New Appointments

Question 1

Chief Justice of India (CJI) (by suceeding Altamas Kabir)

Answer 1

Justice P Sathasivam

Question 2

PTI Chairman (succeeded R Lakshmipathy)

Answer 2

K N Shanth Kumar

Question 3

Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA)

Answer 3

K R Kamath Re-Elected

Question 4

New Prime Minister of Palestine

Answer 4

Rami Hamdallah

Question 5

New CBDT chief

Answer 5

Sudha Sharma

Question 6

New Chairman Of LIC succeeded D K Mehrotra, retired on 31 May

Answer 6

Thomas Mathew

Question 7

Vice Chairman of PTI

Answer 7

Mahendra Mohan Gupta

Question 8

new President of CII

Answer 8

S Gopalakrishnan

Question 9

new Telecom Secretary

Answer 9

M F Farooqui

Question 10

first woman Chief Information Commissioner (replaced Satyananda Mishra)

Answer 10

Deepak Sandhu

Question 11

Brand ambassador for Tobacco control campaign

Answer 11

Rahul Dravid

Question 12

Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Answer 12

Rakesh Sood

Question 13

New Union Home Secretary (by replacing R.K Singh)

Answer 13

Anil Goswami

Question 14

New CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) of India (by succeeding Vinod Rai)

Answer 14

Shashi Kant Sharma

Question 15

Indian Defence Secretary (succeeded Shashikant Sharma)

Answer 15

Radha Krishna Mathur

Question 16

Secretary of the All India chess federation

Answer 16

V Hariharan

Question 17

chief executive of AirAsia India.

Answer 17

Mittu Chandilya

Question 18

new Governor of Arunanchal Pradesh

Answer 18

Lt. Gen. Nirbhay Sharma

Question 19

C.M. of Karnataka

Answer 19

Siddaramaiah

Question 20

First Women Special DG of CRPF

Answer 20

Aruna Bahuguna

Question 21

Governor of Arunachal Pradesh

Answer 21

Nirbhay Sharma

Question 22

New Chief of NASSCOM (replaced N Chandrasekaran).

Answer 22

Krishna Kumar Natrajan (CEO and Director of Mindtree)

Question 23

Chairman of Asian forum of Parliamentarians (replaced Yasuo Fukuda, former P M of Japan)

Answer 23

PJ Kurien

Question 24

Re-Elected As Chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors

Answer 24

Vinod Rai

Question 25

Senior Vice-President of FICCI.

Answer 25

Sidharth Birla (Chairman of Xpro India Ltd and Digjam Ltd)

Question 26

new Chairman of Law Commission

Answer 26

Justice D.K. Jain

Question 27

New Clearing Corporation of India Ltd(CCIL) Chairperson

Answer 27

Shyamala Gopinath

Question 28

New CEO of Prasar Bharti

Answer 28

Jawahar Sircar

Question 29

Secretary of Financial Services in the Finance Ministry replacing Dinesh Kumar

Answer 29

Rajiv Takru

Question 30

irector of the IGCAR (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research) replacing S.C Chetal

Answer 30

P.R. Vasudeva Rao

Question 31

Next Permanent Representative of India to the UN

Answer 31

Asoke Kumar Mukerji

Question 32

International Good will ambassador – UNAIDS (UN Programme on HIV/AIDS).

Answer 32

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Question 33

Brand Ambassador of Super Fight League (SPL)

Answer 33

Mary Kom

Question 34

president of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India

Answer 34

Rajan Bharti Mittal

Question 35

Coach of the Junior Hockey Men's National Team

Answer 35

Gregg Clark

Question 36

Meghalaya governor replacing Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary

Answer 36

K K Paul

Question 37

Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards

Answer 37

Sunil Soni

Question 38

new governor of Sikkim

Answer 38

Shriniwas Patil

Question 39

Nasscom President, succeeding current Nasscom President Som Mittal, whose tenure expires in January 2014

Answer 39

R. Chandrasekhar (the former Secretary Department of Telecommunications (DoT))

Question 40

new Prime Minister of Egypt by the Interim President Adly Mansour

Answer 40

Hazem El-Beblawi

Question 41

head coach of the Indian seniorwomen's basketball team

Answer 41

Francisco Garcia (Spain)

Question 42

Chief Minister of Jharkhand

Answer 42

Hemant Soren (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader)

Question 43

Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST.

Answer 43

Abdul Rahim Rather (Jammu & Kashmir Finance Minister)

Question 44

President of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI)

Answer 44

Arvind Sharma (Chairman and CEO of Leo Burnett, India)

Question 45

pro-vice-chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU)

Answer 45

Professor Mahendra P. Lama

Question 46

India's new foreign secretary.

Answer 46

Sujatha Singh | Sujatha Singh is the third woman to head the Foreign services after Chokila Iyer and Nirupama Rao.