FedEx founder Frederick Smith will step down as chief executive after some five decades atop the transport behemoth.
Chief Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam will take the company's helm.
Smith first devised the idea for Federal Express -- which adopted FedEx as its brand name in 1994.
The transition will take place on June 1.
Dr Renu Singh has been appointed by MoEF as the next director of Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehradun. She will be the institute's second woman director.
Singh joined as FRI director after AS Rawat, director general, ICFRE, handed over his additional charge of director FRI to her.
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW) Shri Narendra Singh Tomar today released a book titled Indian Agriculture towards 2030: Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems, at an event organized by NITI Aayog and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
The Indian Air Force unveiled a new initiative with the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd under which its convoys will be to refuel at fuel stations of the state-run energy major. The defence ministry said a 'Fleet Card - Fuel on Move' has been rolled out to facilitate the refuelling of convoys belonging to the IAF.
The new initiative was launched by Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari.
Leo Puri, a financial sector veteran, and chairman of JP Morgan India, South and Southeast Asia, has been inducted on the board of Tata Sons, officials aware of the development said.
Indian badminton ace Ajay Jayaram who reached a career-best ranking of world number 13 in 2017 decided to call it quits after almost 2 decades of professional involvement in the sport.
Jayaram is the first Indian to win a medal at the Korean Open.
Robert Abela has been sworn in for his second tenure as Malta's prime minister.
The ceremony was held at the Grand Master's Palace in Valletta, where he was administered the oath of office by President George Vella.
Abela secured his mandate in the 2022 general election, where he led the Labour Party into another landslide victory with an almost 39,500 majority.
Malta's Capital: Valletta, Currency: Euro
The renowned hydrologist Wilfried Brutsaert, also known as Mr. Evaporation, has been awarded the Stockholm Water Prize 2022 for his groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation, helping to make accurate predictions of the impact that climate change has on local rainfall patterns and water sources.
India ended their campaign at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender 2022 championship at Doha in Qatar with two medals.
Mixed Doubles pair of Manika Batra and Gnanasekaran Sathiyan settled for a silver while Achanta Sharath Kamal bagged a Bronze in Men's Singles at the tournament.
"PARAM Shakti", a Petascale Supercomputer " at IIT Kharagpur, has been dedicated to the nation under Indian government's National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) - a joint initiative of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad is the second-most noise polluted city globally, according to the recent ‘Annual Frontier Report, 2022’ published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The area recorded noise pollution of an ear-splitting 114 decibels at its highest (dB) in 2021.
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) next Director-General will be Gilbert F. Houngbo from Togo.
Houngbo is currently President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
He was elected by the ILO’s Governing Body, comprising representatives of governments, workers and employers, during their meeting in Geneva.
He will be the 11th Director-General of the ILO, and the first African to hold the post.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands celebrates after he won the Formula One Grand Prix it in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
Max Verstappen won an intense race-long battle with Charles Leclerc to take his first victory of the season in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz and Red Bull's Sergio Perez took third and fourth.
The Ministry of Defence has formally placed an order with Goa Shipyard Limited for 8 fast patrol vessels for the Indian Coast Guard. GSL was awarded the Rs 473 cr contract after the Vasco-based shipyard emerged as the lowest bidder for the project. The ministry is expected to ink two contracts with GSL for 8 fast patrol vessels & 7 next generation off-shore patrol warships.