PERSONS IN NEWS
# Who has been appointed the chairman of the Inland
Waterways Authority of India (IWAI)?
w Jalaj Srivastava
# Which Indian-American woman has been elected as
the president of the Harvard University Undergraduate
Council? w Sruthi Palaniappan
# Who has been appointed as the New Brexit secretary?
w Stephen Barclay
# Joyce Msuya has been appointed as acting Executive
Director of ___. w UNEP
# Who has been appointed as Chairman of Union Public
Service Commission (UPSC)?
w Arvind Saxena
# Who has been appointed as Chairman of National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC)?
w A. M. Naik
# Who was unanimously elected as the President of the
Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI)?
w J Prithiviraj
# Who has been appointed as the next Chief Election
Commissioner? w Sunil Arora
# Which organisation has appointed Millie Bobby
Brown as it’s youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador?
w UNICEF
# Who has been elected unopposed to an Asia Pacific
seat on the UN's Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (CESCR)? w Preeti Saran
# The government has appointed Lalit Kumar Chandel,
economic advisor in the Department of Financial
Services, as its nominee on the board of which bank?
w ICICI Bank
# South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has
appointed which female lawyer as the head of National
Prosecuting Authority? w Shameela Batowi
# Who has been appointed as new Finance Secretary?
w Ajay Narayan Jha
Air Marshal Rajeev Sachdeva took over as Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff.
SCHEMES AND LAUNCHES
AWARDS
# Who will be honoured with the FIAPF Award at the
12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA)?
w Nandita Das
# Which Bollywood superstar has been awarded with
the third Sayaji Ratna Award?
w Amitabh Bachchan
# Who has bagged the 2018 Ballon d'Or?
w Luka Modric
# Who has become the first ever Indian individual medal
winner in an international ultra-running event?
w Ullas Narayan
# Who has been conferred the Skoch Chief Minister of
the Year Award? w Mamata Banerjee
# Who was honoured with the French Knight of the
National Order of Merit? w Ashok Amritraj
# Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) Signed an
MOU with ___ for Training Rural Youth for Skill
Development Under Deendayal Upadhyaya Grameen
Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY).
w Maruti Suzuki
India Ltd
# Cabinet approves establishment of two new AIIMS at
__under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana.
w Tamil Nadu &
Telangana
# Which state launched door-step Aadhaar enrolment
