Karnataka’s Hubballi railway station is ready to get the world’s longest railway platform with measurement of 1,400 meters length and 10 meters width. Confirming the same, South Western Railway (SWR) officials stated that the extension work in Platform number 1 of the Hubballi Junction is underway.
The Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, Girish Chandra Murmu started the first version of the Salary Tracker Mobile app “MeraVetan” produced by the National Informatics Centre(NIC).
Union human resource development (HRD) minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and minister of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) Hardeep Singh Puri on 4th June together initiated The Urban Learning Internship Programme (TULIP) to give internship opportunities to thousands of fresh graduates and engineers of the county under the ‘Smart City’ projects.
IndusInd Bank has declared the release of a first-of-its-kind assisted mobile application based convenience, that allows the bank to open current accountsfor self-employed individuals and businesses digitally, in just a few hours.
Rajeev Topno, the 1996 batch IAS officer who has worked as a key aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been selected as senior advisor to the World Bank Executive Director.
Former Miss World “2017” Manushi Chhillar on 4th June enlisted the likes of star batsman Rohit Sharma, sprint sensation Hima Das and Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh as the brand ambassador of footwear giant Adidas in its campaign to encourage more women to embrace fitness.
Biocon Ltd declared that its Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been selected the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 (WEOY) at a virtual award ceremony held on 4th June her contribution in enhancing universal access to affordable life-saving medicine and converting the world in one of its kind virtual entrepreneurship award ceremony.
We would not be able to survive if we do not have clean air and water and land to live on, so on June 5 of every yearWorld Environment Day is celebrated
The theme of World Environment Day 2020 is ‘Celebrating Biodiversity’
The International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing is being commemorated on 5 June 2020.
The purpose of this to draw attention to the menaces posed by IUU fishing activities to the sustainable use of fisheries resources as well as to ongoing attempts to fight these activities which were observed for the first time on 5 June 2018.
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is the only Indian star to feature on Forbes 2020 list of World’s 100 Highest-Paid celebrities. While the actor’s rank has observed a drop from last year. Forbes also showed the actor’s earning and stated that Akshay had an approximated $48.5 million earnings this year, matched to $65 million last year. From the 33rd spot, Akshay has fallen to the 52nd spot.
GMR-led Hyderabad International Airport got the highest Platinum Recognition in the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2020 in the 15-35 million travelers per annum (MPPA) category.
The Labor and Employment Department Government of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has released the Raj Kaushal Portal and online Shramik exchange on World Environment Day. Under this portal, employment is secured to those migrant workers who are jobless.
Time Higher Education (THE) has declared the THE Asia University Rankings 2020. 56 Indian institutes participated in the rankings this year from which eight have come in the top 100. Among the Indian institutes, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has appeared as the best with reserving its place at the 36th rank.
Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company will purchase 1.85 per cent stake in Jio Platforms for Rs 9,093.6 crore, RIL stated on 5th June.
India opener Rohit Sharma has inked with IIFL Finance as its first-ever brand ambassador.
IIFL Finance, one of Indias preceding Non-Banking Finance Companies, with over Rs 36,000 crore of assets under management, efforts to stand out for being honest with its customers.
UN Russian Language Day along with the birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin on June 6, a Russian poet considered the father of contemporary Russian literature.
Shri R. K. Singh, the Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, started the ‘#iCommit’ campaign, on the occasion of World Environment Day. The initiative is a clarion call to all stakeholders and individuals to keep moving towards energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability to make a robust and resilient energy system in the future.
As many as 750 tigers have died in the country in the last eight years because of poaching and other causes, with Madhya Pradesh reporting the maximum casualties at 173, according to the official data.