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The stock market value of Apple Inc. hit $3 trillion (£2.2tn) briefly on January 03, 2022, becoming the world’s first company to do so. Apple became the first company to have a market value of $3 trillion. Briefly reaching the milestone in the latest demonstration of the tech industry’s pandemic surge. The iPhone maker set […]
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Vistara said that Vinod Kannan took over as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the airline. According to a statement by the carrier, Kannan replaces Leslie Thng, who was the CEO from July 16, 2017 to December 31, 2021. Prior to this, Kannan was the Chief Commercial Officer of the airlines since January 2020, before
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Alka Mittal has been appointed an interim chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC NSE 0.81 %), the first woman to head the country’s largest oil and gas producer in India. She is the first woman to head the top post at the Maharatna company. Mittal replaces Subhash Kumar, another interim head who
Current Affairs is the most important area in all competitive exams. But the difficulty level is very high. That’s why; many aspirants get confused, how to select Current Affairs for Preparation of Competitive Examination? In this Post, Daily Current Affairs 4 January 2022, we have tried to cover each and every point and also included
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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
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”.
