Chairman, CEO, MD and Their Positions

1. H S Brahma takes charge as power Secretary (Secretary in the Ministry Of Power).
   
2. Ashok Chawla as the new finance secretary in the ministry of finance succeeded Arun Ramanthan.
   
3. New TRAI chairman J S Sharma (TDSAT member) Succeed Nipendra Mishra.
   
4. D P Agarwal is the Chairman of UPSC.
   
5. Pulock Chatterji was appointed as the new executive director of world Bank.
   
6. Ashok Chawla was appointed as India's Alternative governor on the world Bank Board.
   
7. Justice Ashok Bhan was appointed as the new chairman of NCDRC.
   
8. Venu Srinivasan is the new president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2009-10.
   
9. Sharat Sabharmal is the India's new high commissioner to Pakistan.
   
10. Madhu Kannan is new CEO of bSE.
    
11. Traditionally, RBI has Four Deputy Governors of different Departments.
    
12. i)Punjab National Bank chairman & managing Director Kamlesh Chandra Chakrabarty is set to take over as deputy Governor of RBI in place of V Leeladhar.
    
13. ii)RBI Deputy Governor: Smt.Shyamala Gopinath.
    
14. iii)RBI Deputy Governor: Usha Thorat
    
15. iv)RBI Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan is set to leave the central bank this month (June) to take up an assignment at Stand ford University.
    
16. Arvind Jhadav is the new chairman and managing director of national aviation Company Of India Limited(NACIL) that Operates Air India.
    
17. Chairman of SEBI C.B. Bhave.
    
18. Chairman of Planning Commission is Prime Minister.
    
19. Deputy Chairman of planning Commission is Montek.Singh.Ahluwalia.
    
20. President of NASSCOM is Som Mittal.
    
21. Chairman of NASSCOM is Pramod Bhasin.
    
22. Vice Chairman of NASSCOM is Harsh Manglik.
    
23. Secretary General of NATO is Jaap de Hoop Schaffer.
    
24. Radha Vinod Raja as appointed as the First Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA).
    
25. Sudhir Garg has assumed the charge as the chief general manager of SBH.
    
26. Suresh Kalmadi is president of Indian Olympic Association.
    
27. Dhanendra Kumar is the newly appointed chairman of Competition Commission of India.
    
28. 42nd Asian Development bank(President Harihuko kuroda) Summit held at bali,Indonesia.
    
29. Chairman and Managing Director Of SIDBI(Small Industries Development Bank Of India) is R M Malla.
    
30. Aravind Jhadav is the Chief and Managing Director(CMD) of Air India.
    
31. Chairman for Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister is Suresh D Tendulkar .
    
32. National Security Adviser for India is M K Marayan.
    
33. Foreign Secretary for India Nirupama Rao.
    
34. Nirupama Rao(India's ambassador of china) to be next Foreign Secretary to Succeed Shiv Shankar Menon who retires on July 31 2009.
    
35. India's new Ambassador to US is Meera Shankar.
    
36. Timothy Roemer is the new US envoy to India replacing David Mulford.
    
37. Recently President Barack Obama has nominated Vinay Thummalapally of Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the next US Ambassador to Belize.
    
38. N Chandrasekhar to be new CEO of TCS.
    
39. Air Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik presently the Vice Chief of Air Staff has been appointed as the chief of the Indian Air Force. The present IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major retires from service on May 31, 2009.
    
40. Chief of Army Staff:: General Deepak Kapoor.
    
41. Chief of Naval Staff::Admiral Sureesh Mehta.(Vice-Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma, will be the country's next Chief of Naval Staff with an affect from September 1st.)
    
