A national level Saras Aajeevika Mela 2023 will begin today in Gurugram, Haryana. The 17-day fair, which is being held at Leisure Valley Ground, Gurugram will continue till 11th of next month. Around 800 women of Self-Help Groups from 28 States will display their varied range of products like handicrafts, handlooms and natural food items from rural areas across the country at the fair. Entry to the fair will be free and people can visit between 11 AM to 9.30 PM. SARAS Mela is an initiative by the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission of Ministry of Rural Development  to bring the rural women Self Help Group members under one platform to showcase their skills, sell their products and help them build linkages with potential market players.

Reserve Bank of India has asked private banks and wholly owned subsidiaries of foreign banks to ensure at least two Whole Time Directors (WTDs), including the MD and CEO, on their boards to facilitate succession planning. In an official note, the RBI said, the number of Whole Time Directors should be decided by the Board of the bank by taking into account factors such as the size of operations, business complexity, and other relevant aspects.

The RBI directed banks that currently do not meet this requirement to submit their proposals for the appointment of WTDs under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, within a period of four months from the date of issuance of the circular.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched Operation Chakra-II to fight against transnational organised cyber-enabled financial crimes in India. For this, India’s federal agency has partnered with Microsoft and Amazon as well as with national and international agencies to combat and dismantle infrastructure of illegal call centres.

CBI said that during a nationwide crackdown, it conducted searches in five separate cases at 76 locations across multiple states, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Bihar, Delhi, West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh.

Mike Johnson has been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, ending weeks of chaos and Republican infighting on Capitol Hill.

The conservative Louisiana lawmaker won with 220 votes in the lower chamber of Congress.

Mr Johnson is the fourth Republican nominated for the position since Kevin McCarthy's ouster on 3 October.

The previous nominee, Minnesota's Tom Emmer, abruptly dropped out of the race on Tuesday after about four hours.

Mr Johnson's success in the hard-fought Speaker battle represents a victory for the ideologically right-wing, Trump-aligned faction of the Republican Party and a loss for its moderates, whose candidates struggled to gain traction among conservative representatives on Capitol Hill.

India, the world's fifth largest economy in the world, is likely to overtake Japan to become the world's third-largest economy with a GDP of USD 7.3 trillion by 2030, S&P Global Market Intelligence said in its latest issue of PMI.

After two years of rapid economic growth in 2021 and 2022, the Indian economy has continued to show sustained strong growth during the 2023 calendar year.

India's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow 6.2-6.3 per cent in the fiscal year ending in March 2024, being the fastest-growing major economy this fiscal year. Asia's third-largest economy grew by a stellar 7.8 per cent in the April-June quarter.

Technology (IIT) Palakkad have been included on the latest list of the “world’s top two per cent scientists” released by Stanford University, California, US. Last year, IIT Palakkad had three of its teachers on the Stanford list.

The list features two distinctive categories: entire career until 2022 and for the single year 2022. In the first category, A. Seshadri Sekhar, Director of IIT Palakkad, and Jagadeesh Bayry, Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering, have found a place. In this category, as many as 204,633 scientists were acknowledged worldwide.

In the ‘single year 2022’ category, four faculty members from IIT Palakkad made a significant mark. Apart from Prof. Bayry, Yugender Goud Kotagiri, Ramanujan Fellow from the Department of Chemistry; Abdul Rasheed P., DBT Ramalingaswami Fellow from the Departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences and Engineering; and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, were featured among the world’s top scientists.

India maintained its top position as the country of origin of new immigrants to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations in 2021.

According to OECD's International Migration Outlook: 2023 report, released on Monday, 407,000 Indians moved to OECD nations in 2021. It was 86 per cent higher than 220,000 Indians in 2020.

China and Romania followed India, with 283,000 and 215,000 immigrants, respectively.

OECD is a group of 38 countries, most of which are high-income and ranked very high on the Human Development Index (HDI).

Out of those Indians who moved to OECD countries, 133,000 were granted nationality of these countries, the highest among all countries. These acquisitions took place mostly in the United States of America (56,000), Australia (24,000) and Canada (21,000).

Actor Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday performed the Ravan Dahan at New Delhi's famed Lav Kush Ramleela on the occasion of Dussehra 2023. In the 50-year history of the event held annually at the Red Fort, this is the first time that a woman has set the Ravan effigy on fire, Arjun Singh, president of Lav Kush Ramleela Committee of Delhi, said.

Ranaut set the effigy of the demon king ablaze by shooting an arrow and chanted 'Jai Shri Ram'. Scores of people, including a large number of women, had gathered at the venue to catch a glimpse of the actor.

Apart from Ranaut, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena were also present for the festivities, which the Lav Kush Ramleela Committee arranged.

At the event, Ranaut also promoted her film "Tejas", which is set to release on October 27. She said the film is based on the life of Indian soldiers and their tough life.

In Nagpur, on the occasion of 67th Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Day various events are being organised.

Akashvani correspondent reports that the chief architect of the Indian constitution, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, embraced Buddhism with millions of his followers on the day of Vijaydashmi at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur at October 1956.

Since then, this day is celebrated as Dhammachakra Pravartan Day Monk Dhammaratna Thero of Sri Lanka will be the chief guest of main programme of 67th Dhammachakra Pravartan Day to be held at DeekshBhoomi - Central memorial of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in Nagpur this evening.

The chairman of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial Committee Bhadanta Arya Nagarjun Surai Sasai will be present along with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale on this occasion.

Air Marshal Sadhna Saxena Nair took over as the Director General Hospital Services (Armed Forces) on promotion to the rank of Air Marshal on Monday. She was previously the Principal Medical Officer at Training Command of the Indian Air Force (IAF) located at Bangalore. She is effectively only the second woman officer who has served throughout in the IAF to be promoted to the rank of Air Marshal; the first woman officer to achieve this was Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay (Retd).
 
Air Marshal Sadhana is the wife of Air Marshal KP Nair (Retd). The Nairs also happen to be the first and only Air Marshal couple in the IAF. She also has the unique distinction of being a daughter and sister of IAF doctors and of being a wife and mother of IAF Fighter Pilots. Three generations of her family have served in the IAF over the last seven decades.