International Day for Rural Women is celebrated on October 15.
The day focuses on gender equality and empowering women in rural areas. For this year, the theme is “Rural women cultivating good food for all".
The United Nations General Assembly had established this day on December 18, 2007, in its resolution 62/136.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) retained India’s GDP at 9.5 per cent for the current fiscal i.e. 2021-22 while cutting forecasts for the global economy by 5.9 per cent for the year 2021.
The Indian economy recorded growth of 7.3 per cent during FY 2020-21.
Also maintains growth outlook for 2022-23 at 8.5 per cent.
India's monetary policy projections are consistent with achieving the RBI.
BSNL has announced the first ever successful test of their indigenously developed 4G cellular network in Chandigarh.
The technology which was designed, developed and made in India was tested with a successful call made between the Department of Telecom secretary and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
The aim of the test was to check the sustainability of commercial deployment for future.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a Small Finance Bank (SFB) licence to the consortium of Centrum Financial Services Limited (Centrum), the small business lending arm of the Centrum Group and Resilient Innovations Private Limited (BharatPe).
A new bank licence has been issued after a gap of nearly six years.
The new SFB has been incorporated as 'Unity Small Finance Bank'.
The Global Hunger Index launched ranked India at 101 position out of a total 116 countries. India is also among the 31 countries where hunger has been identified as serious. India ranked 94 among 107 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Only 15 countries fare worse than India. India was also behind most of the neighbouring countries.
The Indian Banks' Association (IBA) elected UCO Bank Managing Director A K Goel as its chairman.Goel replaces Union Bank Managing Director and CEO Rajkiran Rai G as head of the banking sector association.Goel has been recommended for the post of the managing director of Punjab National Bank (PNB) by the Banks Board Bureau.
He would assume charge of PNB after clearance from the Appointments Committee of Cabinet.
Indian wearable brand Fire-Boltt has named cricket captain Virat Kohli as its new brand ambassador.
The skipper will participate in different marketing, ad and endorsement campaigns of the home grown brand.
Fire-Bolttas a brand personifies energy, dynamism and vibrancy, all of which has actually beena driving force in my sporting as well as life journey.
The private lender IndusInd Bank announced the appointment of CFO Gobind Jain with effect from September 29, 2021. He succeeds SV Zaregaonkar, who has worked with the bank for more than 25 years and is getting superannuated.
Jain has more than 29 years of experience in the banking industry.
The 16-year old schoolgirl from Belfast overtook the record previously held by India's Mithali Raj, who scored 114 not out against Ireland at the age of 16 years and 205 days in June 1999.
Hunter hit eight fours in her 127-ball innings at number three and reached her century with a leg-side flick for four as Ireland finished its innings on 312-3 in Harare.
She is just the fourth woman to hit an ODI century for Ireland and the first since 2000.
India's 1st Atal Community Innovation Center (ACIC) was inaugurated at Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur (VGU).
This will be the first center in the country to be set up by the Government of India, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and NITI Aayog.This center, started under the joint aegis of Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and VGU, will benefit the hardwork
NITI AAYOG :- NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR TRANSFORMING INDIA
A.Q. Khan, a scientist known as the father of Pakistan’s clandestine nuclear programme, passed away after a brief illness.
He was 85.
The nuclear physicist faced criticism in 2004 when he was forced to accept responsibility for nuclear technology proliferation and was forced to live a life of official house arrest.
He was born in 1936 in Bhopal and migrated to Pakistan along with his family after 1947.