Italy will next year become the world’s 1st country to make it compulsory for schoolchildren to study about climate change issues. All schools will have 33 hours per year for climate change study. Italy Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti proposed this.
Italy Capital-Rome, Currency- Euro (Replaced Lira in 2002).
Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar will attend the 15th meeting of the Governing Council of South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme in Dhaka, Bangladesh. SACEP was established in 1982.
14th meeting of SACEP Governing Council was held in Colombo.
Trilochan Mohapatra inaugurated “International Conference on Soil & Water Resources Management for Climate Smart Agriculture & Global Food & Livelihood Security” in New Delhi. Its aim is to deliberate upon the various issues of soil & water conservation.
Trilochan Mohapatra is the Secretary of DARE & DG of ICAR.
American multinational Power management company Eaton opened its first aerospace manufacturing facility of India in Bengaluru. It will produce hose assemblies and other fluid distribution products to serve commercial, business and regional aircrafts.
Eaton has Corporate HQ in Dublin & Operational HQ in Beachwood.
Mumbai based Drug major Sun Pharma has entered a licensing agreement with AstraZeneca UK to introduce certain novel ready-to-use infusion oncology products in China. The agreement will help to bring cost-effective and quality drugs to patients in China.
The initial tenure of the agreement is 10 years.
RBI issued compensation guidelines for honchos of private & foreign banks. If the variable pay is up to 200% of the fixed pay, at least 50% of it should be in non-cash & if the variable pay is above 200%, 67% of it should be paid via non-cash instruments.
The policy will cover all aspects of the compensation structure.
MSTC tied up with Allahabad Bank for the development of a dedicated e-auction platform directly linked with Indian Banking Association's portal for sale of NPAs through the SARFAESI Act. MSTC is a GOI company engaged in domestic & international trading.
MSTC (Metal Scrap Trade Corporation Limited) has HQ in Kolkata.
IIT-Madras in collaboration with Phoenix Medical Systems launched India’s first indigenously designed standing wheelchair called Arise. The device helps the wheelchair-bound move from a sitting to standing position, and vice-versa, independently.
It will be made available at a price of around ₹15,000.
IIT-Kanpur hosted the 2nd edition of start-up event Abhivyakti. IIT-Kanpur has one of the oldest incubations & innovation ecosystems in the country-Foundation for Innovation & Research in Science & Technology (FIRST).It operates under the brand name SIIC.
The institute is hosting 75 incubated companies currently.
Ghaziabad has emerged as the new affordable housing hotspot according to a joint report by Anarock & Naredco. Noida, Greater Noida & Ghaziabad are the 3 cities in UP to have witnessed the maximum decline in the overall unsold housing stock in 2 years.
Naredco- National Real Estate Development Council.
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute & Krishi Vigyan Kendra with the support of NABARD will conduct a buyer-seller meet for food & agriculture products on November. Participants from Kerala, TN & Karnataka will bring their products at the meet.
Three-day buyer-seller meet will be held at Kochi, Kerala.
Arun Alagappan-ED of Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co. Ltd. (CIFCL), has been elevated & appointed as the MD. The CIFIL board approved the appointment for a period of 5 years. CIFCL is founded on 1978 as a services arm of the Murugappa Group.
CIFCL is headquartered in Chennai.
In 2001, the UN declared 6 November of each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. It aims to educate people about the damaging effects of war and armed conflict on the environment.
EU & UN had partnered in 2008 on conflict Prevention.