APPOINTMENTS IN MAY 2026

* * RAVI. K HAS APPOINTED AS THE 22ND CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LIMITED (HAL)

* * 1991 Batch IDAS OFFICER Shri Anugraha Narayana Das Has Assumed Charge As The Controller General Of Defence Accounts ( CGDA) 

* Filmmaker Asutosh Gowarikar Has Appointed As The Festival Director Of The 57th Edition Of IFFI, Goa.

*  Shri Bharat Khera Assume As The Secretary, Ministry Of MSME 

* 1990 Batch IDAS Shri Vishvajit Sahay Assumed As The Secretary Defence Finance 

* Renowned Lyricist And Communication Expert Shri Prasoon Joshi Has Appointed As The Chairman Of Prasar Bharti 

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Approved The Appointment Of Two New Full Time Members To NITI AYOG - Dr R Balasubramaniam And Dr Joram Aniy

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* Mr Deepak Raj Has Appointed As The Chairman Of IIT KANPUR.

* G Satyavathi Has Appointed As The Chief Information Commissioner Of Karnataka.

*  Tamilnadu Government Has Appointed Advocate V Ellammal Kissinger As Special Public Prosecutor For A 17 Years Old Girl Rape Case 

*  Former Prasar Bharti CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati Appointed As The Chairman Of CENSOR Board 

*  Dr Prabodh Kumar Trivedi Assumed As The Director At CSIR - Central Institute Of Medicinal And Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) Lucknow

* IPS OFFICER Ghanashyam Upadhyay Gets Two Years Extension As Joint Director Of CBI.

* MNVS Prabhakar Has Been Appointed As The Chairman And Managing Director Of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam limited (RINL) 

* The Appointment Cabinet Of India Has Appointed IAS Sachin Sharatchandra Kurve As The Chairperson Of The Chennai Port Authority For 5 Years 

* 1997 Batch IRTS Officer Jasmeet Singh Bindra Has Been Appointed As The Chairperson Of Visakhapatnam Port Authority 

* IAS Dr Subrat Gupta Has Appointed As The Advisor To West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari 

* MV Karuppaiah Sworn In As The Interim Speaker Of Tamilnadu Assembly

*  Manoj Kumar Agarwal Has Appointed As The Chief Secretary To The GOVERNMENT Of West Bengal.

* National Federation Of Churches In India Appoints Cardinal Anthony Poola As Chairperson 

* IAS G Lakshmi Priya Has Appointed As The Secretary To Tamilnadu CM 

* TVK's JCD Prabhakar Unanimously ELECTED As Tamilnadu Assembly Speaker 

* TVK MLA Ravi Shankar Unanimously ELECTED As Deputy Speaker 

* 1995 Batch IPS OFFICER R S Yadav Has Appointed As The DGP Of Andaman & Nicobar 

* ICAR Announced The Appointment Of D Inder Dev As The Assistant Director General (EP& HS)

* IPS Officer Pravin Sood Gets One Year Extension As Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) head 

* IAS Manivannan ASSUMED Charge Of Secretary Of Spice Board Of India 

*  India' Has Been Nominated As The Chair Of The Common Criteria Development Board ( CCCDB) Till April 2028 

* Rathindra Basu Has Been Elected As The New Speaker Of West Bengal Legislative assembly 

* Chandra Mohan Patowary Sworn In As The Protem Speaker Of Assam Assembly 

* C Vijay Bhaskar Appointed As Chief Whip Of Tamilnadu 

* The Chhattisgarh State Government Has Appointed IPS OFFICER Arun Dev Gautam As The Director General Of Police (DGP)

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 Indian Revenue Services (IRS) Officer Akash Jain Appointed As The Joint Director In National Testing Agency (NTA) 

* Apu John Has Appointed As The Government Chief Whip Of Keralam 

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* Sourav Vijay Takes Charge As The CEO Of UIDAI.

