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Category: National Appointments

SS Mundra appointed as the new non-executive Chairman of IBH

August 14, 2020
SS Mundra
  • Indiabulls Housing Finance (IBH) appointed the former RBI deputy governor Subhash Sheoratan Mundra as non-executive chairman. He replaced Sameer Gehlaut, the co-founder and Chairman of Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd ( IBHFL).

Soma Mondal will be the next chairman of SAIL

August 13, 2020
Soma Mondal
  • Soma Mondal will be the next chairman of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).She will succeed the present Chairman Anil Chaudhary.

Capital India Finance Limited Appointed Harsh Kumar Bhanwala as its new Executive Chairman

August 12, 2020
Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
  • Capital India Finance Limited Appointed former NABARD Chief Harsh Kumar Bhanwala as its new Executive Chairman. He served as chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for over six years.

PNB Housing Finance appointed Hardayal Prasad as its new MD& CEO

August 10, 2020
Hardayal Prasad
  • PNB Housing Finance appointed former SBI Card head Hardayal Prasad as its new MD & CEO.

Oriental Insurance Company Ltd appointed S.N.Rajeswari as CMD

August 8, 2020
S.N.Rajeswari
  • Oriental Insurance Company Ltd appointed S.N.Rajeswari as CMD. Previously he was the General Manager at New India Assurance Company Ltd.

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd appointed Navin Agarwal as the MD & CEO

August 8, 2020
Navin Agarwal
  • Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd appointed Navin Agarwal as the MD & CEO. He succeeded Aashish Somaiyya as MD and CEO of Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company.

UPSC appointed Pradeep Kumar Joshi as its Chairman

August 8, 2020
Pradeep Kumar Joshi
  • Union Public Service Commission(UPSC) appointed Pradeep Kumar Joshi as its Chairman till May 12, 2021. He succeeds Arvind Saxena, whose tenure as UPSC chairman ended on 7 August 2020.

New Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir: Manoj Sinha

August 6, 2020
Manoj Sinha
  • Manoj Sinha was appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on August 6, 2020 by President Ram Nath Kovind. Sinha will be replacing Girish Chandra Murmu who resigned on August 5, 2020.

SBI Card appointed Ashwini Kr Tewari as its CMD

August 5, 2020
Ashwini Kr Tewari
  • Ashwini Kumar Tewari has assumed as its new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SBI Cards & Payment Services (SBI Card).He will take charge from 1 August 2020.And he replaced Hardayal Prasad.

Sashidhar Jagdishan selected as the CEO of HDFC Bank

August 4, 2020
Sashidhar Jagdishan
  • Sashidhar Jagdishan selected as the next chief executive officer of HDFC Bank as the current CEO Aditya Puri will step down by October this year.