1. 7 Indian companies among World’s 500 largest companies: Fortune Magazine
Seven Indian companies have found their place in 2015 Fortune 500 Global Companies list compiled by Fortune Magazine. They are Indian Oil: ranked 119th with revenues of 74 billion dollars. Reliance Industries: ranked 158th with revenues of 62 billion dollars. Tata Motors: ranked 254th with revenues of 42 billion dollars. State Bank of India (SBI): ranked 260th with revenues of 42 billion dollars. Bharat Petroleum: ranked 280th with revenues of 40 billion dollars. Hindustan Petroleum: ranked 327th with revenues of 35 billion dollars. Oil and Natural Gas: ranked 449th with revenues of 26 billion dollars. Top 5: Walmart (1st) of US, Sinopec Group (2nd) of China, Royal Dutch Shell (3rd) of Netherlands, China National Petroleum (4th) and Exxon Mobil (5th) of US.
2. Mosquirix, world's first malaria vaccine, approved by European Medicines Agency
The world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S or Mosquirix o got approval from European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The vaccine was licensed for use on babies aged between 6 weeks and 17 months in Africa, which is at the highest risk of the mosquito-borne disease.
he vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, would be the first licensed human vaccine against a parasitic disease and could help prevent millions of cases of malaria.
The vaccine is also part-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and it was in development since 1987 under a team of researchers led by Joe Cohen, a GSK scientist.
3. Shubham Jaglan won IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event 2015
10-year old Shubham Jaglan won the IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event in Las Vegas. Jaglan is the son of a milkman from rural Haryana, India.
e shot a three round score of 106 winning by a five-stroke margin, ahead of two Americans Justin Dang and Sihan Sandhu and Thailand's Pongsapak Laopakdee for the Boys 9-10 years category title.
He also scripted a scintillating one-stroke win at the Junior World Golf Championships that was held at Welk Resort Fountain Course in California.
4. Peter Higgs received Royal Society’s Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize
Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Higgs won the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s Copley Medal. With this, 86-year old Higgs joined the ranks of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
He was awarded the medal for his fundamental contribution to particle physics and his pioneering work on the theory of the Higgs boson that explains the origin of mass in elementary particles. The presence of Higgs boson was confirmed by the experiments at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.
Modern physics suggests that matter consists of a set of particles that act as building blocks and that between these particles lie forces that are controlled by another set of particles. A fundamental property of the majority of particles is that they have a mass.
5. BEL bags Dun & Bradstreet award
Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has bagged the Dun & Bradstreet’s ‘India’s Top PSUs Awards 2015 in the electrical and electronic equipment sector.
S K Sharma, Chairman and Managing Director, BEL, received the award for BEL along with Anandi Ramalingam, General Manager -National Marketing, BEL, from R M Malla, Chairman, Smera Ratings Limited, at Delhi.
The Dun & Bradstreet ‘India’s Top PSUs Awards are an acknowledgement for the critical role that the PSUs play in the development of the Indian economy.
BEL has been at the forefront in providing critical communication, night vision, electronic warfare and radar systems to the Indian Defence services ever since its inception post Independence in 1954.
6. Reliance Group, Augur Overseas Operation signed MoU to manufacture Aerostats and Airships
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group through its entity Reliance Unmanned Systems on 23 July 2015 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Augur Overseas Operation of Singapore to manufacture Aerostats and Airships in India. As per the MoU, both the parties will collaborate on new technologies for the civil and military market as part of the Make in India initiative of Union Government. The two companies have agreed to form a joint venture (JV) firm with Reliance having 51 percent stake as per Government’s policy.
The joint venture will be involved in development, production, sales, modification and life support for different sizes of Aerostats and Airships. This JV will address the requirements of domestic market and also addressable regional/global markets.
The Aerostat radars are deployed extensively in the surveillance, reconnaissance and communication roles by the army. These are also useful in detecting low-flying fighter aircraft.
7. CSC, HCL form joint venture to provide technology services, solutions to banks
IT companies CSC and HCL Technologies have signed an agreement to form a banking software and services company to provide technology services and solutions to the banking industry.
