President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Justice as the 49th Chief Justice of India, CJI. He will take over the charge on 27th of this month. The present CJI Justice N V Ramana will retire on 26th August. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India in August 2014.
Bhavani Devi, who became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics, won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Fencing Championship 2022. She defeated Australia's Veronika Vasileva 15-10 in the finals of senior women’s sabre individual category. She had also won a gold at the same event back in 2018, when the tournament took place in Canberra, Australia.
On the occasion of World Biofuel Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the 2nd generation (2G), Ethanol Plant, in Panipat, Haryana. The 2G biofuel plant has been set up to strengthen the efforts to boost the production and usage of biofuels in the country. The ethanol plant has been developed by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), at an estimated cost of over ₹900 cr
RBI, to prevent charging of exorbitant interest rates by certain entities and also check unethical loan recovery practices.Under the new norms, all loan disbursal and repayments are required to be executed only between the bank accounts of borrower and the regulated entities (like banks and NBFCs) without any pass-through/ pool account of the Lending Service Providers (LSP)
US President Joe Biden has signed documents endorsing Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO alliance. Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership in response to Russia's military actions in Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly warned both countries against joining the alliance.
In Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated "UMEED Market Place" under AVSAR Scheme of Airport Authority of India at Srinagar International airport yesterday. A similar Marketplace was also opened at Jammu Airport and both the outlets will exhibit products of all 20 districts.
Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar for a record eighth time. Mr Kumar was administered the oath of office by Governor Phagu Chauhan at a simple ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Patna.
RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav was also sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister for the second time.
Microsoft and the Indian government will collaborate for a programme to train nearly 250,000 civil servants in using the company’s suite of digital tools. The partnership between the tech giant, the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, and the Capacity Building Commission aims to help civil servants in helping the underprivileged.
In a major breakthrough, two institutes of agri research body ICAR have developed an indigenous vaccine for Lumpy Skin Disease in cattle which has spread across many states in the last few months.The Centre plans to commercialise this vaccine, developed by the two institutes of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research at the earliest in order to control the disease.
The extraordinary contributions to social psychology and management by Ramadhar Singh, currently a Distinguished University Professor at the Amrut Mody School of Management of Ahmedabad University have been marked on the 'Heritage Wall of Fame' of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in the United States.He is the only social psychologist to get this honoure.
State of Bank of India is the first Indian lender to frame a policy to fund makers of lab-grown diamonds which come across as replicas of the natural stones, but are often looked at with suspicion by high-street banks and scoffed at by many traditional diamantaires.
Manisha Kalyan and Sunil Chhetri have been named as the 2021-22 AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year and the 2021-22 Men’s Footballer of the Year, respectively. While Manisha had won the Women’s Emerging Footballer of the Year for last season, while this is the 7th time that Sunil won the award, having last won it in 2018-19.
Trade receivables discounting platform M1xchange has tied up with HDFC Bank with an aim to provide more liquidity to small businesses at competitive interest rates. HDFC Bank has partnered with M1xchange promoted by Mynd Solutions Pvt Ltd to make a debut in the Trade receivables Discounting System (TReDs) platform.
Mr. Jagdeep Dhankar was sworn in as the 14th Vice President of India today. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Mr. Dhankar at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Mr. Dhankhar was elected as the Vice President on August the 6th. He secured 74.36 percent, the highest ever votes received in the last six vice presidential elections held since 1997.