Weekly Current Affairs (17 October to 22 October 2022)

Weekly Current Affairs (17 October to 22 October 2022)

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: October 23 2022

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  1. Armane Giridhar will be the next Defense Secretary of the country, Sanjay Malhotra will take over the post of Revenue Secretary
  2. Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) officer Bharti Das appointed as the new Controller General of Accounts of India
  3. Adani Airport Holdings Limited appoints Arun Bansal as its Chief Executive
  4. World Bank appoints Michelle Lino as a neutral expert and chairman of arbitration court for 'Kishanganga' and 'Ratale' hydroelectric projects
  5. Paytm Payments Bank appoints Deepender Singh Rathore as interim chief executive officer in place of Satish Gupta
  6. Diplomat Apoorva Srivastava appointed as Ambassador of Slovak Republic
  7. Ashwini KP becomes India's first Dalit woman to become Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC)
  8. Pradeep Singh Kharola becomes Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO)
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