The joint venture will invest in platform modernisation and product functionality enhancement and will capitalise on the proven capabilities of both companies in addressing the multi-billion-dollar, global core banking software market.
CSC, which serves over 100 premier banking and financial services clients in 15 countries, will provide its core banking, cards, payments and default management industry talent, software and product development expertise.
HCL will provide capital investment, its experience in product engineering and application implementation services, as well as banking sales and client engagement expertise.
8. T K Chand appointed as CMD of National Aluminium Company
T K Chand has been appointed as the new chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of
National Aluminium Company(Nalco). Chand who has been Director (Commercial) of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), will take up his new position on Monday, July 27, 2015. . The Public Enterprises Selection Board recommended his name for appointment as CMD of the Nalco in November last year after short-listing 11 candidates. The Department of Personnel issued the appointment order earlier this week. His appointment fills in a key leadership role at the country's largest state-owned aluminium company, almost three months after the previous incumbent Ansuman Das superannuated on April 30, 2015.
Seven Indian companies have found their place in 2015 Fortune 500 Global Companies list compiled by Fortune Magazine. They are Indian Oil: ranked 119th with revenues of 74 billion dollars. Reliance Industries: ranked 158th with revenues of 62 billion dollars. Tata Motors: ranked 254th with revenues of 42 billion dollars. State Bank of India (SBI): ranked 260th with revenues of 42 billion dollars. Bharat Petroleum: ranked 280th with revenues of 40 billion dollars. Hindustan Petroleum: ranked 327th with revenues of 35 billion dollars. Oil and Natural Gas: ranked 449th with revenues of 26 billion dollars. Top 5: Walmart (1st) of US, Sinopec Group (2nd) of China, Royal Dutch Shell (3rd) of Netherlands, China National Petroleum (4th) and Exxon Mobil (5th) of US.
2. Mosquirix, world's first malaria vaccine, approved by European Medicines Agency
The world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S or Mosquirix o got approval from European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The vaccine was licensed for use on babies aged between 6 weeks and 17 months in Africa, which is at the highest risk of the mosquito-borne disease.
he vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, would be the first licensed human vaccine against a parasitic disease and could help prevent millions of cases of malaria.
The vaccine is also part-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and it was in development since 1987 under a team of researchers led by Joe Cohen, a GSK scientist.
3. Shubham Jaglan won IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event 2015
10-year old Shubham Jaglan won the IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event in Las Vegas. Jaglan is the son of a milkman from rural Haryana, India.
e shot a three round score of 106 winning by a five-stroke margin, ahead of two Americans Justin Dang and Sihan Sandhu and Thailand's Pongsapak Laopakdee for the Boys 9-10 years category title.
He also scripted a scintillating one-stroke win at the Junior World Golf Championships that was held at Welk Resort Fountain Course in California.
4. Peter Higgs received Royal Society’s Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize
Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Higgs won the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s Copley Medal. With this, 86-year old Higgs joined the ranks of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
He was awarded the medal for his fundamental contribution to particle physics and his pioneering work on the theory of the Higgs boson that explains the origin of mass in elementary particles. The presence of Higgs boson was confirmed by the experiments at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.
Modern physics suggests that matter consists of a set of particles that act as building blocks and that between these particles lie forces that are controlled by another set of particles. A fundamental property of the majority of particles is that they have a mass.
5. BEL bags Dun & Bradstreet award
Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has bagged the Dun & Bradstreet’s ‘India’s Top PSUs Awards 2015 in the electrical and electronic equipment sector.
S K Sharma, Chairman and Managing Director, BEL, received the award for BEL along with Anandi Ramalingam, General Manager -National Marketing, BEL, from R M Malla, Chairman, Smera Ratings Limited, at Delhi.
The Dun & Bradstreet ‘India’s Top PSUs Awards are an acknowledgement for the critical role that the PSUs play in the development of the Indian economy.
BEL has been at the forefront in providing critical communication, night vision, electronic warfare and radar systems to the Indian Defence services ever since its inception post Independence in 1954.
