The World Braille Day is observed every year on January 04 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille, and the day celebrates awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and visually impaired people. The day was proclaimed by the United Nations General […]
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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Vinay Kumar Tripathi, General Manager, North Eastern Railway to the post of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Railway Board, New Delhi. Currently Tripathi serves as the General Manager, North Eastern Railway. He will replace Suneet Sharma, a 1982 batch IRSME officer.
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SBI Cards and Payment Services have partnered with Paytm for card tokenisation to protect the data of cardholders. SBI Card will enable cardholders to tokenise their cards on devices and make payments through Paytm Tokenisation refers to masking the original card number by replacing it with a set of unique characters known as token. Token
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The Reserve Bank has placed on its website the ‘Framework for facilitating small value digital payments in offline mode’. The framework incorporates the feedback received from the pilot experiments on offline transactions conducted in different parts of the country during the period from September 2020 to June 2021. Payment/transaction will be considered offline when the
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Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who died during an assignment in Afghanistan, has been posthumously awarded the ‘Journalist of the Year’ for 2020 by the Mumbai Press Club. Chief Justice of India NV Ramana presented the annual ‘RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism’, instituted by the Mumbai Press Club, in a virtual event. The award was received
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) stated on Thursday that Life Insurance Corporation of India, General Insurance Corporation of India and New India Assurance Co Ltd continue to be identified as Domestic Systemically Important Insurers (D-SIIs) for 2021-22. Domestic Systemically Important Insurers (D-SIIs) are the insurance companies that are considered “Too Big to Fail”.
The parliamentary standing committee constituted to examine “The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021” which seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women to 21 has only woman MP out of 31 members. The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, which will have wider influence over society especially females, was introduced in Lok Sabha
Atul Kumar Goel has assumed the charge as an ‘officer on special duty, before taking over as its new MD and CEO next month with effect from January 1, 2022. Atul Kumar Goel will replace S S Mallikarjuna Rao as the MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank on February 01, 2022 as Mr. Rao
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NTPC Ltd, a State-owned power generation company has planned to acquire a 5% equity stake in Power Exchange of India Ltd (PXIL). It must be noted that government is planning to expand the share of the spot power market in total electricity supply in India to 25 percent by 2023-24. At present the size of
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Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has retired from international cricket after representing the country in 392 matches, bringing curtains on a career of 18 years. Hafeez, however, will continue to play in franchise cricket competitions. He is nicknamed “The Professor”. The 41-year-old Hafeez retired from Test cricket in December 2018. Hafeez has played 55 Tests, 218
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