Recent appointments are significant to competitive exams, JKSSB, SSC, UPSC and many more, as it is these appointments which more often than not prove to be significant appointments into governmental, judicial, public sector undertakings and international organizations. And so the question of who has been appointed in what roles of governors, chief justices, CEOs heads of commissions and what have you is often put to test in an exam. Tracking such developments is as useful for cracking the general knowledge section as it is to overall awareness, in that most such appointments reflect important changes in governance and policy making.
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Here are the Some Important Mcqs on Latest Appointments 2024
Q1. Who has been appointed as new Director of ‘Enforcement Directorate?
A. Ankit Singh
B. Rahul Navin
C. Rajesh Kumar
D. None
Ans : B
Enforcement Directorate (ED)
HQ : New Delhi
Law enforcement and economic intelligence
agency
Established : May 1, 1956
Under → Department of Revenue, Ministry
of Finance
Q2. Who Has Been Appointed as Director-General of NSG?
A. Nalin Prabhat
B. Ravi Kumar
C. Aditya Sharma
D. B. Srinivasan
Ans : D
Appointment
National Security Guard (NSG) → Known as
Black Cats
HQ : New Delhi
Counter-terrorism unit of India → under the
Ministry of Home Affairs
Founded → 16 October 1984
Q3. Who has been Re-elected as 18th Lok Sabha Speaker?
A. J.P Nadda
B. Om Birla
C. Jagdeep Shankar
D. None
Ans : B
Speaker Of The Lok Sabha : Presiding officer &
Highest authority of Loksabha {Lower House }
First Speaker : G. V. Mavalankar
Article 93 : Provide Provision To Elect Speaker &
Deputy Speaker
Article 94 : Vacation, Resignation and Removal
provisions
Article 95 : Power of the Deputy Speaker or other
person to perform the duties of the offices of, or to act
as, the Speaker {If Speaker Vacant}
Q4. Mark Rutte Appointed as Next Secretary General of __?
A. WHO
B. UNICEF
C. NATO
D. ADB
Ans : C Appointment
NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organization →
World’s largest military alliance
Latest : Sweden & Finland
Formed : 1949
Headquarters : Brussels, Belgium
Members : 32
Q5. Who has been Appointed as Leader of The House in Rajya Sabha?
A. Amit Shah
B. PM Modi
C. J.P. Nadda
D. R Gandhi
Ans : C Appointment
Mallikarjun Kharge : Leader of the
Opposition in the Rajya Sabha
Q6. Who is the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
A. Amar Khanna
B. Pramod Kumar Misra
C. Dilip Singh
D. None
Ans : B
PS To PM → Administrative head of the
Prime Minister’s Office
Formation : 1971
Q7. Who Has Been Appointed As Chairman & MD Of SIDBI?
A. Manoj Mittal
B. Mahesh Kumar
C. Aravind Singh
D. None
Ans : A
Small Industries Development Bank of
India (SIDBI)
HQ : Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Founded : 1990
Q8. Who Has Been Appointed As “President of the Financial Action Task Force?
A. T Raja Kumar
B. Elisa de Anda Madrazo
C. Arvind Mishra
D. Joseph Reddy
Ans : B Appointment
FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
Headquarters : Paris, France
An Anti-money Laundering and Anti-terrorism
Financing Agency
Founded : 1989
Q 9. Who Took Oath As new UPSC Chairman ?
A. Rakesh Kumar
B. Anupam Roy
C. Manoj Soni
D. Preeti Sudan
Ans : D
UPSC : Union Public Service Comission
Term : 6 Years (or Age Of 65 Years)
Constitutional Body
Part 14 → Article » 315 To 323
UPSC Chairman & Other Members : Appointed
By → President
Q 10. Who became the New Chief of Army Staff ?
A. Upendra Dwivedi
B. R Hari Kumar
C. Amar Preet Singh
D. None
Ans : A
Vice Chief of Air Staff → Sujeet Pushpakar Dharkar
Chief Of Naval Staff : Dinesh K Tripathi
Vice Chief of Naval Staff : Krishna Swaminathan
Chief Of Air Staff : Amar Preet Singh
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Q11. Who has been appointed as the Presiding officer of SAT (Securities
Appellate Tribunal) ?
