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Saudi Arabia has become the first Arab country to join the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) after its Plenary Meeting agreed to grant the Kingdom full membership of the group at a meeting held in Orlando this week. Saudi Arabia’s accession comes as FATF celebrates its 30th anniversary and the first meeting it held in […]
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Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak clinched a bronze medal in vault event at the Senior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The 23-year-old from West Bengal, who had qualified for vault finals with a sixth place, came up with a score of 13.384 to claim the bronze medal. She had scored 13.400 and 13.367 in
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Mexico became the first country to ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement agreed late last year to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement at the behest of U.S. President Donald Trump. By a vote of 114 in favour to four against, Mexico’s senate backed the trade deal tortuously negotiated between 2017 and 2018 after Trump repeatedly
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Country’s 1st iron mine discovered in Dinajpur; opens up huge economic prospects as its quality is much better. For the first time in Bangladesh, a magnetite (iron ore) mine has been discovered at Isabpur village in Hakimpur upazila of the district, bringing new hopes for the country’s economy. The Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB) made
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Indian Navy launched ‘Operation Sankalp’ in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Their main aim is to reassure safe passage of Indian flagged vessels transiting through the area. This deployment depends on the following recent maritime incidents in the region. INS Chennai and INS Sunayna deployed in the region to undertake maritime security
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Senior bureaucrat Shefali Juneja was appointed as India’s representative in the council of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a United Nations body. Juneja, a 1992 batch officer of Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre), is at present the Joint Secretary in Ministry of Civil Aviation. She has been appointed to the post of Representative of
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Cash deposits in Canara Bank accounts of up to Rs. 50,000 are free for 3 transactions in a month, and then there will be a service charge of ₹1 per thousand, with a minimum of ₹50 and a maximum of ₹5,000-plus GST. This will be effective from July 1. The bank, however, gives five free
Canara Bank decided to grant only three free cash deposits of up to Rs 50,000 Read More »
People will soon be able to track your stolen mobile phone as the government is all set to roll out a database of IMEIs, the 15-digit numbers that uniquely identify each mobile device. With conmen gaining expertise in tampering with IMEI codes, purportedly through imported applications and IMEI crackers, the Telecom Ministry is all set
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RBI expert committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) headed by the former Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman U K Sinha, has recommended doubling the capital on collateral-free loans from the current Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh, for borrowers falling under the Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA),
RBI panel on MSMEs suggested Rs 20 lakh collateral-free loan under Mudra Scheme Read More »
India has the highest average data usage per smartphone, reaching 9.8 GB per month at the end of 2018, according to a new study by Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson. The report, released on Wednesday, also forecasts that this figure is likely to double to 18 GB per month per smartphone by 2024. “Increased numbers
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