India on Tuesday successfully test-fired its surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) 'Pralay' from the Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast.
'Pralay' is a 350-500 km short-range, surface-to-surface missile with a payload capacity of 500-1,000 kg. The solid-fuel, battlefield missile is based on the Prithvi Defence Vehicle.
Deepak Gupta, who is serving as Director (Projects) of GAIL (India) Limited has been appointed as Nominee Director on the board of South-East Asia Gas Pipeline Company Limited (SEAGP). He has been appointed on the Board of SEAGP with effect from November 1, 2023, GAIL (India) said.
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced the appointment of acclaimed Bollywood actor Pankaj Tripathi as its 'UPI Safety Ambassador' to strengthen safety awareness on digital payment platforms.
According to NIC, at the end of the calendar year 2022, UPI’s total transaction value stood at ₹125.95 trillion, up 1.75 X year-on-year (YoY), as per the NPCI.
Okaya EV is planning to collaborate with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to set up 2,550 electric vehicle chargers all over India. An investment of Rs 125 crores will make this collaboration see fruition.
362 chargers, out of the total planned, have already been installed in various states.
The first flagship publication of the Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL) with the title “India Finance Report 2023” (IFR 2023) was released by Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI). CAFRAL, a not-for-profit organisation, was set up in 2011 as an independent body by the RBI to promote research & learning in banking & finance.
B.P. Kanungo : current Director of CAFRAL.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released new master directions for ‘information technology governance’, risk, controls and assurance practices among regulated entities like banks and NBFCs. Their key areas will include “strategic alignment, risk, resource and performance management, and business continuity or disaster recovery management”.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairperson Justice Arun Mishra addressed the 14th International Conference of the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) at Copenhagen, Denmark.
The role of NHRIs’ to make societies more humane and civil to eradicate the menace of torture where often victims are poor and hapless individuals.
The theme of the conference is ‘Torture and other ill-treatment'
PayGlocal, a cross-border focused payments platform provider, has received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India for Payment Aggregator (PA) license.
This process, once completed, will enable PayGlocal to onboard merchants onto its platform for online payment processing.
India and Netherlands have signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) to cooperate on medical product regulation and enhance the quality of medical products and healthcare services for both countries at Hague, Netherlands.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) and the FSR Global at IICA Campus in Manesar, Gurugram.
IICA and FSR Global aim to foster collaborative efforts and explore pragmatic approaches for establishing mutually beneficial partnerships.
Quacquarelli Symonds released QS Asia University Rankings 2024. Two Indian institutes- IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi have been ranked in the top 50 list.
IIT Bombay has secured the top position in India and 40th position in overall Asia.
Similarly, IIT Delhi stood second among Indian institutes and secured 46th rank overall.
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has announced a $553 million investment in the Adani Ports-led container terminal project in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The DFC has pledged $1 billion to Sri Lanka, the second highest in the region, following India. The investment in the new terminal is aimed at catering to growing economies in the region.
Annually on November 9, India observes National Legal Services Day to mark the adoption of the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987, which was officially enacted on the same date in 1995.
Since then, Legal Services Day has been consistently celebrated across the various states of India with the primary objective of promoting legal awareness among its citizens.
IBM, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has set up an innovation lab at its Client Experience Centre in Bengaluru.
The lab is a first-of-its-kind for the IBM-AWS collaboration.