Yogi Adityanath took oath as the CM of UP for the second time.
Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak are the two deputy CMs of UP. While this is the second term for Keshav Maurya as Deputy CM, Dinesh Sharma has been replaced by Brajesh Pathak.
Italy missed out on a second consecutive World Cup after losing 1-0 at home to North Macedonia, with Aleksandar Trajkovski scoring the winner in second-half stoppage time.
European champions Italy did not qualify for the World Cup four years ago, their first failure to reach the tournament since 1958.
Boroplus maker Emami has acquired Dermicool, one of the leading brands in the prickly heat and cool talc category, from FMCG major Reckitt for a total consideration of Rs 432 crore (excluding taxes and duties).
According to industry stakeholders, Navratna is the second-largest brand in the segment after Nycil (owned by Zydus Wellness) while Dermicool comes in third.
The board of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) has elected Shashi Sinha, Chief Executive Officer at IPG Mediabrands India, as its new chairman at a meeting on March 25.
He succeeds Zee Entertainment Enterprises MD & CEO Punit Goenka, who served as the chairman for three years.
Sinha represented the Advertising Agencies Association of India as the board member.
Payments Council of India(PCI), a payments ecosystem industry body and a part of the Internet and Mobile Association of India(IAMAI) has re-elected Vishwas Patel as the chairman of PCI for another term.
Praveena Rai, COO, National Payments Corporation of India(NPCI) and MN Srinivasu,Co-founder and Director at BillDesk have been appointed as co-chairs of its seven committees
After a gap of nearly two years, a former judge of the Karnataka High Court Justice K N Phaneendra has been appointed the Upa Lokayukta of the state.
Karnataka Governor issued a notification appointing Justice Phaneendra for the post following a consultation with the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, Speaker of Legislative Assembly, Chairman of Legislative Council
Karnataka Chief Minister: Basavaraj Bommai
Karnataka Governor: Thaawar Chand Gehlot
In the first major diplomatic engagement between India and China in nearly two years, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his visiting Chinese counterpart Wang Yi held extensive talks covering the eastern Ladakh row and the geopolitical turmoil triggered by the crisis in Ukraine.
Wang, who holds the rank of state councillor, arrived in Delhi from Kabul.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Government of India signed an agreement to establish the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Gujarat.
The onsite launch of the new WHO global centre for traditional medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India will take place on April 21, 2022.
While Jamnagar will serve as the hub, the new centre will engage and benefit entire world
SpiceJet, Boeing and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) have joined hands to explore opportunities for the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in the Indian aviation industry.
This collaboration is a part of the organisations’ commitment to help reduce carbon emissions, contributing to the Indian Government’s environmental goals.
The collaboration was announced at the ongoing Wings India 2022 civil aviation conference
CSB Bank appointed its current deputy Managing Director, Pralay Mondal, as the interim Managing Director (MD) & CEO for a period of 3 months from 1 April 2022 or till the appointment of a regular MD & CEO, whichever is earlier.
C. VR. Rajendran, the present MD & CEO will take early retirement from the position due to health reasons by 31 March 2022.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Mukesh Kumar Jain, former MD & CEO of the erstwhile Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), as Member in the Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority (WDRA).
He has been appointed for a period of three years, according to the Department of Personnel & Training.
Digital payments and financial services company One97 Communications Limited, which owns the brand Paytm, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Paytm Payments Services Limited, is enabling merchants with data-driven payment insights to help them understand their customers and their payment preferences.
Bank of Baroda (BoB) has partnered with RBI’s wholly-owned subsidiary Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) to promote financial inclusion of women through technology.
BoB will be the ‘scale-up partner’ for RBIH’s inaugural edition of its programme Swanari TechSprint which would focus on developing digital solutions to help women achieve financial security and independence.
India on March 23 successfully test fired the extended range version of a surface-to-surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a launch pad in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The successful launch of what is arguably the world’s fastest cruise missile with a maximum speed of Mach 2.8 (nearly three times the speed of sound), was witnessed by the Chief of the Air Staff.
Chief of the Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari.
The Street Light National program(SLNP) was launched by the Government in January 2015 to replace conventional street lights with smart and energy efficient LED street lights in the municipal sector across the country.
Atal Jyoti Yojana(AJAY) Phase-II which provides for installation of solar street lights in remote, rural and semi-urban areas, was launched in December, 2018
In line with Atmanirbhar Bharat, the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), to promote entrepreneurship at a local level amongst the rural youth.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a framework for geo-tagging of payment system touch points, issuing instructions to bank and non bank payment system operators to maintain and submit to it the geographical locations of their touch points on a regular basis.
The announcement was made in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies released by the RBI.