SBI Card has acquired ₹100 crore from ICICI Securities Primary, ₹250 crore from SBI, ₹50 crore from Canara Bank and ₹50 crore from Axis Bank by issuing NCDs at 9.15% coupon. It has raised ₹250 crore from Axis Bank in the form of NCDs at a coupon of 9.55%
NCDs stand for Non-Convertible Debentures
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has appointed Sanjay Ubale, former head of the infrastructure and urban solutions at Tata Sons, as its policy head for India. Ubale, was previously the CEO of Tata Realty & Infrastructure
Susan Desmond-Hellmann is the CEO of Gates foundation.
P. C. Chandra Puraskaar, the annual national award from the P. C. Chandra Group was awarded to one of India’s reputed cardiac surgeons and humanitarians Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre.
Dr. Shetty is also known as “The Man with Divine hands”.
The Volleyball Federation of India appointed Serbia’s Dragan Mihailovic as head coach of the Indian men’s national team. Pryemyslaw Gaszyoski (Poland) and Valadimir Radosevic (Serbia) will be the team’s physio and physiotherapist respectively
Mr.S.Vasudevan is the president of VFI
Focusing on the life of Shahid Afridi, Emmy nominated journalist Wajahat S. Khan, has written Shahid Afridi’s biography, after years of working alongside the Pakistani cricketer.
Pakistan capital: Islamabad; Currency: Pakistani rupee
The 4th of Indian Navy’s stealth Scorpene class Submarines of Project 75 has been launched at the Kanhoji Angre Wet Basin of Mazagon Dock Ltd. in Mumbai. The submarine has been named ‘Vela’ after a previous submarine
Sunil Lanba is the current & 23rd Chief of the Indian Navy.
Common Service Centre’s (CSC) e-Governance Services India Limited, a special purpose unit under the Ministry of Electronics & IT, has tied up with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur to upscale ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’
UBA aims to find solutions for sustainable growth in rural India
Ministers from G7 countries, i.e. Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US, gathered for a two-day meeting in Metz, France.Discussion ranged from measures to tackle deforestation, plastic pollution and the degradation of coral reefs.
President of France: Emmanuel Macron
Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa emerged champions in the Asian squash championship in Malaysia. This is the first time two Indians have finished on top in the same tournament.
Dipika Pallikal is the 1st Indian woman in the top 10 in the WS
“Star Wars” actor Peter Mayhew, who played ‘Chewbacca’ died in Texas at the age of 74. He played Chewbacca in Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), Revenge of the Sith (2005) and The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars fiction-franchise was created by George Lucas