APPOINTMENTS IN DECEMBER 2024

PRIME MINISTER - 

*  Abdulla Aripov Has Officially Prime Minister Of Uzbekistan.

* French President Emmanuel Macron Named Francois Bayrou As Prime Minister.

PRESIDENT - 

* Vice President Netumbo Nandi Ndaitwah Wins The Presidential Election Of Namibia.

( She Became The FIRST Woman President Of Namibia).

*  John Dramni Mahama Has Been Elected As The President Of Ghana.

* Former Footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili Appointed As Georgia Next President.

* Maia Sandu Assumed As The President Of Republic Of Moldova For 2nd Term.

* IPS Ashish Singh Has Been Appointed As The IG Of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).

* IPS D S Kutey Has Appointed As IGP BSF.

* Ajay Seth, Secretary Department Of Economics Affairs, Has Been Assigned As The Additional Charge Of Secretary In Department Of Revenue.

* President Droupadi Murmu Appointed Retired Supreme Court Judge V Ramasubramaniam From Tamilnadu As The Chairman Of The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

* Five New Governors Of State Appointed By President Droupadi Murmu 

 Dr HARIBABU KAMBHAMPATI - ODISHA

* GENERAL V K SINGH - MIZORAM 

* RAJENDRA VISWANATH ARLEKAR - KERALA 

* ARIF MOHHAMED KHAN - BIHAR

* AJAY KUMAR BHALLA - MANIPUR 

* 1993 Batch IFS OFFICER Sanjiv Ranjan Set To Appointed As The Next General Secretary Of The Indian Ocean Rim Association.

* 1993 Batch Uttar Pradesh Cadre IPS OFFICER Vitul Kumar Has Been Appointed As The Director General  Of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

JUDICIAL - 

* Justice G S Sandhawalia Appointed As The Chief Justice Of Himachal Pradesh High Court.

* Justice Narendra G Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Justice Of Uttarakhand High Court.

* Ex Supreme Court Judge Sanjay Kaul Appointed As Member Of Baharain International Commercial Court. 

* Google Appointed Preeti Lobana As Country Manager, Vice President For India.

* Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Madan Lokur Appointed As The Chairperson Of The UN Internal Justice Council.

ONE NATION ONE ELECTION 

* BJP MP PP Chaudhary has Been Appointed As The Chairperson Of Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) For One Nation One Election 

(27 Member Added)

STEPS DOWN - 

* ASSOCHAM Secretary General Deepak Sood Steps Down.

JUDICIAL - 

* Supreme Court Judge Justice Bela M Trivedi Appointed As Chairman Of The Mahanadi Water Dispute Tribunal.

STATES - 

*  Major General Ajay Misra Assumed As The General Officer Commanding, Telengana And Andhra.

* Asish Shelar Will Be The New Chief Whip Of Maharastra BJP.

* Rahul Narvekar Has Unanimously Elected As The Speaker Of Maharastra Assembly.

* Andhra Pradesh Government Has Granted Cabinet Rank Status To Kanumuru Raghu Ram Krishna Raju.

* Shri Hitendra Malhotra Has Been Appointed As The Member Operation And Business Development, Railway Board.

* 1991 Batches IPS Officer Vinay Kumar Has Been Appointed As The DGP of Bihar.

* Former Governor And Senior Odisha Leader Biswabhusan Harichandan Appointed Chairman Of The Advisory Council Of The Centre For Narendra Modi Studies ( CNMS). 

* 1995 Batch IAS Officer Ashwini Bhide Has Been Appointed As The Principal Secretary To Chief Minister Of Maharastra Devendra Pandavis.

CHIEF MINISTER - 

* Devendra Pandavis Sworn In As Chief Minister Of Maharastra.

* Ajit Pawar And Eknath Sindhe As Deputy Chief Minister Of Maharastra Respectively.

* Kalidas Kolambkar Sworn In As Protem Speaker Of Maharastra Assembly.

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AMBASSADOR - 

* 2007 IFS Suneet Mehta Has Been Appointed As The INDIAN High Commissioner To Fiji.

* Dr Devyanni Uttam Khobragade Has Been Appointed As The India's Next Ambassador To Tunisia.

* Om Prakash Meena Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To The Burkina Faso.

