Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL), a Maharatna CPSU of Ministry of Power, has been honoured with Global Gold Award by The Green Organisation for its CSR initiative. The recognition was given at the Green World Awards 2023 function held at Miami in the USA.
This project, which will focus on farmers for 60 months, was launched in late October 2019.
State Bank Of India concluded the issue of $750 million senior unsecured fixed rate notes having maturity of 5 years and coupon of 4.875% payable semiannually under Regulation-S.
Earlier this month, the bank's board had approved a proposal to raise $2 billion (about Rs 16,000 crore) from bonds to fund its global operations.
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. is going to acquire the fast moving consumer goods business from the diversified group Raymond Ltd., which includes Park Avenue and KamaSutra brands.
Raymond has two fundamental businesses lifestyle and real estate. Its revenue from FY22 was Rs 4,260.66 crore.
Godrej Consumer Products had earlier acquired Bblunt.
Heavyweight boxer Kaur Singh, the lone home boxer to land a gold medal in the 1982 New Delhi Asian Games and who was also known for his exhibition bout with the legendary Muhammad Ali in 1980, passed away.
Kaur Singh was the first from the Sikh Regiment to get the Arjuna Award and Padma Shri. He also competed in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
N Gopalakrishnan was a scientist at Advanced Seismic Testing and Research Laboratory (ASTaR) of CSIR- Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC) and assumed charge as director at CSIR- Central Building Research Institute (CBRI).
Vodafone Group Plc appointed Margherita Della Valle as its chief executive officer.
Della Valle, who was the company’s chief financial officer, had been leading the company on an interim basis. She’ll continue in her role as CFO until a replacement is found, Newbury, England-based Vodafone said.
Della Valle’s predecessor Nick Read had also been CFO.
Chairman of Vodafone Group Plc: Jean-Francois van Boxmeer.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was on a visit to Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, inaugurated NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute in Silvassa.
Notably, the foundation stone of NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute was also laid by the Prime Minister himself in January 2019.
Tesla Power USA has inked an agreement with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. to sell and service batteries at the state-owned firm's petrol pumps.
The partnership will enable Tesla Power to sell and service batteries at over 36,000 IOCL petrol pumps across India.
Embassy Office Parks REIT's CEO, Vikaash Khdloya, has resigned, and the company has appointed Aravind Maiya as the new CEO with effect from July 1 this year.
The Board also approved the appointment of Aravind Maiya as Chief Executive Officer with effect from July 1, 2023.
In a significant move towards strengthening nursing workforce in the country, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved establishment of 157 new nursing colleges in co-location with the existing medical colleges established since 2014
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The step will add approximately 15,700 nursing graduates every year. The total financial implication will be Rs.1,570 crore.
The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar, inaugurated the Summit on Farm Machinery Technology organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Tractor and Mechanization Association (TMA).
India will soon open a fresh window for inviting new applications for FY24 towards importing gold from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through an import quota system tariff rate quota (TRQ) as a part of the trade agreement between both countries.
he 7th edition of joint military exercise “AJEYA WARRIOR-23” between India and the United Kingdom is being conducted at Salisbury Plains, United Kingdom from 27 April to 11 May 2023.
Exercise AJEYA WARRIOR is a biennial training event with the United Kingdom which is conducted alternatively in the United Kingdom and India.
No-frills carrier SpiceJet announced the appointment of Arun Kashyap as its Chief Operating Officer.
Kashyap will be rejoining SpiceJet from Air India where he is the Chief Technical Officer. Earlier, he had served as the Chief Program & Transformation Officer at SpiceJet.
Sisira Kanta Dash, who presently serves as the head of engineering at Vistara, will be appointed as the Chief Technical Officer (Head of Engineering) at Air India in June of this year.
Dash will take over the post from Arun Kashyap, who is leaving Air India shortly after a year in pursuit of other opportunities.