Biocon chairperson & MD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been awarded the Order of Australia, country’s highest civilian honour, for her significant contribution towards advancing bilateral relationship with Australia. She is the 4th Indian to receive it.
Australia Capital: Canberra; Currency: Australian dollar
Hyderabad has emerged as world's most dynamic city, performing better on parameters like socio-economic & commercial real estate, as per JLL India report Bengaluru has been ranked 2nd, while Chennai is at 5th & Delhi at 6th position in the list.
7 Indian cities feature in the top 20 in 2020 rankings
Google's parent company Alphabet finally reached $1 trillion mark, thereby becoming the 4th company in the world to be a part of the exclusive $1 trillion companies club after Apple, Microsoft & Amazon
Alphabet owns Google and all of its core businesses
Under this MoU, NITI Aayog will be supporting the UT’s administration through its key initiative ‘Development Support Services to States for Infrastructure Projects' for identifying prioritized infra projects & providing end-to-end management support
Rajiv Kumar is currently the vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog
9th International Children's Film Festival began in Kolkata with the screening of Aizaz Khan directed Hamid. An anthology of children's films in Bengali in the last 100 years & an exhibition on movie posters is held along with the festival
West Bengal Governor: Jagdeep Dhankhar
Indian classical singer Sunanda Patnaik, popularly known as "guruma" passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata at the age of 85. She started singing at All India Radio in Cuttack in 1948 at the age of 14.
She received Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1970 and 1971
Fertiliser Minister DV Sadananda Gowda launched the ‘Apna Urea - Sona Ugle’ brand of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL) for the revival of 3 sick urea plants located at Gorakhpur, Sindri and Barauni & also unveiled the company’s logo.
HURL is a JV company b/w IOCL, NTPC & Coal India
Prakash Javadekar & R K Singh on inaugurated Elecrama 2020 in Noida, organised by industry body IEEMA which is targeting businesses worth Rs 30,000 crore during the 5-day event. Focus of this year's event: e-mobility, energy storage, start-up among others
U.P. govt set a target of installing 2000 MW solar power y-o-y
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to lead the Indian delegation to the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos & hold bilateral meetings with ministers of Australia, South Africa, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Korea and Singapore.
2020 Theme: Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World
Nripendra Misra, has been appointed chairperson of the executive council of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) while Dr A Surya Prakash, chairperson of the Prasar Bharati board, to be the council's vice-chairperson.
Nripendra Misra is a Former principal secretary to PM Modi