Facebook has acquired the shopping search engine TheFind. With this acquisition, Facebook has shown that it will entre into the e-commerce in near future.
TheFind , an ecommerce search app was Founded in 2006 and It is co-founded by CEO Siva Kumar and CTO Shashikant Khandelwal both are native Indians.
Wipro, has appointed Abid Ali Neemuchwala as the Group President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). His appointment will be effective from 1 April 2015.Before this appointment, Ali Neemuchwala was heading BPO arm of India’s largest software services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Union Government has merged Green India Mission (GIM) with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) Scheme. By merging GIM with MGNREGA Scheme government seeks to increase 10 million hectares of forest cover.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Justice Vishnu Kumar Mathur and Justice Kallakuri Girija Shankar to the post of Chairperson, Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunals (DRATs) at Allahabad and Chennai respectively.
The Government has approved for establishment of All India Institute of Ayurveda at Sarita Vihar, New Delhi. The Institute has been conceived as an Apex Institute of Ayurveda with 200 bedded referral hospital for imparting education in the field of Ayurveda.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) has undertaken construction of small airports at five locations during 2014-2015. These five locations are: Hubli and Belgaum in Karnataka, Kishangarh in Rajasthan, Jharsuguda in Odisha and Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh.
Services have won 69th Santosh Trophy football cup 2014-15. In the final match Services defeated host Punjab by score of 5-4. The final match was held at Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana, Punjab.
Santosh Trophy
- Founded: 1941.
- Annual Indian football tournament.
- Trophy is named after the late Maharaja Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhary of Santosh (now in Bangladesh).
India has won FIH Women’s Hockey World League Round Two competition title.
In the final match Indian women team defeated Poland team by score of 3-1 goals. Match was played at Major Dhyan Chan stadium, New Delhi.
Postion of teams.
- India- 1st.
- Poland- 2nd.
- Malaysia- 3rd.
- Thailand- 4th.
- Russia- 5th.