6. Reliance Group, Augur Overseas Operation signed MoU to manufacture Aerostats and Airships
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group through its entity Reliance Unmanned Systems on 23 July 2015 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Augur Overseas Operation of Singapore to manufacture Aerostats and Airships in India. As per the MoU, both the parties will collaborate on new technologies for the civil and military market as part of the Make in India initiative of Union Government. The two companies have agreed to form a joint venture (JV) firm with Reliance having 51 percent stake as per Government’s policy.
The joint venture will be involved in development, production, sales, modification and life support for different sizes of Aerostats and Airships. This JV will address the requirements of domestic market and also addressable regional/global markets.
The Aerostat radars are deployed extensively in the surveillance, reconnaissance and communication roles by the army. These are also useful in detecting low-flying fighter aircraft.
7. CSC, HCL form joint venture to provide technology services, solutions to banks
IT companies CSC and HCL Technologies have signed an agreement to form a banking software and services company to provide technology services and solutions to the banking industry.
The joint venture will invest in platform modernisation and product functionality enhancement and will capitalise on the proven capabilities of both companies in addressing the multi-billion-dollar, global core banking software market.
CSC, which serves over 100 premier banking and financial services clients in 15 countries, will provide its core banking, cards, payments and default management industry talent, software and product development expertise.
HCL will provide capital investment, its experience in product engineering and application implementation services, as well as banking sales and client engagement expertise.
8. T K Chand appointed as CMD of National Aluminium Company
T K Chand has been appointed as the new chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of
National Aluminium Company(Nalco). Chand who has been Director (Commercial) of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), will take up his new position on Monday, July 27, 2015. . The Public Enterprises Selection Board recommended his name for appointment as CMD of the Nalco in November last year after short-listing 11 candidates. The Department of Personnel issued the appointment order earlier this week. His appointment fills in a key leadership role at the country's largest state-owned aluminium company, almost three months after the previous incumbent Ansuman Das superannuated on April 30, 2015.
1. 7 Indian companies among World’s 500 largest companies: Fortune Magazine
Seven Indian companies have found their place in 2015 Fortune 500 Global Companies list compiled by Fortune Magazine. They are Indian Oil: ranked 119th with revenues of 74 billion dollars. Reliance Industries: ranked 158th with revenues of 62 billion dollars. Tata Motors: ranked 254th with revenues of 42 billion dollars. State Bank of India (SBI): ranked 260th with revenues of 42 billion dollars. Bharat Petroleum: ranked 280th with revenues of 40 billion dollars. Hindustan Petroleum: ranked 327th with revenues of 35 billion dollars. Oil and Natural Gas: ranked 449th with revenues of 26 billion dollars. Top 5: Walmart (1st) of US, Sinopec Group (2nd) of China, Royal Dutch Shell (3rd) of Netherlands, China National Petroleum (4th) and Exxon Mobil (5th) of US.
2. Mosquirix, world's first malaria vaccine, approved by European Medicines Agency
The world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S or Mosquirix o got approval from European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The vaccine was licensed for use on babies aged between 6 weeks and 17 months in Africa, which is at the highest risk of the mosquito-borne disease.
he vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, would be the first licensed human vaccine against a parasitic disease and could help prevent millions of cases of malaria.
The vaccine is also part-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and it was in development since 1987 under a team of researchers led by Joe Cohen, a GSK scientist.
3. Shubham Jaglan won IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event 2015
10-year old Shubham Jaglan won the IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event in Las Vegas. Jaglan is the son of a milkman from rural Haryana, India.
e shot a three round score of 106 winning by a five-stroke margin, ahead of two Americans Justin Dang and Sihan Sandhu and Thailand's Pongsapak Laopakdee for the Boys 9-10 years category title.
He also scripted a scintillating one-stroke win at the Junior World Golf Championships that was held at Welk Resort Fountain Course in California.
