Former chairman of Turkish Airlines Ilker Ayci has been appointed Air India’s new CEO and MD, the erstwhile national carriers new owners the Tata Group.
Ilker is an aviation industry leader who led Turkish Airlines to its current success.
Ayci's appointment would be subject to regulatory approvals.
Every year, February 15 is observed as International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD) to raise awareness about the evil that entails this issue and the ways to deal with the same.
The most common types of childhood cancers include leukemias, brain cancer, lymphomas, solid tumours, such as neuroblastoma, Wilms tumour and bone tumors.
2022 Theme: 'Better Survival', which is a part of 3 campaigns launched in 2021 for ICCD.
Vineet Joshi, additional secretary in the ministry of education, has been assigned the charge of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairperson.
Joshi’s appointment comes after his predecessor Manoj Ahuja was appointed as the OSD in the department of agriculture and farmers welfare.
Reliance Jio has partnered with SES, a Luxembourg-based satellite solutions provider to form a new initiative – Jio Space Technology Limited. The joint venture is aimed at delivering the next generation scalable and affordable broadband services in India by making use of satellite technology.
Jio and SES will own 51 percent and 49 percent each in the equity stake.
Vedanta, one of India’s leading multinational groups, and Hon Hai Technology Group (“Foxconn”), world’s largest electronics manufacturing company, announced signing an MOU to form a joint venture company that will manufacture semiconductors in India.
According to the MOU signed between the two companies, Vedanta will hold the majority of the equity in joint venture.
The world-famous Jaisalmer Desert Festival is also known as Maru Mahotsav of the Golden City began at Pokaran.
The four-day-long festival started with colourful grand procession followed by Miss Pokaran and Mister Pokran competitions.
The festival comprises of various tourist-attracting competitions including Turban tying, Panihari Matka , Mehandi and mandana competitions.
South Africa's Test sensation Keegan Petersen and England women's team captain Heather Knight were voted ICC Players of the Month for January 2022.
In the men’s category, South African batter Keegan Petersen was a sensation during the home Test series against India.
He ended the series as the highest run-scorer with 276 runs and was named the Player of the Series.
Yes Bank has announced the launch of an annual startup enabler program that seeks to co-develop digital financial solutions for the food & agriculture ecosystem by mentoring entrepreneurial ventures in the sector.
Called Yes Bank Agri Infinity, a select cohort of startups will receive mentoring by veteran bankers for experiential co-development.
Also get access to the lender’s digital banking infrastructure and network.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Centre’s gross domestic product (GDP) deflator projection for 2022-23 is 3 to 3.5 per cent.
This means that the government’s own real GDP growth projection for the coming fiscal year is in the range of 7.6-8.1 per cent, given that the Union Budget assumes a nominal GDP growth rate of 11.1 per cent for FY23.
Dabur India, India’s largest Ayurveda company has become a complete plastic waste neutral firm in the country after collecting, processing and recycling around 27,000 metric tonnes of post-consumer plastic waste during FY21-22.
With this, Dabur has become the first Indian consumer goods company to achieve this landmark.
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will deliver the inaugural address at the Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI) World Sustainable Development Summit.
The summit is TERI’s annual flagship event and the theme for this year is ‘Towards a Resilient Planet: Ensuring a Sustainable and Equitable Future'.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is a research institute in New Delhi.
With a view to provide further relief to consumers and to keep in check any further rise in the prices of domestic edible oils, the Centre has reduced the agri-cess for Crude Palm Oil from 7.5 percent to 5 percent.
The current basic rate of import duty of zero percent on Crude Palm Oil, Crude Soyabean oil, and Crude Sunflower Oil upto 30th of September this year.