1. Charudutt Mishra
- Snow Leopard Expert Charudutt Mishra won the Whitley Gold Award 2022.
- There are 12 snow leopard range countries including Afghanistan, China, and Russia.
- He previously won the award in 2005 and this is his 2nd Whitley Gold Award.
- Whitley Gold Award is known as Green Oscars.
2. Anshul Swami
- Anshul Swami is appointed as the MD and CEO of Shivalik Small Finance Bank.
- He succeeds Suveer Kumar Gupta.
- He previously served as the Head of Retail & Inclusions, Products in RBL Bank.
3. Sangeeta Singh
- Sangeeta Singh is appointed as the Additional Charge of CBDT Chairman.
- She has replaced Jagannath Bidyadhar Mohapatra.
- She is currently in charge of Audits and Judicial Matters.
4. Ronnie O’Sullivan
- Ronnie O’ Sullivan becomes the Oldest Snooker Champion in the 7th World Snooker Championship Title.
- He won this title at 46 years of age.
5. Arvind Krishna
- Arvind Krishna is elected to the Board of Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- He will remain in this post for a period of 3-year.
- He has been elected as the Class B Director.
- He was serving as the Chairman and CEO of IBM since January 2021.
6. Wesley Barbossa So
- Wesley Barbossa So wins Norway Chess Blitz Tournament 2022.
- He is a Filipino-American Chess Grandmaster.
- This tournament was held in Finansparken, Stavanger, Norway.
7. Cynthia Rosenzweig
- Cynthia Rosenzweig receives the 2022 World Food Prize for her Research on Climate Crisis and Food Production.
- She is an Agronomist and Climatologist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- She was recognized for her work in modeling the climate crisis's impact on food production.
8. Rodrigo Chaves
- Rodrigo Chaves takes office as President of Costa Rica.
- He belongs to Social Democratic Progress Party (SDPP).
- He will succeed Carlos Andres Alvarado Quesada.
9. Aruna Singh
- Aruna Singh takes Additional Charge as Chairman Cum Managing Director of RailTel Corporation of India Limited (RCIL).
- RCIL is an Indian Public Sector Enterprise focusing on providing broadband and VPN services.
10. Ajay Piramal
- Ajay Piramal received the Order of the British Empire Award.
- He received this Honorary Commander by her Majesty the Queen.
- Ajay received this award for services to the UK-India trade relationship as India co-chair of the UK-India CEO Forum.
11. SS Mundra
- Subhash Sheoratan Mundra (SS Mundra) is the newly appointed Chairman of BSE Ltd.
- He is the retired Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
- He will be replacing Justice Vikramajit Sen.
12. Elisabeth Borne
- Elisabeth Borne became the New French Prime Minister.
- She was appointed by France President Emmanuel Macron.
- She was a former Minister of transport, ecology, and labour.
- Borne succeeds Jean Castex.
13. Lionel Messi
- Lionel Messi topped Forbes’ Highest-Paid Athletes List for 2022.
- His earning pre-tax gross earnings of $130 Million a year.
- LeBron James is an American professional basketball player, and Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese Professional Footballer.
14. Dr. Manik Saha
- Dr. Manik Saha on taking oath as Chief Minister of Tripura.
- He belongs to the State president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- He succeeded Biplab Kumar Dev (who suddenly resigned).
15. Sanjiv Bajaj
- Sanjiv Bajaj is elected as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2022-23.
- He is currently working as the Chairman and Managing Director for Bajaj Finserv Limited.
- He replaces T V Narendran.
16. Ranil Wickremesinghe
- Ranil Wickremesinghe takes over as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
- He replaced the Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
- Ranil belongs to United National Party.
17. Campbell Wilson
- Campbell Wilson is appointed as the CEO & MD of Air India.
- He previously worked as the CEO of Scoot Pte Ltd.
18. Dr. Frank Wilcrek
- Nobel Prize-Winning Theoretical Physicist Dr. Frank Wilcrek receives Templeton Prize 2022.
- He became the 6th Nobel laurete to receive the Templeton Prize since its inception in 1972.
- He was awarded for his work in developing the theories of anions, time crystals, and axons.
19. Deepika Padukone
- Deepika Padukone becomes Louis Vuitton House Ambassador.
- She is the first Indian to become Louis Vuitton House Ambassador.
- Louis Vuitton (LV), is a French luxury fashion house.
- She is an Indian Actress.
20. Balkrishna VIithaldas Doshi
- Indian Architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi was conferred with Royal Gold Medal 2022 for Architecture.
- Balkrishna Vithadas Doshi is a Pune-based Architect.
21. Lovlina Borgohain
- Lovlina Borgohain was elected as International Boxing Association (IBA) Athletes Committee Chairman.
- She is India’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics Bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain.
- Her term of office will be until the World Boxing Championships in 2025.
22. Wesley Morgan
- Journalist Wesly Morgan has won the 2022 William E Colby Award.
- He is awarded for his book The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley.
23. Geetanjali Shree
- Geetanjali Shree won the International Booker Prize for the First Hindi Novel “Tomb of Sand”.
- The book was originally published in Hindi as Ret Samadhi in 2018.
- Geetanjali Shree is the first Indian to win the International Booker Prize.
24. Vinai Kumar Saxena
- Vinai Kumar Saxena is appointed the New Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.
- He became the 22nd Lieutenant Governor.
- He replaced Anil Baijal, who resigned due to “Personal Reasons”.
25. Anthony Norman Albanese
- Anthony Norman Albanese was sworn in as the New Prime Minister of Australia.
- He defeated PM Scott Morrisson.