* Abhay Kumar Has Been Appointed As The India's Ambassador To Georgia.

* 1997 Batch IFS Officer Birendra Singh Yadav Has Been Appointed As The INDIAN Ambassador To Kyrgyz Republic.

* 1996 Batch IFS OFFICER Arun Kumar Sahu Has Been Appointed As The INDIAN Ambassador To Bulgaria.

* Dr N Nandakumar Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Republic Of Mali.

* IFS MANIKA JAIN Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Republic Of Moldova.

* Dr Shankar Prasad Sharma Has Been Reappointed As The Resident Ambassador Of Nepal To India.

BRAND AMBASSADOR - 

* Javelin Star Neeraj Chopra Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of JSW CEMENT.

* Mc Mary Kum Has Been Appointed As Brand Ambassador Of Assam Rifle Marathon.

* Former Indian Cricketer M S Dhoni Has Been Appointed As The New Brand Ambassador Of Eurogrip Tyre 

* Actor Salman Khan Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of Inaugural KHO KHO World Cup.

WORLD CURRENT AFFAIRS IN DECEMBER 2024

FOUNDS - 

* China Discovered World's Largest Gold Reserve Worth Rs 6 Lakhs Crores In Hunan Province. 

* UAE Celebrated 53td National Day 

( Theme - Eid AI Etihad) 

* 21st December Declared As The World Meditation Day At UN 

* China Opens It's First Atmospheric Monitoring Station In Antarctica.

*  UNICEF Launched The $ 9.9 billion Appeal To Aid Children In 146 Countries.

* Peru Government Declared Environment Emergency In Northern Coastal Area, State Oil Firm Petroperu Spilled A Crude Oil Shipment Of Pacific Ocean.

* The Dinga Dinga Virus Is Outbreak In Africa.

OXFORD WORD OF THE YEAR - 

* Oxford University Press Has announced The Brain Rot As The Oxford Word Of The Year 2024 

* Britain Became Thee FIRST European Country To Join CPTPP.

( Comprehensive And Progressive Agreement For Trans Pacific Partnerships)

* Britain Became The 12th Member 

* Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam) 

* Established In 2018 

* Bald Eagle Officially Declared As National Bird Of US.

* Cyclone Chido Devastating Mayotte.

* Researchers In Siberia Conducted A Test On Juvenile Mammoth (Which Was Preserve over 50,000 Years Excavation).

* Italy Granted Citizenship To Argentine President Javier Melai.

APPOINTMENTS - 

* World Trade Organization (WTO) Chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Reappointed For Another 2 Years. 

* United States President Donald Trump Elected Kashyap (KASH)  Patel As FBI Director.

* US PRESIDENT Donald Trump Elected Charles Kushner As US Ambassador To France.

* Kaja Kallas Has Been Appointed As The EU High Representative For Foreign AFFAIRS And Security Policy AND Vice President Of EU- Commission.

* Justice Murdu Nirupa Bindushini Fernando Sworn In As New Chief Justice Of Srilanka.

* US PRESIDENT Donald Trump Elected Lebanese- American Businessman Massad Boulos, To His Cabinet As Senior Advisor On Arab And Middle Eastern Affairs.

* US PRESIDENT Donald Trump Appointed Richard Grenell As Foreign Policy Advisor.

* US President Donald Trump Appointed Banker Warren Stephens As US Ambassador To United Kingdom.

* President Donald Trump Elected Former Georgia Sen Kelly Loeffler To Lead The Small Business Administration.

* US PRESIDENT Donald Trump Elected The Jared Issacman  As Administration Of NASA.

* US PRESIDENT Donald Trump Elected Indian- American Harmeet Dhillon As Assistant Attorney General For Civil Rights.

* Mohammad- AI- Bashir Has Been Appointed As The Caretaker To Prime Minister Of Syria.

* Malaysia Named Former Thailand Premier Thaksin As Advisor.

* Dr Jagath Wickramasinghe Has Been Elected As The New Speaker Of The Srilankan Parliament.

* Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Has Appointed Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc As The New Finance Minister.

*  Peter Mandelson Has Been Appointed As The UK Ambassador To Washington. 

* US President Donald Trump Has Appointed Mark Burnett As The Special Envoy To United Kingdom.

