The Eighth Meeting of Ministers of Justice of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States will be attended by Shri Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of Law & Justice.
The Ministers and senior officials of the Ministry of Justice of India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will be participating in the Meeting
For the elderly in India, health systems have the highest national average of 66.97 at an all India level, followed by 62.34 in social wellbeing and financial well-being at a score of 44.7 in the "Quality of Life for Elderly Index" released by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister(EAC-PM).
Quality of Life for Elderly Index is released by the Economic Advisory
The first batch of three e-cars were flagged off at the VO Chidambaranar Port Trust
These Tata Xpres-T electric vehicles have been supplied by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a Joint venture of Public Sector Undertaking , under Ministry of Power,on wet lease basis, for a period of 6 years.
This is a part of wet lease agreement under the Maritime India Vision 2030
The first nasal COVID-19 vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech has got regulatory approval for phase second and third trials.
This is the first of its kind COVID-19 jab to undergo human clinical trials in India.
The phase one Clinical trial has been completed in the age groups ranging 18 to 60 years.
Previously, the vaccine was found to be safe, immunogenic & well tolerated
Secretary, Department of Biotechnology : Dr. Renu Swarup
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, APEDA in collaboration with Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing and Processing Corporation Limited HPMC exported first consignment consisting of five unique varieties of apples, Royal Delicious, Dark Baron Gala, Scarlet Spur, Red Velox and Golden Delicious to Bahrain
Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Durga Shanker Mishra, launched ‘SonChiraiya’ – (A brand and logo)- for marketing of urban Self-Help Group (SHG) products.
DAY-NULM, under the aegis of MoHUA, has focussed on equipping the urban poor women with adequate skills and opportunities, and to enable them to promote sustainable micro enterprises
MoS PMO, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh released “IndiGau”, India’s first Cattle Genomic Chip for the conservation of pure varieties of indigenous cattle breeds like, Gir, Kankrej, Sahiwal, Ongole etc.
This indigenous chip was developed by the concerted efforts of scientists of National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NAIB), Hyderabad.
International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), has developed indigenous technology for the production of Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) cathode material for Li-ion Batteries (LiBs) at its Centre for Nanomaterials. ARCI and Allox Minerals, signed an Agreement for Know-How Transfer on August, 2021
Terrorism and radicalisation, marine safety and security, trafficking and organised crime, and cyber security were identified as the “four pillars” of cooperation in a trilateral security meeting held between Sri Lanka, India and Maldives.
The decision to establish Colombo Security Conclave was made in November 2020 at the NSA-level meeting of India, Lanka and Maldives.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formally launched the National Automobile Scrappage Policy and Investors Summit for setting up Vehicle Scrapping Infrastructure at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. The new National Automobile Scrappage Policy will give a new dimension to our mobility with a new identity to our automobile industry. This will give a boost to the economy.
A hospital in Meghalaya, where ATM inventor John Adrian Shepherd-Barron was born in 1925, has got an automated teller machine after 53 years of the first installation of such a cash dispenser globally. The ATM was installed at Dr H Gordon Roberts Hospital, which will turn 100 next year. The first ATM was installed at a bank in London in 1967
Reg Varney, star of a popular TV show, became the first person to withdraw cash
Central Bank of India has entered into a strategic co-lending partnership with Dhanvarsha Finvest Ltd (DFL) to offer loans against gold ornaments under priority sector to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) borrowers at competitive rates.
Under this partnership, DFL will originate and process loans against gold ornaments as per jointly formulated credit parameter
Small Industries Development Bank of India(SIDBI) has launched ‘Digital Prayaas’,an App based end to end digital lending platform, whereby loan sanction will be accorded to aspiring entrepreneurs from the bottom of the pyramid.
Further, to cater to the aspiring youth in urban areas, SIDBI tied up with a major aggregator, BigBasket, to on board its delivery partners in India
Multilateral funding agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an over Rs 831 crore (USD 112 million) loan to finance water supply infrastructure in Jharkhand. The project will cover four towns in the state.
The project supports the Jharkhand Vision and Action Plan 2021 to improve the quality of life of its urban residents through better quality urban infrastructure
Cost of the project is USD 160 million,of which USD 48 million will be given by the state
National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Government of India has entered into a MoU with Punjab National Bank to extend financial assistance to the fisheries sector.
The Government created the Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF) in 2018-19 with a total fund of Rs 7522.48 crore
NFDB Chief Executive : Dr.Suvarna Chandrappagari
PNB MD and CEO : CH S S Mallikarjuna Rao
Thomas Dennerby has been appointed Indian women's national team coach ahead of the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup in India next year.
Dennerby replaces Maymol Rocky, who stepped down due to personal reasons.
Dennerby, who was earlier in charge of the Indian U-17 Women’s World Cup squad, has over 30 years of coaching experience with several national squads
Shakib Al Hasan and Stafanie Taylor have been voted the winners of the ICC Player of the Month for July 2021. Shakib, who was nominated alongside West Indies’ Hayden Walsh Jr and Australia’s Mitchell Marsh, had a stellar July.
Taylor was the standout performer for the West Indies. She was nominated for the award alongside teammate Hayley Matthews and Pakistan’s Fatima Sana
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami announced that Indian women’s hockey team player Vandana Katariya will be brand ambassador of the state’s Department of Women Empowerment and Child Development.
The announcement came at a program organized to felicitate the recipients of awardees of the Tilu Rauteli Award and the Anganwadi Workers Award
The book, “The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan”, shares anecdotes and never-before-told stories from the life of the man who was known for his “emotional hunger for transformative politics, shunning power and incubating revolutionary ideas” .
The book is written by historian Bimal Prasad and author Sujata Prasad and published by Penguin Publication.