42. Barbora is new IAF vice-chief.
    
43. Hardeep Singh Puri has been appointed as India's permanent representative to the United Nations.
    
44. Chief Of Central Information Commission(CIC) is Wajahat habibullah.
    
45. President Barack Obama announced the nomination of Charles Bolden as NASA Administrator.
    
46. K.P. Raghuvanshi is Maharashtra ATS chief.
    
47. John Bercow of the Britain's main opposition Conservative party has been elected as the new Speaker.
    
48. C P Gurnani is CEO of Mahindra Satyam and Durga Shankar the new CFO.
    
49. Goolam E Vahanvati is the new Attorney General of India.
    
50. Shifting of Four new Bank chiefs: UCO Banks Chairman SK Goel is set to move Punjab national Bank, while Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) CMD Alok Mishra is moving to Bank of India. Union Bank of India Executive Director TY Prabhu will move to OBC.Basanth Seth who is present deputy manager of SIDBI will move to Syndicate Bank.
    
51. Ashok Jha has appointed MCX-SX as Non-Executive Chief.
    
52. West Bengal Power Secretary Sunil Mitra will be the new disinvestment secretary.
    
53. The 35-member IAEA Board of Governors selected Ambassador Yukiya Amano of Japan as new IAEA Director General from November 2009 replacing Mohamed ElBaradei.
    
