The board of directors at ICICI Bank Ltd. approved the proposal for making I-Process Services (India) Pvt., a completely owned subsidiary of the company.
Total cost of the proposed acquisition is estimated at approximately Rs 15.40 crore.
The company informed the exchanges in a filing that it currently holds a 19% stake in I-Process Services.
The UN Commission for Social Development has elected India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj as its chair for the 62nd session.
Kamboj was elected chair by acclamation at the first meeting of the 62nd session of the UN Commission for Social Development at the UN headquarters.
India-born professor Meghana Pandit has become the first woman of colour to be appointed CEO of Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust.
Meghana, who was named to the post on a fixed term basis in 2022, has now been appointed permanently after a rigorous and competitive process.
Professor Jonathan Montgomery, Chair of Oxford University Hospitals.
In a first for a mass rapid transit system in India, an indigenously developed signalling technology was launched on Saturday for operations on the Red Line of the Delhi Metro, officials said. India's first-ever Indigenous Automatic Train Supervision System (i-ATS) has been developed by a joint team of DMRC and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).
Vikas Kumar, Managing Director, DMRC and Bhanu Prakash Srivastava, CMD, BEL.
The 12 cheetahs have been brought from South Africa, five months after the first batch of eight spotted felines from Namibia were released at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. An IAF C-17 Globemaster aircraft carrying 12 cheetahs landed in MP's Gwalior.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Minister for Environment and Forests Bhupender Yadav.
Kuno is now home to 20 cheetahs.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has launched a new app, the ‘mPassport Police App,’ to help expedite passport issuance by streamlining the police verification process. The app has been launched for the Delhi Police jurisdiction, as the government seeks to improve citizen services and make passport issuance easier.
Legendary Yakshagana playback singer and scriptwriter Balipa Narayana Bhagawatha passed away at his residence near Moodbidri in Dakshina Kannada district. He served in the Yakshagana field for over 60 years. He was duly recognised as the Bheeshma of Thenkuthittu style of Yakshagana. His fans, in recognition of his contributions to Yakshagana, had constructed ‘Balipa Amrutha
UNICEF India named Hindi film star Ayushmann Khurrana as a National Ambassador.
He had earlier served as UNICEF India’s Celebrity Advocate for ending violence against children and the broader child rights agenda.
Cynthia McCaffrey, said Khurrana’s work as a Celebrity Advocate had helped them amplify and drive the work of protecting the rights of children.
Cynthia McCaffrey, UNICEF India Representative.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 18, said the GST Council adopted the report of the Group of Ministers on GST Appellate Tribunal with certain modifications, and the final draft amendments will be circulated in the next 5 to 6 days to State Finance Ministers for their comments.
Antaris, creator of the most advanced software platform for space, announced that the world's first satellite fully conceived, designed and manufactured using the company's end-to-end cloud platform has successfully reached orbit. JANUS-1 rode on the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) SSLV-D2 rocket, which was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre of India.