Gautam Adani increased his footprint in the media space when group flagship Adani Enterprises (AEL) announced the acquisition of a 50.50 per cent stake in news agency IANS India for an undisclosed sum. This is the conglomerate’s third acquisition in this segment.
Khelo India Games will be held in Tamil Nadu in January next year. The State Government said that the games will be held in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy from 19th to 31st January, 2024. More than 5,500 sports persons and over 1,600 coaches are expected to participate in the event. More than 1000 referees and 1200 volunteers will be part of the sporting event.
For the first time, squash will be included in Khelo India games.
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah has died at 86. Kuwait’s crown prince and his half-brother, Sheikh Meshaal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, 83, was subsequently named new emir. Sheikh Nawaf was sworn in in September 2020 after the death of his half-brother, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on December 14 said it has imposed a monetary penalty on five cooperative banks citing various rule violations. These cooperative banks are Mumbai-based Janakalyan Sahakari Bank, Pune Merchants Co-operative Bank, Pune Municipal Corporation Servant’s Co-operative Urban Bank, Indapur Urban Co-operative Bank and Patan Urban Co-operative Bank.
State Bank of India has executed transaction documents to purchase 3,70,644 shares (6.35 per cent) of Ahmedabad-based Canpac Trends Private Limited at ₹1,349 per share, aggregating ₹49.99 crore. The Bank, in an exchange filing, said the investment in Canpac Trends, which is in the paper packaging industry, is being made with the objective of capital appreciation.
Developing countries spent nearly half a trillion dollars to service their external public and publicly guaranteed debt in 2022, draining funds from critical health, education and climate needs, and putting the poorest countries at increasing risk of "tumbling into a debt crisis," the World Bank said
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully carried out a flight trial of Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator, an indigenous high-speed flying-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from the Aeronautical Test Range, Chitradurga in Karnataka.
Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka were honored by the International Tennis Federation as the 2023 ITF World Champions. The pair were the only singles players who managed to reach at least the semi-finals of all four Grand Slam events this year.
Krutrim Si Designs, the artificial intelligence (AI) venture of Ola co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal unveiled Krutrim, its base large language model (LLM). Krutrim has joined the increasingly-competitive AI race dominated by players such as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, and Textiles, Sh. Piyush Goyal released the “Logistics Ease Across Different State (LEADS) 2023” report in New Delhi. The 5th edition of the LEADS annual exercise - LEADS 2023 report, provides insights into improvement of logistics performance at State/UT level.
Taking ahead the cause of eco-friendly maritime transportation, Barracuda, said to be India’s fastest solar-electric boat, was launched on at the yard of Navalt Solar and Electric Boats, located off Aroor in Alappuzha. Named after the swift, long fish, Barracuda was designed by Navalt and can be deployed even in the rough seas as a workboat to ferry up to 12 passengers.
This cutting-edge vessel was jointly developed by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders and Navalt.
India, the Chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), successfully hosted the GPAI Summit from December 12 - 14, 2023, at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. All 29 member nations of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit, held in New Delhi, unanimously adopted the New Delhi Declaration.
‘Jammu and Kashmir Anand Marriage Registration Rules, 2023′ has been framed for the registration of “Anand marriages”, under which tehsildars concerned shall be the registrar of such marriages within their respective territorial jurisdiction, as per a government notification issued.