4. Peter Higgs received Royal Society’s Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize
Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Higgs won the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s Copley Medal. With this, 86-year old Higgs joined the ranks of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
He was awarded the medal for his fundamental contribution to particle physics and his pioneering work on the theory of the Higgs boson that explains the origin of mass in elementary particles. The presence of Higgs boson was confirmed by the experiments at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.
Modern physics suggests that matter consists of a set of particles that act as building blocks and that between these particles lie forces that are controlled by another set of particles. A fundamental property of the majority of particles is that they have a mass.
5. BEL bags Dun & Bradstreet award
Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has bagged the Dun & Bradstreet’s ‘India’s Top PSUs Awards 2015 in the electrical and electronic equipment sector.
S K Sharma, Chairman and Managing Director, BEL, received the award for BEL along with Anandi Ramalingam, General Manager -National Marketing, BEL, from R M Malla, Chairman, Smera Ratings Limited, at Delhi.
The Dun & Bradstreet ‘India’s Top PSUs Awards are an acknowledgement for the critical role that the PSUs play in the development of the Indian economy.
BEL has been at the forefront in providing critical communication, night vision, electronic warfare and radar systems to the Indian Defence services ever since its inception post Independence in 1954.
6. Reliance Group, Augur Overseas Operation signed MoU to manufacture Aerostats and Airships
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group through its entity Reliance Unmanned Systems on 23 July 2015 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Augur Overseas Operation of Singapore to manufacture Aerostats and Airships in India. As per the MoU, both the parties will collaborate on new technologies for the civil and military market as part of the Make in India initiative of Union Government. The two companies have agreed to form a joint venture (JV) firm with Reliance having 51 percent stake as per Government’s policy.
The joint venture will be involved in development, production, sales, modification and life support for different sizes of Aerostats and Airships. This JV will address the requirements of domestic market and also addressable regional/global markets.
The Aerostat radars are deployed extensively in the surveillance, reconnaissance and communication roles by the army. These are also useful in detecting low-flying fighter aircraft.
7. CSC, HCL form joint venture to provide technology services, solutions to banks
IT companies CSC and HCL Technologies have signed an agreement to form a banking software and services company to provide technology services and solutions to the banking industry.
The joint venture will invest in platform modernisation and product functionality enhancement and will capitalise on the proven capabilities of both companies in addressing the multi-billion-dollar, global core banking software market.
CSC, which serves over 100 premier banking and financial services clients in 15 countries, will provide its core banking, cards, payments and default management industry talent, software and product development expertise.
HCL will provide capital investment, its experience in product engineering and application implementation services, as well as banking sales and client engagement expertise.
8. T K Chand appointed as CMD of National Aluminium Company
T K Chand has been appointed as the new chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of
National Aluminium Company(Nalco). Chand who has been Director (Commercial) of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), will take up his new position on Monday, July 27, 2015. . The Public Enterprises Selection Board recommended his name for appointment as CMD of the Nalco in November last year after short-listing 11 candidates. The Department of Personnel issued the appointment order earlier this week. His appointment fills in a key leadership role at the country's largest state-owned aluminium company, almost three months after the previous incumbent Ansuman Das superannuated on April 30, 2015.
Seven Indian companies have found their place in 2015 Fortune 500 Global Companies list compiled by Fortune Magazine. They are Indian Oil: ranked 119th with revenues of 74 billion dollars. Reliance Industries: ranked 158th with revenues of 62 billion dollars. Tata Motors: ranked 254th with revenues of 42 billion dollars. State Bank of India (SBI): ranked 260th with revenues of 42 billion dollars. Bharat Petroleum: ranked 280th with revenues of 40 billion dollars. Hindustan Petroleum: ranked 327th with revenues of 35 billion dollars. Oil and Natural Gas: ranked 449th with revenues of 26 billion dollars. Top 5: Walmart (1st) of US, Sinopec Group (2nd) of China, Royal Dutch Shell (3rd) of Netherlands, China National Petroleum (4th) and Exxon Mobil (5th) of US.
