Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, the biographical drama written, produced and directed by R. Madhavan in his directorial debut, won the Best Feature Film award. The National Film Award for best director went to Nikhil Mahajan for Marathi film Godavari.
The Best Actor award went to Allu Arjun for his performance in director Sukumar’s Pushpa: The Rise.
The BRICS bloc of developing nations agreed to admit Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina, and the United Arab Emirates in a move aimed at accelerating its push to reshuffle a world order.
The expansion adds economic heft to BRICS, whose current members are China, the world's second-largest economy, as well as Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa.
Insurance regulator Irdai has lowered the minimum capital requirement for foreign re-insurance branches (FRBs) from Rs 100 crore to Rs 50 crore, with the provision to repatriate any excess assigned capital.
It also streamlined the order of preference for international financial services center insurance offices and simplified the format for reinsurance programmes.
The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV), the apex body of the Indian Electric Vehicle industry, has announced the appointment of R K Misra, Co-founder of Yulu Bikes and Director at Magna Yuma, as its new President for 2023-24.
Akshay Kashyap, Managing Director, Greenfuel Energy Solutions P. Ltd has been named as Vice President.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised the transaction limit for small-value digital payments conducted offline to ₹500 per transaction from the earlier ₹200.
It had clarified that while the per transaction limit was being raised to ₹500, the overall limit would be retained at ₹2,000 to contain the risks associated with relaxation of two-factor authentication.
Bengaluru-based tech-giant Infosys signed Spanish tennis legend Rafael Nadal as its ambassador for a three-year period.
Nadal’s first collaboration with the company will be in the development of an AI-powered match analysis tool, a personalized tool that will be available in real-time to Nadal’s coaching team to simultaneously track insight from his live matches.
Salil Parekh is the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Infosys.
Total banking transactions at GIFT International Financial Services Centre in Gandhinagar reached $508 billion till July this year. Till July 2023, the total banking asset size at GIFT IFSC stood at $41.20 billion, and cumulative derivative transactions booked by banks were worth $632 billion.
Tapan Ray, MD & Group CEO, GIFT City.
SEBI has announced that stricter disclosure norms for FPIs will come into effect from November 1, 2023.
Overseas funds that hold more than 50% of their equity investments in a single Indian corporate group, or have more than Rs 25,000 crore of equity assets under management in the Indian market, will have to provide detailed information about their beneficial owners.
Government of India is launching an ‘Invoice incentive Scheme’ by the name ‘Mera Bill Mera Adhikaar’ to encourage the culture of customers asking for bills for all purchases.
Under the scheme, invoices will be drawn at regular intervals monthly and quarterly. Bills can be uploaded on Mobile App ‘Mera Bill Mera Adhikaar’ available on IOS and Android or on web portal ‘
This scheme is being implemented in association with State Governments.
In a bid to reinforce maritime collaboration and foster stronger ties, the Indian Navy's INS Visakhapatnam recently concluded a successful visit to Kuwait.
The visit aimed to enhance cooperation and exchange best practices between the two nations' naval forces. Valuable insights and best practices were shared, signifying a commitment to mutual growth and expertise exchange.
On August 19, 2023, INS Visakhapatnam made an entry into Al-Shuwaikh Port, Kuwait.
The B20 Summit India 2023 started in New Delhi. The Summit is based on the theme of B20 India R.A.I.S.E: Responsible, Accelerated, Innovative, Sustainable, Equitable Businesses.
On the first day of the Summit, seven sessions will be organized including B20 India priorities and recommendations from India for the world, aligning global priorities.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is organising a one-day open house consultation on health insurance of persons with disabilities in Mumbai.
The event is being held in collaboration with the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) and National Centre for Promotion of Employment of Persons with Disabilities, Mumbai.
PM Modi presented special gifts to the BRICS leaders including South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, First Lady of South Africa Tshepo Motsepe, and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
PM Modi gifted Bidri a pair of 'Surahi' from Telangana to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Greece from Johannesburg, South Africa, where he attended the BRICS summit. The visit was at the invitation of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. This will be the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Greece in 40 years.
PM Modi will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens .
President of Greece: Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
According to the 54th Network Planning Group (NPG) meeting chaired by special secretary, logistics, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, in New Delhi, four key infrastructure projects were examined for early implementation.
Two road and two railway projects worth over Rs 7,600 crore were recommended by Prime Minister Gati Shakti to enhance connectivity.
A ‘Committee of Experts to ‘Onshoring the Indian Innovation to GIFT IFSC’ constituted by the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) has submitted its report to Chairperson, IFSCA.
The main focus areas of the committee were directed toward understanding the reasons for shifting of Indian startups outside India and suggestions to avoid externalization.
The committee was chaired by Shri G. Padmanabhan, Former Executive Director, RBI.