The President of India, Droupadi Murmu has appointed Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud as the Chief Justice of India with effect from November 9, 2022. Justice Chandrachud will take over as the 50th Chief Justice of India after the retirement of the incumbent CJI UU Lalit.
As the CJI, Justice Chandrachud will have a term of over two years, till November 10, 2024.
Jyothi Yarraji has created history by becoming the first Indian woman to clock a legal sub-13 second time in 100-meter hurdles while smashing her own record at the National Open Athletics Championships in Bengaluru. She had won the same event in the National Games in Gandhinagar in a time of 12.79 seconds. The 23-year-old Yarraji is representing Railways.
The Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has become part of the world’s largest and most diverse genomic study covering 54 lakh individuals. It identified 12 thousand 222 places in the human genome that are associated with human height.The study ‘A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height’ was published in Nature Journal.
Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala will conduct Indian Navy Sailing Championship 2022 at Marakkar Watermanship Training Centre in Kerala.This mega championship is the largest intra-Navy sailing regatta in which nearly one hundred yatchpersons from all three Indian Naval Commands will participate.This Sailing Championship is to commemorate Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav and khelo India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi kickstarted the distribution of PMJAY-MA Yojana Ayushman cards in Gujarat via video conferencing on 17 October. Prime Minister launched the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana in 2018 - the largest health insurance scheme in the world providing coverage of up to Rs. 5 lakh per family per year for primary, secondary and tertiary care
The bank said Madhav Kalyan, who is the current country head for India, will be heading the Asia Pacific payments division effective November 1, succeeding Sridhar Kanthadai who will be moving into a new role as co-head of global payment rails and payment VAS.
Navin Wadhwani will be head of investment banking for India now.
The Executive Chair of Hyderabad-based L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), Dr. Prashant Garg has been elected as a member of the prestigious Academia Ophthalmological Internationalis (AOI).
The membership in AOI is limited to 100 active members.
Dr. Garg becomes the fifth from India to ever receive this honour.
Gandhinagar is hosting India’s biggest-ever defence exhibition to date - DefExpo 2022. This 12th edition of the event has been organised on the theme ‘Path to Pride’.
"India had achieved exports of defence items and technology worth a record Rs 13,000 crore in 2021-22, which is likely to rise to Rs 17,000 crore in 2022-23,".
'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida', which came ten years after Karunatilaka’s prize-winning novel ‘Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew’, was praised by judges for the “ambition of its scope and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques.”
Damon Glut, last year’s Booker Prize winner presented the author with 50,000 pounds in prize money.
Bandhan Bank has brought Sourav Ganguly as its brand ambassador. Bandhan Bank is a pan India bank that provides banking services through its 5,644 banking outlets spread across 34 of the 36 states and union territories in the country. As per the company, Ganguly will help amplify the brand message of the bank and endorse the products and services of the bank.
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, MD and CEO, Bandhan Bank.
Close on the heels of SCO RATS (counter-terror) meet in New Delhi, India will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) national coordinators’ meeting on Oct 17-18 in Delhi to give a boost to its Eurasian agenda of inclusive connectivity, trade & effective counter-terror measures.
This will be the first such national coordinator meet under the Indian SCO presidency.
The UNDP report noted that the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty in India cannot be fully assessed because 71% of the data from the 2019-2021 'Demographic and Health Survey' for the country were collected before the pandemic. The incidence of poverty fell from 36.6% in 2015-2016 to 21.2% in 2019-2021 in rural areas and from 9.0% to 5.5% in urban areas.
Roger Binny, former Indian cricket team star and member of the 1983 World Cup-winning team, was named as the 36th president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Binny, in his recent stint, was the Karnataka State Cricket Association President and will now leave his position in the state body.
The very first President of BCCI was Mr. R E Grant Govan.
Tamil Nadu has emerged as the only State which has achieved the target for 2022 Q1 and Q2 for Jal Jeevan Mission, with 69.57 lakh households provided with tap connections till date, according to official data. Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh visited Chennai and reviewed the progress of work pertaining to Jal Jeevan Mission for assured potable tap water by 2024.
Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that the National Highways Infra Trust (NHAI InvIT) bonds, which he said will offer an effective return of 8.05% per annum. These InvIT bonds will be listed on BSE and NSE, providing an opportunity for investors to invest and trade, he added. These are of Non-Convertible Debenture.