Govt of India has approved the appointment of Shri Praveen Kumar, IAS, Former Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship to the post of Director General & Chief Executive Officer,Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA).
The proposal for setting up IICA was approved by Planning Commission in the year 2007. It was established in 2008 at Manesar, Haryana.
Radhika Jha, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer in state-run Energy Efficiency Services (EESL). EESL is a joint venture between NTPC, Power Grid, Power Finance Corp and REC, working to promote energy efficiency in the country.
Prior to that, she was the Secretary to the CM of Uttarakhand from 2017 to 2021.
NITI Aayog released the fourth edition of the State Health Index for 2019–20. The report, titled "The Healthy States, Progressive India", ranks states and Union Territories on their year-on-year incremental performance in health outcomes as well as their overall status.
The index is being compiled and published since 2017.
Indian economy is all set to become sixth largest economy in the world leaving French and British economy behind, says British Consultancy Cybr report.
The report says that in the year 2022, Indian economy will exceed French economy whereas it will trump British economy in 2023 and the world’s economic output will exceed $100 trillion for the first time in 2022.
Defence minister Rajnath Singh has laid the foundation stone of the Defence Technology and Test Centre and BrahMos manufacturing centre that will be established by Defence Research and Development Organisation in Lucknow.
The Uttar Pradesh government has allocated 200-acre land for the project in Lucknow. This facility will be made operational in the next two-three years.
IndusInd Bank has partnered with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for offering real-time cross-border remittances to India using UPI IDs, for its Money Transfer Operator (MTO) partners.
IndusInd Bank has become the first Indian bank to go live on UPI for Cross Border Payments/NRI Remittances.
Veteran Greek politician Karolos Papoulias, who served as president at the height of the economic crisis of the 2010s, died at the age of 92.
Papoulias, a longtime socialist lawmaker and minister, was close to Andreas Papandreou, the founder of the Socialist PASOK party.
He served two terms between 2005 and 2015.
Greece's Capital: Athens; Currency:- Euro; President: Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Uttar Pradesh Hockey maintained their unbeaten record in the 11th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship 2021 in Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu with a decisive 3 - 1 victory over Hockey Chandigarh in the final of the competition.
Tournament top scorer Sharda Nand Tiwari opened the scoring for Uttar Pradesh.
HDFC Bank has tied up with India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) to offer its banking services to the unbanked and underserved segments in semi-urban and rural areas.
A MoU was signed between HDFC Bank & IPPB to cater to the majority of over 4.7 crore customer base of IPPB.
About 90% of IPPB customers reside in rural areas, which may benefit from this tie-up.
HDFC CEO: Sashidhar Jagdishan;
Headquarters: Mumbai.
The Centre has formed a committee to look into the withdrawal of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in Nagaland.
The move comes after representatives of the Nagaland government held a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India Vivek Joshi will head the five-member committee.The panel will submit its report in 45 days.
Nagaland CM :- Neiphiu Rio; Governor:- Jagdish Mukhi (additional).
The satellite, called "Ziyuan-1 02E" or "five-meter optical satellite 02," was launched by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi province.
It weighs about 2.5 kilograms and is equipped with infrared, near-infrared and hyperspectral cameras. The cameras can take full-colour panchromatic images of the Earth.
To celebrate Alia Bhatt’s work in support of an animal-friendly fashion industry and her advocacy for dogs and cats in need, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has named the actress its 2021 Person of the Year.
Her vegan kidswear line, Ed-a-Mamma, also won a 2021 PETA India fashion award for helping to nurture kids’ love for animals and nature.
Surat’s noted industrialist Viral Desai, popularly known as Greenman for his love for the environment, has been awarded the prestigious Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award in Dubai. 22 prominent personalities from 11 nations were felicitated with the prestigious awards on occasion. But he was the only one from India to have won the honour for climate action.
E.O. Wilson, the former Harvard University biologist and Pulitzer Prize winner whose study of ants and human behavior made him one of the world’s most influential scientists and prompted his calls for action to protect millions of species on the planet, has died. He was 92.