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RBI keeps rates at record low on virus fallout, projects retail inflation at 5.1%
According to Das, upside risks to inflation emanates from persistence of second COVID wave and consequent restrictions on activity on a virtually pan-India basis.
“In such a scenario, insulating prices of essential food items from supply side disruptions will necessitate active monitoring and preparedness for coordinated, calibrated and timely measures by both Centre and state governments to prevent emergence of supply side bottlenecks and increase in retail margins,” the governor said.
ACKO clocks Rs 100 crore from employee group health insurance premium in FY21
Over 70 companies including Virtusa, Swiggy, Razorpay, CRED, Akzo Nobel, Xiaomi, RedFM, ICRA, Grofers, Mygate and Go-MMT offer ACKO’s digital health benefits, it said.
India’s daily new COVID-19 cases decline to 1.32 lakhs, fatalities at 2,713
India’s active caseload further declined to 16,35,993 as active cases decreased by 77,420 in the last 24 hours. The active cases in the country have been less than 2 lakhs since eight successive days. The daily positivity rate stands at 6.38 per cent, remaining below the 10 per cent-mark for 11 consecutive days, while the weekly positivity rate stands at 7.27 per cent.
Pre-Covid level normalcy to return next year, touch 4 lakh passengers a day: Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri
“When the second wave came and this passenger traffic came down to 40,000 last week. On Thursday it increased to 80,000 and later it will continue to increase with the decline in COVID cases,” said the Union Minister.
Financial inclusion a top priority for govt, says Union Minister Thakur
Noting that financial inclusion is one of the top-most policy priorities for the government, Thakur said promoting and deepening financial education would play a very important part in our endeavour to realise our collective potential.
India orders 300 mln COVID-19 shots before approval as court asks for vaccine ‘roadmap’
So far, about 4.7% of the country’s 950 million adult population have been given both doses. The government said this week supplies are improving and it could have as many as 10 million doses each day in July and August, up from just under three million now.
Retired babus taking up private sector jobs soon after retirement is serious misconduct: CVC
In an order, it also said that all government organisations should mandatorily take vigilance clearance before offering post-retirement jobs to babus.
In case a retired officer served in more than one organisation, the vigilance clearance should be obtained from all organisations where the retired officer had served during a period of 10 years prior to his retirement, it said mentioning the procedure.
Niti Aayog submits names of PSU banks to be privatised to Core Group of Secretaries on Disinvestment
Industry sources say the likely names are Mumbai based Central Bank and Pune based Bank of Maharashtra.
Following the clearance from the Core Group of Secretaries, headed by the Cabinet Secretary, the finalised names will go to Alternative Mechanism (AM) for its approval and eventually to the Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister for the final nod.
Changes on the regulatory side to facilitate privatisation would start after the Cabinet approval.
LIC’s mega IPO may hit the street in March
Though,the lagislative changes in the LIC Act 1956, to facilitate the LIC IPO, are already in place, the government appointed actuary Milliman is yet to finalise the embedded value of the corporation.
Maha: Over Rs 348 cr paid to cyclone Nisarga-hit in Raigad
Over two lakh houses were damaged in the cyclone last year for which a compensation of more than Rs 226 crore was paid, it said.