Dharmendra Pradhan dedicated 56 CNG stations to the nation.These stations are spread over 11 states and UTs. He said that 72% population of India will soon be covered through the City Gas Distribution network, with spread over 53% of the geographical area.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
State-run Power Finance Corporation (PFC) under the Ministry of Power announced the appointment of Ravinder Singh Dhillon, currently its Director, as Chairman and Managing Director from June 1 following superannuation of Rajeev Sharma this month.
Power Finance Corporation (PFC) has headquarters in New Delhi.
Ministry of finance appointed PR Jaishankar as the managing director of the India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL).He has served as the executive director of the National Housing Bank prior to this after the recommendations of Bank Boards Bureau.
Harsha Bangari appointed deputy managing director of Exim Bank.
Jawaharlal Nehru University professor Sonajharia Minz, who was also the President of JNU Teachers’ Association, was appointed vice-chancellor of Sido Kanhu Murmu University (SKMU) in Jharkhand’s Dumka, becoming the first tribal women to head a university.
Jharkhand Governor: Draupadi Murmu.
S Gopalakrishnan, a senior Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer, has been appointed as additional secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office. Gopalakrishnan’s appointment was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He is currently serving at the Ministry of Electronics.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed Indian-origin academic Yadvinder Malhi as a new Trustee of the Natural History Museum in London. His appointment has been made in accordance with the UK Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments.
Malhi is Professor of Ecosystem Science at University of Oxford.
Venkataramani Sumantran, the chairman and managing director of Chennai based Celeris Technologies, has been appointed as the Independent Director of IndiGo, the Indian airline company headquartered in Gurgaon. He will hold the post for the next five years.
IndiGo is the largest airline in India by passengers carried.
Tata Consultancy Services, a leading global IT service, consulting and business solutions organization, has won two Steviesin the 2020 American Business Awards, the nation's premier business awards program, for the 2019 TCS New York City Marathon app.
With this, TCS has so far received 2 gold and 2 silver Awards.
Cisco continued its software acquisition spree, announcing the purchase of ThousandEyes, founded by Mohit Lad, whose technology helps companies monitor their network for outages. Cisco has been focused on expanding its portfolio of cloud-based software.
Cisco CEO: Chuck Robbins. HQ: California, USA.
State-run hydro power giant NHPC has announced that its board has approved the proposal to foray into the solar energy business. The firm is mainly into hydropower generation. NHPC presently has an installation base of 7,071.2 MW from 24 power stations.
NHPC Chairman: Abhay Kumar Singh. HQ: Faridabad.
The Reserve Bank India stopped selling the 7.75% (Taxable) government savings bond, the most sought-after investment by retail investors in recent times. With this, options have come down for retail investors, looking for high guaranteed-return products.
These bonds had a seven-year lock-in period.
RBI imposed the penalty of Rs. 5 cr on Bank of India, Rs. 30 lakh on Saraswat Co-operative Bank Ltd and Rs. 1.20 cr on Karnataka Bank. The RBI has imposed the penalty on the ground of non-compliance with certain provisions of the directions issued by RBI.
Saraswat Co-operative Bank Limited Headquarters: Mumbai.
Ajit Jogi, the former Congress leader, who became the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh when the state was born in 2000, has passed away after being hospitalized for three weeks. He was a Veteran Indian Police Service and Indian Administrative Service.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister: Bhupesh Baghel.
Veteran lyricist Yogesh Gaur, who penned the famous ‘Kahin Door Jab Din Dhal Jaaye’ and ‘Zindagi Kaisi Hai Paheli" in "Anand", passed away. He was 77. Known by his first name in film circles, Yogesh was a prominent lyricist in ’70s Hindi cinema.
Gaur’s evergreens include ‘mili’, ‘Ek Chhoti Si Baat’, etc.,