Kia India (KIN) announced that Tae-Jin Park, Executive Director and Chief Sales & Business Strategy Officer (CSBO) will assume the role of Managing Director and CEO, Kia India. Park has been associated with Kia India since January 2020.
Park will succeed Kookhyun Shim, the current MD & CEO of Kia India, who played a crucial role in introducing the Kia brand in India.
Toshiba India announced the appointment of Shuichi Ito as its Managing Director.
He will succeed Tomohiko Okada, and lead Toshiba India’s energy and social infrastructure businesses in the country. Okada was at the helm of TIPL’s operations for more than five years.
Toshiba India Private Limited (TIPL) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan.
Reliance Industries Ltd's Reliance Brands Ltd (RBL) and famous designer Manish Malhotra have announced a strategic partnership to acquire a 40 percent stake in Malhotra's MM Styles Pvt Ltd.
Launched in 2005, the Manish Malhotra luxury retail is spanned across four flagship stores in Mumbai, New Delhi, and Hyderabad, 2 SIS.
India has ranked 40th out of 43 pension systems across the world in the 2021 Mercer CFS Global Pension Index survey, suggesting the need for strategic reforms in India to revamp the pension system so as to ensure adequate retirement income.
India had stood at 34th position out of 39 pension systems rated in 2020.
Mercer is an American asset management firm.
Vasanth made 1097 runs in 22 first class games at 32.26. He notched up three hundreds and an equal number of 50s, with a highest of 151.
Vasanth, also the Hon. Secretary of the Magnet Cricket Club, was active in the cricketing circles.
Sri Lanka's first-ever Test captain Bandula Warnapura passed away, following a brief illness. He was 68.
A right-handed batsman, he led his country when it faced England in its first-ever Test match in 1982 and played three more Tests, scoring 96 runs overall at an average of 12.
He also played 12 ODI matches, scoring 180 runs at an average of 15.
The J&K government signed an MoU with Dubai for real estate development, industrial parks and super-speciality hospitals.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed for real estate development, industrial parks, IT towers, multi-purpose towers, logistics, medical college, super-speciality hospitals.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor -Manoj Sinha.
Commodore Amit Rastogi (Retd), after an illustrious career of 34 years in Indian Navy has taken over as Chairman & Managing Director of National Research Development Corporation .
He was earlier director at Electrical Engineering at Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, for five years and additional general manager, tech services, at naval dockyard for two years.
As the Chairman of SBI, Kumar recounts, his term was rather momentous as the period-from 2017 to 2020-during which he shouldered this responsibility was rather unique under any circumstances.
The Custodian of Trust is a candid memoir by the former Chairman of India’s largest commercial bank.
"The Custodian of Trust", published under Penguin's 'Viking' imprint.
In the first major biography of Thiel, Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the innovator's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thought leader to his founding of PayPal and Palantir, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX.
World Statistics Day is celebrated around the globe every year on 20 October to highlight the achievements of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.
The day, which was created by United Nations Statistical Commission, was first marked in the year 2010.
Almost every industry and organisation in the world benefits from statistical data and research.
India celebrates statistics day as National Statistics Day on 29 June.
Agri-fintech firm Dvara E-Dairy Solutions Pvt Ltd has entered into a partnership with Jana Small Finance Bank (Jana SFB) to service small dairy farmers.Dvara E-Dairy hopes to use digital technology to assist small and medium dairy farmers with financial and livestock management solutions.Jana SFB has a large branch network in India's rural and agricultural areas.
China sent its first solar exploration satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province.
The satellite was launched aboard a Long March-2D rocket and entered its planned orbit successfully.
Ten small satellites including an orbital atmospheric density detection experimental satellite.
It was the 391st flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
Colin Powell, the trailblazing soldier and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his faulty claims to justify the 2003 US war in Iraq, died of Covid-19 complications.
He was 84.
He instead joined President George W. Bush's administration in 2001 as secretary of state
The first Black person to represent the US government on the world stage.
India, United States, Israel and the UAE have decided to form a forum for future economic cooperation and to explore possibilities of joint infrastructure projects in the fields of :-
# Transportation,
# Technology,
# Maritime security,
# Economics,
# Trade as well as for additional joint projects.
External Affairs Minister:- S Jaishankar
India is ranked at the top in emissions related to crop burning, accounting for 13 percent of total global emissions for the 2015-2020 period, according to a new report released by climate tech startup Blue Sky Analytics, which is also part of global coalition "Climate TRACE".
Blue Sky Analytics, the Indian climate tech startup founded by an IIT alumnus.
India is ranked at 71st position in the Global Food Security (GFS) Index 2021 of 113 countries, but the country lags behind its neighbours Pakistan and Sri Lanka in terms food affordability.
Pakistan (52.6 points) scored better than India (50.2 points) in the category of food affordability. Sri Lanka was even better with 62.9 points in this category on the GFS Index 2021.
GFS Index;- a global report released by Economist Impact and Corteva Agriscience