Fourteen-year-old Bharat Subramaniyam became India’s 73rd Chess Grandmaster, achieving the third and final GM norm at an event in Italy.
He got his third GM benchmark here and also touched the expected 2,500 (Elo) mark.
Mitrabha Guha became the 72nd GM of the country last November, two days after Sankalp Gupta became the 71st GM.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on January 10 announced Ajaz Patel as the winner of the ICC Men’s Player of the Month Award for December 2021.
New Zealand’s, Ajaz Patel made history in December, when he picked up 10 wickets in an innings against India at Wankhede, becoming only the third player in Tests to achieve that feat after Jim Laker and Anil Kumble.
In a first such comprehensive exercise since Independence, the government has surveyed 17.78 lakh acres of defence land using the latest technologies such as three-dimensional modelling, drone & satellite imageries.
The mammoth exercise of surveying about 1.61 lakh acres of defence land inside cantonments and 16.17 lakh acres outside cantonments was started in October 2018.
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is organizing the first-ever Startup India Innovation Week from January 10 to 16.
This virtual week-long innovation celebration is designed to showcase the spread and depth of entrepreneurship across India.
DPIIT has recognised more than 61,000 startups as on date.
India is estimated to add about 10 GW of total renewable energy capacity in 2022,down 10% year on year, according to clean energy consultancy firm Bridge to India.Capacity addition prospects would depend greatly on the timeline for clarity on transmission lines in Rajasthan &Gujarat. Many projects have already got force majeure relief on account of module supply disruption.
The Assam government has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to set up a joint venture company to execute a Rs 2,000 crore project to process 10 lakh litres of milk per day.
As part of the development project, more than 15,000 high milk-yielding Gir cows will be inducted into Assam.
Two cattle-feed and organic manure manufacturing units would be set up under this MOU.
The Kerala Arts and Crafts Village near Kovalam has won the 2021 International Craft Award for the best craft village of the year.
The Kerala Arts and Crafts Village is an institution established by the Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society for the state tourism department.
Indians Amita Sachdeva and Mubarik Khatri have won the awards for master artisans award.
India's real GDP is expected to grow at around 9.5 per cent in 2021-22 on a year-on-year.
The report comes a day after the National Statistical Office (NSO) released the First Advance Estimates of National Income for financial year 2021-22.Accordingly, the estimates had said that India's economy is expected to clock a growth of 9.2 per cent in terms of real GDP for FY22.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute in Kolkata in the presence of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
The second campus of CNCI has been built at a cost of over Rs 530 cr, out of which around Rs 400 cr have been provided by the Union and the rest by the West Bengal government.
Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala announced that Gurugram will get India’s 1st heli-hub with all aviation facilities.
The heli-hub will be the first of its kind in India to have all facilities at one place for helicopters.
The heli-hub is proposed to be built in Gurugram & would be near the metro facility along with easy connectivity to industrial areas(Noida & Bhiwadi).
Prominent Kannada writer Chandrashekhar Patil, popularly known as “Champa”, passed away at the age of 82.
Champa was a Kannada language activist, a poet and a playwright and also served as President of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP) and Chairman of the Kannada Development Authority.
The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), New Delhi won SKOCH Award in Silver category for its work towards combating Crime and Violence against Children.
It was given on the 78th SKOCH Summit organised with theme of “State of Governance”.
Deepa Verma, the Director of the Rohini-based lab, has accepted the award on behalf of the lab.