Ramchandra Guha collected £5,000 cheque for winning the highly regarded Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2023 in its 20th anniversary year for Rebels against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom (published by William Collins).
Guha also received a bound copy of Longford’s autobiography, The Pebbled Shore (1986).
Tata Power Company has emerged as India’s most ‘attractive employer brand’, followed by Amazon and Tata Steel, reveals the findings of Randstad Employer Brand Research (REBR) 2023.
Tata Power was at the ninth spot in 2022. Big Basket, the online megastore emerged as the most attractive start-up employer brand in the country.
Viswanath P.S, MD & CEO, Randstad India.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the UK's largest workplace pension scheme, Nest expanded their long-standing partnership to focus on digitally transforming Nest's scheme administration services, delivering enhanced member experiences and furthering the scheme’s mission of delivering better retirement outcomes for people across the United Kingdom.
Reliance Industries, the country's biggest company by market value, has received the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) permission to retain $2 billion over and above the $3 billion it had raised last fiscal in what was the largest syndicated loan facility in years.
The facility may have a maturity period ranging between three to five years.
Iconic ad man and creator of the 'Utterly Butterly' Amul Girl, Sylvester daCunha, passed away in Mumbai. Since 1966, the irreverent Amul moppet - a mascot created by him and his then art director Eustace Fernandes at advertising agency ASP (Advertising Sales and Promotions) - has been weighing in on topical issues with her acerbic wit.
The Drug Control General of India has granted Emergency Use Authorization to an Omicron-specific booster vaccine, the Department of Biotechnology.
The mRNA-based vaccine, GEMCOVAC-OM, was developed by Gennova Biopharmaceuticals using the indigenous platform technology, and supported under the Mission COVID Suraksha.
It is implemented by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).
To promote inclusive development of national highways, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) launched a knowledge sharing platform
This platform aims to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and innovative best practices among experts and citizens in the field of road design,, construction, road safety.
With a whopping value of Rs 16.4 lakh crore, billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd is the most valuable private company in India followed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with Rs 11.8 lakh crore and HDFC Bank with Rs 9.4 lakh crore, as per Hurun India's 2022 Burgundy Private Hurun India 500 list.
The construction work of the ‘world’s largest Ramayan temple' starte in the East Champaran district of Bihar following some religious rituals at the site.
The reports stated that the ‘Ramayan temple’ in Bihar will be taller than the 12th-century Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia.
The estimated cost of the temple's construction is ₹500 crore.
Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) announced it has signed an MoU with tech company HFCL Limited to indigenously develop and deploy emerging technologies and technical solutions to address the requirements of defence, telecom and railway sectors.
The two-day meeting of the G-20 Labour Engagement Group started in Patna, Bihar with the theme of ‘one earth, one family and one future’.
Around 150 delegates from G-20 members countries and eight guest countries are participating in the event.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) entered into a collaborative partnership aimed at empowering women to make well-informed career choices in the field of entrepreneurship.
Directorate General Resettlement (DGR) under Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with M/s Adecco India Private Limited in New Delhi.
Adecco is a staffing & recruitment solutions provider with specialization in outsourcing, consulting services etc.
India-United States Defence Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS X) was launched at an event in Washington DC, USA.
The INDUS X event was co-organised by Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), Ministry of Defence, and US Department of Defence (DoD) and hosted by US-India Business Council (USIBC).
The Yoga Day event led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations headquarters in New York created a Guinness World Record for seeing the participation of most nationalities in a Yoga session.