Jeff Bezos, founder,Amazon Investors have also become jittery over...
Category:
Eco/Invest/Demography
Latest
India may take 75 years to reach one-quarter of US income per capita: World Bank
The road ahead has even stiffer challenges than those seen in the...
New record of over 7.28 cr income-tax returns filed: Tax dept
"Out of the total ITRs of 7.28 crore filed for AY 2024-25, 5.27...
Subscribers under NPS, APY schemes rise 22 pc to 4.15 crore at Feb-end
As of February 28, 2021, total pension assets under management stood at Rs 5,59,594 crore, showing a year-on-year growth of 33.09 per cent, PFRDA said.
Airlines face headache over ‘use-by’ date on some jet parts as pandemic grounds fleets
In the highly regulated world of airplane maintenance, the frequency of many tasks is determined by the number of take-offs and landings or flight hours. But others, such as life vests and portable oxygen bottles, have a fixed schedule for replacement.
Record beneficiaries verified in single day under Ayushman campaign
The Aapke Dwar Ayushman drive is successfully running in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir among other states, according to the statement.
A total of 1.2 crore Ayushman cards have been generated this year. It is expected that others states will soon join the drive.
Nationwide bank strike continues to impact PSB services on second day
As per the call, on Monday, employees and officers joined the strike and the strike was a total success. Normal banking services were affected because of the strike, C H Venkatachalam, General Secretary, AIBEA said.
WHO experts to meet over AstraZeneca vaccine blood clot fears as coronavirus cases surge
The three largest EU nations- Germany, Italy and France- joined others in suspending the shot Monday, dealing a blow to the global immunisation campaign against a disease that has killed more than 2.6 million people.
Cabinet clears setting up of development finance institution to fund infra projects
“I expect the institution to raise up to 3 trillion rupees ($41.36 billion) in the next few years,” Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s finance minister told reporters, after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Maharashtra in beginning of second COVID wave, step up contact tracing: Centre
“Maharashtra is at the beginning of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to track, test, isolate cases and quarantine contacts are limited there with no adherence to COVID-19 appropriate behaviour among people both in rural and urban areas,” Bhushan wrote in the letter.
Pointing towards contact tracing, the Health Secretary’s letter mentioned that the case-contact ratio is more than 1:20 in the state.
22 of world’s 30 most polluted cities are in India: Report
Besides Delhi, the 21 other Indian cities among the 30 most polluted cities in the world are Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Bisrakh Jalalpur, Noida, Greater Noida, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Agra, and Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, Bhiwari in Rajasthan, Faridabad, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad, Bandhwari, Gurugram, Yamuna Nagar, Rohtak and Dharuhera in Haryana, and Muzaffarpur in Bihar.
SBI, ICICI, HDFC, Axis Bank, PNB and the Indian IT department targeted in phishing scam
The suspicious links originate from the US and France, said the report, adding that the campaign is collecting personal as well as banking information from the user and getting into this type of trap could cause a massive financial loss for the users.
Automating day-to-day transaction processing among priorities for finance leaders: Survey
Leading consultancy EY India’s survey on ‘digital disruption in finance’, released on Tuesday, also showed that around 92 per cent of finance leaders in India have started their journey to introduce digital interventions in finance but only 11 per cent believe they are at an advanced stage.