American chemist Karl Barry Sharpless, who shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 with Carolyn R. Bertozzi, also from the US, and Denmark's Morten Meldal, is a two-time winner.
They won this year's Nobel for laying the basis of "click chemistry" -- a functional form of chemistry used in mapping DNA and developing pharmaceuticals.
Captain Ibrahim Traore has been appointed as Head of State, Supreme Head of the Armed Forces.
In the west African country's second coup in nine months, President Paul-Henri Damiba was deposed by Traore and a group of soldiers on September 30.
Capital of Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou.
Currency: West African CFA franc.
Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister, Albert Ouedraogo.
Amit Shah said that the expressway from Nangal to Baramulla & from Baramulla to Uri has been built at a cost of Rs. 850 cr. A 43-km road has been built connecting Baramulla to Gulmarg at a cost of Rs. 85 cr to help tourists travelling from Gulmarg to Baramulla. He said that over one lakh families are being brought under the ambit of education through a scheme of Rs. 847 cr.
Union Home and Cooperation Minister : Amit Shah.
Technology Business Incubation or Inclusive TBI (i-TBI) is a three-year initiative supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) for educational institutions, idea-generators, innovators and entrepreneurs to support the innovative ideas, startup initiatives and promote self-employment and job creation through incubation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Medical Device Park at Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh on October 5, 2022, which will be built at a cost of about Rs 350 crore.
During his one-day visit to the northern hilly state, the PM inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of projects worth over Rs 3650 crore.
FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) is organizing a two-day Textile and handloom show titled 'Anshukam' in New Delhi on October 11, 2022.
Union State Minister of Textiles and Railways Darshana Jardosh will inaugurate the event hosted by the apex body of business women.
The theme for the show is 'Weaving Stories Through threads'.
Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Housing and Urban Affairs, will lead an official and business delegation to Washington DC and Houston, USA, from 6-11 October 2022.
In Washington DC, the Hon’ble Minister will co-chair the Ministerial dialogue of the US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (USISCEP) with Jennifer Granholm.
Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy, USA.
Arunachal Pradesh governor Brig. (Dr) B.D. Mishra (retired) took oath as the governor of Meghalaya in addition to position of Arunachal Pradesh.
The senior most Judge of the Meghalaya High Court Justice Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew administered the oath of office to Mishra at a function at the Durbar Hall of Raj Bhavan, Shillong.
SBI General Insurance has announced the appointment of Kishore Kumar Poludasu as its new managing director & chief executive officer. He was nominated by the parent company, State Bank of India, for the position and has been appointed w.e.f 4 October 2022.
SBI General Insurance was established in 2009.
The Uttar Pradesh government announced the formation of the state’s first three all-woman battalions of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC).
Also, women’s help desks were set up at all 1,584 police stations of the state by appointing women beat constables.
The battalion has been named after Veer Naris.
Savita Punia, the captain of the Indian women's hockey team, and veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh both received the FIH goalkeeper of the year title in the men's and women's categories.
The third individual to receive the FIH Goalkeeper of the Year title twice is Sreejesh.
Sreejesh also reached 250 international appearances during the course of the season.
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where Indian men won the silver medal.
President Joe Biden has nominated US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as the country's representative on the executive board of the World Health Organization.
He was confirmed by the US Senate in March 2021 to serve as the 21st Surgeon General of the country. He previously served as the 19th Surgeon General under President Barack Obama.
Acquirers shall categorize Small Offline Merchant as per the RBI circular dated December 6, 2017. Nil MDR (no interchange, PSP & app provider charges) shall apply for this category up to the transaction amount less than and equal to Rs 2,000," a circular issued by NPCI,which operates UPI, said.
However, UPI, along with RuPay debit cards, do not attract any charges.
Sanjeev Kishore, a 1985 batch officer of the Indian Ordnance Factory Service, has taken over as the director general ordnance (C&S), Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
Kishore assumed charge of the new role on 1 October, 2022. He replaced M K Garg.Before taking over the charge of DGO, Kishore was the additional director general ordnance at the Directorate of Ordnance
State-run GAIL said that Sandeep Kumar Gupta has assumed the charge of Chairman and Managing Director of the country’s largest gas utility. Before joining GAIL, he held the position of Director (Finance), from August 2019, on the Board of Indian Oil Corporation.Gail owns and operates a diversified business portfolio including over 14,500 km of natural gas pipeline network,
Adani Green Energy Ltd said it has commissioned the world's largest wind-solar power plant of 600 MW capacity in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.The plant has a power purchase agreement with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) at Rs 2.69/kwh for 25 years, a company statement said.The project consists of 600 MW solar and 150 MW wind plants
Roxy Mathew Koll, a scientist at the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM),received the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2022 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal. Koll was selected for his outstanding research in Earth and space sciences. He will also be conferred as a Fellow of the AGU.
The medal is named in honour of professor Devendra Lal, a distinguished geophysicist
The Union Finance Ministry on Wednesday allowed airlines to avail of up to Rs 1,500 crore loan under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme,to help them tide over their cash flow problems. Earlier, an airline could avail of a loan of not more than Rs 400 crore under the ECLGS. The Centre in 2020 started the ECLGS to provide collateral-free and government-guaranteed loan
India has emerged as the world’s largest producer and second largest exporter of sugar. In Sugar Season 2021-22, a record of more than five thousand lakh metric tons of sugarcane was produced in the country. Out of this, 35 lakh metric ton sugar was diverted to ethanol production and 359 lakh metric ton of sugar was produced by sugar mills.
October to September is generally considered as the sugar season in India.
