Anurag Dahiya appointed as chief commercial officer of ICC

The International Cricket Council (ICC) appointed media professional Anurag Dahiya, as its Chief Commercial Officer. He had spent 14 years with Fox International Channels as senior vice president, strategy and business development. He also launched India’s first international cricket-only channel STAR Cricket and oversaw the launch of ESPN STAR Sports’ first 24×7 sports news channel ESPNEWS and OTT platform ESPN Play

Dr Partap Chauhan awarded with Ayurveda Ratan in Belgium

Dr Partap Chauhan, the pioneer of Ayurvedic Telemedicine, has Conferred with Prestigious Ayurveda Ratan Award 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. A meeting was organised at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium by the All-Party Parliament Group on Traditional Medicines with the objective of devising a roadmap to legalize Ayurveda in Europe and to integrate it with their healthcare systems.

Two online national level services launched by NCRB

National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) launched two citizen services on CCTNS platform – ‘Missing Person Search’ and ‘Generate Vehicle NOC’, which will be available online to Citizens. These online services will help Citizens in Searching their Missing Persons and Generating Vehicle NOC. The services can be accessed through ‘digitalpolicecitizenservices.gov.in’ portal or through a link in the existing ‘Digital Police Portal’.

Uttar Pradesh: Chandauli tops aspirational districts list by NITI Aayog

Government think tank NITI Aayog has released the list of aspirational districts. Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh has topped the list followed by Belangir in Odisha on 2nd position and YSR in Andhra Pradesh on 3rd position. Sahibganj in Jharkhand has been ranked at the 4th spot and Hailakandi in Assam at the 5th. The delta rankings took into account incremental progress made by over 112 aspirational districts across six developmental areas in December 2019 on the basis of Health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion, skill development and basic infrastructure.

Ayonika Paul and Vijayveer Sidhu wins at National Shooting trials

Olympian Ayonika Paul has won the women’s 10m Air Rifle T1 event in the National Shooting trials held at Thiruvananthapuram, while Chandigarh’s Vijayveer won the junior men’s 25m Pistol T2 event with an aggregate score of 585. He had three inner 10s, more than second-placed Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu of Punjab.

Ayonika registered a score of 252.0 enroute to victory. Her effort was just 0.9 behind Apurvi’s world record of 252.9. Himachal’s Zeena Khitta, stood in second place with a score of 251.1, while Apurvi came third with a score of 229.8. Zeena also won the junior women’s trials in the same event and also had the best qualifying score on the day with a 630.0 to show after 60 shots.