54. Nandita Das is new Chairperson of Children's Film Society.
    

Finacncial Acronyms

ABBREVIATIONS

1. A/c No Account Number

2. Addl FA Additional Financial Advisor

3. Addl FA&AS Additional Financial Advisor & Additional Secretary

4. AFMSD Armed Forces Medical Stores Depot

5. AMC Annual Maintenance Contract

6. ARD Annual Review of Demand

7. ARS Auto Replenishment System

8. AS Additional Secretary

9. ASC Army Supply Corps

10. A/U Accounting Unit

11. AWB Air Way Bill

12. B&D Base & Depot

13. BER Beyond Economic Repairs

14. BE Budget Estimates

15. BPCL Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

16. BMU Base Maintenance Unit

17. BG Bank Guarantee

18. BIS Bureau of Indian Standards

19. CB Contingent Bill

20. CGHQ Coast Guard Headquarters

21. CGRPS Coast Guard Refit & Production Superintendent

22. CGSD(E) Coast Guard Stores Depot(East)

23. CGSD(MB) Coast Guard Stores Depot(Mumbai)

24. CGSD(PB) Coast Guard Stores Depot(Port Blair)

25. CCPA Cabinet Committee for Political Affairs

26. CDA Controller of Defence Accounts

27. CDEC Customs Duty Exemption Certificate

28. CFA Competent Financial Authority

29. CGDA Controller General Defence Accounts

30. CIF Cost, Insurance and Freight

31. CIP Carriage and Insurance Paid

32. CLO Chief Law Officer

33. COMDIS Commander District Headquarters

34. CP Central Procurement

35. CPV Central Provisioning Indent

36. CRV Certified Receipt Voucher

37. CSD Canteen Stores Department

38. CST Comparative Statement of Tenders

39. CVC Central Vigilance Commission

40. DAVP Director of Advertising and Visual Publicity

41. DD Demand Draft

42. DDG Deputy Director General

43. DDO Direct Demanding Officer

44. DEF Defence

45. DFA Deputy Financial Advisor

46. DFP Delegation of Financial Powers

47. D(Av) Director of Aviation

48. D(Adm) Directorate of Administration

49. D(FM) Directorate of Fleet Maintenance

50. D(HRD) Directorate of Human Resource Development

51. D(Log) Directorate of Logistics

52. D(Mat) Directorate of Material

53. D(Med) Directorate of Medical

54. D(Ops) Directorate of Operations

55. D(Pers) Directorate of Personnel

56. D(Plan) Directorate of Plans

57. D(SAS) Directorate of Ship Acquisition and System

58. DGCG Director General Coast Guard

59. DGS&D Director General Supplies and Disposals

60. DGQA Director General Quality Assurance

61. DMR&F Director Military Regulations & Forms

62. DP Delivery Period

63. DV Debit Voucher

64. EDEC Excise Duty Exemption Certificate

65. EMD Earnest Money Deposit

66. FCA Free up to Customs Area

67. FE Foreign Exchange

68. FIFO First In First Out

69. FIN Finance

70. FOB Free On Board

71. FOR Free on Rail

72. FR Final Requirement Estimate

73. FRI Financial Regulations of India

74. GOI Government of India

75. HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

76. HCI High Commission of India

77. IBD International Banking Division

78. HPCL Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

79. I/C In charge

80. IFA Internal Financial Advisor

81. IOC Indian Oil Corporation

82. IR Inspection Report

83. ISI India Standards Institution

84. ISMs India Supply Missions

85. ISO International Standards Organization

86. JCDA Joint Controller of Defence Accounts

87. JSG Joint Services Guide

88. KVIC Khadi and Village Industries Commission

89. L1 Lowest Acceptable Bidder

90. LAB Laboratory

91. LAO Local Audit Office

92. LC Letter of Credit

93. LD Liquidated Damages

94. LP Local Purchase

95. LPP Last Purchase Price

96. LPR Last Purchase Rate

97. LPV Local Provisioning Indent

98. LR Lorry Receipt

99. MES Military Engineering Service

100. MI ROOM Medical Inspection Room]

