Sandeep Bakhshi, the former head of ICICI’s life insurance arm, has been appointed as Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Bank after Chanda Kochhar, who was mired in allegations of quid pro quo and conflict of interest, resigned from the top post of the bank.
Justice B N Srikirishna panel probing allegations in ICICI Bank.
The Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu released the policy on the biometric-based digital processing of passengers at airports called “Digi Yatra”. It is a Facial recognition based passenger processing system which will reduce paperwork.
Face will be your boarding pass soon at KIA(Bengaluru)
Commissioned by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, National Swachh Survekshan Grameen award, 2018 conferred. Haryana was ranked as the best State while Satara District of Maharashtra was ranked as the best district.
Swachh Bharat mission launched in 2014.
4th India International Science Festival-2018 (IISF-2018) ,a mega science expo organized in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh . it was inaugurated by President of India. The theme of the Festival is “Science for Transformation”.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan is Union Minister of Science & Technology.
Weak demand and stagnant new work made India’s services sector expands at a slower pace in September compared to August. The Nikkei/IHS Markit Services Purchasing Managers’ Index declined to 50.9 in September from 51.5 in August.
PMI Data is published by Japanese firm Nikkei
As per survey conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit of Visa cards,India ranked 28 on the government's adoption of e-payments up from 36th in 2011.Norway ranked 1st among 73-country ranking, followed by France & Denmark.
In WEF’s Networked Readiness Index India ranks 91st.
India has been ranked 5th in the listing of countries that have a pictorial health warning on tobacco products. The Cigarette awareness International Status Report was released by the Canadian Cancer Society. East Timor is ranked first, Nepal follows it.
India is the only SAARC country to have quit line number.
Srinivasan K. Swamy has taken charge as the chairman and world president of International Advertising Association (IAA) for a period of two years. He is the first Indian to hold this post in the 80-year-old history of the institution.
IAA World Congress-2019 scheduled to be held in Cochin.
Sudha Menon released new book “Feisty at Fifty” at the Pune International Literary Festival. The book is Published by Pan Macmillan India. It is about different phases of a woman’s life.
“Leading Ladies: Women Who Inspire India” written by Sudha Menon
A Vietnam Coast Guard ship undertook joint exercises with the Indian Coast Guard at Chennai, namely 'Sahyog HOP TAC-2018". The exercise was aimed at acquainting the coast guards of the two countries with each other’s capabilities.
Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam.