In the men's doubles final of the Australian Open, India’s Rohan Bopanna won his first Grand Slam title in men’s doubles as he, along with Matthew Ebden, beat the all-Italian duo of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori 7-6, 7-5 in the Australian Open final.
Italy's Jannik Sinner defeated Russia's Daniil Medvedev in a hard-fought game 3-6, 3-6, 6-4,6-4,6-3 in the men's singles final of the Australian Open in Melbourne. Aryna Sabalenka crushes Zheng Qinwen 6-3, 6-2 to defend Australian Open title. She became the first woman to do so in more than a decade .
International Customs Day is celebrated under the aegis of Belgium-based World Customs Organisation (WCO) all over the world on January 26. This year, the World Customs Organisation (WCO) has dedicated the International Customs Day to the theme of ‘Customs engaging traditional and new partners with purpose’.
India's Newspaper Day is celebrated every year on 28 January to commemorate the launch of the country's first newspaper in 1780. "Hicky's Bengal Gazette, also known as the Calcutta General Advertiser, was the name of the first weekly publication. Augustus Hicky, a James Irishman, is also known as the "father of the Indian press".
THDC India Limited, a leading Power Sector PSU, has also established a benchmark in Green Hydrogen production, by successfully implementing India's one of the first pilot project aligned with the "National Green Hydrogen Mission" on the auspicious occasion of 75th Republic Day. The Project will be India's largest electrolyser end fuel cell based pilot project.
JD(U) president Nitish Kumar took oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for a record ninth time. Kumar was sworn in by Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar at Raj Bhavan. BJP leaders -- Samrat Choudhary and former Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha- were among those who took oath of office. The two are named as Deputy Chief Ministers.
The gap between credit and deposit growth as of the first fortnight of January 2024 has widened vis-a-vis the last fortnight of September 2023 even as the former continues to outpace the latter on year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, going by RBI data.
Bank of Baroda’s wholly-owned subsidiary for cards, ‘BOB Financial Solutions Limited’, has been rebranded as ‘BOBCARD Limited’ with the tagline “Credit Reimagined”. Accordingly, the NBFC has also unveiled a new logo called ‘Baroda Sun’, which comprises dual ‘B’ letterforms that hold the rays of the rising sun.
Food-delivery platform Zomato and international financial infrastructure provider Stripe are the latest entities to have received final approval from the regulator to operate as online payment aggregators. With the latest additions, 11 entities have now obtained the regulator’s final nod to operate as online aggregators in the country.
CoRover.ai, a Human-Centric conversational AI platform unveils India's first indigenous Generative AI LLM, BharatGPT. The platform, which aims to cater to over 130 crore users, was showcased at the 2023 Global Partner Artificial Intelligence Summit in New Delhi.
The ICC Awards 2023 will encompass a total of 13 categories, recognising outstanding individuals who excelled in specific formats as well as across multiple formats. The coveted Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy will be awarded for the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy will be presented for the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year.
As NASA's newest X-plane, the X-59 is designed to break the sound barrier without the thunderous sonic booms that typically occur when aircraft go supersonic. Instead, the Quesst will make a much quieter "thump," similar to the sound of a car door slamming as heard from indoors. Its predicted top speed is 1.4 times the speed of sound or 1,488 kilometres per hour.
Yes Bank became the first Indian bank to execute an export finance transaction on the International Trade Financing Services Platform (ITFS) of RXIL Global IFSC Limited (RXIL), a leading cross-border fintech company registered under the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has invested INR4.86 billion (around USD58.4 million equivalent) in India's largest renewable energy Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT). The InvIT (Sustainable Energy Infra Trust or SEIT), has eight operating solar power generation assets of 1.54 gigawatt-peak total capacity located nationwide in India.