Harsh Vardhan Shringla, India's Ambassador to the US, has been appointed as the new Foreign Secretary. Shringla is a 1984-batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service. He will take over the charge of the foreign secretary from incumbent Vijay Gokhale.
He is the 33rd foreign secretary of the country.
Hiranandani Group Managing Director Niranjan Hiranandani has taken over as the new president of industry body ASSOCHAM. Hiranandani succeeds Welspun Group Chairman Balkrishan Goenka. ASSOCHAM was founded in the year 1921 and is headquartered in New Delhi.
ASSOCHAM- Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India
Monisha Ghosh has been appointed as the first woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's powerful Federal Communications Commission. She will advise Indian American Chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai and the agency on technology & engineering issues.
She replaces Dr Eric Burger.
Wipro has partnered with industry body NASSCOM to start a training platform on emerging technologies such as AI, data science, internet of things. Through this platform, Wipro will train 10,000 students from more than 20 engineering colleges in India.
It is part of Wipro’s corporate social responsibility programme.
To protect consumers interest RBI said that on a P2P platform the permissible exposure of a lender to all borrowers should not exceed ₹50 lakh at any given point of time. Lender investing more than ₹10 lakh across P2P platforms will produce a certificate.
Fund transfer under P2P happens through an escrow account.
Coal India has joined hands with Odisha Coal and Power Ltd for buying 6,000 tonnes per day from the Manoharpur captive mine of OCPL, owned by the Odisha govt. Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) and OCPL have entered into an MoU for provisioning of excess coal.
Coal India may supply the coal received to its own customers.
The first tripartite Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed between the department of Fisheries, NARBARD and the Government of Tamil Nadu for the implementation of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Fund (FIDF) with total outlay of Rs. 7522.48 Crores.
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying Minister -Giriraj Singh.
MakeMyTrip, along with Larsen & Toubro Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd introduced QR code-based e-tickets for the metro rail that would provide cashless and connected experience to riders. The feature would help commuters beat the queues at the metro stations.
Commuters would be able to book tickets for 20 stations now.
First annual Meet of the State Nodal Agencies implementing the ‘Ecoclub’ programme of the Ministry of the Environment, Forest & Climate Change organized by the Ministry’s Environment Education Division, along with GEER Foundation, Gujarat was held Gujarat.
It aims to give knowledge to school children about environment.
Vice President released the book titled “Turbulence and Triumph – The Modi Years” written by Rahul Agarwal and Bharti S Pradhan in New Delhi. The book is about the life journey of PM Narendra Modi from his days as a young boy till becoming the PM of India.
Book is published by Om Books International.
Indian weightlifter Rakhi Halder with creating two new national records clinched a bronze medal in the women's 64kg weight category at the Qatar International Cup in Doha. Rakhi Halder superseded the senior national record in both snatch and total lift.
India ended the Olympic qualifying event with three medals.
Ram Dass, who in the 1960s joined Timothy Leary in promoting psychedelic drugs as the path to inner enlightenment before undergoing a spiritual rebirth he spelled out in the influential book “Be Here Now,” died. He was 88 years old.
In 1978 Ram Dass co-founded the Seva Foundation.