To convert Ordnance Factory Board, a subordinate office of Ministry of Defence into one or more than one 100% Government-owned corporate entities, Govt has constituted an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) under the chairmanship of Minister of Defence.
Minister of State for Defence: Shripad Yesso Naik.
The Streets for People Challenge is the response to the need for making the cities more walkable and pedestrian-friendly. The Challenge will support cities to develop a unified vision of streets for people in consultation with stakeholders and citizens.
All cities in the challenge to use ‘test-learn-scale’ approach.
Rating agency Moody's projected 11.5% contraction in India's economic growth in the current fiscal owing to coronavirus pandemic, from (-) 4 per cent estimated earlier. However, it expects economic growth to rebound to 10.6% in FY22 on strong base effect.
Moody’s HQ: New York, US.
CEO: Raymond W. McDaniel Jr.
Securities and Exchange Board of India tweaked the categorisation rules for multi-cap funds increasing the minimum equity investment. Multicap funds to invest minimum 75% of total assets in equities with 25% each in large-cap, midcap & small-cap companies.
SEBI gave time till January 31, '21 to comply with the circular.
Odisha govt launched GARIMA a new Scheme, first of its kind by any state to ensure Safety and Dignity of Core Sanitation Workers of the State. About 20,000 core sanitation workers and their families covering one lakh population are likely to be benefitted.
A dedicated corpus fund initially with Rs 50 crore to be created
Lt Gov Manoj Sinha announced Jammu and Kashmir health scheme intended to provide universal health insurance cover. It will have the same benefits as available under AB-PMJAY with an annual health insurance cover of Rs. 5 lakh per family on floater basis.
Aims to cover 15 lakh families with annual cost of Rs 123 crore.
Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy launched YSR Aasara scheme to empower women socially and economically. The beneficiaries will have the full freedom on how they would like to utilize the amount. Total allotment for the scheme is Rs. 27,169 crores.
AP also signed MoUs with HUL, ITC, Reliance, etc.,
Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Company Bhopal is the first power distribution company in India in which e-office system is operated from corporate office to local circle offices level. It has implemented e-file & e-correspondent system through NIC e-office.
It helps consumers get quick results of their complaints.
Liberty, one of the leading general insurance companies in India and SpiceJet, India’s leading airline partnered together to offer ‘Liberty Secure Travel’ insurance policy to consumers who book airline travel through SpiceJet’s website and mobile site.
Roopam Asthana - CEO of Liberty General Insurance.
HCL Technologies joined NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) to pursue expanded opportunities in AI space. HCL to also launch NEXT.ai, HCL's AI Lab, focused on upskilling engineers and architects utilizing AI solutions across hardware & software technology stacks.
Chairperson of HCL: Roshni Nadar.
HQ: Noida, India.
Dominic Thiem became Austria’s 2nd Grand Slam singles champion. He became the youngest Grand Slam champion and 1st maiden Grand Slam champion since Marin Cilic in 2014. He became the 1st player to win from two sets down since Pancho Gonzales in 1949.
He defeated Alexander Zverev of Germany.
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum (SCTIMST), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, has developed an indigenous low-cost device for the prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT).
The device by the SCTIMST costs less than 1 Lakh.
Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology, an autonomous Institution under Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals developed alcohol-based Disinfectant Spray for the surface applications and to remove pesticide residues left on fruits & vegetables.
IPFT Director: Dr Jitendra Kumar.
Established in 1991.
Hindi Diwas is celebrated on Sep 14 annually. The Constituent Assembly of India had in 1949 recognised and adopted Hindi as the official language. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Hindi and English are 2 official languages.
As mentioned in Article 343 Hindi is official language of India.
The centre has relaxed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms in the defence sector by allowing 74% FDI under the automatic route but it reserves the right to scrutinise any investment proposal which it thinks may impact India’s national security.
National Security Clause added due to sensitivity of the sector.
SBI is planning to launch a loan product, SAFAL, primarily focused on organic cotton growers who do not have any credit history. SAFAL stands for Safe and Fast Agriculture Loan. The largest lender is to scale up the business using AI and Machine Language.
SBI Chairman: Rajnish Kumar.
Asian Development Bank and ENGIE group signed a long-term loan of up to 4.66 billion Indian rupees to construct and operate a 200-MW alternating current solar photovoltaic-based power plant at Raghanesda Solar Park in India’s western state of Gujarat.
ENGIE signed power purchase agreement for 25 years with Gujarat.
After Kanyashree scheme another West Bengal government project has received a global prize. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) handed over the winner prize ‘20 to the state government for Sabuj Sathi project under the e-government category.
Under Sabuj Sathi bicycles are given to students.
India’s largest piggery mission worth Rs 209 crores was launched in Meghalaya by Union MoS for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary. It is funded by the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NDC). It aims to benefit 35,000 pig farmers in the state.
It will provide regular source of income to 300 PACCS members.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched website of Aero India 2021. The 13th edition of Aero India-21 will be held at Air Force Station, Yelahanka, Bengaluru. The Aero India 2021 website will be a contactless online interface for Asia's largest aero show.
It will also host informative content on recent policies of MoD.
UNICEF India roped in actor Ayushmann Khurrana as its celebrity advocate for promoting and supporting its work around ending violence against children. He will work towards this initiative in India and joins the likes of former football star David Beckham.
UNICEF representative in India - Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque.
IIT – Guwahati in collaboration with Workspace Metal Solution has developed a self-check kiosk which can detect if an individual is running a temperature or has low blood oxygen levels – symptoms of Covid-19 and other bacterial & viral infections.
With this, 99.99% of the virus can be disinfected in 10seconds.
Veteran Socialist Raghuvansh Prasad Singh represented the state's Vaishali constituency and was the Union Minister for Rural Development in the Congress-led UPA-I govt. He served as the Union MoS for Animal Husbandry, & Food as well as Consumer Affairs.
He presided the roll-out of MNREGA as rural development minister
