♦ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Boeing's new global engineering and technology centre campus near Bengaluru on 19 January 2024. This was built at a cost of Rs.1,600 crore, the 43-acre state-of-the-art Boeing India Engineering and Technology Centre (BIETC) campus is the planemaker's largest such investment outside the US. 

♦ Modi also launched the Boeing Sukanya Programme that the company said aims to support the entry of more girl children from across India into the country's growing aviation sector.