National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has celebrated its 39th Foundation day on 12th July
NABARD has organized its first “digital choupal”, a video conference which brought together farmers from across the country who have been associated with NABARD in different rural projects.
NABARD has also announced Rs 5,000 crore of refinance scheme for banks and financial institutions for providing finance to the beneficiaries of its 2,150 watershed development projects and also earmarked another Rs 5,000 crore for turning Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS), into multi service centres.
ISRO Chief Dr Kailasavadivoo Sivan has been named as the winner of the 2020 Von Karman Award by the Paris-based International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).
The award will be conferred upon K Sivan in March 2021 in Paris.
Prior to K Sivan, only two Indians have been the recipients of this award. They were Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan and U.R. Rao.
Persons named for Mohun Bagan Ratna Award 2020 by the football club Mohun Bagan’s executive committee are Hockey legend Gurbux Singh and former first-class cricketer Palash Nandy.
The award is presented every year by Mohun Bagan on the occasion of its foundation day on 29 July.
Sachin Awasthi President, National Media Club has and Founder of Shri Ram Seva Mission has been awarded the “Top Publicist” honor in the Global Humanitarian Awards 2020 as a part of the Honoring the Honorable initiative of the World Humanitarian Drive(WHD)
Awasthi is one of just 100 awardees belonging to 35 different countries and 7 continents. This Award was given through a webinar
GOI is set to appoint seasoned diplomat Vikram Doraiswami as India’s next envoy to Bangladesh.
He will succeed Riva Ganguly Das in Dhaka.
Doraiswami, a 1992 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is currently serving as an additional secretary in-charge of international organizations and summits at the headquarters of the external affairs ministry in Delhi.