| News headline | Detalis of the news | Trick | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Hotels appoints Chandrasekaran non-executive Additional Director | ata group hospitality firm Indian Hotels Co has announced the appointment of Tata Sons Chairman-designate N Chandrasekaran as non-executive Additional Director. TCS chief Chandrasekaran was named the new Chairman of Tata Sons, capping two months of a most bitter boardroom battle that followed the unceremonious sacking of Cyrus Mistry and a lot of blood letting ever since. | N chandrasekaran - Indian hotels non-executive director |
| 2 | G.N. Rao to be inducted into Ophthalmology Hall of Fame | Gullapalli N. Rao, a noted Indian eye doctor, has been selected to the 2017 Ophthalmology Hall of Fame instituted by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.The founder and chair of the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Rao will be honoured at the induction ceremony in Los Angeles on May 6 at the annual meeting of the ASCRS. | G.N Rao - Ophthalmology Hall of Fame |
| 3 | HPCL, ONGC and the GAIL have signed MoUs for invest Andhra Pradesh | HPCL, ONGC and the GAIL have signed MoUs for investing ₹1.65 lakh crore in Andhra Pradesh on several projects, many of them in the Krishna-Godavari basin, according to Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan.A partnership summit organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Andhra Pradesh government. | HPCL ,ONGCE,GAIL - AP investing companies |
| 4 | Tokyo Games have unveiled DragonBall Z Son Goku as its ambassador | The Japanese character will feature on all the official Olympics 2020 merchandise. Apart from the Dragonball Z character, other cartoon stars that will be massively visible throughout the sporting extravaganza will be Mario, Naruto and Sailor Moon | DragonBall Z Son Goku - olympics 2020 brand ambassdor |
| 5 | Andhra Pradesh Launches Rs 100 cr fund of funds for Fintech Startups | Fintech is being seen as a promising space to generate job, thus the state has initiated an industry-academia-government partnership to tap and refine skilled talent available at cheaper costs to develop Visakhapatnam into a global fintech hub. | AP - Fintech startups - Rs 100cr |
| 6 | GAAR will be effective from April 1, 2017 | General Anti Avoidance Rule (GAAR) will be effective from the 1 April, 2017. In this regard Income Tax (IT) department has issued a slew of clarifications on implementation of GAAR, seeking to address concerns of foreign investors over implementation of the anti-evasion measure. | GAAR- from april 2017 |
| 7 | Sports Ministry reconstitutes committee to identify athletes under TOP Scheme | with objective of identifying and supporting potential medal prospects for 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games under Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme. The committee will be headed by Abhinav Bindra, Olympic Gold Medalist. | TOP scheme - to support talented sports men |
| 8 | Dr Vijay Bhatkar appointed new vice-chancellor of Nalanda University | He will have term of three years from the date of his appointment as provided under Section 11(3) of the Nalanda University Act. He shall succeed George Yeo, former Foreign Minister of Singapore, who resigned after the Board of the University was reconstituted. | DR.vijay bhatkar - vice chancellor,Nalanda |
| 9 | SBI Launches Wealth Management Product SBI Exclusif in Kochi | it will be rolled out in other cities of the state during the course of the year.The product was launched by Chief General Manager, SBI, Kerala Circle, S Venkataraman. SBI Exclusif is targeted at fast growing affluent and high net worth customer segments of the bank. | SBI - SBI Exclusif |
| 10 | India ranked 79th in the Corruption Perception Index 2016 | India has been ranked at 79th spot out of 176 countries in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for the year 2016 released by the Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI).New Zealand and Denmark jointly shared the first position as the least corrupt nations while Somalia was rated as the most corrupt country in the lis | 76 - India rank - corruption perception |
| Take 28-01-2017 quiz | |||
click on FOLLOW to get daily updates
No comments:
Post a Comment