SBI Card in partnership with Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA) on Monday announced the launch of its co-branded credit card with a host of features.

KrisFlyer SBI Card is Singapore Airlines' first co-branded credit card in India. This co-branded credit card has been designed to cater to super-premium cardholders, offering exclusive privileges in the air and on the ground with the SIA Group that comprises Singapore Airlines, Scoot airline, KrisShop.Com, Kris+ lifestyle app and Pelago, a joint statement said.

The newly launched credit card is available in two variants, KrisFlyer SBI Card and KrisFlyer SBI Card Apex, it said. With this partnership, KrisFlyer SBI Card customers will unlock a range of accelerated rewards and milestone benefits on their travel spends, it said.

Hygenco Green Energies has floated India’s largest tender for the procurement of Renewable Energy (RE) for its upcoming Green Ammonia project. “Hygenco Green Energies Pvt Ltd, a pioneer in producing low-cost green hydrogen, has invited bids for over 1,125 Megawatt (MW)/ 1.1 Gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy, to support its upcoming Green Ammonia Project. This is the largest tender for procuring renewable power for a green ammonia project in India, reinforcing Hygenco’s continued commitment to sustainability,” said the company in a statement on Monday.

Hygenco aims to procure 625 MW from solar PV projects and 500 MW through wind power. “The tender offers favourable terms to minimise risk for developers and ensures a transparent procurement process, attracting a broad range of participants in the renewable energy sector,” the company said. Bidders can evaluate the tender on Hygenco’s official website, https://www.hygenco.in/, it added.

IL&FS Group on Monday announced the appointment of Nand Kishore as its new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) effective from October 1. Kishore is the Managing Director of IL&FS at present, the company said in a statement.

He has been appointed as the CMD of IL&FS with effect from October 1 by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the statement said.

Former bureaucrat CS Rajan was serving as the company's Chairman.

"After six years of playing an invaluable role in providing leadership and stability while resolving one of corporate India's biggest financial crises, the term of CS Rajan, Chairman, IL&FS, has come to an end on September 30, 2024," the statement said.

The new board initially took time to understand the complexities and entanglements with more than five layers within the structure of IL&FS. The new board first dedicated itself to keeping all the assets alive and creating a sustainable and legally acceptable resolution framework that could be applied across the over 300 companies within the group, the outgoing Chairman said.

A breathtaking celestial event is on the horizon. On Wednesday, October 2, 2024, an annular solar eclipse will grace the skies, offering a stunning "ring of fire" view for those in certain regions. While this astronomical wonder will not be visible from India, it is set to capture the attention of observers across parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow that only partially covers the Sun. Since the moon is not large enough to completely block the Sun, its shadow leaves the Sun’s outer edges visible. This creates the awe-inspiring "ring of fire" effect. Additionally, the moon will be at its farthest point from Earth, known as apogee, making its shadow too small to fully eclipse the Sun.

Just few days before the announcement of assembly polls, the Maharashtra cabinet on Monday passed over 56 decisions, from sanctioning finances to infrastructure projects worth Rs 30,000 crore and handing over 255 acres of salt pan land for Dharavi redevelopment project to be executed by the Adani group to declaring desi breed of cows as “Rajyamata” (Mother of the state).

The slew of decisions sanctioned in a cabinet meeting, which lasted for nearly two hours, also included accepting second and third report of Justice (retd) Sandeep Shinde Committee on sanctioning on finalising the protocol for issuing Kunbi-Maratha and Maratha-Kunbi certificates based on historical records. This will lead to the increase in number of Kunbi certificates being distributed to Marathas.

Last week, the cabinet had cleared around 46 decisions. According to sources, another cabinet meeting will be held this week where another set of proposals will be cleared.

Chandrayaan 3: India's lunar mission has landed in one of the oldest craters on the Moon, scientists said on Saturday. The crater where ‘no other missions’ have gone, is 3.85 billion years old, said scientists.

Scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Ahmedabad, said that the crater was formed in the Nectarian period-3.5 billion years ago.

According to S Vijayan, an associate professor in the Planetary Sciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory, the mission's Pragyan rover has gone to a place on the Moon that no other missions has visited.

Uttar Pradesh will add three new medical colleges in Baghpat, Hathras, and Kasganj districts under viability gap funding (VGF) scheme of the Central government and will run under public private partnership (PPP) model.

This will at least add 300 more MBBS seats to existing 11,200 seats. Proposal for new colleges will go for approval at the state cabinet, according to the officials in the medical education department.

Director general medical education Uttar Pradesh Kinjal Singh said construction of the autonomous state medical college in Amethi is in progress, with 34 percent of the work completed. An application for the approval of 100 seats for the 2025-26 academic year will be submitted once the National Medical Commission (NMC) portal in New Delhi opens.

In a difference of microseconds, Karichal Chundan rowed by Pallathuruthy Boat Club (PCB) became the winner of the 70th edition of the Nehru Trophy Boat Race (NTBR) held at Punnamada Lake in Alappuzha on Saturday.

Veeyapuram Chundan rowed by Village Boat Club Kainakari became the first runner-up, while Nadubhagom Chundan rowed by Kumarakom Town Boat Club became the second runner-up. Niranam Chundan rowed by Niranam Boat Club was the third runner-up.

PCB is winning the NTBR for the fifth consecutive year, while Karichal won 16 victories in the 70-year-long history of the NTBR. Karichal finished the 1,200 m long track in 4.29.785 minutes, while Veeyapuram finished in 4.29.790 minutes. Nadubhagom finished in 4.30.13 minutes and Niranam Chundan finished in 4.30.56 minutes.

Gulveer Singh, a 26-year-old Indian athlete, won the gold medal in the men’s 5,000 meters race at the World Athletics Continental Tour in Japan yesterday. He set a new national record with a time of 13 minutes and 11.82 seconds. This broke his own previous record of 13 minutes and 18.92 seconds, which he had set earlier this year. Before that, the record was held by compatriot Avinash Sable. In March this year, Gulveer broke the men’s 10,000m record at the Ten Track Meet in California. He crossed the finish line in 27 minutes and 41.81 seconds, and in doing so, he improved on Surender Singh’s old mark of 28 minutes and 02.89 seconds, set nearly 16 years ago in 2008. However, Gulveer’s effort was not enough for Olympic qualification, as he missed the Paris Games qualification time of 27:00.00 by over 41 seconds.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday inaugurated the new National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru. This world-class facility, the result of the vision of Jay Shah, the secretary of the organisation, to nurture the future of cricket, will now be called the BCCI Centre of Excellence.

Spanning over 40 acres, this facility is designed to become the epicentre for nurturing cricketing talent and advancing sports science in India. The Centre of Excellence features a total of three grounds and 86 pitches, including both indoor and outdoor areas, highlighting its capacity to provide comprehensive training facilities, as per a press release from BCCI.