->India's Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Pravin Ojas Deotale win gold in Compound Archery Mixed Team event.
->𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐰on 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃 in Women's 5000m.
->Annu Rani, with the best throw of 62.92m to finish on top in the javelin throw.
->Tejaswin Shankar Clinched Silver in Decathlon.
Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA will be awarded with the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his outstanding contributions in mathematics.
The annual cash prize of USD 10,000 will be given at an international conference in Number Theory during December 20 and December 22 at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam.
C S Lakshmi, (publishing fiction under her pseudonym Ambai) has been conferred the Tata Literature Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023. She is one of India's leading writers and academicians, forging a trailblazing path at a time when education and literary pursuits were not common for women.
IBM, the Ministry of Education, & the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship have tied up to provide curated courses to empower youth in India with future-ready skills. The collaboration will focus on the co-creation of curriculum and access to IBM's learning platform, IBM SkillsBuild, for skilling learners across school education, higher education among others.
The collaboration will enable Finnish companies and technology startups to take their solutions to global enterprises through HCLTech's Innovation Network, eSTiPTM, which includes 1,500-plus startups, 14-plus venture capitalists, 16-plus trade commissions and five academic institutions globally.
Uber has introduced the ‘Uber Sustainovate’ Startup Challenge, a dynamic initiative to expedite the adoption of sustainable mobility in India. In partnership with Startup India and NASSCOM AI, this competition seeks to reward startups with groundbreaking concepts that can accelerate the transition to sustainable transportation within the nation.
Google has roped in former Samsung and Apple executive Sreenivasa Reddy to lead its public policy efforts in India at a time when the internet giant faces mounting anti-trust challenges and the government works on a broad set of tech regulations.
The appointment comes a full year after former public policy head, Archana Gulati, resigned just five months into the job.
The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) jointly launched the India-Japan Fund (IJF). The $600 million fund has the JBIC and Government of India (GoI) as its anchor investors.
The joint initiative is focused on increasing investments in environmental sustainability and low-carbon emission strategies.
The Indian Army, in collaboration with the United Service Institution of India (USI), a defence think tank, has launched 'Project Udbhav'.
This initiative aims to rediscover the ancient Indian texts on statecraft, warcraft, diplomacy, and grand strategy, in order to understand the profound Indic heritage in these areas.
In accordance with a SEBI circular, an intermediary who receives notification of an investor's death from a nominee, joint account holder, or even a family member is required to obtain and verify the investor's death certificate and PAN. This should be completed by the next day after receiving the information and can be done through online or offline modes.
Former managing director and CEO of HDFC Bank Aditya Puri joined Deloitte as senior adviser on October 4.
Puri was appointed as CEO of HDFC Bank in 1994 and retired after 26 years of service.
Earlier in June 2023, Deloitte had announced the appointment of Manoj Kohli, former CEO of Bharati Airtel and Softbank India as senior advisor.
From 4-10 October World Space Week will be celebrated to highlight the contributions of space science and technology. The World Space Week is the largest annual space event in the world. The theme for World Space Week 2023, “Space and Entrepreneurship”
October 4, marks World Animal Welfare Day. The day is celebrated with the aim of celebrating animal rights and welfare all throughout the world. This day brings the animal welfare movement together, mobilizing a global force to make the world a better place for all animals. The theme for World Animal Day in 2023 is 'Big or small, we love them all.'
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to,
➤Moungi G. Bawendi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
➤Louis E. Brus
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
➤Alexei I. Ekimov
Nanocrystals Technology Inc., New York, NY, USA
"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
Prize amount: 11 million Swedish kronor, to be shared equally between the Laureates.