101. MM Materials Management

102. MMG Materials Management Group

103. MMTC Mineral and Metal Trading Corporation

104. MOD Ministry of Defence

105. MT Motor Transport

106. MSTC Metal Scrap trading Corporation

107. M/s Messrs

108. NA Not Applicable

109. NB Please Note

110. NC Negotiation Committee

111. NSIC National Small Industries Corporation

112. OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

113. OFB Ordnance Factories Board

114. OGL Open General Licence

115. QTY Quantity

116. PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange

117. PAC Proprietary Article Certificate

118. P/B/M Project/Build-up/Maintenance

119. PC Personal Computer

120. PDC Probable Date of Completion

121. POL Petroleum Oil & Lubricants

122. PSU Public Sector Undertaking

123. R&D Research & Development

124. RBI Reserve Bank of India

125. RE Rupee Exchange

126. RE Revised Estimate

127. RR Railway Receipt

128. SBI State bank of India

129. S/L/O/P Signal/Limited/Open/Proprietary

130. SO Supply Orders

131. SSU Small Scale Unit

132. STC State Trading Corporation

133. TE Tender Enquiry

134. TEC Technical Evaluation Committee

135. TOC Tender Opening Committee

136. TPC Tender Purchase Committee

137. VPP Value Post Parcel

138. WDC Women Development Corporation

Countries,Capitals,Currencies,Prez/PM

Country		Capital			Currency	Prez/Prime Minister
ASIA
Afghanistan	Kabul				Afgani	Hamid Karzai
Armenia	Yerevan				Dram
Azerbaijan	Baku				Manat
Bahrain	Al-Manamah				Bahraini Dinar	Sulman Al Khalifah*
Bangladesh	Dhaka				Taka	Zillur Rahman
Bhutan	Thimphu				Ngultrum	Jigme Y Thinley*
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan				Brunei Dollar
China	Beijing				Yuan	Hu Jintao
Cyprus	Nicosia				Cypriot Pound
Cambodia	Phnom Penh				Riel	Hun Sen*
East Timor	Dili				U.S. Dollar
India	New Delhi				Indian Rupee	Manmohan Singh*
Indonesia	Jakarta				Rupiah	Susilo Yudhonoyo
Iran	Tehran				Rial	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iraq	Baghdad				Iraqi Dinar	Nouri Al-Maliki*
Israel	Jerusalem				Shekel	Benjamin Netanyahu*
Japan	Tokyo				Yen	Taro Aso*
Jordan	Amman				Jordanian Dinar	Nader al-Dahabi*
Kazakhstan	Akmola				Tenge	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Korea (North)	Pyongyang				Won	Kim Jong II
Korea (South)	Seoul				Won	Lee Myung-bak
Kuwait	Kuwait City				Kuwaiti Dinar	Nasser Mohammed*
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek				Kyrgyzstani Som	Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Laos	Vientiane				Kip	Bouasone Bouphavan*
Lebanon	Beirut				Lebanese Pound	Michel Sulemn
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur				Malaysian Ringgit	Najib Tun Razak*
Maldives	Male				Rufiyaa	Mohamed Nasheed
Mongolia	Ulan-Bator				Tugrik	Tsakhiagin Elbegdorj
Myanmar	Yangon				Kyat	Thein Sein
Nepal	Kathmandu				Nepalese Rupee	Madhav Kumar*
Oman	Muscat				Rial Omani	Sultan Said al Said
Pakistan	Islamabad				Pakistani Rupee	Asif Ali Zardari
Philippines	Manila				Peso	Gloria Macapagal
Qatar	Doha				Qatari Riyal	Hamad bin Jassim*
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh				Riyal	King Abdullah Bin
Singapore	Singapore				Singapore Dollar	Lee Hsien Loong*
Sri Lanka	Colombo				Sri Lankan Rupee	Mahinda Rajapaksa
Syria	Damascus				Syrian Pound	Bashar al-Assad
Taiwan	Taipei				New Taiwan Dollar
Tajikistan	Dushanbe				Tajik Rouble	Emomali Rahmon
Thailand	Bangkok				Baht	King Adulyadej
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat				Turkmenistani Manat
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi				UAE Dirham	Mohammed bin Rashi*
Uzbekistan	Tashkent				Uzbekistani Som	Shavkat Mirziyoyev*
Vietnam	Hanoi				Dong	Nguyen Tan Dung*
