The National Sports Day is celebrated on 29th August every year to commemorate the birth anniversary of legendary hockey player Major Dhyan Chand.
On 6th of August, the Government had announced that India’s highest sporting honour Khel Ratna Award has been named as Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in the honour of the hockey wizard.
CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication & Policy Research (NIScPR), New Delhi and J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad signed a MoU for collaboration and networking to advance policy research and science communication by leveraging respective strengths.
CSIR-NIScPR is a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific.
India’s Bhavina Patel has settled for Silver medal in the table tennis event at Tokyo Paralympics. Bhavina lost to China’s Ying Zhou in the final.
She had entered the final beating China’s Zhang Miao in a closely-contested semi-final match.
Bhavina scripted history by becoming the first Indian table tennis player to enter the final in the Paralympics.
In Tripura, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated a project called ‘My Pad, My Right’ initiated by NABARD and NABFOUNDATION at Killa village in Gomati district on the second and concluding day of her visit to the state.
The project aims to bring livelihood and menstrual hygiene closer to rural women by way of grant, wage support and capital equipment.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated India's first smog tower in Delhi's Connaught Place that will purify 1,000 cubic metres of air per second within a radius of around 1 km.
The tower has been set up as a pilot project and initial trends will be available within a month.
If the pilot project is successful, more smog towers will be installed in the national capital.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the Fair and Remunerative Price of sugarcane for sugar season 2021-22 (October-September) at Rs 290 per quintal for a basic recovery rate of 10%.
This will provide a premium of Rs 2.90/qtl for each 0.1% increase in recovery over and above 10%, and reduction in FRP by Rs 2.90/qtl for every 0.1% decrease in recovery.
The RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 15 lakh on The Baghat Urban Co-operative Bank Limited, Solan, for violation of certain norms, including, those related to NPA classification.
RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh on Delhi Nagrik Sehkari Bank Limited, New Delhi, for non-compliance with certain directions issued by the central bank.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the second meeting of BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) with Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das under Indian BRICS Chairship.
This meeting is scheduled ahead of the BRICS Leaders' Summit 2021 to discuss and finalise key outcomes of the BRICS finance agenda this year.
Finance Min, Central Bank Governors of Brazil, Russia, China & South Africa were present.
Fintech firm BharatPe forayed into the consumer space with the launch of 12% Club, which will work in the areas of consumer lending and investments.
With 12% Club consumers will have an option to invest and earn up to 12% annual interest or borrow at a competitive interest rate of 12%.
BharatPe has partnered with the RBI-approved NBFCs to offer these services to consumers.
Harish Parvathaneni (IFS: 1990) appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany.
He is presently Additional Secretary in the Ministry. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.
The Civil Aviation ministry has passed the new Drone Rules 2021 which will replace the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Rules 2021.
The government had announced the new drone rules and invited comments from stakeholders and the industry.
The new rules were lauded by stakeholders for simplifying procedures and reducing the compliance burden to operate a drone in India.
Mumbai Pradeep Guha, managing director of 9X Media and former president of Bennett Coleman and Company Ltd passed away in Mumbai.
Guha was recently detected with fourth stage liver cancer and was being treated at the city’s Kokilaben Ambani Hospital.
BCCL, also known as the Times Group
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has been given the additional charge of Punjab and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Earlier, V P Singh Badnore was the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of Chandigarh.
The President has also appointed Purohit as the Administrator of Chandigarh, in addition to his duties as the Governor of Punjab.
Digital payments & financial services firm Paytm has signed an agreement with IT ministry's startup hub to scale deep-tech startups by providing access to platform, knowledge series, experts, resources, and larger community of stakeholders.
The collab also focuses on fostering partnerships with incubators, accelerators, investors,offering a startup toolkit to solve payments