1.
National People’s Party President Conrad
Sangma takes oath as the CM of Meghalaya. Meghalaya threw up a fractured
mandate recently. The Congress, which has been in power in the state for the
last 10 years, has won 21 seats.
2.
BJP named the party' State president Biplab
Kumar Deb as the CMial candidate for Tripura. He will replace Manik Sarkar.
Jishnu Devvarma has been named for Deputy CM.
3.
Nagaland Governor PB Acharya has appointed
Neiphiu Rio as the new CM of the state.
Mr Rio will replace TR Zeliang.
4.
IRS officer Vivek R Wadekar was appointed as
the new Special Director in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) by the government.
He has been appointed for the tenure of five years.
5.
In another first for women, 25-year-old
Prakriti has been inducted as the first direct-entry combat officer in the
Indo-Tibetan Border Police. ITBP is the last of the Central Armed Police Forces
(CAPFs) to induct women officers in combat roles after the government first
allowed it to enrol them in 2016.
6.
Indian-origin steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta
appointed by Britain's Prince Charles as an official ambassador for the
Industrial Cadets programme designed to nurture manufacturing skills.
7.
Biplab Kumar Deb was sworn in as the CM of
8.
Tripura's first Bharatiya Janata Party
government in Agartala. He has replaced Manik Sarkar. Jishnu Deb Burman took
oath as the Deputy CM of the State.
9.
Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli has
been named cab-hailing startup Uber's first Brand Ambassador in India.
10.
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju
& Minister of State for Science & Technology Y S Chowdary have submitted
their resignations to PM Narendra Modi. The ministers have resigned but will
continue to be a part of NDA. Commerce minister Suresh Prabhu gets additional
charge of aviation ministry.
11.
Commerce & Industries minister Suresh
Prabhu was given additional charge of the Civil Aviation Ministry, a day after
the resignation of TDP's Ashok Gajapathi Raju was accepted by President Ram
Nath Kovind.
12.
Nepal’s first woman President Bidya Devi
Bhandari was re-elected for a second term in office with an overwhelming
majority.
13.
Gina Haspel, the newly nominated first-ever
female director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is a career
intelligence officer with more than 30 years' experience.
14.
Germany’s Parliament elected Angela Merkel
for her fourth term as chancellor, putting an end to nearly six months of
political drift in Europe’s biggest economy.
15.
Sangeeta Bahadur has been appointed as the
next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus. She is an IFS officer of
1987 batch.
16.
President Donald Trump named Larry Kudlow as
the next head of the White House National Economic Council. He has replaced
Gary Cohn.
17.
Slovak PM Robert Fico & his government
resigned as a way out of the political crisis triggered by the slayings of an
investigative journalist & his fiancee.
18.
Xi Jinping was re-elected as President for a
second five-year tenure by China's rubber-stamp parliament. The Parliament has
recently allowed Xi to have a lifelong tenure. Wang Qishan has been elected as
the new Vice President of China.
19.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stormed to
victory in presidential election, giving him another six years in power.
20.
Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has
resigned after being embroiled in a scandal over the use of a credit card to
buy luxury personal items.
21.
Atul M. Gotsurve has been appointed as the
next Ambassador of India to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
22.
US-educated economist Yi Gang has been named
the next governor of China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC).
Mr Yi has been deputy governor of the bank since 2008.
23.
Bihar Governor Satya Pal Malik will
discharge the functions of Odisha Governor in addition to his own duties till
regular arrangements are made. Odisha Governor SC Jamir completed his tenure.
24. Vodafone
veteran Balesh Sharma as the new chief executive for the combined venture. Sharma
is currently the chief operating officer at Vodafone India.
25. Martin
Vizcarra has been sworn in as the country's new president of Peru. Before the
appointment, he was Peru's first vice president & ambassador to Canada. He
has replaced Pedro Pablo Kuczynski who has resigned from the post recently.
26. The
Government of India has decided to nominate Prof. J S Rajput, former Director
NCERT, as India’s representative to the Executive Board (EXB) of UNESCO. The
EXB has a four-year term of office & 58 seats.
27. Krishnaswamy
Vijay Raghavan was appointed the principal scientific adviser to the government
of India. Vijay Raghavan will succeed physicist Rajagopala Chidambaram who has
been in the position for more than 16 years.
28. Indu
Bhushan was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Union
Government’s ambitious Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission
(ABNHPM). She has been appointed to the post for a period of two years.
29. Myanmar's
Parliament elected Win Myint as the country's new President. This comes after
Myanmar's first democratically elected President Htin Kyaw resigned from the
position due to health issues.
30. Supreme
Court appointed Justice Jawad Rahim, a former judge of the Karnataka High
Court, as acting chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
31. Veteran
director Shekhar Kapur has been appointed the chairman of the central panel of
the 65th National Film Awards. Film writer Imtiaz Hussain, known for his works
in films like Astitva (2000) & Parinda (1989) will be the regional chairperson
of South India panel.
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