Category: RECORDS IN ASIA

** Times Group chairperson Indu Jain dies

Indu Jain was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the third highest civilian honour in the country, in 2016.

She set up The Times Foundation in 2000, with sustainable development and transformational change as its key goals. One of India’s most respected non-profits, it provides community services and runs the Times Relief Fund to offer assistance during cyclones, earthquakes, floods, epidemics and other crises.

She was the founder president of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), established in 1983 to promote entrepreneurship and professional excellence among women in India. From 1999, she also served as chairperson of Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust, founded in 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, her father-in-law, to promote literature in Indian languages.

** India topped 2020 vehicle imports into South Africa despite COVID-19 impact: Report

India was the top country of origin for vehicle imports into South Africa despite the lengthy COVID-19 lockdowns and overall declines in vehicle sales in 2020, according to the latest 2021 auto report.

The Automotive Export Manual report released here on Friday by the Automotive Industry Export Council said that India has been established by several global brands as a production hub for entry-level and small vehicles, and most of the vehicles imported from India fell into these categories.

Volkswagen’s Polo Vivo was the only vehicle in these segments that was manufactured locally in South Africa in 2020.

** Imports of oxygen concentrators, supplies from China surge

Most of the supplies coming in from China have been imported by private Indian companies on a commercial basis.

Chinese companies manufacturing oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies are reporting a record surge in orders for April and May from Indian companies amid the current wave of COVID-19 cases and shortages in supplies.

Since April, orders for at least 40,000 oxygen concentrators have been placed by Indian companies, of which 21,000 have so far been delivered, along with more than 5,000 ventilators, 21 million face masks and 3,800 tons of medicines, according to official Chinese customs figures

** Reliance Retail 2nd fastest growing retailer in world

The top 10 has seven US retailers and one from the UK (Tesco PLC at 10th position).

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail Ltd has been ranked second fastest growing retailer in the world in the 2021 ranking of global retail power houses by Deloitte, down from top rank secured the previous years.

It has been ranked 53rd in the list of Global Powers of Retailing, improvement from 56th earlier, according to the Deloitte report.

** Krithi Karanth becomes first Indian woman to get ‘Wild Innovator Award’

Dr Krithi K Karanth, Chief Conservation Scientist at Bengaluru-based Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS), has been chosen as the first Indian and Asian woman for the 2021 ‘WILD Innovator Award’.

World’s Longest Highway Tunnel ‘Atal Tunnel’ – Inaugrated October 03rd, 2020 : Himachal Pradesh

World Record : India’s largest camera-tap tiger census : 2020

75% of world tiger population now in India

India’s tiger census of 2018 has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the largest ever camera-trap wildlife survey conducted anywhere in the world.

According to the survey, the country was home to an estimated 2,967 tigers, nearly 75 per cent of the global population. Of all the big cats, 2,461 (around 83 per cent) have been photo-captured.

Apart from setting a new world standard, the results validated India’s efforts in tiger conservation. The country’s tiger population increased by roughly one-third, from 2,226 in 2014 to 2,927 in 2018 .

India – 2nd Largest Cement Producer in the World : 2020

Highlights:

  • India is the SECOND Largest Cement Producer in the World
  • India accounts for over 8% (percent) of the global installed capacity( 2019)
  • Per capita cement consumption stood at 235 Kg (2019)
  • Cement industry de-regulated in 1982
  • Market size : Cement production : 337.32 million tonnes (2018-2019)

source:

IBEF, India Brand Equity Foundation / www.ibef.org