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Amazon, Asian Paints, Tata Tea top Most Purposeful Brands Ranking

Amazon, Tata Tea, and Asian Paints emerged as the most purposeful brands in India across technology, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), and in non-FMCG categories respectively, according to findings of the Kantar’s BrandZ India 2021 report released. In technology ranking, Amazon leads the index followed by Zomato, YouTube, and Google, and Swiggy jointly in 4th place. While Asian Paints topped the non-FMCG rankings, Samsung and Jio ranked jointly in the 2nd position. , […]

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JP Morgan named world’s most systemic bank: FSB

JP Morgan Chase has topped the 2021 list of globally systemic banks (G-SIBs) released by the Financial Stability Board (FSB). The updated G-Sib list, published on November 23 by the Financial Stability Board, saw JP Morgan rise to the fourth ‘bucket’, implying a capital surcharge of 2.5% of risk-weighted assets. It is the only bank in the bucket. The

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NITI Aayog releases SDG Urban Index and Dashboard 2021–22

NITI Aayog under Indo-German Cooperation has released Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Urban Index and Dashboard 2021–22. The SDG Urban Index and Dashboard ranks 56 urban areason 77 SDG indicators across 46 targets of the SDG framework. Shimla tops the Index followed by Coimbatore, Chandigarh, Thiruvananthapuram Worst performers: Patna, Guwahati, Itanagar, Meerut, Dhanbad Urban areas have been classified as: Aspirant: 0–49 Performer:

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IndusInd Bank launches mobile app for merchants

IndusInd Bank has launched ‘Indus Merchant Solutions’ a mobile application (app) to enable merchants, retailers, and professionals to carry out banking transactions digitally, on a single platform. It will enable merchants and retailers to undertake an array of activities such as accept instant cashless payments on mobile phones from customers through multiple digital modes. Any current account

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Union Bank of India ranks third in PSB reforms

Union Bank of India ranked third amongst 12 PSBs in the EASE 4.0 Reforms Index for Q1 FY22, as per the rank list released by Indian Banks’ Association (IBA). UBI also recorded stellar performance under four out of six themes in the Agenda. UBI has been adjudged Winner in the themes ‘Collaborating for synergistic outcomes’ & ‘Governance & outcome-centric

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Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai among world’s top 10 polluted cities

Of the world’s top 10 cities with the worst air quality, three – Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai, are in India, data from air quality and pollution city tracking service from IQAir, a Switzerland-based climate group showed. Delhi top the list with AQI at 556, Kolkata and Mumbai recorded an AQI of 177 and 169, respectively, at 4th and 6th position.

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Nykaa CEO Falguni Nayar becomes India’s richest self-made woman

Beauty startup Nykaa’s founder Falguni Nayar has become India’s wealthiest self-made female billionaire, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as shares made a strong stock market debut. She founded Nykaa in the year 2012. She holds a 53.5% stake in Nykaa and has a net worth of USD 7.48 billion. This comes after the IPO of

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India ranked 10th in Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022

India has been placed at 10th spot in the global Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022 released by Germanwatch on the side-lines of the COP26. It is being released by German-watch along with Climate Action Network (CAN) and New Climate Institute. India was at 10th place in 2020 as well. Scandinavian countries (Denmark (4th), Sweden (5th), and Norway (6th)), together with UK and Morocco, lead the

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Global Drug Policy Index 2021 released

The inaugural Global Drug Policy Index was released by the Harm Reduction Consortium, on November 7, 2021. Five leading countries on humane and health-driven drug policies: Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, UK, Australia, and the Five lowest-ranked countries are Brazil, Uganda, Indonesia, Kenya, and Mexico. The index is a data-driven global analysis of drug policies and their

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Brickwork Ratings Projects India’s GDP at 10-10.5% in FY22

Domestic rating agency Brickwork Ratings revised its growth estimate for the country’s GDP to 10-10.5% in the current financial year from an earlier expectation of a 9% growth. Brickwork Ratings is a SEBI registered Credit Rating Agency with headquarter in Bengaluru. It expects the GDP growth for Q2 FY22 to be at 8.3 percent (year-on-year),

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