V.S.K. Kaumudi, IPS, Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) and Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will be launching MANTHAN 2021.
Hackathon MANTHAN 2021 is a unique national initiative to identify innovative concepts and tech solutions for addressing the security challenges of the 21st century.
The Reserve Bank of India has approved the re-appointment of Sandeep Bakhshi as the managing director and chief executive officer of ICICI Bank.
The re-appointment will come into effect on October 15, 2021, and the tenure will continue till October 3, 2023.
The decision to re-appoint Bakhshi as the MD and CEO had received the nod of shareholders nearly two years ago.
Union Home Ministry appointed Pankaj Kumar Singh as the new Director General of Border Security Force. He is presently serving as the Special DG, BSF.
The committee also appointed Sanjay Arora to the position of DG ITBP, Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police.
Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL), a Coal India Ltd subsidiary has become the first PSU in the country, which has got all its employees and their family members vaccinated against Covid-19.
The company has a strength of around fifty thousand people comprising over thirteen thousand full time employees, sixteen thousand contract workers in its operation areas.
The Reserve Bank of India has approved the appointment of Hitendra Dave as Chief Executive Officer, HSBC India for a period of three years with effect from August 24, 2021.
Dave is a General Manager within the HSBC Group and a member of the Asia Pacific Executive Committee of HSBC, underlining the importance of the India business to HSBC.
The Reserve Bank extended the scope of 'tokenisation' to several consumer devices, including laptops, desktops, wearables like wristwatches and bands, as well as Internet of Things devices.
Tokenization, which aims at improving the safety and security of the payment system, refers to the replacement of actual card details with a unique alternate code called the 'token'.
The first batch of Indian-made multi-mode hand grenades (MMHG), manufactured by a private firm, was delivered to the Indian Army in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at a ceremony in Nagpur.
The grenades will replace grenade no 36 of the World War I vintage design, which has continued in service till date. MMHGs are not just more lethal, but are safer to use.
These grenades are mfd by Economic Explosive Ltd following the transfer of tech from DRDO
The government cleared a Rs 15,000-crore foreign direct investment (FDI) proposal of Anchorage Infrastructure Investment Holding Ltd, a subsidiary of Canada-based pension fund, for the investment in the infrastructure sector.
The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs(CCEA), approved the FDI proposal for the purpose of investment in infrastructure and the construction sector
GoI’s think-tank NITI Aayog, in collaboration with World Resources Institute (WRI), launched the Forum for Decarbonising Transport in the country.
The forum launched by NITI Aayog and WRI aims to create a platform to initiate dialogues for the development of uniform policies and help achieve specific results in reducing carbon emissions by promoting electric vehicles.
Thermocol could be the material of the future for construction of earthquake-resistant buildings, with thermal insulation and could also save energy required to develop construction materials.
Researchers at IIT Roorkee have found that thermocol or Expanded Polystyrene is used as a composite material in the core of reinforced concrete sandwich, and could resist earthquake.
The Uttar Pradesh government received the sanction letter of ₹5100 crore loan for the 594-kilometre-long Ganga Expressway project from the Punjab National Bank (PNB) in the presence of Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and chief minister Yogi Adityanath at an event in Lucknow.
This expressway will be the longest in north India and the second longest in the country.
The project’s estimated cost is ₹36,230 crore.
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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited(HAL) signed a $716 mn deal with GE Aviation of the U.S. for 99 F404 aircraft engines and support services that will power the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft(LCA) Mk-1A.
In Feb, the Defence Ministry signed a ₹48,000 crore deal with HAL to supply 83 LCA-Mk1A to the IAF. This is the largest deal and the purchase order placed by HAL for LCA
Government will launch the e-Shram portal – National Database on Unorganized Workers (NDUW). The portal will maintain a database of workers in the country’s unorganised sector.
Unveiling the logo for the E-Shram portal, Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav has said that the targeted identification of unorganized workers was a much needed step.
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval hosted the inaugural meeting of the IBSA National Security Advisers.
Discussions were held on maritime security, fight against terrorism and transnational organized crime, and cyber security.
Participants agreed that terrorism, in particular, cross-border terrorism undertaken through state sponsorship must be fought through united effort
The Union Cabinet has approved the signing MoU between the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Professional Accountants of Russia.
The proposed MoU aims to strengthen cooperation in matters of accountancy profession through exchange of views, information in respect of Professional Accountancy Training, Professional Ethics, Technical Research.
India’s first mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine has received a nod from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to move into Phase-2 and Phase-3 trials.
Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd which is the Pune-based biotechnology company is working on the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine- HGCO19.
It submitted the interim clinical data to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation.
With a view to provide succour to poor women borrowers who are not able to return the loan amount of Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs), the Assam government signed an MOU with Microfinance Institutions for implementation of Assam Micro Finance Incentive and Relief Scheme 2021 in Guwahati.
Altogether 38 MFIs and banks signed the MoU with the state government.
Karnataka has become the first state in the country to officially implement the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the NEP in the state.
Karnataka has set an example for other states with the implementation of the National Education Policy.
The Admission module under the new policy was also launched on the occasion.