Bosch announced the appointment of its present CTO and Joint MD Guruprasad Mudlapur, as President of the Bosch Group in India, and the Managing Director of Bosch, effective 1 July 2023.
Mudlapur succeeds Soumitra Bhattacharya, who will be retiring from Bosch India, after 28 years, effective 30 June 2023.
The government said that the state-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) and fertiliser cooperative major IFFCO will manufacture Nano DAP for a period of three years.
IFFCO informed that it is setting up a Nano DAP plant at its Kalol unit, Gujarat with a production capacity of two lakh bottles of 500 ml per day.
The MoU was signed in the presence of Dr Deepa Malik, a former Paralympic medalist and current president of the PCI, Mr Gursharan Singh, the renowned para-athlete Shri Devendra Jhajharia, Mr Pranav Vempati, CEO of Makers Hive, and Mr Siddharth Ram, CEO of Vilay Sports.
The MoU was signed in the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das laid the foundation stone of the central bank's data centre and an institute for computing and cybersecurity training in Bhubaneswar. The new greenfield data centre and the Enterprise Computing and Cybersecurity Training Institute will cater to the emerging requirements of the Reserve Bank of India and the financial sector.
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) – NITI Aayog launched ATL Sarthi, a comprehensive self-monitoring framework to strengthen the ever-growing ecosystem of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL).
ATL Sarthi is one such initiative in this direction. As the name suggests, Sarthi is a charioteer and ATL Sarthi will enable the ATLs to be efficient and effective.
Mission Director Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)- Dr. Chintan Vaishnav.
Renowned Carnatic vocalist and musician Bombay Jayashri will be awarded Sangita Kalanidhi by The Music Academy. The Music Academy also declared names for Nritya Kalanidhi, Sangita Kala Acharya, TTK, and Musicologist awards for the year 2023.
Swimmer, Sampanna Ramesh Shelar became the fastest Indian in under 21 group to swim across the Palk Strait from Talaimannar in Sri Lanka to Dhanuskodi in Tamil Nadu in 5 hours and 30 minutes.
In 2018, Shelar had set a world record to double cross the Bangla Channel two ways for 38 km in 9 hours 10 minutes.
The previous record was 8 hours and 26 minutes.
India ranked third in terms of number of self-made billionaires with 105 billionaires in the list, showed 2023 Hurun Global Rich List.
The cumulative wealth of these 105 billionaires stood at $381 billion,
The list showed that 70 per cent of the billionaires are self-made, meanwhile, 30 per cent come under the inherited category.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi has entered the list of top 50 institutions for engineering in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023.
The thirteen edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject has ranked 66 Indian universities, cumulatively achieving 355 entries, a 18.7 per cent increase compared to last year (299).
World Meteorological Day takes place every year on 23 March and commemorates the coming into force on 23 March 1950 of the Convention establishing the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The theme of World Meteorological Day 2023 is 'The Future of Weather, Climate and Water across Generations.'
WMO is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
President: Gerhard Adrian.
This day has been celebrated since 1961.
India & the Maldives conducted the 4th Defence Cooperation Dialogue (DCD) in Male on and reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral defence engagements while agreeing to increase the complexity of existing exercises.
During the interaction, ongoing bilateral defence cooperation activities were reviewed and both sides expressed satisfaction at the increasing engagements.