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Key Appointments - 2026 Tracker
This tracker logs the appointments of 2026 that exams ask about - constitutional offices, service chiefs, Raj Bhavans, Chief Ministers, regulators, High Court benches, Union Secretaries and heads of government abroad - one row per post, newest month first. Latest: on 6 October 2026 the Government named the Vice Chief, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, to take over as the Indian Air Force's 29th Chief of the Air Staff on 31 October.
Last updated 7 October 20268 min read
Latest update
Adds Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, named on 6 October to become the 29th Chief of the Air Staff on 31 October, succeeding Air Chief Marshal AP Singh; 49 rows.
- Manish Honwad
- Armed Forces Medical College
- AFMC Pune
- Calcutta High Court
- Biswaroop Chowdhury
- Additional Judges
- judicial appointments 2026
- Director and Commandant
- Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Alpesh Yeshwant Kogje
- Sanjukta Parashar
- CoBRA
- CRPF
- appointments 2026
- who is who 2026
- Morocco Prime Minister
- Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
- Narendra Bhooshan
- MoEFCC
- Tarique Rahman
- Balendra Shah
- Nepal
- Bangladesh
- Chief of the Air Staff
- Ashutosh Dixit
- Indian Air Force
- service chiefs
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