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f The incumbent Election Commissioner (EC) Sushil Chandra has been named to become the next Chief
Election Commissioner (CEC) of India. He will assume charge with effect from April 13, 2021. He will
replace incumbent CEC, Sunil Arora, who will retire on April 12, 2021.
Poonam Gupta will be the new director-general of the policy think tank National Council of Applied
Economic Research (NCAER). Gupta will succeed the current head of the think tank, Shekhar Shah, to
become the first woman to hold the post. Currently, Gupta is the lead economist at the World Bank in
Washington DC.
f IAS officer, Siddharth Singh Longjam will take over as the National Anti-Doping Agency's Director-
General. Longjam is currently serving as joint secretary in the sports ministry and is also the CEO of the
currently suspended National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL). He will replace Navin Agarwal who listed
the creation of Athletes Biological Passport (ABP) for around 60 elite Indian sportspersons as one of the
highlights of his tenure.

f Prime Minister of Haiti, Joseph Jouthe has resigned following a situation of unrest in the country due to an
increase in killing and kidnapping cases over the past few days. Joseph Jouthe served as the Prime
Minister of Haiti from March 4, 2020, until April 14, 2021. President Jovenel Moise has nominated Claude
Joseph as the new prime minister of Haiti.
f Private sector lender, DCB Bank has received approval from the Reserve Bank of India for the re-
appointment of Murali M. Natrajan as the Managing Director & CEO, for a further period of one year from
April 29, 2021. He was appointed as MD and CEO of DCB Bank in May 2009. Prior to joining DCB, Natrajan
has worked with foreign banks Standard Chartered & Citibank.
f Global sportswear brand Puma has signed long-term endorsement deals with cricketers Washington
Sundar and Devdutt Padikkal. Puma India, which recently announced its partnership with Royal
Challengers Bangalore, has been consistently investing in India's sports ecosystem.

f India's Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), GC Murmu has been chosen as the external auditor by
the Hague-based Conference of State Parties of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW), for a three-year term starting 2021.
f Accenture India's chairperson, Rekha M Menon has been appointed as chairperson of the National
Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), becoming the first woman to take the top
role in the software lobby group's 30-year history. She succeeds U B Pravin Rao, chief operating officer of
Infosys as Nasscom's chairperson. TCS President Krishnan Ramanujam will be the vice-chairperson.
f The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has approved the appointment of former Economic Affairs Secretary,
Atanu Chakraborty, as the part-time chairman and additional independent director of the private sector
lender HDFC Bank. He retired as Secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs in April 2020. Prior to
that, he served as Secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM).

f Former US Ambassador to India Richard Verma has been appointed as General Counsel and Head of
Global Public Policy of Mastercard. The first and only Indian American to serve in this position so far,
Verma joined Mastercard in October 2020.
f Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana was sworn in as the 48th Chief Justice of India (CJI) on April 24,
2021. Justice Ramana was administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind at a brief
ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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