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Ritesh Chauhan appointed as CEO of PM Fasal Bima Yojana

Senior bureaucrat Ritesh Chauhan has been appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and Joint Secretary, Agriculture under the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. Chauhan will have a combined tenure of seven years up to September 22, 2023. He is a 2005-batch IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre. He will succeed Ashish Kumar […]

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Satya Nadella-led Microsoft team wins 2021 C.K. Prahalad Award

Indian American Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO, is among the corporate leaders to receive this year’s prestigious C K Prahlad award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership, along with three other top leaders of Microsoft. Apart from Nadella, Microsoft’s President and Vice-Chair Brad Smith, Chief financial officer Amy Hood and chief environment officer Lucas Joppa have shared the award for Global Business

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Airtel, Ericsson conducts India’s first rural 5G trial

Bharti Airtel and Ericsson conducted India’s first 5G network trial in a rural location in the first week on October 2021. The demonstration took place in Bhaipur Bramanan village on the outskirts of Delhi/NCR using a 5G trial spectrum allocated to Airtel by the Department of Telecom.

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Punjab National Bank launches ‘6S Campaign’ under customer outreach programme

Punjab National Bank (PNB) launched the ‘6S Campaign’ under customer outreach programme to extend financial services at a concessional rate during the festival season. The ‘6S Campaign’ encapsulates different schemes such as – Swabhiman, Samruddhi, Sampark and Shikhar, Sankalp, and Swagat. It is a financial inclusion campaign.

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RBI grants small finance bank licence to Unity SFB

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a Small Finance Bank (SFB) licence to the consortium of Centrum Financial Services Limited (Centrum) and BharatPe. “A new bank license has been issued after a gap of nearly 6 years, and we thank the RBI for the confidence shown in the abilities of Centrum and BharatPe,” Centrum

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Assam launches app ‘Fishwaale’, India’s first e-fish market

The app named Fishwaale has been launched in Assam and it is India’s first e-fish market. Assam launched App Fishwaale, India’s first e-fish market. Launching the App developed by Aqua Blue Global Aquaculture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in collaboration with the Fisheries department Suklabaidya said the App, a one-stop solution for Aquaculture, will help the buyers and sellers to place orders

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Varanasi To Become India’s first City to Start Ropeway Service in Public Transportation

Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh will become the first Indian city to use ropeway services in public transportation. Overall, Varanasi will be the third city in the world after Bolivia and Mexico City to use ropeway in public transportation. The total cost of the ropeway project is Rs 424 crore. The total distance of 4.2 km will be covered in just 15

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Department of Biotechnology launches India’s first ‘One Health’ consortium in post-COVID times

The Department of Biotechnology, under the Ministry of Science and Technology, on Thursday launched India’s first mega consortium on ‘One Health’. The ‘One Health’ project was launched by Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, DBT through video conferencing. The Consortium is comprised of 27 organizations and will be led by the DBT-National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad. The ‘One Health’ is “where

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MoRTH launches “Rewarding Scheme for Grant of Award to the Good Samaritan”

Recently, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued Guidelines for the Scheme for grant of Award to the Good Samaritan who has saved the life of a victim from a fatal accident involving a motor vehicle. The scheme aims to motivate the general public to help the victims of road accidents in an emergency situation,

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OYO appoints Paralympian Deepa Malik as an independent director

Hospitality firm OYO has appointed Paralympian Deepa Malik as an Indian athlete and a silver-medalist at the 2016 Paralympic Games, as an independent director on the company’s board. Oravel Stays Ltd (OYO) has appointed Deepa Malik, an Indian athlete and a silver-medalist at the 2016 Paralympic Games, as an independent director on the company’s board of directors as of

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