The festival screened over 300 films including 4 premieres, 6 international premieres, 26 Asian premieres 104 Indian premieres and Oscar-winning entries from nearly 90 countries.
IFFI 2016 also featured the National Film Archives of India’s (NFAI) exhibition with theme: “Azadi 70 Saal, Yaad Karo Qurbani”(70 Years of Independence, Remember the Sacrifices) to commemorate 70 years of Indian Independence.
Akodara in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat has become the first Digital Village in India.
The village, located 90 km from Ahmedabad, was adopted by the ICICI Bank under Digital Village project in 2015 that developed it as a digitized village with a rural branch of the bank.
The bank has provided training to villagers to use digital technology to reduce dependence on cash. The villagers’ most important transactions selling agri-produce at the local market or mandi or selling milk at the co-operative society have been made cashless.
The banks also launched other initiatives, like school automation, WiFi connectivity, a village website, a digital screen for commodity prices at the bank branch and skills development workshops for women to learn tailoring and office administration free of cost.
Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister N. Chandrababu Naidu has been nominated by the Central Government to head the sub-committee constituted to deal with the situation arising out of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes.
The move aims to stop the Opposition’s attack on the Centre’s demonetization decision.
The government has decided to introduce DBT system for fertilizer subsidy payments which is slightly different from normal DBT implemented in LPG subsidy.
Villagers of Khanapur in Telangana’s Nizamabad district have renamed their village as ‘Kavithapuram’ after the daughter of CM K Chandrasekhar Rao.
The app was developed by Nation Information Centre (NIC). It has been developed on Android and iOS platforms.
The app provides the names of the police stations, distance from the place where you are and how much time it will take to reach police station one wants to go to.
It provides the police station number, number of control room and also the SP office number. However, no mobile phones numbers are provided.
It also promotes facility to “Tap to Call” any of these police stations and know the route and road distance to reach there.
The two advisory committees setup include one for services and the other for corporate insolvency and liquidation.
IBBI seeks to consolidate and amend laws relating to reorganization as well as insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals in a time-bound manner.
World Health Organisation (WHO) settled a long standing dispute and battle between India and the European Union (EU) about labeling of drugs by clarifying that ‘counterfeit’— will now be used by member States with respect to protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).
This decision to drop the term ‘counterfeit’and retain ‘falsified’ to describe medicines of inferior quality was taken by a WHO’s technical working group on draft to find a perfect definitions of substandard/spurious /falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products.
The major European and US pharmaceutical companies used the term to stop Indian made cheap generic drugs exported to other countries by showing that they were in violation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).
Zimbabwe launches ‘bond notes’ currency in bid to ease cash crunch.
RBI allowed bank customers to withdraw the deposits made in current legal tender notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 2000 beyond the current withdrawal limits of 24,000 per week.
For current accounts, the withdrawal limit is Rs 50,000 a week for small traders.
According to Reserve Bank of India certain depositors are hesitating to deposit their money into bank accounts due to the current limits on cash withdrawals.
People have exchanged and deposited about Rs 8.45 lakh crore worth of scrapped Rs. 500 and Rs 1,000 bank notes at different banks till 27 November.
ICICI Bank announced to transform 100 villages into ‘ICICI Digital Villages’ in 100 days to enable villagers go in cash less banking and payments transactions.
People from 100 villages will be able to open bank accounts using Aadhar-based e-KYC and make cashless payments to retail stores through a unique SMS/USSD-based mobile solution.
ICICI bank has taken step to resolve the ongoing currency issue after the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes along with the introduction of new notes.
Telecom tower provider Indus Towers planned to invest Rs 100 crore in India to set up 500 new sites within a year.
The Union Government has approved six proposals from four developers to set up new special economic zones(SEZs) IT and biotechnology across Telangana, Haryana and Karnataka .
A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which business and trade laws differ from the rest of the country.
Aims : To increased trade, increased investment, job creation and effective administration.
Mirabeau specializes in verticals like travel and hospitality, financial services, retail, and B2B sectors. Its clients includes brands such as KLM, ING, Air France, Maxeda, MoneYou, LeasePlan.com, and Transavia.
It has260 specialists will become part of the Digital Business practice at Cognizant, which has a majority of its workforce in India.
Special jury award: The Throne (South Korea) directed by Lee Joon-Ik.
Best Actor Female award: Elina Vaska (Latvia) for Mellow Mud.
Best Actor Male award: Farhad Aslani (Iran) for Daughter.
Best Director award: Jointly-shared by Soner Caner and Baris Kaya for Turkish film “Rauf”.
ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal Prize: Turkish director Mustafa Kara for his film “Cold of Kalandar”.
Special Jury mention award: Tiffany Hsuig for the Korean movie “The Apology”.
Centenary Award for the Best Debut Feature of the director: Pepa San Martin for the film “Ra Ra”.
Iranian film “Daughter” has won the coveted Golden Peacock award at the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
In July 2015, a fundraising round had valued the company at $5 billion which means the company has experienced a growth of $4.2 billion in just over a year.
Former law firm receptionist Susan Kiefel is appointed as Australia’s first woman Chief Justice of Australia on November 29, 2016 by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
She became the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland state in 1993.
She is currently one of three women on the High Court bench and the longest serving judge after French.
Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh promoted to General Officer Commanding of Strike 1 Corps.
Prior to this, Narayanan was working as the head of engineering at Myntra.
Indian fashion e-commerce marketplace company Myntra’s chief technology and product officer Shamik Sharma has moved into an advisory role.
Vittal has experience in management consulting and is recognised as a thought leader for consumer-facing companies in emerging markets.
He is the only player in the world to compete at the world championship level in both sports and be successful in all the formats of both billiards and snooker.
The IBSF World Snooker Championship (aka World Amateur Snooker Championship) is the premier non-professional snooker tournament in the world.