Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Indian weightlifter Sanjita Chanu has been handed a four-year ban by the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) for failing a dope test.
Sanjita had tested positive for an anabolic steroid -- Drostanolone Metabolite -- that features in the World Anti-doping Agency's (WADA) prohibited list.
Apart from regaining his spot as Asia's richest person in the Forbes Billionaire 2023 list, Mumbai Indians cricket team owner Mukesh Ambani has also become the richest sports owner of all in Forbes billionaire 2023 list.
Ambani reclaimed the top spot from Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.
Banarasi paan and langda mango of Varanasi have finally been awarded the Geographical Indication (GI) tag which signifies that products from a specific geographical location possess qualities that are due to that origin. Ramnagar Bhanta (Brinjal) and Adamchini Rice have also been awarded the GI tag.
Earlier, 18 products from Kashi and the Purvanchal region had GI tags.
More than 1.55 lakh villages, (25% of total number of villages), in India have so far reported ‘Har Ghar Jal’, i.e., every household in these villages has access to clean drinking water through taps at their household premises.
1.66 Crore Households & 58 Crore People Now Have Access To Clean Drinking Water Through Taps At Home.
Suzuki Motorcycle India has appointed Kenichi Umeda as the company’s new Managing Director. Umeda replaces Satoshi Uchida who has completed his term as the MD of Suzuki Motor Corporation’s Indian two-wheeler subsidiary.
Umeda brings with him over 27 years of experience in the industry spread across various markets.
National Maritime Day is celebrated on April 5 across the country to commemorate the sailing of the first Indian commercial vessel, SS Loyalty. The ship sailed from Mumbai to London.
The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways started this day in 1964. This year will mark the 60th National Maritime Day.
During her visit to India, Romania's secretary of state Simona Cojocaru led a session of political-military consultations with Indian defence secretary Giridhar Aramane, her counterpart at the Indian Ministry of Defense, to discuss the security situation in the Black Sea and Indo-Pacific regions, multilateral cooperation, and the prospects for bilateral cooperation.
Capital of Romania: Bucharest.
Romanian leu is the currency of Romania.
RBI imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1.00 lakh on The Jamnagar people's Co-operative Bank Ltd., Jamnagar (Gujarat) (the bank) for contravention of directions issued by RBI on ‘Income Recognition, Asset Classification and Provisioning Norms for Loans and Advances' and 'Reserve Bank of India (Co-operative Banks - Interest Rate on Deposits) Directions, 2016'.
Walmart Inc-backed digital payments firm PhonePe Pvt Ltd launched an app called Pincode on the Indian government's open network to strengthen its e-commerce business.
Pincode, which will focus on hyperlocal commerce, is currently live only in Bengaluru and available on the Google Play Store and the App Store.
The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has set up a 14-member committee headed by former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, to examine issues related to stalled real estate projects and recommend various ways for their completion.
Panel has been set up nearly a year after it was decided by the Central Advisory Council (CAC) headed by the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry.
Kerala has topped the list of states in the country with most number of products securing the Geographical Indication (GI) tag in financial year 2022-23, a data shared by the GI Registry.
Attappady Aattukombu Avara, Attappady Thuvara, Onattukara Ellu, Kanthaloor Vattavada Veluthuli, Kodungallur Pottuvellari were picked for the GI recognition tag.
Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute has found large deposits of 15 rare earth elements (REE) in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district.
The major REE identified were allanite, ceriate, thorite, columbite, tantalite, apatite, zircon, monazite, pyrochlore euxenite and fluorite.
Loans worth about Rs 40,600 crore covering 1.8 lakh entrepreneurs have been sanctioned so far under the Stand Up India Scheme, said Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Stand Up India Scheme was launched on April 5, 2016 to promote entrepreneurship at the grassroots level focusing on economic empowerment and job creation. The scheme is up to the year 2025.
Philanthropist and art collector Kiran Nadar was recently conferred "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" by French Ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain.
The highest French civilian award comes in recognition of Ms. Nadar's outstanding contribution in the field of art, her commitment to providing greater access to culture both nationally and internationally.
Karur Vysya Bank Ltd. (KVB) has entered into a pact with SBI Life Insurance to market the latter’s insurance schemes through its branches.
KVB is a major player in the South with strong presence in urban, semi-urban and rural locations.
SBI Life Insurance would leverage the strengths of the bank to market its schemes.
Karur Vysya Bank MD & CEO B. Ramesh Babu