Appointments

Person	Appointment / Position
Rakesh Aggarwal	Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Jared Isaacman	15th Administrator of NASA, succeeding Bill Nelson.
Nidhi Chhibber	Took additional charge as CEO of NITI Aayog.
Shatrujeet Kapur	Appointed Director General of ITBP.
Praveen Vashista	Appointed Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission.
Deepak Gupta	Chairman and Managing Director of GAIL (India) Limited.
A.K. Balasubrahmanian	Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).
Uday Kotak	Chairman of GIFT City, Gujarat.
Aparajita Sarangi	Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill 2025.
Sanjay Garg	Director General of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
Justice Surya Kant	53rd Chief Justice of India.
Justice Pratibha M. Singh	Chairperson of the Judges’ Advisory Board of WIPO.
Shirish Chandra Murmu	Deputy Governor of the RBI.
R. Venkataramani	Tenure extended as Attorney General of India.
Praveer Ranjan	Director-General of the CISF.
General Anil Chauhan	Tenure extended as Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
Rishi Sunak	Joined Microsoft and Anthropic as senior advisor.
Kanad Das	13th Director of the Botanical Survey of India (BSI).
TCA Kalyani	Controller General of Accounts (CGA).
Urjit Patel	Executive Director at the IMF for a three-year term.
Akash Tripathi	Managing Director of SECI.
Rajit Punhani	CEO of FSSAI.
Sudhanshu Vats	Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI).
Anish Dayal Singh	Deputy National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister.
Radha Chauhan	Chairperson of the Capacity Building Commission.
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsyayan	47th Vice Chief of Naval Staff.
Pushpendra Singh	Vice Chief of Army Staff.
Shashi Bhushan Singh	25th Commissioner of Delhi Police.
Zhou Jiayi	President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Parag Jain	Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Abhijit Sheth	Chairperson of the National Medical Commission (NMC).
Sivasubramanian Raman	Chairperson of PFRDA.
Aliawati Longkumer	India’s Ambassador to North Korea.
S Mahendra Dev	Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the PM.
Rajiv Memani	President of CII for 2025-26.
Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai	Served as the 52nd Chief Justice of India and became the first Buddhist CJI.
Ajay Kumar	Chairman of the UPSC.
Justice Vikram Nath	Executive Chairman of NALSA.
Alok Joshi	Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB).
Kamla Persad-Bissessar	Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for a second term.
Mark Carney	Prime Minister of Canada.
Justice (Retd.) Dinesh Maheshwari	Chairperson of the 23rd Law Commission of India.
Sourav Ganguly	Reappointed as ICC Men’s Cricket Committee Chair.
Ajay Bhushan Pandey	Vice President of Investment Solutions at AIIB.
Justice Joymalya Bagchi	Appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Amitabh Kant	Chancellor of NIIT University.
Ajay Seth	Finance Secretary of India.
Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman	CEO of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF).
Atul Kumar Goel	Chief Executive of the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
Vikas Kaushal	CMD of HPCL.
Ajay Bhadoo	CEO of Government e-Marketplace (GeM).
Rajiv Gauba	Full-time member of NITI Aayog.
Gyanesh Kumar	26th Chief Election Commissioner of India and first CEC appointed under the new EC selection law.

PT Facts

Justice Surya Kant became the 53rd Chief Justice of India.
Justice B.R. Gavai became India’s first Buddhist Chief Justice.
Gyanesh Kumar became the 26th Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Uday Kotak was appointed Chairman of GIFT City.
Ajay Kumar became Chairman of UPSC.
Parag Jain became the new RAW Chief.
Zhou Jiayi became President of AIIB.
Mark Carney became Prime Minister of Canada.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar became PM of Trinidad and Tobago for a second term.
Sourav Ganguly was reappointed ICC Men’s Cricket Committee Chair.
Ajay Seth became Finance Secretary of India.
Rajiv Gauba became full-time member of NITI Aayog.
Aliawati Longkumer became India’s Ambassador to North Korea.
Rishi Sunak joined Microsoft and Anthropic as senior advisor.

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