*  P Katrin Has Been Appointed As The Foreign Minister Of Iceland. 

* US PRESIDENT Donald Trump Appointed Indian American Sriram Krishnan As Policy Advisor On AI.

* Romanian President Nominate Marcel Ciolacu To Form Pro-European Coalition Government.

* South Korean Rulling Party Nominated 5 Times Law Maker Kwon Young Se To Head Emergency Committee.

* Bangladesh Has Appointed Nasimul Gani As Its New Home Secretary.

* South Korean Airplane Met An Air crashed At Muan International Airport, Over 170 People Killed.

* Belgium Will Ban E Disposal e Cigarette From 1st January 2025.

* China Unveiled The Prototype World's Fastest Train Which Have 450 km/hr Speed.

UNESCO - 

* SEVDALINKA, An Ancient Form Of Love Song From Bosnia And Herzegovina Included In UNESCO'S National Inventory Of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

DEFENSE - 

* China Has Unveiled The 6th Generation Two Fighter Jets ( Chengdu & Shenyang).

BRAND AMBASADOR - 

*  Pharrell Williams Has Been Appointed As The UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador For Arts Education And Entrepreneurship.

* UNESCO - 

* UNESCO Officially Launched The International Decade Of Science For Sustainable Development 2024-2033) 

* Asian Development Bank Has Approved The Grant Of 25.45 million US Dollar To The Solomon Islands.

* Russia Has Announced A Ground Breaking Development In Cancer Treatment With The Creation Of An m-RNA Based Vaccines Designed To Treat Cancer Patients.

*  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Named The Most Powerful Person In Europe.

* Scientists From Japan Has Created Non toxic Plastic That Dissolve In Sea Water Within Hour's.

* South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Impeached Over Attempt To Declare Martial Law.

* Qatar Officially Reopens Its Embassy In Damascus After 13 Years. 

* Former Managing Director Of The IMF And Spain's Former Deputy Prime Minister Rodrigo  Rato Sentenced To 4 Years And 9 Month's in Prison By The Madrid Provincial Court.

INDIA -WORLD - 

*  King Of Bhutan Jigme Kheshar Namgyel Wangchuk On Visit To India'.

* India Has Dispatched a Consignment Of 2,200 MT Of Rice To Myanmar As Humanitarian Aid. 

* King Charles III Directed The Names Of Raminder Singh Ranger And Anil Kumar Bhanot To Erased From Most Excellent Order Of British Empire.

* Thailand Announced eVisa For Indian Passport Holder's From January 2025.

* India Sends 60 Tonnes Of Medical Assistance To Jamaica.

* China Has approved The Construction Of The World's  Largest Dam, On The Brahmaputra River By Investing $ 137 Billion.

* Emirates Wins The World Travel Awards And World Travel Tech Awards 2024.

PACT SIGNED - 

* Nepal And China Signed 9 Point Agreement.

* Australia Announced A Multi Million Dollar Agreement With Nauru That Gives Australia a Veto Right Over A Range Of Pacts The Tiny Pacific 

* Somalia And Ethiopia Agreed To Work Together To Resolve a Dispute Over Addis Abba's Plan To Build a port In The Breakaway Region  Of Somaliland.

AWARDS - 

Hollywood Actor Tom Cruise Has Been Honoured With The US Navy VALOUR ( Highest Civilian award) 

* Christopher Nolan And Emma Thomas Honoured By King Charles III. 

MIXED - 

* South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Declared Emergency Martial Law Amid Political Crisis.

* China Banned Export Of Gallium, Germanium, Antimony To US.

*  10 Cities Have Been Awarded The UNESCO Learning City Award For 2024 

• Benguerir, Morocco.
• Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire.
• Cork, Ireland.
• Cuenca, Ecuador.
• Doha, Qatar.
• Eunpyeong-gu, Republic of Korea.
• Glasgow, United Kingdom.
• Querétaro, Mexico.
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• * Former US Marine Akshay Nanavati Is On Solo Antarctica Quest.
  

* South Korea Has Unveiled A Ground Based Laser Anti Aircraft  Weapon BLOCK-1.

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*  The Royal Australian Navy Successfully Fired A Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missile For The First Time In American West Coast