Divya Deshmukh defeated IM Bhakti Kulkarni in the final round to become a clear champion at MPL 48th National Women Chess Championship 2022. This is her second consecutive National Women title where she remained undefeated.
Since 2011, every single National Women's champion won the event at least twice in-a-row and Divya maintained that record.
16-year-old Tamil Nadu chess player M Pranesh crossed the 2500-rating threshold and became a GM, having completed his three norms before he clinched the title in the Rilton Cup, the first tournament on the FIDE 2023 calendar, in Stockholm.
Koustav Chatterjee recently become the country's 78th Grandmaster during the National Senior Chess Championship.
Paytm Payments Bank has secured the Reserve Bank of India’s approval for the appointment of Surinder Chawla as its new chief executive.
Paytm Payments Bank CEO Satish Kumar Gupta retired in October 2022. Since then, Deependra Singh Rathore has been serving as interim CEO of the payments bank.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will auction ₹16,000 crore of sovereign green bonds (SGrBs) in two tranches, the central bank announced.
The RBI will auction 5-year and 10-year green bonds worth ₹4,000 crore each on 25 January and on 9 February, and this would be a uniform price auction.
Capital markets regulator SEBI has allowed the Central Government to classify its stake in IDBI Bank as "public" after its stake sale on condition that its voting rights do not exceed 15%, of the total voting rights of the bank. The government and state-run Life Insurance Corp (LIC) together hold about 95% in IDBI Bank.
The Reserve Bank – Integrated Ombudsman Scheme (RB-IOS), was launched on November 12, 2021, by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The ambit of RB-IOS, 2021 was extended to include non-scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks with deposits of ₹50 Crore & above.
The rate of disposal of complaints by RBIOs improved to 97.97 per cent in 2021-22 from 96.59 per cent in 2020-21.
As many as 50 electric buses were launched in Delhi with support under the FAME India Phase II scheme of the Ministry of Heavy Industries, informed the government. In 2019, government approved ₹10,000 crore for a period of three years. Out of total budgetary support, about 86 percent of the fund has been allocated for incentives so as to create demand for electric vehicles.
Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur launched the themes of Y20 summit, logo, and website in the Curtain raiser event of Y20 Summit India in New Delhi. The Youth 20 Summit is a unique opportunity to allow the youth to provide constructive policy inputs and to utilize the platform to voice their opinions for the world audience.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras has announced an operation of a Research Centre dedicated to defence technologies in collaboration with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to develop advanced technologies for national defence and security needs of the nation.
Billed as the world’s first palm leaf manuscript museum, the facility is essentially a repository of curious nuggets of administrative, socio-cultural and economic facets of Travancore spanning a period of 650 years till the end of the19th century, besides documents relating to territories of Kochi in the state’s middle and Malabar further north.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated one of the largest hockey stadiums in India in Rourkela ahead of the Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023. Built at an estimated cost of ₹261 crore, the stadium, located in Sundargarh district, has been christened as Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium Complex.
India is now the world's third-largest auto market, reports Nikkei Asia. Based on preliminary results, the country's l, topping the 4.2 million sold in Japan. According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, new vehicles delivered in India totalled 4.13 million between January and November 2022, the report says.
Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated "National Genome Editing & Training Centre" at National Agri-food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) Mohali, Punjab. NGETC is a one-roof state-of-the-art facility that will serve as a national platform to cater to the regional needs to adapt different genome editing methods, including CRISPR-Cas mediated genome modification.
National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL), or the government-backed bad bank to take over stressed assets of lenders, has emerged as the leading bidder in the auction for Srei Infrastructure Finance and Srei Equipment Finance. NARCL’s bid was the highest with a net present value (NPV) of Rs 5,555 crore.