National Farmers' Day is observed to honour and acknowledge the contribution of farmers in our lives. The day is also celebrated to mark the birth anniversary Shri Choudhary Charan Singh, the fifth Prime Minister of India. The first Kisan Divas was celebrated in the year 2001. Chaudhary Charan Singh, the Kisan Leader, served the country from July 28, 1979 to Jan 14, 1980.
Indian female wrestler Antim Panghal has been nominated for the honour of United World Wrestling Rising Star of the Year. In addition to Panghal, the five women nominated for the award include Nonoka Ozaki of Japan, Amit Elor of the US, Emma Malmgren of Sweden, and Andreea Ana of Romania.
She in August became the first Indian to become U20 world champion in wrestling.
Minister of State for Textiles Darshana Jardosh has said that India’s textile and apparel exports including handicrafts achieved over 44 billion dollar in the last financial year, registering a growth of 41 per cent under the 'Make in India' initiative. Exports of readymade garments which included cotton accessories recorded more than six billion dollar export for FY2022.
The ‘Make in India’ initiative was launched in September 2014
The Indian Foreign Service official of 1997 batch, Dr. Suhel Ajaz Khan who is presently the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Lebanon has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He will replace Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, a 1989 batch IFS officer. Dr. Khan is expected to take up the assignment shortly.
JK Cement announced its foray into the paints business by acquiring 60 per cent stake in Rajasthan-based Acro Paints in a Rs 153 crore deal. Its wholly-owned subsidiary JK Paints and Coatings Ltd has entered into a share purchase agreement with Acro Paints Ltd and its shareholders to acquire a 60 per cent controlling stake in the company.
JK Cement Managing Director - Raghavpat Singhania
Reliance Projects and Property Management Services, a subsidiary of Jio, has deposited Rs 3,720 crore in an SBI escrow account to acquire mobile tower and fiber assets of Reliance Infratel. The National Company Law Tribunal gave approval to Jio for the acquisition of Reliance Infratel in November. Reliance Infratel transaction is complete.
Jio placed a bid of Rs 3,720 crore in November 2019
Tata Communications (Netherlands) B.V., a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Tata Communications Limited, will acquire 100 per cent equity stake of Switch Enterprises, LLC, USA for a full cash deal of Rs 486 crore.The Switch will bring live production capabilities helping organisations to produce high quality immersive content faster and efficiently.
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd said it has signed a five-year pact with Kamarajar Port Ltd for export of its passenger vehicles to international markets. Under the agreement starting December 2022 Kamarajar Port will be used for exports to Africa, Middle East, Latin America, ASEAN, Oceania and SAARC regions by the company The port will be used to export around 20,000 cars annually
MSIL Managing Director & CEO -Hisashi Takeuchi
Kamarajar Port Ltd, CMD- Sunil Paliwal
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has formed four task forces to recommend to the government measures that will boost the domestic telecom manufacturing ecosystem and remove the bottlenecks. The development follows a round table between Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and 42 chiefs of telecom.
The defence ministry approved the procurement of a number of military platforms and weapons including light tanks, anti-ship missiles and long range guided bombs at a cost of Rs 84,328 crore to boost combat capabilities of the armed forces. The procurement proposals were cleared by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
The public sector lender Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) said that it has raised Rs. 880 crore through Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds that complied with Basel III. The AT1 instrument is perpetual in nature; with call option after 5 years. The Bank has credit ratings of AA (Stable) for AT1 Bonds.
The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) received in-principle approval from market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on December 19, 2022, to set up a Social Stock Exchange (SSE) as a separate segment of the NSE.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Union Budget speech of 2019-20, had proposed creation of a Social Stock Exchange, under SEBI.
Beth Mead has become the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022 after guiding the Lionesses to victory in the Women's Euros. Beth won the Golden Boot after scoring six goals and was also the Player of the Tournament in the Women's Euros. Ben Stokes, the captain of the English cricket team, gymnast Jessica Gadirova, and runner Jake Wightman were among the nominations.
The prestigious ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ for 2022 will be conferred on authors Badri Narayan and Anuradha Roy. Narayan would be conferred the award for his collection of poems in Hindi titled ‘Tumadi Ke Shabd’. Roy will be awarded the award for her novel ‘All the Lives We Never Lived’ in English and Anis Ashfaq for his novel ‘Khwab Sarab’ in Urdu.
Three new cultural sites in India, including iconic Sun Temple at Modhera, historic Vadnagar town in Gujarat and rock-cut relief sculptures of Unakoti in Tripura, have been added to the tentative list of UNESCO world heritage sites. The UNESCO website describes a tentative list as an "inventory of those properties which each State Party intends to consider for nomination".
RBL Bank, one of India's leading private sector banks won IBSi Global FinTech Innovation Awards 2022 in the Best CRM System Implementation and Most Impactful Project categories along with BUSINESSNEXT. BUSINESSNEXT is a composable suite of deep tech platforms – CRMNEXT, CUSTOMERNEXT & DATANEXT and pre-assembled products for the BFSI industry.
Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), the flagship initiative of Department of Defence Production, has reached a milestone with the signing of its 150th contract in New Delhi. The contract was signed by Joint Secretary (Defence Industries Production) & Additional CEO/DIO Shri Anurag Bajpai with CEO, Altair Infrasec Pvt Ltd.