Global travel technology platform OYO announced the appointment of Rajnish Kumar, former Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), as its strategic group advisor. In his role, Kumar will advise Oyo’s management on short-term and long-term strategy, regulatory and stakeholder engagement, and ...

Alka Upadhyaya appointed as chairperson of NHAI: The Centre has appointed Alka Upadhyaya as chairperson of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Upadhyaya is a 1990-batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre and is serving as Additional Secretary, Department of ...

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) appointed BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as the chairman of India Tourism Development Corporation.  Earlier, he had served as an independent Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). ACC has approved Tourism Ministry's proposal ...

Pradip Shah, founder of IndAsia Fund Advisors, has been appointed chairman of the National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL).  Shah, an MBA from Harvard and chartered accountant, is credited for establishing India’s first and largest housing finance company, HDFC, and rating firm Crisil. ...

Haryana’s 1986-batch IAS officer, Sanjeev Kaushal, has been appointed as the state’s new chief secretary after the superannuation of his predecessor 1985-batch officer, Vijai Vardhan. Prior to this, he worked with Centre as Joint Secretary of two state governments, two large PSUs as Managing ...

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey dropped a bomb late last night when he announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of the micro-blogging platform. All eyes then went to the new CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal who many didn’t know about or never heard of him at ...

The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) has elected a contentious official from the United Arab Emirates as its new president during the international law enforcement body's annual General Assembly held in Istanbul, Turkey. He replaces Kim Jong ...

The government has appointed senior bureaucrat Vivek Johri as the Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), with effect from 30th November 2021.  He is a 1985-batch IRS (Customs and Indirect Taxes) officer and is currently working as a member in CBIC. He ...

Famous mountaineers of Uttarakhand Harshwanti Bisht has the distinction of being elected the first woman president of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF). 62-year-old Bisht secured 60 votes out of a total of 107 votes to be elected to the coveted post on 20 November. In ...

Petr Fiala has been sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic by President Milos Zeman with effect from 28th November 2021. He is the chairman of the Civic Democrat party and head of the SPOLU (Together) alliance. He succeeded Andrej Babis. Czech Republic is a ...