Telangana stood first in the implementation of the Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM) that was launched 4 years in the past to stimulate native financial growth, improve fundamental companies and create properly deliberate clusters.
Sangareddy and Kamareddy districts stood in the primary two positions among the many 300 clusters.
Tamil Nadu and Gujarat took the second and third positions respectively.
The Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) announced that Corbevax, a protein subunit Covid vaccine, has received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to launch it in India.
The initial construct and production process of the vaccine antigen was developed at TCH's Centre for Vaccine Development.
V. G. Somani :- Drugs Controller General of India
Global satellite communications company Inmarsat has launched its first next-generation satellite, known as the I-6.
Billed as the most sophisticated commercial communications satellite ever launched, the I-6 F1 is the first of seven new fully-funded Inmarsat satellites to be launched by 2024.
The satellite was launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from Japan.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has secured the top position as the most innovative educational institute in India.
The Ministry of Education has launched the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) and IIT Madras has bagged rank 1 for the third consecutive year.
Middle East-based retail company Lulu Group announced the setting-up of its export-oriented food and agriculture-produce processing park in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, planned with an initial investment of ₹500 cr. Lulu Group will procure and export an estimated 20,000 tons (annually) of local fruits & vegetables from the state for the company’s hypermarkets.
The defence ministry has announced a fresh list of 351 sub-systems and components that will not be allowed to be imported under a staggered timeline beginning December next year.
It is the third list released by the ministry in the last 16 months and it comes as part of the government's overall aim to make India a hub of manufacturing of military platforms and equipment.
The new initiative will save foreign exchange equivalent to around Rs 3,000 cr annually.
Ace cueist Pankaj Advani defended his national billiards title — his 11th in the tournament — after he defeated his PSPB teammate Dhruv Sitwala 5-2 in a best of nine games final.
Advani responded with breaks of 56 and 46 to restore parity at 1-1 after Sitwala's breaks of 64 and 42 late.
Pankaj Sharma has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Mexico.
Sharma is presently Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.
Meanwhile, Dr. Anupam Ray has been appointed as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.
Mexico's Capital: Mexico City; Currency: Mexican peso.
The gross non-performing asset (GNPA) ratio of scheduled commercial banks is likely to increase to 9.5 % in September 2022 from 6.9 % in September 2021 in a severe stress scenario.
In the report, the central bank noted that the scheduled commercial banks would, however, have sufficient capital, both at the aggregate & individual levels, even under stress conditions.
The Army, with support from the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), has recently established the Quantum Lab at Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow.
Indian Army has also established an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Centre at the same institution with over 140 deployments.
Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane.
The Strategic Policy Group is the first level of the three-tier structure of NSCS.
The All-India Coordinated Research Project cell at Mannuthy under Kerala Veterinary & Animal Science University (KVASU) has won the national breed conservation award 2021 for the conservation of Thalassery breed, the only registered native chicken breed in the state.
Thalassery breed is unique for its low body, egg weight &long broodiness.
Its comb and wattles are characterised by red colour.
Western Union, a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement & payments, & NPCI International Payments Ltd, the International arm of National Payment Corporation of India, have signed a MoU to enable real-time bank account payouts in India.
It will help the customers in India to receive international money transfers in real time into their bank accounts.
India will be chairing the Counterterrorism Committee in January 2022 at United Nations Security Council. The committee stands for greater significance for India, as the country has been pitching pertinent measures to evict and fight terrorism on the global platform.
The UNSC Committee on Counterterrorism will be chaired by India after 10 years.
India last chaired this committee in 2012.
ITBP director general Sanjay Arora will hold the additional charge of another border guarding force SSB as the latter’s chief Kumar Rajesh Chandra is set to retire on December 31.
Arora, a 1988-batch officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, was appointed the ITBP DG in August 2021.
The SSB is primarily tasked to guard unfenced Indian borders with Nepal and Bhutan.