Weekly Current Affairs December 2018: Week II

Appointments

Name of the Person	Designation
Jon Ridgeon	CEO of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
Ajay Narayan Jha	Finance Secretary
TS Vijayan	Additional Director of Yes Bank
Krishnamurthy Subramanian	Chief Economic Advisor
Atul Sahai	Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of New India Assurance (NIA)
Lalit Kumar	Government nominee on private sector ICICI Bank
Swapna Barman	Ambassador of YONO by State Bank of India
Shamila Batohi	First Female has been appointed as the National Director of South Africa’s National Public Prosecutions
Pawan Singh	First Indian to be elected as one of the 7 members of the Judges Committee of the International Shooting Sports Federation
Preeti Saran	Elected to the Asia Pacific seat on the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Amitabh Chaudhry	Additional Director of Axis Bank

Awardee	Award
Luka Modric	Ballon d’Or. (Men’s Category)
Ada Hegerberg	Ballon d’Or. (Women’s Category)
Dr. Rajanish Giri	Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA)
Rattan Lal	Glinka World Soil Prize 2018
Malala Yousafzai	Gleitsman Award
Charlotte Prodger	Turner Award
Anand Kumar	Skoch Award for National Significance
Mr. Imran Hussain	“Hero to Animals” by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Vashkar Bhattacharjee and Private sector enterprise of China, Tencent	UNESCO/Emir Jaber al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

Important Day	Date	Theme
International Civil Aviation Day	December 07	Working Together to Ensure No Country is Left Behind
Indian Armed Forces Flag Day	December 08
Indian Navy’s Submarine Day	December 08
Indian Navy Day	December 04
United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities or World Disability Day	December 03	Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”.