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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the apex body of chartered accountants, has elected Ranjit Kumar Aggarwal and Charanjot Singh Nanda as the President and Vice President of the institute respectively. Ranjit Kumar took charge as the 72nd President of ICAI.

The Athletics Integrity Unit and the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) sanctioned two athletes for anti-doping rule violations. Indian hammer thrower Rachna Kumari has been banned for 12 years. Nirmala Sheoran has also been banned for violating anti-doping rules.

Indian Railway Traffic Service officer Sanjay Kumar Jain took charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC). Sanjay Jain is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA). He has also previously worked as Divisional Railway Manager of Mumbai.

Union Minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar inaugurated the Digital India FutureSkills Summit 2024. It is being organized through the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology. More than 1,000 people including top industrialists and academicians are participating in this conference.

The recent inaugural meeting of the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) in Washington DC, United States, set guidelines for proposed implementation during COP15 in 2022. GEF member governments committed $1.1 billion to global initiatives addressing biodiversity, climate change, nature renewal. And pollution control. The meeting approved $918 million for 45 projects from the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund and $203 million for 21 climate change adaptation projects from the Fund for Least Developed Countries and the Special Climate Change Fund. The Council also approved the Resource Allocation Policy and Project Cycle Policy for effective donor fund allocation.

Recently, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik increased the monthly pension for 36.75 lakh beneficiaries including elderly, widows and disabled persons, unmarried women, AIDS patients, transgender persons, orphans and widows of COVID victims under Madhu Babu Pension Scheme. Is. The new amount is Rs 1,000 for people up to 79 years of age and Rs 1,200 for those 80 years and above. The move aims to provide critical financial assistance to vulnerable groups in the state while ensuring their well-being and dignity.

Recently NITI Aayog launched the “Greening and Restoring Barren Lands with Agroforestry (GROW)” initiative, unveiling a portal for universal access to state and district-level data. Hosted on the Bhuvan website, GROW uses advanced technologies such as remote sensing and GIS to assess agroforestry suitability across India. This is in line with national targets, which aim to restore 26 million hectares of degraded land by 2030 and create a carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes. The initiative uses a developed Agroforestry Suitability Index (ASI) for national-level prioritization, considering parameters such as land use, barren land, slope, proximity to water and soil organic content.

Bor Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Maharashtra, which was declared a tiger reserve in July 2014, recently sought Rs 1 crore for wildlife safari initiatives in Bangadapur and Hingni forest ranges. It is the smallest tiger reserve of India located in Wardha district. Situated amidst various Bengal Tiger habitats, it neighbors Pench, Nagjira Navegaon, Karhandla, Tadoba Andhari, Melghat and Satpura reserves. The area has dry deciduous forest vegetation and also includes the bore dam drainage basin.

Union Minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar inaugurated the Digital India FutureSkills Summit 2024. It is being organized through the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology. More than 1,000 people including top industrialists and academicians are participating in this conference.

Indian Railway Traffic Service officer Sanjay Kumar Jain took charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC). Sanjay Jain is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA). He has also previously worked as Divisional Railway Manager of Mumbai.