Current Affairs - January 2016

1. Actress Kajol has been appointed as part-time member of Prasar Bharati board.
2. Air vice marshal RD Mathur promoted to rank of Air marshal of Indian Air Force.
3. Albert Pahimi Padacke is appointed as new prime minster of Chad (Central Africa).
4. Alok Verma will be appointed as new Delhi Police Commissioner.
5. Aruna Sethi appointed as head of Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS). She is first lady officer to this post.
6. Ashok Chawla is Appointed As New Chairman of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute). Previous DG R.K. Pachauri is appointed Executive Vice Chairman.
7. Ashwini Nangia appointed as Director of CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.
8. Atul Kumar Jain appointed as Chief of Eastern Naval Command and Bimal Verma appointed as Chief of Andaman and Nicobar Naval Command.
9. Christine Lagarde from France has been appointed as Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund for second five-year term.
10. D J Pandian is appointed as vice-president and chief investment officer (CIO) of Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
11. Datta Padsalgikar appointed as Commissioner of Mumbai Police.
12. Davinder Singh has been named as Vice-Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce Commission (ICC) on Corporate Responsibility and Anti- corruption.
13. Devaraja Reddy is elected as President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for 1 year.
14. Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela appointed as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.
15. Diageo-controlled United Spirits USL) appointmed MK Sharma as chairman, after Vijay Mallya resigned from the post.
16. Dinesh Maheshwari sworn-in as chief justice of Meghalaya High Court.
17. Dinesh Sharma is elected as Chairperson of International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) (ROME).
18. Faustin Archange Touadera won 2016 Presidential election of Central African Republic.
19. Former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai is appointed as first Chairman of Banks Board Bureau (BBB).
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21. BBB will consist eminent professionals from public sector banks (PSBs) to replace Appointments Board of Government. BBB was announced by Government in August 2015 as part of 7 point Indradhanush Mission to revamp PSBs.Four Indian-Americans have been selected to the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) - Anil K. Jain, Arati Prabhakar, Ganesh Thakur and K R Sridhar.
22. General John Nicholson is appointed as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan.
23. Gianni Infantino of Switzerland has been elected as new President of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), global governing body of football.
24. Government announced Prime Minister’s Shram Awards 2014 on 54 people -
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26. Shram Ratna - No Awardee
27. Shram Bhushan - 9 Awardees
28. Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana - 19 Awardees
29. Shram Shree/Shram Devi - 26 AwardeesGovernment appointed Jai Kumar Garg as Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Corporation Bank.
30. Government appointed World Bank’s water and sanitation specialist, Parameshwaran Iyer as Secretary of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Department. He will lookm over Swachh Bharat Mission for 2 years.
31. Government appointed former Chief Justice of India H L Dattu as new Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
32. Government has appointed three Information Commissioners in Central Information Commission - Amitava Bhattacharya, Bimal Julka and Divya Prakash Sinha.
33. Gurdeep Singh appointed Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC.
34. HL Samariya is appointed as Central Provident Fund Commissioner (CPFC) for three months.
35. Hashim Thaci elected as president of Kosovo (Southeastern Europe). 
36. Indian Origin Person Vishal Mehta appointed President of newly- formed International Grown Diamond Association (IGDA).
37. Indian lawyer Abhinav Bhushan has been appointed as regional director for South Asia in International Court of Arbitration under International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
38. Indian-origin Harinder Sidhu has been appointed as Australian High Commissioner to India.
39. Indian-origin Person Davinder Singh has been named as Vice-Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce Commission (ICC) on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-corruption.
40. Indian-origin Sikh Amar Singh appointed as Police Commissioner of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur.
41. Indian-origin person Ismail Mahomed from South Africa has been honored by Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature by France for his lifelong devotion to promotion of arts.