A. Alok Singh
B. Dinesh Kumar
C. Aravind Kumar
D. None
Ans : B
Securities Appellate Tribunal : Statutory
Body
Under → Ministry of Law and Justice,
Department of Legal Affairs
It Hears appeals against the orders of
India’s main financial regulators {ex- SEBI,
PFRDA, IRDAI}
HQ : Mumbai
Q12. Who has been appointed as NAFED Chairman?
A. Anjum Singh
B. Rakesh Sinha
C. Jetha Ahir
D. Rohit Sharma
Ans : C
NAFED : National Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing Federation of India
HQ : New Delhi
Founded : 2 Oct 1958
Q13. Who has been appointed as new member of 16th Finance Commission?
A. Arajit Patel
B. Arvind Panagariya
C. S Subramanian
D. Manoj Panda
Ans : D
Finance Commission
First Commission Established → @ 1951
Constituted by the President of India → under
Article 280
It Defines → Financial Relations Between →
Central Government & State Governments
Composition : 1 Chairman {Arvind Panagariya}
4 Members
Q 14. Who Has Sworn As as Vigilance Commissioner Of India?
A. A S Rajeev
B. Praveen Kumar Srivastava
C. Sushil Kumar
D. Anand Kapoor
Ans A
Central Vigilance Commissioner
- Praveen Kumar Srivastava
Vigilance Commissioners
A S Rajeev and Arvinda Kumar
Q15. Justice Ritu Bahri became 1st woman Chief Justice of which High Court?
A. Gujarat
B. Tripura
C. Uttrakhand
D. UP
Ans : C
High Court
- Article 214 To 231 (Part 6) → Deal With The HC’s
» Procedures, Powers, Jurisdiction….etc - Article 214 : There Shall Be HC For Each States
- Tenure Of Judges → Age Of 62 Years
- At Present Total HC → 25
Culcutta, Bombay & Madras High Court : Oldest
High Court Of India
Est → 1862
Q16. Who has been appointed as Chairman of National Commission for
Scheduled Castes?
A. S S Dubey
B. Kishor Makwana
C. Arpita Singh
D. None
Ans : B
National Commission for Scheduled Castes
Formed → 2004
- Constitutional Body
- Article : 338
- Under → Mo Social Justice and Empowerment
Article 338 A → Deals With National Commission for
Scheduled Tribes
Q17. Who has been appointed as Executive Chairman Of NALSA
A. UU Lalit
B. NV Ramana
C. D. Y. Chandrachud
D. Sanjiv Khanna
Ans : D
National Legal Services Authority of
India (NALSA)
Purpose : To provide free legal services to
Weaker Section
Formed : 9 Nov 1995
Under → The Legal Services Authorities Act 1987
Q18. Who Has Been Appointed as MD of NARCL?
A. P Santhosh
B. Natarajan Sundar
C. Amit Jain
D. Nupur Talwar
Ans : A
NARCL : National Asset Reconstruction
Company Ltd
It Acquire Stressed Assets → From Commercial
Bank
» For Resolution Of NPAs(Non Performing
Assets)
It Was Incorporated : @2021 As A ‘Bad
Bank’ » Under Company Act
Q 19. Who Became Secretary General Of BIMSTEC?
A. Indra Mani Pandey
B. Ankit Singh
C. Raghu Das
D. Tenzin Lekphell
Ans : A
BIMSTEC : Bay of Bengal Initiative for
Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation
Headq : Dhaka, Bangladesh
Members : 7 → India, Thailand,
Myanmar, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
and Bhutan.
Q20. Who has been appointed as chairman of 16th Finance Commission?
A. Arajit Patel
B. Arvind Panagariya
C. S Subramanian
D. None
Ans : B
Appointed By : President → Draupadi Murmu
Finance Commission
First Commission Established → @ 1951
Constituted by the President of India → under
Article 280
It Defines → Financial Relations Between →
Central Government & State Governments
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