2. Mosquirix, world's first malaria vaccine, approved by European Medicines Agency
The world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S or Mosquirix o got approval from European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The vaccine was licensed for use on babies aged between 6 weeks and 17 months in Africa, which is at the highest risk of the mosquito-borne disease.
he vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, would be the first licensed human vaccine against a parasitic disease and could help prevent millions of cases of malaria.
The vaccine is also part-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and it was in development since 1987 under a team of researchers led by Joe Cohen, a GSK scientist.
3. Shubham Jaglan won IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event 2015
10-year old Shubham Jaglan won the IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event in Las Vegas. Jaglan is the son of a milkman from rural Haryana, India.
e shot a three round score of 106 winning by a five-stroke margin, ahead of two Americans Justin Dang and Sihan Sandhu and Thailand's Pongsapak Laopakdee for the Boys 9-10 years category title.
He also scripted a scintillating one-stroke win at the Junior World Golf Championships that was held at Welk Resort Fountain Course in California.
4. Peter Higgs received Royal Society’s Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize
Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Higgs won the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s Copley Medal. With this, 86-year old Higgs joined the ranks of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
He was awarded the medal for his fundamental contribution to particle physics and his pioneering work on the theory of the Higgs boson that explains the origin of mass in elementary particles. The presence of Higgs boson was confirmed by the experiments at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.
Modern physics suggests that matter consists of a set of particles that act as building blocks and that between these particles lie forces that are controlled by another set of particles. A fundamental property of the majority of particles is that they have a mass.
5. BEL bags Dun & Bradstreet award
Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has bagged the Dun & Bradstreet’s ‘India’s Top PSUs Awards 2015 in the electrical and electronic equipment sector.
S K Sharma, Chairman and Managing Director, BEL, received the award for BEL along with Anandi Ramalingam, General Manager -National Marketing, BEL, from R M Malla, Chairman, Smera Ratings Limited, at Delhi.
The Dun & Bradstreet ‘India’s Top PSUs Awards are an acknowledgement for the critical role that the PSUs play in the development of the Indian economy.
BEL has been at the forefront in providing critical communication, night vision, electronic warfare and radar systems to the Indian Defence services ever since its inception post Independence in 1954.
6. Reliance Group, Augur Overseas Operation signed MoU to manufacture Aerostats and Airships
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group through its entity Reliance Unmanned Systems on 23 July 2015 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Augur Overseas Operation of Singapore to manufacture Aerostats and Airships in India. As per the MoU, both the parties will collaborate on new technologies for the civil and military market as part of the Make in India initiative of Union Government. The two companies have agreed to form a joint venture (JV) firm with Reliance having 51 percent stake as per Government’s policy.
The joint venture will be involved in development, production, sales, modification and life support for different sizes of Aerostats and Airships. This JV will address the requirements of domestic market and also addressable regional/global markets.
The Aerostat radars are deployed extensively in the surveillance, reconnaissance and communication roles by the army. These are also useful in detecting low-flying fighter aircraft.
7. CSC, HCL form joint venture to provide technology services, solutions to banks
IT companies CSC and HCL Technologies have signed an agreement to form a banking software and services company to provide technology services and solutions to the banking industry.
The joint venture will invest in platform modernisation and product functionality enhancement and will capitalise on the proven capabilities of both companies in addressing the multi-billion-dollar, global core banking software market.
CSC, which serves over 100 premier banking and financial services clients in 15 countries, will provide its core banking, cards, payments and default management industry talent, software and product development expertise.
HCL will provide capital investment, its experience in product engineering and application implementation services, as well as banking sales and client engagement expertise.
8. T K Chand appointed as CMD of National Aluminium Company
T K Chand has been appointed as the new chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of
National Aluminium Company(Nalco). Chand who has been Director (Commercial) of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), will take up his new position on Monday, July 27, 2015. . The Public Enterprises Selection Board recommended his name for appointment as CMD of the Nalco in November last year after short-listing 11 candidates. The Department of Personnel issued the appointment order earlier this week. His appointment fills in a key leadership role at the country's largest state-owned aluminium company, almost three months after the previous incumbent Ansuman Das superannuated on April 30, 2015.
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