The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) on Friday appointed actor R Madhavan as the president of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Society and chairperson of the governing council.

The tenure of former president director Shekhar Kapur ended on 3 March, 2023.

“Mr R Madhvan has been appointed the President of FTII Society and Chairman of the Governing Council. The decision has been formally conveyed to us by the Ministry,” said FTII registrar Sayyid Rabeehashmi.

The government on Friday launched a new scheme called ‘mera bill mera adhikaar’ to encourage consumers to insist on invoices at the time of purchase.

The scheme introduced in Haryana, Assam, Gujarat and the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Puducherry offers consumers a chance to win ₹1 crore, ₹10 lakh and ₹10,000 as incentive.

Inception, a unit of Abu Dhabi AI company G42, has released 'Jais', the world's most advanced Arabic large language model . Jais is a bilingual Arabic-English model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text and code. It can be used for a variety of tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering.It was trained on the Condor Galaxy, the world's largest AI supercomputer, using 116 billion Arabic tokens and 279 billion English tokens. It is also open-source, which means that anyone can use it or contribute to its development. Jais is available to download on the Hugging Face machine learning platform.

An anti-cancer jab that can cut down treatment time for some by three quarters has been rolled out by National Health Service (NHS) England, the U.K.'s publicly funded healthcare system.

The jab takes as little as 7 minutes to administer, NHS England said in a statement, adding that it will be the first health system in the world to roll out the seven-minute injection to hundreds of NHS cancer patients each year.

The Tripura government has initiated efforts to install pink toilets for women in urban areas, Chief Minister Manik Saha said.

Asserting that the BJP-IPFT government has been giving priority to women’s safety and comfort, he said the number of self-help groups (SHGs) has risen from over 4,000 in 2018 to 50,000 in 2022.

When Danielle McGahey of Canada plays for her adopted nation in the 2024 Women's T20 World Cup qualifier in Bangladesh, she will make history as the first transgender cricket player to compete in an international competition.

After meeting the ICC's eligibility requirements for male-to-female transgender athletes, the 29-year-old opening batter McGahey was chosen for Canada's women's side for the qualifying competition taking place next month.

Los Angeles will host the qualifying competition from September 4 to September 11. For a spot in the global qualifiers, Canada will compete against Argentina, Brazil, and the United States in the ICC Americas Qualifier.

In a remarkable recognition of visionary leadership and outstanding contributions to the e-commerce technology landscape, N7 – The Nitrogen Platform's CEO Manoj Bubna has been conferred the prestigious 'Entrepreneur of the Year 2023' award by the renowned 'Entrepreneur India' business magazine.

Manoj Bubna, a trailblazing entrepreneur known for his innovative thinking and transformative approach, has steered his company to unprecedented heights, revolutionizing the industry with his groundbreaking ideas and steadfast determination.

The Secretariat of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on 31 announced the appointment of Jaya Verma Sinha as first woman CEO and chairperson of Railway Board. She succeeds Anil Kumar Lahoti.

The appointment of Jaya Varma Sinha will be effective from 1 September till her superannuation.

"The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Smt. Jaya Verma Sinha, Indian Railway Management Services (IRMS), Member (Operations & Business Development), Railway Board to the post of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Railway Board in thn Apex scale [Pay Level -17 as per 7th CPC] for a period w.e.f. the date of assumption of charge on or after 01.09.2023 till the date of her superannuation and her re-employment on the post w.e.f. 01.09.2023 till 31.08.2024 on usual terms and conditions, or until further orders, whichever is earlier," the notice said.

Ravi Kannan moved to Assam’s Silchar with his wife, Seeta, from Chennai in 2007 to take charge of the Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

Oncologist Ravi Kannan, a recipient of India’s fourth-highest civilian award Padma Shri and the director of Assam’s Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (CCHRC), has been named one of the four winners of the 2023 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel prize.

Nagaland’s state capital Kohima along with Sikkim’s Namchi have bagged the Zonal Smart City Award  for Northeast Zone under India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) for the year 2022. Kohima and Namchi cities were among the winning list of 66 smart cities of India.

The India Smart Cities Award Contest is organized under the Smart Cities Mission, Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

This is one of the important activities initiated under the Mission, where pioneering city strategies, projects and ideas are recognized to award the exemplary performance, enable peer-peer learning and disseminate best practices.