*  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Announced The Group Captain K K Venugopal, Executive Director And Chief Test Pilot ( Fixed Wing) HAL Has Been Elected As The Fellow of Society Of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) 

* Professor Dr Medha Vishram Kulkarni, MP In Rajya Sabha Has Appointed Chairperson Of Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee On Science Technology, Earth Forest Environment 

* Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Former Chief Scientist Of WORLD Health Organisation Has Been Elected a Fellow Of Royal Society ( FRS) 

* Keralam Government Has Appointed Advocate Mohammed Shah PA As Additional Advocate General in Keralam High Court 

* Ranjeet Kumar Das Has Elected As The Speaker Of Assam Assembly 

* Professor Ajay Kumar Sood Has Been Elected As The Corresponding Member Of Australian Academy Of Science 

* Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadda Has Appointed As The Chairman Of The Committee On Petition Of The Rajya Sabha

* Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai Set To Become Patna High Court Chief Justice ( She Became The First Female Chief Justice Of Patna High court)

 * The Election Commission in India (ECI) APPOINTS Senior IAS OFFICER Neelam Meena As The New Chief Electoral Officer Of West Bengal 

 * IAS OFFICER Piyush Singla Has Been Appointed As The Director In The National Health Authority - Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission 

*  ECI APPOINTS Ravi Prakash As New Chief Electoral Officer Of Puducherry 

*  Dr Raman Meenakshi Sundaram Joins As The New Director Of CSIR - NAARM

CHIEF MINISTER - 

* * MR SUVENDU ADHIKARI SWORN IN AS WEST BENGAL NEW CHIEF MINISTER.

 * President Droupadi MURMU Appoints N Rangaswamy As Chief Minister Of UT Puducherry 

* TAMILAGA VETRRI KAZHAGAM PRESIDENT ACTOR C JOSEPH VIJAY SWORN IN AS NEW CHIEF MINISTER OF TAMILNADU.

* HIMANTA BISWA SARMA SWORN IN AS CHIEF MINISTER OF ASSAM FOR SECOND TIME.

* CONGRESS LEADER V D SATHEESAN TAKES OATH AS CHIEF MINISTER OF KERALAM.

JUDICIAL - 

* Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) For Next 5 Years 

( FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF PUNJAB & HARYANA HIGH COURT RETIRED) 

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BRAND AMBASSADOR - 

* Indian Cricketer Ishan Kishan Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of LPU University.

* Indian Cricketer Shreyas Iyer Has Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of F1 Sim Racing India Open 2026 

*  Visa India Appoints Actor Shah Rukh Khan As Brand Ambassador 

* Pinarayi Vijayan Resigned As Chief Minister of Kerala.

PRESIDENT - 

* LAURA FERNANDEZ AASUMED AS THE PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA.

* CAPITAL OF COSTA RICA - SAN JOSE 

* CURRENCY - COSTA RICAN COLON 

* UGANDA SWORN IN 7TH TERM PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI ( 82 YEARS OLD) 

PRIME MINISTER - 

* EU CONSERVATIVE PARTY'S PETER MAGYAR APPOINTED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER OF HUNGARY.

* CAPITAL OF HUNGARY - BUDAPEST 

* CURRENCY OF HUNGARY - HUNGARIAN FORINT 

 * Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis And His Ruling Party Progressive Liberal Party Re Elected On 12th May 2026 

* * PHILIP BRAVE DAVIS SWORN IN AS PRIME MINISTER OF BAHAMAS FOR 2ND TERM.

* CAPITAL OF BAHAMAS - NASSAU 

* CURRENCY OF BAHAMAS - BAHAMAIAN DOLLAR 

* ALI FALIH KADHIM AL - ZAIDI ASSUMED AS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF IRAQ.

* CAPITAL OF IRAQ - BAGHDAD 

* CURRENCY OF IRAQ - IRAQI DINAR 

* SENEGAL PRESIDENT BASSIROU DIOMAYE FAYE APPOINTED ECONOMIST AND FORMER CENTRAL BANKER AHMADOU AL AMINOU LO

* SLOVENIA APPOINTS JANEZ JANSA AS NEW PRIME MINISTER OF COUNTRY 

* CAPITAL OF SLOVENIA - LJUBIJANA 

* CURRENCY - EURO 

AMBASSADOR - 

* Prashant Pise Has Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Sultanate To Oman

* Dr Vinod J Bahade Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Republic Of Colombia 

* Ms Pratibha Parakar Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Republic Of Panama 

 2002 IFS OFFICER Dr Ajay Kumar Has Appointed As The India's Next High Commissioner To UGANDA 

* 2004 IFS OFFICER Dr Pradeep Singh Purohit Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Kingdom Of Bahrain 

*  Shri Norbu Negi Has Appointed As The India's NEXT High Commissioner To Sierra Leone 

* 2005 Batch IFS OFFICER Muanpuii Saiawi Has Appointed As India's next High Commissioner To Cook Islands