Paytm has launched its mutual funds app, which enables customers to buy & sell mutual funds and manage their portfolio from a mobile phone. It expects the no. of mutual fund investors in India to more than double from the current 20 mn to 50 mn by 2023.
Pravin Jadhav- Additional director of Paytm Money.
Tata Communication has partnered with the CII to launch a 3-month long hackathon on the HackerEarth platform. Namely,‘The Grand India IoT Innovation Challenge’, which will be open to engineering students from 26 colleges and universities across India.
Confederation of Indian Industry,President- Rakesh Bharti Mittal
ISRO is planning to set up its first fully owned overseas satellite ground station near the North Pole, which would bolster the Indian Remote Sensing operations which are critically important in times like disaster management but also for the armed forces.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),Founded 1969.
Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated various projects under the Smartgram Yojana in Haryana.The Smartgram Project in Haryana started in July 2016, when Shri Pranab Mukherjee adopted five villages as the serving President.
Haryana CM - M.L. Khattar, Governor- Satyadev Narayan Arya.
Unified Payments Interface, the bank-to-bank account settlement mechanism run by the NPCI, has crossed an important milestone of 300 million monthly transactions. It registered 312 million transactions in August, up 32% from July.
National Payments Corporation of India, HQ – Mumbai.
Cotton Association of India will sign an agreement with the BSE to develop the futures trading platform for cotton.It is meant to develop a vibrant and user-friendly cotton exchange to cater to the hedging needs of the entire cotton value chain in India.
Atul Ganatra- President, CAI ; BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange).
Acc. to NITI Aayog, India will shortly unveil a one-nation-one-card policy for public transport that will bring seamless connectivity between various modes of transport. Road transportation segment alone contributes to around four per cent of India's GDP.
NITI Aayog CEO - Amitabh Kant.
Former England captain Alastair Cook,33 country's highest run-getter in Test cricket, has decided to retire after the fifth and final match against India at the Oval, he thanked former England captain Graham Gooch for his role in shaping up his career.
In Tests, so far, he has scored 12,254 runs at an avg. of 44.88.
Acc. to the first ever report on health of tribals , the sex ratio of the tribal population in the country is higher than the national average at 990 females per 1,000 males, but the child sex ratio has declined from 972 in 2001 to 957 in 2011.
MP has the highest no. of tribals, more than 1.5 crore.
Jain monk Tarun Sagar passed away after a prolonged illness,he was 51. He was Known for his 'Kadve Parvachan' which spread the message of peace and non-violence in the society.
He was born in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district.