The Indian Olympic Association has co-opted Adille Sumariwalla as the President of the association till fresh elections are held.
The erstwhile President of the IOA, Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra, resigned from the post of President, IOA on July 18 due to personal reasons.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Smart India Hackathon 2022 grand finale via video conferencing. The Prime Minister interacted with the participants and discussed the projects they were developing.
Launched in 2017, Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to offer out-of-the-box ideas to solve problems in governance.
This year Smart India Hackathon-Junior has also been introduced
Serbian President Aleksandar Vuczić has appointed Ana Brnabić for the next term the Prime Minister. She has been heading the Serbian government since 2017.
In the April elections, Brnabić’s party was supported by 44 per cent of voters.
Serbia Capital: Belgrade; Currency: Serbian dinar.
Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan, an associate professor at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), was on August 27, appointed a whole-time member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
With this appointment, Ananth Narayan becomes the fourth whole-time member of SEBI, which had been operating with a vacancy for the position since November 2021.
PM Modi will inaugurate Smritivan at Bhuj in Kutch region of Gujarat on August 28th. Smritivan celebrates the spirit of resilience shown by the people of Gujarat following the 2001 earthquake.
Smritivan is a museum built as a tribute to those who lost their lives in the earthquake on January 26, 2001. The earthquake killed over 12,000 people in Kutch.
All subsidised fertilisers including urea and DAP will be sold under the single brand ‘Bharat’ from October, a move aimed at ensuring timely availability of soil nutrients to farmers & reducing the freight subsidy.
Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced this ‘One Nation One Fertiliser’ under the fertiliser subsidy scheme ‘Pradhanmantri Bhartiya Janurvarak Pariyojna (PMBJP)'.
Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister: Mansukh Mandaviya
State-owned hydro power giant NHPC has inked a pact with the Himachal Pradesh government for the implementation of 500 MW Dugar Hydroelectric Project in Chamba district.
Earlier, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for 449 MW Dugar Hydro Electric Project was signed between NHPC and government of Himachal Pradesh on September 25, 2019.
Dugar Hydroelectric Project is expected to generate 1,759.85 million units in a year.
From her obsession of 30 years with ‘being thin’ to her battles with grief and depression, acclaimed classical dancer and activist Mallika Sarabhai bares it all in her upcoming self-help memoir, “Free Fall: My Experiments with Living”.
The book will hit the stands on August 30 and it is published by Speaking Tiger.
Mallika is an accomplished Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer
India and Tanzania decided to set up a task force to prepare a five-year roadmap to boost bilateral defence cooperation.
The decision was taken during wide-ranging talks between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his visiting Tanzanian counterpart, Stergomena Lawrence Tax.
Tanzania:
Currency: shilling;
Capital: Dodoma
Lt Gen Nav K Khanduri inaugurated the Taurus Sainik Aramgrah at Delhi Cantt.
The facility is constructed by Indian Army in collaboration with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation as an Equal Value Infrastructure Project.
It is constructed primarily to ensure comfortable stay of serving/retired defence personnel including their dependents who come to Delhi for medical treatment.
Lt Gen Nav K Khanduri, AVSM, VSM is GOC-in-C of Western Command
A co-branded RuPay credit card for Indian Army personnel has been introduced by BOB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL), a fully owned subsidiary of Bank of Baroda (BoB), in collaboration with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
The Yoddha co-branded credit card will be available on the RuPay platform and have contactless features.
South Korea has once again shattered its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate as it faces the prospect of its population of 51 million people more than halving by the end of this century.
According to a Bloomberg report, Korean women were estimated, based on 2021 data, to have an average of just 0.81 children over their lifetimes, down from 0.84 a year earlier.
No.of newborns declined last yr to 260,600, which equates to about 0.5% of the population
AirAsia India is collaborating with CAE to integrate the CAE Rise Training System into the airline’s simulator training programme, making it the first airline in India to adopt a data-driven programme using CAE Rise.
The AI-powered technology leverages analytics to deliver a higher quality of training providing real-time data.
According to the latest data, SBI remains the top player with a 30% market share of debit cards as of June 2022 despite a 6% drop in year-on-year growth.
The data collated by PGA Labs show that public sector banks dominate the market share of debit cards.
With an 8% market share, BoB secured 2nd place followed by Bank of India, Canara Bank, Union Bank and PNB with 5% each.
HDFC Bank topped the charts in credit cards segment with 22%
Union transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on August 18th launched India’s first electric double-decker bus at YB Centre in south Mumbai.
Named Switch EiV 22, the double-decker bus will be run by the Mumbai civic transport body from September.
It was built by Ashok Leyland.
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav participated in the ‘Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar’ campaign, which aims at promoting environmental sustainability, at Puducherry.
“Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar” campaign is a 75-day citizen-led initiative aimed at improving coastal and ocean health via community action. The campaign began on July 5, 2022, and will end on September 17, 2022.
September 17 is the International Coastal Clean-up Day.
Central govt’s department of empowerment of persons with disabilities (DEPwD) is gearing up to introduce 3D printing technology to gradually replace manual customisation of devices like artificial limbs and spinal braces to enhance mobility.
Delhi based PDUNIPPD tested the tech on Delhi based 18 year old Payal Solanki, who is the first recipient of a 3D printed spinal brace
PDUNIPPD:Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya National Institute for Persons with Physical Disabilities
As part of the Indian Navy's long-range operational deployment, Indian Naval Ship, INS Sumedha visited Port Klang of Malaysia.
The ship is on her return passage from Perth, Australia where she participated in the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations.
INS Sumedha is also scheduled to participate in a Maritime Partnership Exercise with Royal Malaysian Navy Ships.
UAS, Raichur & NABARD organized a two-day Millets Conclave in collaboration with the Agriculture and allied departments.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced providing Rs 25 crore under the NABARD’s rural infrastructure development fund to UAS for establishment of incubation centre for processing and value addition for promotion of millets.
UNGA has declared the year 2023 as the International Year of Millets.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the 8th India International MSME Start-up Expo & Summit at New Delhi.
The Expo provides a much needed platform to SMEs, startups, trade, industry, service providers to explore new opportunities, buyers-sellers meet, sharing knowledge about central/state’s/UTs schemes etc.
