Current General Knowlwedge August 2017

1.who is the New President of India.

Ram Nath Kovind was declared the winner after the counting of votes which was held on 20 July 2017. He was administered oath by the Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar, to take office as the 14th President of India on 25 July 2017 at the Central Hall located in The Parliament House, New Delhi.

2. Who is appointed as new chairman of Central Board of Film Certification of India.

Lyricist and Ad-man Prasoon Joshi was appointed as new Chairman of  Central Board of Film Certification on 11^th Aug 2017 for 3 years term. Prasoon Joshi will replace Pahlaj Nihalani .

3.Who is appointed as new chairman of Central Board of Film Certification

Economist Rajiv Kumar had been appointed as the new vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog on 05^th Aug 2017. Kumar will replace Arvind Panagariya, who has resigned from his post.

Currently, a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and director at Pahle India Foundation, a non-profit research organisation that specialises in policy-oriented research and analysis, Kumar was also the secretary-general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) from 2010 to 2012. He also served as the director and chief executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (Icrier) from 2006-2010. He also worked at the Asian Development Bank, Manila.
Kumar holds a DPhil in economics from Oxford and a PhD from Lucknow University. 

Besides Kumar, Dr Vinod Paul, a paediatrician at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), has been appointed a member of the NITI Aayog.