Aimed at improving disaster preparedness for flood-prone areas, the World Bank has approved a $108 million loan to help the northeastern state of Assam to enhance flood forecasting and safer evacuation.
The project will benefit around 6 million people and is part of a larger $500 million investment programme for Assam.
Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94.
Moore and his longtime colleague Robert Noyce founded Intel in July 1968. Moore initially served as executive vice president until 1975, when he became president.
Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO.
Tata Cleantech Capital, the green funding arm of Tata Capital, said that its equity partner, the International Finance Corporation, has picked up its sustainability-linked bonds worth $50 million, or about Rs 375 crore. The bonds are the first in the country issued by a private financial institution.
Tata Cleantech Capital is a joint venture between Tata Capital & the IFC.
The Centre has constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Nidhi Khare, Additional Secretary in the Department of Consumer Affairs, to monitor the stock of Tur held by entities such as importers, millers, stockists and traders in close coordination with the state governments.
With demand growing for the old pension system (OPS) with assured benefits, the Centre announced to set up a committee headed by finance secretary TV Somanathan to explore ways to salvage pension reforms, by treading a middle path between the fiscally-imprudent OPS and the reform-oriented National Pension System (NPS).
Indian-origin Anand Selvakesari has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Citigroup.
Currently the head of consumer banking operations, he will take on the additional role 'with immediate effect'.
The 32-year Citibank employee will be taking over the role from retiring COO COO Karen Peetz shortly.
Kerala Governor Arif Muhammad Khan has presented the maiden 'Kerala Puraskarngal’, the state awards to eminent personalities.
Kerala’s highest civilian honour "Kerala Jyothi" was awarded to writer M T Vasudevan Nair. The second-highest award Kerala Prabha was shared by actor Mammootty, former civil service officer T Madhava Menon and writer Omchery NN Pillai.
Alia Mir, a woman from Jammu and Kashmir has been honoured with the Wildlife Conservation Award by the administration for her conservation efforts in the region.
Alia is also the first woman from Kashmir who works for the charity Wildlife SOS organization which is part of the Wildlife Rescue Team. Alia, who is an eminent sociologist, was awarded at the World Forestry Day
Argentinian-born mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize — one of the most coveted awards in mathematics.
Caffarelli won the prize for the recognition of his work on equations that are significant for describing physical phenomena, such as how ice melts and fluids flow.
The award is endowed with 7.5 million Norwegian kroner (about $647,300).
Abel Prize is considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
The agriculture sector has the highest estimated percentage distribution of female workers followed by manufacturing.
Nearly 63% workers are female in the agriculture sector at the pan-India level, while the estimated percentage distribution of female worker in the manufacturing sector is 11.2%, according to the annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Report 2021-22
Former Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff elected as new President of The New Development Bank (NDB), succeeding Marcus Troyjo. The New Development Bank (NDB), commonly known as the BRICS Bank, is a multinational financial organisation established by the five BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
The Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) conferred a special literary award on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The award has been conferred for his trilogy- The Unfinished Memoirs, The Prison Diaries and the New China 1952.
The 1st Trade and Investment working group meeting under India’s G20 Presidency began in Mumbai today.
During the three-day meeting, over 100 delegates from G20 member countries, invitee countries, regional groupings and international organizations will engage in deliberations to accelerate global trade and investments
An Assam-based NGO that cares for special and autistic children has won the Children’s Champion Award 2023 in the health and nutrition category.
The award, instituted by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights in 2022, recognises individuals and institutions championing the cause of children in education, justice, health, nutrition, sports.