Published on: January 4, 2023

Snippets – 4 JANUARY 2023

Snippets – 4 JANUARY 2023

  • Guyana’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, US-based businessman Darshan Singh Dhaliwal, and DSB Group CEO Piyush Gupta are among 21 recipients of the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA)
  • Captain Shiva Chouhan becomes first women officer operationally deployed at Kumar Post in Siachen.
  • Sanjay Mudaliar, chief general manager & chief technology officer of Bank of Baroda, has assumed office as executive director of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB)
  • Karthik Venkataraman became the National chess champion
  • NTPC Ltd commissions India’s first green hydrogen blending project. The green hydrogen blending has been started in the piped natural gas (PNG) network of NTPC Kawas township, Surat.
  • ADB, India sign USD 350 million loan to expand metro rail network in Chennai
  • ADB, India sign $300 million loan to improve 300 kilometres of state highways and major district roads (MDRs) in Assam
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB) and India signed a $220 million loan to improve energy security, quality of supply, efficiency, and resilience of power sector in Tripura.
  • India to take over leadership of the Asian Pacific Postal Union
  • The free wildlife safari programme, ‘Bandipur Yuva Mitra’, for students of government schools in Chamarajanagar district