head of the All India Council
of Sports
27. MK Surana appointed as the CMD of Hindustan
Petroleum Corp Ltd
28. Onsari Gharti Magar elected as House speaker of Nepal
29. Kundhavi Kadiresan appointed as FAO Assistant
Director-General
30. PS Jayakumar appointed as MD and CEO of Bank of
Baroda
31. Alkesh Sharma appointed as CEO and MD of Delhi-
Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corp.
32. Telenor appointed Sharad Mehrotra as India CEO
33. Tapan Ray appointed to Board of Securities and
Exchange Board of India
34. Sekhar Basu appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy
Commission
35. Fiji’s Parliament elected the Minister for Employment,
Productivity and Industrial Relations, Jioji Konrote, as the
country’s next President.
36. Music composer AR Rahman named as Cultural
Ambassador of Seychelles
37. Shashank Manohar elected BCCI President
38. K.P. Sharma Oli was elected as the new Prime Minister
of Nepal as he defeated Sushil Koirala.
39. Cabinet Minister Rao Inderjit Singh has been appointed
unopposed as the new President of the Paralympics
Committee of India (PCI).
40. Steve Simon has been named as the new Chief
Executive of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. Ajay Sharma, an Indian-origin diplomat, has been
appointed the new British Ambassador to Qatar.
44. Flipkart has appointed Sriram Venkataraman as the CFO
for its commerce platform and Pramod Jain as Vice
President and Head of Taxation.
45. Sarat Kumar Acharya assumed office as Chairman and
Managing Director