Yemen	Sana				Riyal	Ali Adbullah Saleh
Europe
Albania		Tirane		Lek		Bamir Topi
Andorra		Andorra-la-vella		Andorran Peseta, Euro
Armenia		Jerevan		Dram
Austria		Vienna		Schilling, now Euro		Hein Fischer
Azerbaijan		Baku		Manat
Belarus		Minsk		Rouble		Sergey Sidorsky*
Belgium		Brussels		Euro		King Albert II
Bosnia & Herzegovina		Sarajevo		Dinar
Bulgaria		Sofia		Lev		Georgi parvanov
Croatia		Zagreb		Kuna and Croatian Dinar		Jadranka Kosor*
Cyprus		Nicosia		Cyprus Pound		Dimtris Christofias
Czech Republic		Prague		Czech Koruna		Jan Fisher*
Denmark		Copenhagen		Danish Krone		Queen Margrethe
Estonia		Tallinn		Kroon
Finland		Helsinki		Markka, now Euro		Tarja Halonen
France		Paris		French Franc, now Euro		Nicholas Sarkozy
French Guiana		Cayenne		French Franc, now Euro
Georgia		Tbilisi		Lari		Nikoloz Gilauri*
Germany		Berlin		Deutsche Mark, now Euro		Angela Merkel*
Greece		Athens		Drachma, now Euro		Kostas Karamanils*
Hungary		Budapest		Forint		Laszlo Solyom
Iceland		Reykjavik		Icelandic Krona		Johanna Siguroardott*
Italy		Rome		Lire, now Euro		Silvio Berlusconi*
Latvia		Riga	Lat
Liechtenstein		Vaduz	Swiss Franc
Lithuania		Vilnius	Litas
Luxemburg		Luxemburg	Luxemburg Franc, now Euro			Jean-Claude Juncker*
Macedonia		Skopje	Macedonian Dinar
Malta		Valletta	Maltese Lira
Martinique		Fort-de-France	French Franc, now Euro
Moldova		Kishinev	Moldavian Leu
Monaco		Monaco	French Franc, now Euro			Prince Albert II
Netherlands		Amsterdam	Dutch Guilder, now Euro			Jan Peter Balkenende*
Norway		Oslo	Norwegian Krone			Jens Stoltenberg*
Northern Ireland		Belfast	Pounds
Poland		Warsaw	New Zloty			Lech Kaczynski
Portugal		Lisbon	Escudo, now Euro			Jose Socrates*
Romania		Bucharest	Romanian Leu			Traian Basescu
Russia		Moscow	Russian Federation Rouble			Dmitry Medvedev
San Marino		San Marino	Italian Lire
Scotland		Edinburgh	Pound Sterling
Slovakia		Bratislava	Slovak Koruna			Ivan Gasparovic
Slovenia		Ljubljana	Tolar
Spain		Madrid	Peseta, now Euro			Jose Zapatero*
Sweden		Stockholm	Swedish Kroner			Fredrik Reinfeldt*
Switzerland		Berne	Swiss Franc			Federal Council of 7 members.
Tajikistan		Dushanbe	Tajik Rouble
Ukraine		Kiev	Hryvna			Viktor Yushchenko
United Kingdom		London	Pound Sterling			Gordon Brown*
Uzbekistan		Toshkent/Tashkent	Uzbekistani Som			Islam Karimov
Vatican City		Vatican City	Italian Lire			Giovanni Lajolo
Yugoslavia		Belgrade	New Dinar
Whales		Cardiff	Pound Sterling
Africa
Algeria		Algiers	Algerian Dinar			Abdelaziz Boutflika
Angola		Luanda	New Kwanza			Jose Eduardo
Benin		Porto-Novo	Franc			Yayi Boni
Botswana		Gaborone	Pula			Ian Khama
Burkina Faso		Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso Franc
Burundi		Bujumbura	Burundi Franc
Cameroon		Yaoundé	Franc
Cape Verde		Praia	Escudo Caboverdiano			Jose Maria Neves*
Central African Republic		Bangui	Franc
Chad		N'Djamena	Franc
Comoros		Moroni	Comorian Franc
Congo		Brazzaville	Franc			Isidore Myouba*
Côte d'Ivoire		Yamoussoukro	Franc
Djibouti		Djibouti	Djibouti Franc
Egypt		Cairo	Egyptian Pound			Hosni Mubarak
Equatorial Guinea		Malabo	Franc
Eritrea		Asmara	Eritrean Nakfa
Ethiopia		Addis Ababa	Birr
Gabon		Libreville	Franc
Gambia		Banjul	Dalasi			Yahya Jammeh
Ghana		Accra	Cedi			John Atta Mills
Guinea		Conakry	Guinea Franc			Moussa Dadis Camara
Guinea-Bissau		Bissau	Guinea-Bissau Peso
Ivory Coast		Abidjan and Yamoussoukro	Franc
Kenya		Nairobi	Kenyan Shilling			Raila Odinga*
Lesotho		Maseru	Loti
Liberia		Monrovia	Liberian Dollar			Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya		Tripoli	Libyan Dinar			Baghdadi Mahmudi*
Madagascar		Antananarivo	Malagasy Franc			Andry Rajoelina
Malawi		Lilongwe	Malawian Kwacha
Mali		Bamako	Malian Franc
Mauritania		Nouakchott	Ouguiya
