Tata Steel Ltd chief executive officer and managing director, T.V. Narendran has taken over as president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2021-22.
Confederation of Indian Industry was founded in1895.
The Odisha government decided to include disaster and pandemic management in high school and college curriculums.
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation announced the appointment of Justice Vikramjit Sen as the Chairman of its newly formed self-regulatory body Digital Media Content Regulatory Council (DMCRC).
He is a former Supreme Court judge.
SBI has come out with its Ecowrap report in which it has slashed its 2021-22 GDP growth forecast to 7.9 per cent from 10.4 per cent earlier.
The study has also examined a district-wise comparison of the Covid deaths for each state between the first and second wave.
Microsoft has launched first ever “Asia Pacific Public Sector Cyber Security Executive Council”.
Council was set up with the aim of accelerating public-private partnerships in cybersecurity, and share threat intelligence.
West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay was immediately appointed as the Chief Advisor of chief minister Mamata Banerjee after his retirement.
He will take on the new role from June 1 for a period of three years.
China has decided to allow each couple to have up to three children, ending its strict two-child policy.
This comes after China's population data over the past decade showed the slowest population growth in decades.
China’s Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft docked with the Tianhe space station module in low Earth orbit.
It was launched from Wenchang spaceport.
The European Commission approved the use of Pfizer and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine to vaccinate children of age 12 - 15.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is already being used in the European Union to vaccinate those aged 16 years and above.