Weekly Current Affairs (10 January to 15 January 2022)

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: January 16 2022

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  • Former RBI governor Urjit Patel appointed as AIIB vice-chairman replacing DJ Pandian
  • Puneet Kumar Goel replaces Parimal Rai as new Chief Secretary of Goa
  • Pierre-Olivier Gourinches to replace Gita Gopinath as IMF Chief Economist
  • Sher Singh Khayalia appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Adani Power
  • S. Somnath has been appointed in place of K. Sivan as the chairman of ISRO 
  • Rajkummar Rao appointed brand ambassador for 360-degree consumer advertising campaign of online insurance platform 'RenewBuy'
  • RBI approves appointment of Ittira Davis as MD & CEO of Ujjivan small finance bank
  • Mauritius's Avinash Pandu becomes the first High Performance Director of Indian Weightlifting
  • Former Kurukshetra University registrar Raghuvendra Tanwar appointed as the President of Indian Council of Historical Research
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