The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Dr M Srinivas as the new director of the prestigious All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
The tenure of the outgoing AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria came to an end. Dr Guleria joined as the Director on March 28, 2017.
The Central government appointed Dr Rajiv Bahl currently posted in WHO as a Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) cum- Secretary Department of Health Research (DHR) for a period of 3 years.
ICMR, New Delhi, the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research.
ICMR has 27 institutes located in different parts of India.
The aim is to achieve the universal goal of clean water bodies through 'Puneet Sagar Abhiyan' and 'Tide Turners Plastic Challenge programme'.
The NCC had, on Dec 1, 2021, launched ‘Puneet Sagar Abhiyan’, a nationwide flagship campaign, initially for 1 month, to clean sea shores of plastic & other waste material, while raising awareness about the importance of cleanliness.
DG NCC: Lt Gen Gurbirpal Singh.
Britannia Industries, maker of the popular Good Day and Tiger biscuits, has appointed Rajneet Kohli as its Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer. The company also announced that it has elevated Varun Berry to Executive Vice-Chairman and Managing Director.
Kohli will takeover as the position w.e.f 26th September, 2022 and will report to Varun Berry.
Dilip Tirkey, a former India hockey captain and member of the gold medal-winning team at the 1998 Asian Games, was unanimously elected as Hockey India (HI) president today. First time in history, a former sportsperson and an Olympian has gone on to head the national body.He represented India at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, and Athens in 2004.
India has exported the first consignment of plant-based meat products from Nadiad in the Kheda district of Gujarat to California in the United States. In a move to boost exports of unique agricultural processed food products, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Authority facilitated the export of the first consignment under the Vegan Food category.
The government has said that four lakh 37 thousand Anganwadi Centres have set up Poshan Vatikas. The Women and Child Development Ministry said, Poshan Vatikas or Nutri- gardens are being set up across the country to provide easy and affordable access to fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants, and herbs.
The Government of India has launched a Scheme Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment for 2022-23. Under this Scheme, financial assistance is provided to the States Governments in the form of 50-year interest free loan for capital investment projects.
India has announced the launch of the “Innovation Roadmap of the Mission Integrated Biorefineries” developed by co-leads and active inputs from Brazil, Canada, EC and the UK.The Mission aims at greater international collaboration and the need for increased financing for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration during the next five years to kickstart this object
Real Time Train Information System (RTIS), developed in collaboration with ISRO, is being installed on the locomotives for automatic acquisition of train movement timing at the stations, including that of arrival & departure or run-through. They get automatically plotted on the control chart of those trains in the Control Office Application (COA) system.
The shareholders of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) approved the re-appointment of Dilip Asbe as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for a period of five years, the organisation. He took over as CEO from former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) executive Abhaya Prasad Hota in 2018.
India's Radhika Batra, Zahra Joya of Afghanistan, Vanessa Nakate of Uganda and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen have been honoured by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for their extraordinary work towards achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
India hosted the 10th Ministerial Commission of Foreign Ministers of the IBSA, on the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly.The IBSA is a trilateral, developmental initiative between India, Brazil and South Africa to promote South-South cooperation and exchange.
REC has been accorded with the status of a ‘Maharatna’ Central Public Sector Enterprise, thus giving REC greater operational and financial autonomy. An order to this effect was issued yesterday by the Department of Public Enterprises, under the Ministry of Finance. Incorporated in 1969, REC is an NBFC focusing on Power Sector Financing and Development across India.
Vivek Kumar Dewangan- CMD, REC
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the third edition of the Lok Manthan programme. Lokmanthan is an august occasion where artists, intellectuals, and academicians are drawn from different parts of the country converge and brainstorm on the questions that haunt the society.The theme of this year’s biennale is Lokparampara (Lok traditions)