New Delhi: After the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has put a curb on the Paytm Payments Bank, and asked it to close its operations, one of the concerns that has been abruptly coming out is over the FASTags. On January 31, the central bank ordered Paytm Payments Bank to stop accepting any fresh deposits […]
New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has released a position paper titled “Senior Care Reforms in India: Reimagining the Senior Care Paradigm” which, it says, is one of the stepping stones toward India’s commitment to achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat @2047. The report was released on Friday by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Bery in […]
New Delhi: As generative artificial intelligence (AI) begins to threaten certain jobs, Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India/South Asia, has said that AI will actually create more job options that it destroys. Speaking to a wire agency, Patel said that he has seen technology and multiple innovations evolve over a period of time. “I firmly […]
New Delhi: Jefferies Financial Group Inc has dropped coverage on Paytm-operator One 97 Communications Ltd until the news flow around the struggling Indian fintech major “settles down”. The foreign brokerage became the first major foreign brokerage to drop coverage, and has moved the stock to “not rated”, weeks after lowering it to underperform after the […]
Mumbai: Calling it an “abuse of power”, the Bombay High Court said that the arrest of former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in December 2022 was done “without application of mind”. The court made the observation in its order confirming the interim bail granted […]
Mumbai: India needs to grow at an annual rate of 9-10 per cent for around three decades and constant innovations to become a USD 35 trillion economy by 2047, India’s G-20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Sunday. “We are the fifth largest economy in the world and by 2027 we […]
New Delhi: The government has increased the authorised capital of state-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) from Rs 10,000 crore to Rs 21,000 crore to enhance the operational capabilities and fulfill its mandate effectively, the Food Ministry said on Saturday. FCI is the central government’s nodal agency that undertakes procurement of foodgrains at a minimum […]
New Delhi: In its detailed Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has clarified the operations over FASTag, and the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) issued by the Paytm Payments Bank. For the FASTag issued by Paytm Payments Bank, users can continue to use your FASTag to pay toll upto the available […]
SRINAGAR: The Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhury Mohammad Iqbal on Friday visited Kanmoh, Balhama areas of Srinagar district and inspected Vermicompost Units, Borewell and Packhouse units established under Holistic Agriculture development programme (HADP) in these areas. Speaking to the farmers at different places, Director Agriculture highlighted the importance of HADP and said that it will have […]
New Delhi: Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Friday said the de-risking economies from the Chinese supply chain is not going to be a quick process for the world and will take much longer than thought. “When we talk of de-risking the China supply chain, we should be under no illusion that it is […]