Current Affairs is an integral part of the General Awareness section of most of the competitive exams. The latest appointments are one of the important topics of all the Competitive exams. In this section, questions related to the appointments, are asked in Government exams.
Aspirants preparing for the upcoming Government exams like UPSC, Railway exam, SSC, etc. can find this article helpful for the current affairs section. This article contains the various appointments for the year 2022.
List of recent Appointment in India- 2022
| Name | Appointed as |
|---|---|
| Dr. Sankarasubramanian K | Principal Scientist of the Aditya-L1 mission |
| Deependra Singh Rathore | CEO of Paytm Payments Bank |
| Mallikarjun Kharge | New Congress President |
| Bharati Das | Controller General of Accounts |
| Justice DY Chandrachud | 50th Chief Justice of India |
| Uday Umesh Lalit | 49thChief Justice of India |
| Roger Binny | BCCI president |
| Pankaj Tripathi | ‘National Icon’ of Election Commission of India |
| Sanjeev Kishore | Director General of Indian Ordinance Factory |
| Ajay Bhadoo | Deputy Election Commissioner |
| Ram Charan | Brand Ambassador of Hero MotoCorp |
| Rajendra Kumar | ESIC (Employees’ State Insurance Corporation,) Director General. |
| Lt. General Anil Chauhan | Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) |
| R Venkataramani | Attorney General of India |
| Dilip Tirkey | President of Hockey India |
| Dr. Rajiv Bahl | Director General of ICMR |
| Ratan Tata, Justice K.T. Thomas and Kariya Munda | Trustees of PM CARES Fund |
| Sumant Kathpalia | MD & CEO IndusInd Bank |
| Mohammed bin Salman | Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia |
| Giorgia Meloni | First woman PM of Italy |
| Volker Turk | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| Liz Truss | PM of United Kingdom |
| Samir V. Kamat | New chairman of DRDO |
| Nallathamby Kalaiselvi | Appointed as the First woman director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) |
| Jagdeep Dhankar | Elected as Vice-president of India |
| Dr. Sujoy Lal Thaosen | Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) |
| Shweta Singh | Director in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) |
| Suresh N Patel | DG of Central Vigilance Commissioner |
| Satyendra Prakash | Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) |
| Rajesh Verma | Secretary to President Droupadi Murmu |
| Ana Brnabic | Prime Minister of Serbia |
| Krishnamurti Subramanian | India’s Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
| Viswanathan Anand | Deputy president of International Chess Federation (FIDE) |
| Gustavo Petro | Colombia’s first leftist President |
| Simon Stiell | New executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
| William Ruto | President of Kenya |
| Alok Kumar Choudhary | Managing Director of State Bank of India |
| Krishna Srinivasan | Director of the Asia and Pacific Department |
| Mayank Kumar Agrawal | Chief Executive Officer, Prasar Bharati |
| Amandeep Singh Gill | UN Chief’s envoy on technology |
| N J Ojha | MGNREGA Ombudsman |
| R Subramaniakumar | MD & CEO of RBL Bank |
| Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai | Head of the Press Council of India (PCI) |
| Hamza Abdi Barre | Prime Minister of Somalia |
| Justice Vipin Sanghi | Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court |
| Justice Ujjal Bhuyan | Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court |
| Justice Amjad Ahtesham Sayed | Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court |
| Justice Shinde Sambhaji Shiwaji | Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court |
| Justice Rashmin M Chhaya | Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court |
| Justice Satish Chandra Sharma | Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court |
| S Ruchira Kamboj | Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations |
| Gustavo Petro | Colombia’s first left-wing president |
| Dinkar Gupta | Director-General of the National Investigation Agency |
| Parameswaran Iyer | Niti Aayog CEO |
| Anil Khanna | President of the Indian Olympic Association |
| Mohammed Jalood | President of the International Weightlifting Federation |
| Sangeeta Singh | Additional Chairman of CBDT chairperson |
| Rajiv Kumar | Chief election commissioner of India |
| Ranil Wickremensighe | Appointed as the Prime Minster of Sri Lanka. |
| Nand Mulchandani | Appointed as the CTO of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
| Tarun Kapoor | Appointed as advisor to PM Narendra Modi |
| Sangeeta Singh | Appointed as chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). |
| Lt Gen BS Raju | Appointed as Vice Chief of Indian Army |
| Shehbaz Sharif | Appointed as the new Prime Minster of Pakistan |
| Harsh Shringla | Chief Coordinator for the coming G20 Summit which will be hosted by India in 2023 |
| Urjit Patel | Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank |
| Shri. S. Iqbal Singh | Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities |
| Manoj Soni | Chairman of UPSC |
| Lt General Manoj Pande | New Army Chief |
| Shanti Sethi | New Defense Advisor to Smt. Kamala Harris |
| Vishwas Patel | Chairman of Payments Council of India |
| Dr. S Raju | Director-General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI) |
| Arunabha Ghosh | UN Chief to High-Level expert group on net-zero emissions commitments |
| Vinay Mohan Kwatra | New Foreign Secretary |
| Babita Singh | New Global Peace Ambassador 2022 |
| Ajay Kumar Sood | Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India |
| Krishnan Ramanujam | Nasscom Chairperson for 2022-23 |
| Debasish Panda | Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) |
| Sumant Sinha | President of ASSOCHAM |
| T Raja Kumar | President of the Financial Action Task Force |
| Nitin Chugh | Deputy Managing Director of SBI |
| Madhabi Puri Buch | First woman chief of SEBI |
| Emma Terho | Chairperson of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes |
| G Ashok Kumar | India’s first national maritime security coordinator |
| Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas | IMF’s Chief Economist |
| MR Kumar | Chairman of LIC |
| Ravi Mittal | Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) |
| Sonali Singh | Controller General of Accounts (CGA) |
| M Jagadesh Kumar | Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) |
| GA Srinivasa Murthy | Director of Defence Research and Development Laboratory of the DRDO |
| Prof Dinesh Prasad Saklani | Director of NCERT |
| S. Kishore | Chairman of the Staff Selection Commission |
| Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari | Chief Justice of the Madras High Court |
| Vineet Joshi | Chairman of CBSE |
| Sanjay Malhotra | Director on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) |
| VS Pathania | Director General (DG) of the Indian Coast Guard |
| Alka Mittal | 1st woman Chairman and MD (CMD) of ONGC |
| G Asok Kumar | Director-General of National Mission for Clean Ganga, Ministry of Jal Shakti |
| Zhang Ming | New Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) |
| Urjit Patel | Vice President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) |
| Haitham Al Ghais | Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
| Dr. S Somanath | Chairman and Space Secretary of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) |
| Pushp Kumar Joshi | Chairman and MD of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) |
| Justice Ayesh Malik | First Female judge of the Pakistan Supreme Court |
| Dr. V Anantha Nageswaran | New Chief Economic Adviser |
| Sambit Patra | Chairman of India Tourism Development Corporation |
| Gita Gopinath | IMF’s Deputy Managing Director |
| Alka Upadhyaya | Chairperson of National Highways Authority of India |
| Sanjiv Mehta | President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) |
| Catherine Russell | Head of UN children’s agency UNICEF |
| Atul Dinkar Rane | New CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace Limited |
| Harjinder Singh | India’s Chef de Mission 2022 Winter Olympics |
| Radhika Jha | CEO of Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) |