Mauritius		Port Louis	Mauritius Rupee			Anerood Jugnauth*
Mayotte		Dzaoudzi and Mamoudzou	French Franc
Morocco		Rabat	Moroccan Dirham			Abbas El Fassi*
Mozambique		Maputo	Metical
Namibia		Windhoek	Namibian Dollar and Rand			Hifikepunye Pohamba
Niger		Niamey	West African Franc
Nigeria		Abuja	Naira			Umaru Yar'Adua
Reunion		Saint-Denis	Euro
Rwanda		Kigali	Rwanda Franc
Sao Tome and Principe		Sao Tome	Dobra
Senegal		Dakar	West African Franc
Seychelles		Victoria	Seychelles Rupee
Sierre Leone		Freetown	Leone
Somalia		Mogadishu	Somali Shilling			Sharif Ahmed
South Africa		Cape Town	Rand			Jacob Zuma
St. Helena		Jamestown	St. Helena Pound
Swaziland		Mbabane and Lobamba	Lilangeni
Tanzania		Dar es Salaam	Tanzanian Shilling
Togo		Lome	Franc
Tunisia		Tunis	Tunisian Dinar
Uganda		Kampala	Ugandan Shilling			Yower Museveni
Zambia		Lusaka	Zambian Kwacha
Zimbabwe		Harare	Zimbabwe Dollar			Robert Mugabe
North America
Antigua and Barbuda	St. Johns		East Caribbean Dollar
Bahamas	Nassau		Bahamian Dollar			Hubert Ingraham*
Barbados	Bridgetown		Barbados Dollar
Belize	Belmopan		Belize Dollar
Canada	Ottawa		Canadian Dollar			Stephen Harper*
Costa Rica	San José		Colón
Cuba	Havana		Peso			Raul Castro
Dominica	Roseau		East Caribbean Dollar
Dominican Republic	St. Domingo		Peso
El Salvador	San Salvador		El Salvadorian Colón
Grenada	St. George's		East Caribbean Dollar
Guatemala	Guatemala		Quetzal
Haiti	Port-au-Prince		Gourde
Honduras	Tegucigalpa		Lempira
Jamaica	Kingston		Jamaican Dollar			Bruce Golding*
Mexico	Mexico City		Mexican New Peso			Felipe Calderon
Nicaragua	Managua		Córdoba
Panama	Panamá		Balboa
St. Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre		East Caribbean Dollar
St. Lucia	Castries		East Caribbean Dollar
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain		Trinidad and Tobago Dollar
United States of America	Washington D.C.		US Dollar			Barack Obama
South America
Argentina		Buenos Aires	Austral, Neuvo Peso			Cristina Fernandez
Bolivia		La Paz	Boliviano
Brazil		Brasilia	Real			Lula da Silva
Chile		Santiago	Chilean Peso			Michelle Bachelet
Colombia		Bogota	Colombian Peso
Ecuador		Quito	Sucre
Guyana		Georgetown	Guyana Dollar
Paraguay		Asuncion	Guarani
Peru		Lima	New Sol			Alan Garcia
Suriname		Paramaribo	Suriname Guilder
Uruguay		Montevideo	Uruguayan New Peso
Venezuela		Caracas	Bolivar			Hugo Chavez
French Guiana		Cayenne	Franc
Falkland Islands		Stanley	Falkland Pound
Oceania
Australia		Canberra	Australian Dollar			Kevin Rudd*
American Samoa		Fagatogo, Utulei	US Dollar
Christmas Island (Australia)		The Settlement	Australian Dollar
Cocos (Keeling) Islands		West Island	Australian Dollar
Cook Islands		Avarua	New Zealand Dollar
Fiji		Suva	Fiji Dollar			Frank Bainimarama*
French Polynesia		Papeete	Pacifique franc
Guam		Agana	US Dollar
Kiribati		Bairiki	Australian Dollar
Marshall Islands		Majuro	US Dollar
Nauru		Yaren	Australian Dollar
New Caledonia		Noumea	Pacifique franc
New Zealand		Wellington	New Zealand Dollar			John Key*
Niue		Alofi	New Zealand Dollar
Norfolk Island		Kingston	Australian Dollar
Northern Mariana Islands		Saipan	US Dollar
Papua New Guinea		Port Moresby	Kina
Palau		Koror	US Dollar
Pitcairn Island		Adamstown	New Zealand Dollar
Samoa		Apia	Tala
Solomon Islands		Honiara	Solomon Islands Dollar
Tonga		Nuku'alofa	Pa'anga
Tuvalu		Funafuti	Australian Dollar
Tokelau		-none-	New Zealand Dollar
Vanuatu		Port-Vila	Vatu
Virgin Islands (British)		Road Town	US Dollar
Virgin Islands (US)		Charlotte Amalie	US Dollar
Wallis and Futuna		Mata-Utu	Franc

(Note:

1)*=Prime Minister

2)Some Unimportant/not highly populated countries prez/prime ministers are not covered.we think it is Sufficient who are preparing for banking exam.)