A trilateral naval exercise involving India, Singapore & Thailand commenced in the Andaman Sea. The 2-day long exercise, SITMEX-2020, is scheduled in a "non-contact, at sea only format", involving a war-at-sea exercise, naval manoeuvres among others.
Thailand Capital: Bangkok
Singapore Currency: Singapore Dollar
Karnataka has set a target of raising the state's Bio-economy share to 50% of the national Bio-economy revenue target of $100 bn by 2025. Currently, the state's share stands at a little over 1/3rd of the national bio-economy revenues at $22.6 bn
At the national level, Bio-economy is valued at $62.5 billion
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has been conferred with the Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Vatayan-UK organization in London to honour poets, writers and artists for their works in the respective fields.
Education Minister has written more than 75 books
PM Modi laid the foundation stone of rural drinking water supply projects in Mirzapur & Sonbhadra districts of Uttar Pradesh via video conferencing provide tap water connections in all rural households of 2,995 villages & will benefit about 42 lakh people
Jal Jeevan Mission launched by prime minister on August 15, 2019
India has become the 4th country in the world to have its independent regional navigation satellite system recognized by International Maritime Organisation (IMO) as a part of World Wide Radio Navigation System. other three countries are US, Russia & China
US: GPS
Russia: GLONASS
The webinar was presented by Ms. Bindu Menon, an expat relocation manager, an intercultural trainer and a brand communications specialist by profession, a linguaphile, an India enthusiast, an avid traveler and writer by passion.
It is a joint initiative between Tourism & Electronics Ministry.
Government said a grant of Rs 107.42 crore has been approved for implementing 28 food processing projects spread over 10 states. The committee considered the projects applied through a unit scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana
projects are likely to generate employment for 10,000 people
PM Modi has called for a new Global Index for the Post-Corona World that comprises 4 key elements: creation of a vast Talent Pool; ensuring that Technology reaches all segments of society; Transparency in systems of governance; dealing with Mother Earth
India to host G20 summit in 2022
RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Muthoot Finance, Ernakulam, for non-compliance with directions on maintaining loan to value ratio in gold loans and a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on Manappuram Finance, Thrissur
Section 45I of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 defines NBFC
FICCI FLO, IESC & IIM Shillong will jointly provide guidance; mentor entrepreneurs by facilitating a nurturing, instructive & supportive environment during the initial; critical stages of starting a business, enabling them to reduce initial startup costs
FLO - Ficci Ladies Organisation
US President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Indian-American Mala Adiga as the policy director of his wife Jill, choosing an experienced education policy hand as incoming First Lady focuses on education & plans to continue teaching community college classes
Joe Biden elected 46th President of the United States
Indian Oil R&D Centre has developed robust technology on Bio-methanation and has signed MoU with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India as a technology provider for the upcoming CBG Plants
Indian Oil is the first company to market Compressed Bio-Gas
Field biologist and wildlife conservation expert Ajay Adrushyappa Desai passed away in Belagavi. He was 62. Known as "Elephant Man", he spent decades in the research of species-specific behaviour of Asiatic elephants. He was a consultant to WWF
Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary & Nagarhole National park: Karnataka.
The Reserve Bank of India has reached one million followers on Twitter. With this, the central bank of India is now the first-ever such bank in the world to have reached these many followers in the micro-blogging site.
The 85-year-old RBI got a Twitter account in January 2012.