1. New Ministers –
(1) Manohar Parrikar - Defence Ministry
(2) Suresh Prabhu - Railways Ministry
(3) Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health Ministry
(4) Chaudhary Birender Singh - Rural
Development Minister
(5) Bandaru Dattatreya – Labour
(6) Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill Development
(7) Dr. Mahesh Sharma – Tourism
2. Sutirtha Bhattacharya will be the new Chairman
and Managing Director of Coal India Limited.
3. Bollywood Actor Farhan Akhtar was appointed
as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South
Asia. Farhan is the first male ever to be chosen
as a Goodwill Ambassador in the organization’s
history.
4. Former Indian Police Service Officer K C Reddy
was appointed as the member of United Nations
probe panel on Gaza.
5. The Union Government appointed GS Sandhu as
Chairman of National Chemical Weapon
Convention.
6. Senior IRS officer Anita Kapur was appointed as
the new chairperson of the Central Board of
Direct Taxes.
7. The Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti was
appointed as first woman chief of CERN particle
physics research centre.
8. Rajiv Mehrishi took charge as Union Finance
Secretary under the Union Ministry of Finance.
He succeeded Arvind Mayaram.
9. Former Indian cricket captain Dilip Vengsarkar
received the prestigious BCCI-instituted Colonel
C K Nayudu Lifetime achievement award.
