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www.caforexam.com – Important News of January Month Appointment and Resignation

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

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USA, France and Spain made

the same


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