Unitech has appointed Hemangi Dhir as an additional non-executive independent director. Now it is complying with the mandatory provisions of SEBI Regulations, 2015. regarding combination of directors with at least one-woman director.
Unitech Chairman Ramesh Chandra.
R N Ravi, the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, has been redesignated as the Deputy National Security Advisor. He is also the government's interlocutor for the ongoing talks with Naga insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagaland.
Ajit Doval is the National Security Advisor.
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege & Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war & armed conflict. Both of them has helped to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence.
Berit Reiss-Andersen -Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
The World's first full-sized Hyperloop passenger capsule has been unveiled in Spain .California based company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (Hyperloop TT) revealed the slimline capsule, which can reach speeds of 1,220 kilometres per hour.
Co-founder and CEO of Hyperloop TT- Dirk Ahlborn
Life Insurance Corporation of India has come out with an open offer for acquiring 26% of equity in IDBI Bank at a price of ₹61.73 per share, entailing total payout of over ₹12,602 crore. It proposes to acquire more than 204 crore equity shares of ₹10 each.
V K Sharma- LIC Chairman.
NASA has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019. SpaceX will carry out an uncrewed test in January 2019, and Boeing in March 2019.
SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 rocket for its launch.
Reliance Health Insurance has received the final go- ahead from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to begin operations. Reliance Health will commence business by the December quarter.
Ravi Vishwanath -proposed CEO of Reliance Health Insurance.
India’s first methanol cooking fuel by the Namrup-based Assam Petrochemicals Limited (APL), India’s first public sector producer of methanol and formalin from natural gas as feedstock made a debut. The project has been promoted by NITI Aayog.
About 80% of LPG consumed in India is imported.
India-Russia ties have received a boost with a $5bn deal to buy an S-400 air defence system i.e.Long-Range Surface to Air Missile System from Moscow despite looming threat of US sanctions.They also committed to fight against terrorism and drug trafficking.
Russia Capital – Moscow, Currency- Ruble.
Richie Benaud will be posthumously honoured as ‘Legend’ by Sport Australia Hall of Fame.He is a former Australia captain who became one of the most loved voices of cricket, he will be the third cricketer to be bestowed the prestigious honour.
Don Bradman (1993) & Keith Miller (2004) are the other two.