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SANCHAR NIGAM EXECUTIVES'

ASSOCIATION
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CURRENT AFFAIRS

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INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION AND LEADERS

OFFICE LEADERS HEADQUARTERS

u Secretary General, United Nations Organisation (UNO) Antonio Gutterres New York

u Deputy Secretary General, United Nations Organisation Amina J. Mohammed

u Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi Vienna

u Director General, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Qu Dongyu Rome

u Director General, World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr.TedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus Geneva

u Executive Director, UN Women Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka New York

u President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo Rome

u Director General, International Labour Organisation (ILO) Guy Ryder Geneva

u Director General, World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-iweala Geneva

u Director General, United Nations Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) Gerd Muller Vienna

u M.D.International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva Washington

u Managing President, World Bank Group David Mal Pass Washington

u President, International Court of Justice (ICJ) Joan Donoghue Hague (Somalia)

u Director General, United Nations Educational Scientific and

Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay Paris

u Executive Director, UNICEF (United Nations International

Children's Emergency Fund) Henrietta Fore New York

u Director General, Universal Postal Union (UPU) Masahiko Metoki Berne

u High Commissioner, UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Michelle Bachelet Geneva

u Head, Commonwealth of Nations Queen Elizabeth II London

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u Secretary General, Commonwealth of Nations Patricia Scotland

u Secretary General, Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ilham Aliyev Jakarta

u Secretary General, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Lim Jock Hoi Jakarta

u President, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Masatsugu Asakawa Philipines

u President, African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina Abidjan Ivory Coast

u Secretary General, NATO Jens Stoltenberg Brussels

u Chairman, African Union Felix Tshisekedi Addis Abada

u Chairperson, African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat Addis Ababa

u Secretary General, Amnesty International Agnes Callamard London

u Secretary General OPEC Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo Vienna

u President, International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach Lausanne

u President, FIFA Gianni Infantino Zurich

u Chairman, ICC Greg Barclay Dubai

u CEO, International Cricket Council (ICC) Manu Sawhney

u President, International Association of Athletic Federation Sebastian Coe Monaco

u President, International Hockey Federation (FIH) Narinder Dhruv Batra Lausanne

u President, International ICE Hockey Federation (IIHF) Rene Fasel Zurich

u President, European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen

u United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi Geneva

u Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund Natalia Kanem New York

u Director General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical

Weapons (OPCW) Fernando Arias Hague

u Secretary General, International Sericultural Commission Rajit Okhandiar Bengaluru

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WORLD LEADERS
3 Afghanistan President - Amrullah Saleh
3 Afghanistan Prime Minister - Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund
3 American President - Joe Biden
3 Australia Prime Minister - Scott Morrison
3 Bangladesh Prime Minister - Sheikh Hasina Wazed
3 Bahrain Prime Minister - Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad al Khalifa
3 Bhutan Prime Minister - Lotay Tshering
3 Brazil President - Jair Bolsonaro
3 British Prime Minister - Boris Johnson
3 Canada Prime Minister - Justin Trudeau
3 Chinese President - Xi Jinping
3 Chinese Prime Minister - Li Keqiang
3 Egyptian President - Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi
3 Egyptian Prime Minister - Mostafa Madbouly
3 French President - Emmanuel Macron (Youngest)
3 French Prime Minister - Jean Castex
3 German President - Frank-Walter-Steinmeier
3 Indonesian President - Joko Widodo
3 Iran President - Ebrahim Raisi
3 Iraq President - Barham Salih
3 Iraq Prime Minister - Mustafa Al - Kadhimi
3 Israel President - Issac Herzog
3 Israel Prime Minister - Naftali Bennett
3 Ireland Prime Minister - Micheal Martin
3 Italy Prime Minister - Mario Draghi
3 Italy President - Sergio Mattarello
3 Ivory Coast President - Alassane Quattara
3 Japan Prime Minister - Yoshihide Suga
3 Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister - Ulukbek Maripov
3 Jordan Prime Minister - Bisher Al-Khasawneh

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3 Lebanon Prime Minister
3 Liberian President
3 Libya Prime Minister
3 Maldives President
3 Mauritius President
3 Mauritius Prime Minister
3 Myanmar President
3 Nepal Prime Minister
3 North Korean Supreme Leader
3 Pakistan President
3 Pakistan Prime Minister
3 Palestine Prime Minister
3 Palestine President
3 Portugal Prime Minister
3 Portugal President
3 Russian President
3 Russian Prime Minister
3 South Africa President
3 Srilankan President
3 Srilankan Prime Minister
3 South Korean President
3 South Korean Prime Minister
3 Syrian President
3 Tanzania Prime Minister
3 Thailand King
3 Thailand Prime Minister
3 Turkish President
3 Venezuelan President
3 Vietnam President
3 Vietnam Prime Minister
3 Zimbabwe President
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- Najib Mikati
- George Weah
- Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh
- Ibrahim Mohammed Solih
- Prithvirajsing Roopun
- Pravind Kumar Jugnauth
- Win Myint
- Sher Bahadur Deuba
- Kim Jong-Un
- Dr.Arif Alvi
- Imran Khan
- Mohammad Shtayyeh
- Mahmoud Abbas
- António Costa
- Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
- Vladimir Putin
- Mikhail Mishustin
- Cyril Ramaphosa
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa
- Mahinda Rajapaksa
- Moon Jae-in
- Kim Bu-gyeom
- Bashar al - Assad
- Kassim Majaliwa
- Maha Vajiralongkorn
- Prayut chan-o-cha
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Nicolas Maduro Juan
- Nguyen Xuan Phuc
- Pham Minh Chinh
- Emmerson Mnangagwa
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WOMEN WORLD LEADERS

3 German Chancellor - Angela Merkel

3 Newzealand Prime Minister - Jacinda Ardern
3 Myanmar State Counsellor - Aung San Suu Kyi
3 Nepal President - Bidhya Devi Bhandari
3 Greece President (First Women) - Katerina Sakellaropoulou
3 Finland Prime Minister - Sanna Marin
3 Ethiopia President (First Women) - Sahle-Work Zewde
3 Slovakia President (First Women) - Zuzana Caputova
3 Denmark President - Mette Frederiksen
3 Barbados President (First Women)- Mia Amor Mottley
3 Tanzania President - Samia Suluhu Hassan

3 President of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature

Razan Al Mubarak

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CAPITALS, CHIEF MINISTERS AND GOVERNORS OF STATES

STATE CAPITAL CHIEF MINISTER GOVERNOR

å Andhra Pradesh Amaravati Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy Biswabhushan Harichandan

å Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar Pema Khandu Dr. B.D.Mishra
å Assam Dispur Himanta Biswa Sarma Prof.Jagadish Mukhi
å Bihar Patna Nitish Kumar Phagu Chauhan
å Bengal Kolkata Mamata Banerjee Jagdeep Dhankhar
å Chattisgarh Raipur/Bilaspur Bhupesh Baghel Anusuiya Uikey
å Goa Panaji Pramod Sawanth PS Sreedharan Pillai
å Gujarat Gandhinagar Bhupendra Patel Acharya Devvrat
å Haryana Chandigarh Manohar Lal Khattar Bandaru Dattatreya
å Himachal Pradesh Shimla Jai Ram Thakur Rajendra Viswanath Arlekar
å Jharkhand Ranchi Hemant Soren Ramesh Bais
å Karnataka Bengaluru Basavaraj Bommai Thawar Chand Gehlot
å Kerala Trivandrum Pinarai Vijayan Arif Muhammad Khan
å Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Shivraj Singh Chouhan Mangubhai C. Patel
å Maharashtra Mumbai Uddhav Thackeray Bhagat Singh Koshyari
å Manipur Imphal N.Biren Singh La. Ganesan
å Meghalaya Shillong Conrad K.Sangma Satyapal Malik
å Mizoram Aizwal Zoramthanga Haribabu Kambhampati
å Nagaland Kohima Neiphiu Rio Prof.Jagadish Mukhi
å Odisha Bhubaneshwar Naveen Patnaik Ganeshi Lal
å Punjab Chandigarh Capt.Amrinder Singh Banwarilal Purohit
å Rajasthan Jaipur Asok Gehlot Kalraj Mishra
å Sikkim Gangtok Prem Singh Tamang Ganga Prasad
å Tamil Nadu Chennai M.K. Stalin R.N. Ravi
å Telangana Hyderabad K.Chandrasekhar Rao Tamilisai Soundararajan
å Tripura Agarthala Biplab Kumar Deb Sathyadev Narayana Arya
å Uttarakhand Dehradun Pushkar Sing Dhami Gur Midh Singh
å Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yogi Adityanath Anandiben Patel

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HEADS OF INDIA
ä President - Ramnath Kovind (14th)
ä Vice President - M. Venkaiah Naidu
ä Supreme Court Chief Justice - N.V. Ramana (48th)
ä Loksabha Speaker - Om Birla
ä Chief Election Commissioner - Sushil Chandra
ä Other members of Election Commission - Rajeev Kumar & Anup Chandra Pandey
ä Comptroller and Auditor General - Girish Chandra Murmu
ä UPSC Chairman - Pradeep Kumar Joshi
ä Attorney General - K.K.Venugopal
ä Solicitor General - Tushar Mehta
ä 14th Finance Commission Chairman - Y.V. Reddy
ä 15th Finance Commission Chairman - Nand Kishore Singh
ä Chairman of National Human Rights Commission - Arun Kumar Mishra
ä Chairperson of National Commission for Women - Rekha Sharma
ä Chairman of National Commission for Minorities - Sardar Iqbal Singh Lalpura
ä Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes - Vijay Sampla
ä Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes - Harsh Chouhan
ä Chairman of Central Information Commission - Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
ä Chairman of 7th Pay Commission - Ashok Kumar Mathur
ä Chairman of National Law Commission - Balbir Singh Chauhan
ä Chairman of National Atomic Energy Commission - Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas
ä Chairman of National Dairy Development Board - Meenesh Shah
ä Chairman of PAC - Adhir Ranjan Chawdhury
ä RBI Governor - Shaktikanta Das
ä Chairman of SBI - Dinesh Kumar Khara
ä Chairman of SEBI - Ajay Tyagi
ä Chairman of RAW - Samant Goel
ä Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog - Rajiv Kumar

