WIMF 2019 is to be organized on the theme, ‘Regulation of Homeopathic Medical Products; Advancing global collaboration’ by CCRH under Min of AYUSH in Goa. Regulators & Homeopathic companies & scientific experts worldwide are expected to attend.
MoS for Min of AYUSH: Shripad Naik
India is likely to excel in the GDP based economy rankings in 2019, to become the world's fifth largest economy, according to a recent PwC report. World Bank released data had put India as world's 6th largest economy in 2017 and UK in 5th position.
US is the world's largest economy with a size of $19.39 trillion.
BHEL & Libcoin are in dialogue to form a world class consortium to build 1GWh lithium ion battery plant. Its capacity will be scaled up to 30GWH. With this, India has finally taken steps into its energy security and clean energy commitment to the world.
Atul Sobti is the Chief Executive Officer of BHEL.
WEF annual meet has begun in Davos, Switzerland with the theme, 'Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution'. 30 heads of different nations & 3000 plus eminent people are expected to attend the event.
WEF was started in 1971 as a Non-Profit organization.
Ankita Raina has won the International Tennis Federation's 25,000-dollar Women's tournament in Singapore. She defeated top seed and world number 122 Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands. She has won her first title of the season and eighth overall.
International Tennis Federation headquarter- London, UK.
The 15th edition of Pravasi Bhartiya Divas has begun at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The theme is Role of Indian Diaspora in building New India. It is the flagship event of the govt & provides an important platform to engage & connect with the overseas Diaspora.
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards will be given by President.
UNESCO has announced that the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro will be the World Capital of Architecture for 2020. It will be the first city to receive the title under a program launched together by UNESCO and the International Union of Architects (UIA).
Jair Bolsonaro is the President of Brazil.
The second Defence Industrial Corridor connecting Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Coimbatore &Tiruchirappalli was inaugurated. The Corridors aim to bolster defence manufacturing in India. The first Defence Industrial Corridor was thrown open in Uttar Pradesh.
India topped the list of arms importers with 13 % of the trade.
NSTL organized the Academia Meet at NSTL, Visakhapatnam on the theme “Artificial Intelligence for Naval Systems”. It provided the platform for deliberation & discussion on the topic of Artificial Intelligence & its application to defence systems.
NSTL is an R&D lab under DRDO.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection has died. She was 83. She won the National Book award in 1992 for New and Selected Poems.
She got the Lannan literary award for lifetime achievement.