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as the Acting Chairman. The move comes after VK Sharma retired from the top job at LIC on December 31.
Piyush Goyal - Railways and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal appointed interim Finance
Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan - Justice
Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs for
Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan was on January 1, 2018
second time in the absence of Arun Jaitley, will
sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court.
present the upcoming Budget 2019. Mr. Jaitley
With this, the state of Telangana will have its first independent
would be designated as a Minister without a portfolio till the time
high court. Prior to this, Justice Radhakrishnan had been serving
he is able to resume work.
as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for both the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Gita Gopinath - India born Gita Gopinath joined the International Monetary Fund as
Amitabh Chaudhry - Axis Bank announced its
its Chief Economist. She is the first woman
Managing
and second Indian after Raghuram rajan to
Sharma has
occupy the top IMF post. Gopinath is the
and Amitabh Chaudhry will be the new
11th chief economist of the IMF.
Director
and
retired
CEO
from
the
Shikha post
managing director and CEO of the bank with effect from January 1, 2019.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra - Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on January 23, 2019 appointed AICC
Ravneet Singh Gill - YES Bank appointed Deutsche Bank’s Ravneet
general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East by her
Singh Gill as its MD and CEO, who will succeed Rana Kapoor. Gill
brother and party chief Rahul Gandhi.
will join the private lender on or before March 1, 2019.
Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah - Sultan Abdullah Sultan
Vivek Joshi - The Centre has appointed Vivek Joshi, an 1989 batch
Ahmad Shah was elected as Malaysia's new king by the members
IAS officer from Haryana cadre, as the new Registrar General and
of the country's royal families. He replaced Sultan Muhammad V
Census Commissioner of India.
of Kelantan, who stepped down recently, making it the first Rajeev Chopra - Lt Gen Rajeev Chopra assumed the appointment
abdication in Malaysia's history.
of Director General of NCC (DGNCC). Jair Bolsonaro - Jair Bolsonaro, was sworn in as president of Nicolás Maduro - Nicolás Maduro was sworn
Brazil. Contesting from Social liberal party, Mr Bolsonaro, won
in
the presidential election by a wide margin against Fernando
for
a second
President amid
Haddad of the left-wing Workers Party on 28 October.
term the
as
Venezuela's
economic
and
humanitarian crisis. Maduro was re-elected Nancy Pelosi - In US, Veteran Democratic leader
last year. The US, EU and 13 other countries
Nancy Pelosi, considered an ardent supporter of
have stated that they would not recognise Maduro's Presidency.
India-US ties, has been elected as Speaker of the
Juan Guaido - Germany has said, it will recognize Venezuelan
House of Representatives for the second time,
Opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country's interim President
thus becoming the most powerful elected woman in America.
unless an election is announced within eight days. The statement Hemant Bhargava - The government has appointed Hemant
comes after
Bhargava, Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation of India,
announcements earlier in the day. President Nicolas Maduro was
1
USA, France and Spain made
the same