Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, disclosed that Indian-origin Ashok Elluswamy was the first employee to be hired for his electric vehicle company's Autopilot team.
Before joining Tesla, Elluswamy was associated with Volkswagen Electronic Research Lab and WABCO Vehicle Control System.
Ashok is the head of Autopilot engineering.
Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 22 developmental projects worth over Rs 4,800 crore in Imphal.
In Agartala, the Prime Minister will inaugurate the new integrated terminal building at Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport and will also launch two key development initiatives.
PM will inaugurate 13 projects worth around Rs 1,850 crore in Manipur.
Also will lay the foundation stone of 9 projects worth around Rs 2,950 crore in imphal.
Himachal Pradesh beat Tamil Nadu in the finals to win the Vijay Hazare Trophy, bringing home the first-ever title in the domestic cricket circle. With this, skipper Rishi Dhawan and his team have created history in the Indian domestic cricket.
Himachal chased a huge score of 315. Opening batsman & wicket-keeper, Shubham Arora, scored an unbeaten 136 runs off 131 balls.
Premier city-based B-school, Indian School of Business (ISB) will be working with the government of Jharkhand to empower the state’s forest economy.
A MoU to the effect has been signed by the department of scheduled tribe, scheduled caste, minority and backward class welfare, department of forests, Jharkhand, alongwith the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at ISB.
The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has inaugurated “LIC Digi Zone” at Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, to enhance its sales and services for its customers.
The Corporation will offer information regarding its products and services through kiosks installed in the Digi Zone premises.
Customers can buy policies online, pay premium and avail other services.
LIC chairman:- M R Kumar.
Telangana tops other states in the country in having the highest number of villages as ODF plus under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) phase II programme.
Of 12,769 villages, 8,035 villages are aspiring villages with clean and good sanitation practices having green surroundings, enabling people to lead a quality life while piped and safe drinking water is supplied.
SEBI has restructured its advisory committee on market data that recommends policy measures pertaining to areas like securities market data access and privacy.
Rejigging its market data advisory committee, Sebi has said the panel will now be chaired by S Sahoo, Professor at National Law University, Delhi and former chairperson, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall, and Baroness Amos are to be appointed as members of the Order of the Garter, England's oldest and most senior order of chivalry.
The former prime minister now will be known as 'Sir Tony'.
The appointments are the personal choice of the Queen, who has up to 24 "knight and lady companions".
Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez has reportedly retired from international cricket.
Mohammad Hafeez is Pakistan's most capped player at the ICC T20 World Cup.
In his iconic career that spanned over 18 years, Hafeez featured in 218 One Day International (ODIs) and 55 Test matches for Pakistan. He is also known as “The Professor” in cricketing circles.
India has invited a total of 46 friendly foreign countries to participate in the multinational naval exercise Milan in Visakhapatnam, scheduled from February 25, 2022.
The theme of this 11th edition of exercise Milan is camaraderie, cohesion and collaboration.
Initiated in 1995, Exercise Milan is held biennially and conducted with friendly navies.
The Project 22350, Admiral Gorshkov, successfully conducted a series of tests of the hypersonic Zirkon missile, a total of about 10 launches.
Russia had confirmed that the military successfully fired a simultaneous salvo of its Zircon hypersonic missiles. Russia has carried out a number of successful tests of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile.
Vinod Kannan took over as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vistara airline.
Kannan replaced Leslie Thng who was the CEO from July 16, 2017 to December 31, 2021.
Vistara said Deepak Rajawat has been elevated to take up the role of Vistara's Chief Commercial Officer.
Vistara, is a 51:49 joint venture between Tata Sons Private Limited and Singapore Airlines.
The government is planning to draw up an energy transition roadmap for the oil and gas sector that could prove to be a key step on India's path to net-zero emissions by 2070. The oil ministry has set up the Energy Transition Advisory Committee headed by former petroleum secretary Tarun Kapoor, who demitted office in November, to draft the strategy.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has released draft National Air Sports Policy (NASP) for public feedback.
NASP 2022 covers sports like aerobatics, aeromodelling, amateur-built and experimental aircraft, ballooning, drones, gliding, hang gliding and paragliding; microlighting and paramotoring; skydiving and vintage aircraft.