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ä Principal Secretary of PM - Pramod Kumar Misra

ä Principal Scientific Advisor - Dr.K. Vijayaraghavan
ä National Security Advisor - Ajit Doval
ä Home Secretary - Ajay Kumar Bhalla
ä Cabinet Secretary - Rajiv Gouba
ä Finance Secretary - T.V. Somanathan
ä Defence Secretary - Ajay Kumar
ä Foreign Secretary - Harsh Vardhan Shringla
ä Chairman of UGC - Dhirendra Pal Singh
ä Chairman of BARC - Punit Goenka
ä Chairman of National Green Tribunal - Adarsh Kumar Goel
ä Chairman of ISRO - K. Shivan (Rocket Man of India)
ä Chairman of VSSC - S. Somanath
ä Central Board of film certification chairman - Prasoon Joshy
ä Press trust of India chairman - Aveek Sarkar
ä Railway board chairman - Suneet Sharma
ä TRAI chairman - Ram Sewak Sharma
ä Kendra Sahitya Academy President - Chandrasekhara Kambara
ä Kendra Sangeetha Nadaka Academy President - Shekar Sen
ä Chairman of LIC - M.R.Kumar
ä Chairman of IRDAI - Subash Chandra Khuntia
ä Chairman of DRDO - G. Satheesh Reddy
ä Chairman of CBDT - Jaganath Bidyadhar Mohapatra
ä Chairman of CBIC - M. Ajit Kumar
ä Chairman of GSTN - Ajay Bhushan Pandey (Add. Charge)
ä Chairman of Prasar Bharathi - A. Surya Prakash

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UNION TERRITORIES
Union Territories Capitals Chief Ministers Lieutenant Governors/
Administrator
å Jammu & Kashmir Jammu, Srinagar Manoj Sinha
å Ladakh Leh, Kargil Radhakrishna Mathur
å Andaman and Nicobar Port Blair Admiral D.K.Joshi
å Chandigarh Chandigarh V.P.Singh Bodnore
å Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu Daman Praful Khoda Patel
å Delhi (NCT) Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Anil Baijal
å Lakshadweep Kavarathi Praful Khoda Patel
å Puducherry Puducherry N. Rangaswamy Tamilisai Soundararajan

HEADS OF INVESTIGATION AGENCIES

å Joint Intelligence Committee Chief R.N.Ravi
å Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
å Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB) Arvind Kumar
å Director, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Samanth Kumar Goel
å Director, National Investigation Agency (NIA) Kuldiep Singh
å Central Vigilance Commissioner Suresh N Patel

HEADS OF PARAMILITARY FORCES

å Director General, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Kuldiep Singh
å Director General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Sudhir Kumar Saxena
å Director General, Border Security Force (BSF) Pankaj Kumar Singh
å Director General, Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Sanjay Arora
å Director General, National Security Guards (NSG) M.A. Ganapathy
å Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Kumar Rajesh Chandra
å Director General, Indian Coast Guard K. Natarajan
å Director General, Indian Railway Protection Force (IRPF) Arun Kumar

å Leader of Rajyasabha Piyush Goyal

å Deputy Leader of Rajyasabha Mukthar Abbas Nagvi

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HEADS OF ARMED FORCE

å Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat
å Chief of The Army Staff Manoj Mukund Naravane
å Chief of The Air Staff RKS Bhadauria
å Chief of The Naval Staff Karambir Singh
å Chief of Southern Air Command Air Marshal Manavendra Singh

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NOBEL PRIZE - 2021

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2021
u Syukuro Manabe (Japan)
u Klaus Hasselmann (Germany)
u Giorgio Parisi (Italy)
(“for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying
variability and reliably predicting global warming”
“for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations
in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”)
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2021
u Benjamin List (Germany)
u David W.C. MacMillan (United Kingdom)
( “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”)
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 2021
u David Julius (USA)
u Ardem Patapoutian (USA)
(“for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”)
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021
u Abdulrazak Gurnah
(“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the
effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf
between cultures and continents”)

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THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021

u Maria Ressa (Philippines)
u Dmitry Muratov (USSR)
(“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is
a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”)
THE SVERIGES RIKSBANK PRIZE IN ECONOMIC
SCIENCES IN MEMORY OF ALFRED NOBEL 2021
u David Card (Canada)
u Joshua D. Angrist (USA)
u Guido W. Imbens (Netherlands)
(“for his empirical contributions to labour economics”
“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal
relationships”)

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94th ACADEMY AWARDS

c Best Picture - CODA

c Best Actor - Will Smith (King Richard)
c Best Actress - Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
c Best Original Song - No Time To Die (Billie Eilish, FINNEAS)
c International Feature - Film Drive My Car
c Best Director - Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
c Best Supporting Actor - Troy Kotsur (CODA)
c Best Supporting Actress - Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
64th Annual Grammy Awards
4 April 2022 at 5:30 am IST

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