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f Senior diplomat, Manpreet Vohra has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to Australia.
Vohra, a 1988-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, is presently Ambassador of India to Mexico.
f Six-time world champion boxer Mary Kom has been appointed as the Chairperson of the International
Boxing Association's (AIBA) Champions and Veterans Committee. The 37-yearold was voted to the post
by AIBA's board of directors on March 03, 2021.
f Department of economic affairs secretary, Tarun Bajaj has been given the additional charge of revenue
secretary. Present revenue secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey retires on February 28.
f UN chief Antonio Guterres has appointed leading Indian economist Ligia Noronha as Assistant Secretary-
General and Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
f Indian-origin Naureen Hassan has been appointed as the first Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
(COO) of the New York-based Federal Reserve Bank, by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
f NABARD chairman, G R Chintala has assumed charge as the chairman of APRACA (Asia Pacific Rural and
Agricultural Credit Association). He has taken over from DPK Gunasekera, who is also the Chief Executive
Officer of Bank of Ceylon.
f Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Girish Chandra Murmu has been re-appointed as the
Chairman of the Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations for the year 2021. Prior to this, Mr
Murmu was elected as Chairman of the Panel for 2020 as well.
f The Central Government has appointed Dr G P Samanta as the new Chief Statistician of India (CSI) for a
period of two years. He is India's fourth CSI. He will replace Kshatrapati Shivaji who was holding an
additional charge of the post since September 2020.
f Union Minister Anurag Thakur has become the first serving MP to be appointed as Captain in the
Territorial Army. Thakur has been promoted to the rank of Captain at 124 Infantry Battalion Territorial
Army (Sikh)

f Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd (Arcil) has announced the appointment of Pallav Mohapatra as
its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Prior to the appointment, Mohapatra was the MD and
CEO of the Central Bank of India.

f Deepak Mishra, Practice Manager in the World Bank's Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global
Practice, has been appointed as the next director and chief executive of the Indian Council for Research
on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

f Former Cabinet Secretary and Principal Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) P.K. Sinha has
relinquished his high-profile position on personal grounds. He was appointed in the PMO first as Officer on
Special Duty (OSD) briefly and then as Principal Advisor, a specially created position for him, in
September 2019 after the 2019 parliamentary polls.

f Senior IPS officer, M. A. Ganapathy was on March 16, 2021 appointed Director General of National
Security Guard. Ganapathy, a 1986 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, is
currently Director General, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).

f Lt General DP Pandey has taken over the command of strategic Kashmir-based 15 Corps from Lt Gen BS
Raju, who has been appointed as the new Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO) of the Indian
Army.

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