The Fund is the U.N.’s financial instrument of first resort to sustain peace in countries or situations at risk or affected by violent conflict. The Fund requires $1.5 billion for 2020-2024 and has invested over $1.2 billion to date in over 60 countries.
Permanent representative of India UN: T.S. Tirumurti.
Both are currently serving as Deputy Managing Directors of the bank.Appointments are for a period of three years.SBI traditionally has four MDs. Two of the MD positions were vacant.The other two serving MDs of the bank are C S Setty and Ashwani Bhatia.
Dinesh Kumar Khara is Chairman of SBI.
TCS grew in a challenging year when the brand value of IT services companies collectively dropped by 3%.Also ranked TCS at 3rd position among the top 25 IT companies globally.TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan was ranked 5th in Brand Guardianship Index 2021.
TCS showed 10% growth over the prior year.
This Framework for Strategic Partnership will lead to an extensive exchange of knowledge and would be a stepping stone towards India becoming a full member of IEA.IEA Secretariat will be responsible for implementation of cooperative activities in India.
IEA:
Executive Director: Fatih Birol;
HQ:Paris,France.
It is a mutually beneficial arrangement to advance political cooperation,expand economic relations & green growth,create jobs and strengthen cooperation on addressing global challenges and opportunities; with focus on implementing Paris Agreement & UN SDG.
Denmark:
PM:Mette Frederiksen;
Currency: Danish krone.
The HPE-Cray EX supercomputer will theoretically be able to perform almost 20 quadrillion calculations per second,roughly equivalent to each person on Earth completing a math equation every second for an entire month.It is 3.5 times faster than Cheyenne.
The facility's current supercomputer is named Cheyenne.
He spelled out India’s vision:Every Child is Wanted, Every Birth is Safe, and Every Girl and Woman is treated with Dignity.Purpose of this event was to celebrate Family Planning-2020 partnership.India invested more than $3 bn by 2020 for FP services.
Adoption of modern contraceptive use reached an estimated 55%
National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) & Framework for Telemedicine use in Management of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in India was released.Awareness on reducing Physical Inactivity to combat NCDs was stressed.
ICMR-NCDIR:
HQ:Bengaluru;
Director:Dr.Prashant Mathur.
The purpose of the forum being hosted in Riyadh was to find solutions on how business and government can expand access to healthcare, train healthcare workers, remove regulatory barriers and encourage investment in advanced health technologies.
Dr.Harsh Vardhan is Minister of Health and Family Welfare
The annual median growth forecast by FICCI is based on responses from leading economists representing industry,banking and financial services sector.Median growth forecast for agriculture and allied activities has been pegged at 3.5 per cent for 2020-21.
Industry and services sector to contract by 10% & 9.2%
It aims at helping Indian farmers make informed decisions through customized information related to their farming requirements. It shares relevant information about the scientific way of farming, crop cultivation, sowing, or harvesting of a major crops.
Bharti AXA:
MD&CEO:Sanjeev Srinivasan;
HQ:Mumbai
The project celebrates 50 years of Indo-Bangladesh friendship, and the 100 birth anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh.MoU represented by Chennai-based Space Kidz India in India & Global Law Thinkers Society on Bangladesh side.
A 10cmx10cmx10cm satellite will be launched by ISRO's PSLV.
169-metre Wahrew suspension bridge at Sobhar,East Khasi Hills district has been constructed at a cost of Rs 49.395 crore under Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources
of Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.The bridge is over Wahrew river.
Bridge connects Bholaganj & Sohbar to Nongjri.
It has been launched to make policy intervention for building public health capacity and skills & bridge gaps between education & bpractices in Rajasthan.The school will provide technical support to health systems & render help to state govt with new tech.
Named after IIHMR chairperson S.D. Gupta.
The 3 hour trip will start at Millenium Park, and the boat will travel to Belur Math jetty & return.Children will be able to choose from a selection of 500 titles in English and Bengali on the Young Readers' Boat Library.
Launched by WB Transport Corporation in collab with a book store
Reliance will purchase hundreds of breath testing systems from the Israeli company Breath of Health(BOH) and will use them to conduct millions of tests a month at a cost of USD 10 million per month.Reliance will also lead research of the system in India.
BOH kit identifies Covid-19 at a success rate of over 95%
The government has approved an increase in the MSP of milling copra by ₹375 from 2020 to ₹10,335 per quintal & ball copra by Rs.300 to Rs.10600 per quintal, as part of its effort to boost farmers' income.This is as per Swaminathan recommendations.
New MSP for copra will impact the farmers of 12 coastal states.
NGC 4535,a hazy spiral galaxy is one of the largest in Virgo cluster-a collection of more than 2,000 galaxies located about 50 million light-years from Earth.When viewed through NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope,it vanishes to reveal a vibrant sea of stars.
In 1950s astronomer Leland S. Copeland dubbed it The Lost Galaxy
The policy was part of Aatmanirbhar Bharat package announced by Nirmala Sitharaman in May 2020.Govt had then announced intention to limit presence of PSUs to one to four in strategic sectors & privatise,merge or bring the remaining under a holding company.
Companies in non-strategic sectors will see govt exiting totally
The main objective of the MoU is to provide required support to textile’s trade & industry for ensuring quality as per the requirement of Japanese buyers through Testing, Inspection & Conformity Assessment,Training & Capacity Building, R&D and consultancy.
Japan is 3rd largest export destination of Textile and Apparels.
The mission entails a 5-yr plan aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in production of cooking oil while cutting down its increasing import, which costs ₹75,000 crore to the exchequer annually. Local production may also ease the prices of cooking oil.
Mission maybe funded by import cess of ₹2,500-3,000 per tonne.
He served as the chairman & MD of Pond’s India Ltd,which became part of Hindustan Lever Ltd(HLL), and served on the board of HLL.An alumnus of Lawrence School at Lovedale & Loyola College,he began his career in 1959 as a management trainee in HLL (now HUL)
He served with Pond’s (India) till 1997.
This is the first attempt at an IPO of an InvIT by a state owned firm.The private sector has seen two InvIT’s so far,namely IndiGrid InvIT & IRB Infra InvIT.ICICI Securities, Axis Capital, Edelweiss and HSBC Securities are working on this IPO.
InvIT is a collective investment scheme similar to mutual fund.
Grants are released as per recommendations of 15th Finance Commission.It recommended two types of grants basic and tied -to the RLBs.First instalment of basic grants worth Rs.18199 was released in June 2020 & tied grants worth Rs.15187.50 as well.
States should transfer this to RLBs within 10 working days.
