Month: November 2020
** Grofers looking at 4-fold rise in gross merchandise value at Rs 30,000 crore by 2022
** Girish Bharadwaj – Bridgeman of India
Padma Shri Girish Bhardwaj (2017)
Founder : Rational Engineering Works, Sullia, Karnataka
IN NUMBERS
Bharadwaj has built
95 bridges in seven districts of Karnataka
32 in Kerala
05 in Telangana
03 in Odisha
One more in Telangana is under progress now
** Malayalam writer S. Hareesh bags 2020 JCB Prize for Literature
** Rajputs with the golden guns
Robert Elgood’s ‘The Maharaja of Jodhpur’s Guns’ is a tour de force of the blood and thunder of Marwar royalty through its extraordinary collection of firearms
** Reliance Retail acquires Urban Ladder
** IOA chief Narinder Batra bags Capital Foundation National Award
** India, U.S. looking at training South East Asian nations in U.N. peacekeeping
With China significantly scaling up its troop contribution for United Nations Peace Keeping (UNPK) missions, India and the U.S. are looking to undertake training of military personnel for the missions from South East Asian countries on the lines of the ongoing initiative for African countries.
** Bringing alive Bengaluru in Berlin
Taking tales of the city to foreign shores is photographer Shivaraju B S, aka Cop Shiva, whose works will be on display in Germany