Kannada litterateur Chandrashekar Kambar has been elected as president of the Sahitya Akademi in the election held for the post.

Hindi poet Madhav Koushik has been elected as vice-president. Prof. Kambar is the third Kannada writer to head the country’s premier literary institution, after Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1983) and U.R. Ananthamurthy (1993). 

Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Shri R.K. Singh inaugurated the ‘Indian Power Stations 2018’ – three-day International Conference on Operations and Maintenance.

The Minister exhorted the NTPC to become India’s power sector multinational by setting up power plants in other Nations and become world’s largest power producer. 

Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and the current Minister of State in the Government of India. He is Member of the Indian Parliament since May 2014. 

President Ram Nath Kovind has hosted the LPG Panchayat at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The LPG Panchayat was organised by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas with an aim to provide a platform for LPG consumers to interact with each other, promote mutual learning and share experiences. 

The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu will inaugurate the 8th Global Theatre Olympics on 17th February, 2018 at the majestic Red Fort in New Delhi. This Global Theatre Festival is being held in India for the first time. 

India’s biggest Global Conference on Pharma Industry and Medical Devices to begin in Bengaluru on 15th February With the theme, ‘Driving NextGen Pharmaceuticals’. 

The Tamil Nadu government has to host the second edition of the Global Investors Meet (GIM) will be held on January 24 next year.

Chief Minister K Palaniswami has allocated a sum of Rs 75 crore towards the conduct of the two-day meet. 

Punjab National Bank has signed an agreement for information utility with National e-Governance Services Limited (NeSL).

The objective of the agreement is to augment the information infrastructure in India. The agreement will enable storing of financial information that will help substantiate defaults and verify claims expeditiously.

Rangachary is the Chairman of the Company. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

Software company Zoho has tied up with private lender ICICI Bank to provide accounting and banking on an integrated platform.

Claiming to be the industry-first integration of accounting and any bank, the partnership will deliver a streamlined digital banking experience to customers using Zoho’s cloud accounting software, ‘Zoho Books’.

Mahendra Kumar Sharma is the Chairman on the Board of ICICI Bank. He is a Member on the Board of Governors of Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and the Anglo Scottish Education Society which runs the Cathedral & John Cannon School in South Mumbai.

An India-Russia Agriculture Business Summit held in New Delhi and celebration of 70 years of Agricultural Relationship to be held in Suratgarh, Rajasthan on 14th February 2018. This will strengthen exchange of expertise to further business ties between the two countries. 

World Radio Day is in its seventh edition and this year’s theme is “Radio and Sports”. February 13 was chosen to mark World Radio Day in 2011.

This year, The UNESCO has called on all radio stations around the world to showcase the beauty of sports in all of its diversity.

Mauritius plans to establish a sovereign fund to provide seed capital for the development of financial technology or Fintech activities in the island nation. It is also planning to give incentives to attract Fintech operations in the country.

Shane Warne will be associated with the Indian Premier League in 2018 as he was appointed the mentor of the Rajasthan Royals franchise for the 11th edition of the tournament.

During his tenure with the Rajasthan Royals, the ace Australian legspinner, who has 708 wickets, helped the team to a fairytale title finish as captain-cum-coach in the first edition of the Indian Premier League in 2008. 

Karnataka’s Kishan Gangolli has won the National ‘A’ Chess Championship for Blind for the fifth consecutive time, while Ashvin Makwana of Gujarat and Odisha’s Soundarya Kumar Pradhan finished second and third respectively.

At the end of the 13 rounds, Gangolli (Rating 1996) got 10.5 points. Makwana (Rating 1744) earned 9.5 points, while Soundarya (Rating 1753) totalled 9 points. 

The Energy and Resources Institute is a research institute based in New Delhi that conducts research work in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development.

The World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) 2018 will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 16.

The event being organised by TERI aims to bring together global leaders on the issue of sustainable development, energy and environment. Director General of TERI is Dr. Ajay Mathur. 

PM Narendra Modi arrived in Muscat where he attended a special dinner hosted by the Sultan Sayyid Qaboos Bin Said Al Said of Oman.