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Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB), the headhunter for directors of state-owned banks and financial institutions, on Saturday recommended elevation of Executive Director (ED) Debadatta Chand as managing director of Bank of Baroda Bureau recommended Union...
Demat accounts rise 34% to 10.8 cr in Dec on attractive returns from equity mkts
Increased financial savings, financial literacy and the growing popularity of trading amongst youths have been some other major factors contributing to the rise, Yes Securities' Shankar said Mumbai: The number of demat accounts rose to 10.8 crore in December 2022, a...
Domestic automobile industry scaling up efforts to enhance localisation of electric components
With growth in consumption of electric vehicles, the industry is witnessing fast transformation of the auto components sector to be an integral part of the electric vehicle manufacturing supply chain New Delhi: The domestic automobile industry is scaling up efforts to...
Entire country will be covered by doppler weather radar network by 2025: Union minister Jitendra Singh
Union minister Jitendra Singh Addressing the 148th foundation day of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the minister said disaster-related mortality has dropped to single digit with improvement in forecast New Delhi: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday...
I belong to middle class, understand their pressures, says Sitharaman days before Budget
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman The minister assured them that the government can do more for the middle class as its population is growing and it has become sizeable now New Delhi: Ahead of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on...
68 killed in Yeti Airline plane crash in Nepal; fate of 5 Indians not known
Yeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport minutes before landing, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal...
Covid cases in China touch 900 million,60,000 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals
A top Chinese epidemiologist has also warned that cases will surge in rural China over the lunar new year The peak of China's Covid wave is expected to last two to three months, added Zeng Guang, ex-head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control Some 900 million...
Banks allowed to use face recognition, iris scan for transactions: Reports
The verification is not mandatory and is intended for cases where another government identification card used for tax purposes, the Permanent Account Number (PAN) card, is not shared with banks. New Delhi: The Indian government is allowing banks to verify individual...
U.S. FDA, CDC see early signal of Pfizer bivalent COVID shot’s link to stroke in people 65 and older
Investigation of the signal raised a question of whether people 65 and older who received the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent shot were more likely to have an ischemic stroke, a loss of blood flow in the brain, in the 21 days following vaccination compared with days 22-44...
Torrent stalls Reliance Capital Resolution, COC approves 90 days extension to complete resolution process
In the hearing on Thursday, January 12, senior counsel Kapil Sibal appearing for RCAP's COC informed the court that the bid submitted by Torrent is non-compliant. Mumbai:The Committee of Creditors (COC) of Reliance Capital has approved the extension of 90 days (from...
Gehlot reiterates suggestion to implement Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme across country
''Social security should be compulsory. It is the responsibility of the government to look after the needy families,'' he said. Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday reiterated that the state government's Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme should...
LIC to consider doing health insurance biz after composite license is allowed: Chairman
(from L to R) G. Srinivasan, director, National Insurance Academy, Devesh Srivastava, CMD, GIC Re,MR Kumar,chairman, LIC, Parmod Kumar Arora, member (Actuary) IRDAI at the 24th Annual C D Deshmukh Memorial Seminar organised by NIA, Pune “We are watching the situation...
Govt’s goal is to cut down on accidents by 50% by 2024 end: Gadkari
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari India has only 1% of the total overall vehicles, the country accounts for 11% of the total global deaths due to road accidents. Greater Noida: India can become the number one automotive manufacturing hub in the world within five years, but...
Royal Mail export services severely disrupted after ‘cyber incident’
The “cyber incident” is the latest in a growing list of high-profile cybersecurity events in Britain. London: Britain’s Royal Mail said on Wednesday it was facing severe disruption to its international export services following what it described as “a cyber incident.”...
Citing MHA circular, HC quashes finance ministry notification, orders OPS for all personnel of CAPFs
Delhi High Court has ordered implementation of the Old Pension Scheme for all personnel of the CAPF and directed the Centre to issue necessary instructions within eight weeks It quashed a 2003 notification of the Union Ministry of Finance and a 2020 Office Memorandum...
TMK launches first life science insurance product, intellectual property and cyber coverage under one policy
Aoife Woulfe, head of intellectual property at TMK, added: “This is the first time an ‘all-singing, all-dancing’ intellectual property product has been released as part of a life science package to the Lloyd’s market, offering broad coverage for a full range of IP...
Cabinet clears Rs 2,600 cr scheme to promote RuPay debit card, low-value BHIM-UPI transactions
The scheme would help in building a robust digital payment ecosystem. It would also promote UPI Lite and UPI123PAY as economical and user-friendly digital payments In December alone, UPI achieved a record of 782.9 crore digital payment transactions with a value of Rs...
CSIR lab proposes disaster resilient model town for people displaced from Joshimath
The Roorkee-based institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has also suggested a three-pronged action plan for Joshimath that envisages demolition of tilted buildings, safety assessment of existing 4,000 buildings and providing...