The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS, New York) honoured Dr. K. Ullas Karanth, upon his retirement, with The Wildlife Conservation Society’s George Schaller Lifetime Award in Wildlife Conservation Science.
He was honoured Sanctuary Asia Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
According to PNB Housing Finance , LIC has invested Rs 2,500 crore in the company by subscribing to its secured redeemable non-convertible debentures (NCDs). This issuance is through private placement basis with a door-to-door tenure of 10 years.
Sanjaya Gupta, Managing Director, PNB Housing Finance.
Indian chamber of food and agriculture has conferred ‘global agriculture award’ on Tamil Nadu for its excellence in agriculture sector. Food grain production in the state surpassed 100 lakh metric sixth time in a row for the past eight years.
TN bagged Krishi Karman award five times.
State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, has cut its marginal cost of lending rate (MCLR) by 5 basis points, which will reduce interest rates on loans. SBI has reduced the MCLR to 8 percent from 8.05 percent, effective from November 10.
John Mathai was first chairperson of SBI.
Mauritius' ruling Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) has won more than half of parliamentary seats, securing incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth a five-year term. MSM won 35 of the 62 seats up for grabs while its rivals.
Mauritius capital- Port Louis, Currency- Mauritian Rupee
MSCI has added eight Indian stocks including HDFC Asset Management or HDFC AMC, Info Edge (India) and Indraprastha Gas Ltd to its India Index, while removing Vodafone Idea, Yes Bank and four others that have seen significant market capitalisation erosion t
Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI)
Google has appointed Sanjay Gupta as its new country manager and vice president of sales and operations. He succeeds Rajan Anandan, who left Google to join Sequoia Capital India as its managing director. He did his engineering from Delhi College of Engg.
Google was founded in Sep 1998 by Larry Page & Sergey Brin.
Jacinda Ardern’s historic climate legislation was passed in the New Zealand Parliament with near-unanimous support , committing the country to reduce its carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and meet its commitments under the Paris climate accords.
Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865.
Former BBC and Channel 4 journalist, presenter and writer Farah Tazeen Ahmad passed away aged 48. She was a well-known figure in British media, where she was among the first Muslim Asian women to rise to the top of broadcast journalism.
Her career spanned 20 years across several leading broadcasters.
According to RBI’s new proposal, coming January 2020 customers may not have to pay any charges for transactions done through the popular NEFT system. Digital payments constituted a high 96 % of total non-cash retail payments during the Oct, 18 to Sep, 19.
RBI Governor- Shaktikant Das.
According to RBI’s recent data, The country's foreign exchange reserves rose by $3.515 billion to touch a fresh lifetime high of $446.098 billion in the week to November 1, helped by increase in foreign currency assets.
Gold reserves increased by $301 million to $27.353 billion.
Dhrupad maestro Ramakant Gundecha, younger brother in the Gundecha bandhu duo, passed away. The Gundecha brothers were maestros of Dhrupad and had recently celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of their Dhrupad Sansthan in Bhopal.
Dhrupad is the most ancient style of Hindustani classical music.