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Mumbai has been ranked as the 45th safest city

Mumbai was ranked as 45th safest city on the Safe Cities Index (SCI), Delhi stood at the 52nd position, as per a report by Economist Intelligence Unit. Tokyo came at top while Singapore & Osaka were place 2nd & 3rd respectively

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Safe Cities Index (SCI) 2019 ranks 60 countries worldwide

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Centre releases over Rs 47,000 cr to increase green cover in states

Prakash Javadekar has handed over Rs 47,000 crore from Compensatory Afforestation Fund to various states, to be utilised for the compensatory afforestation, catchment area treatment, wildlife management, & improvement of wildlife habitat among others.

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Prakash Javadekar, also Min. for Information and Broadcasting.

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Abhishek Verma bags gold in 10 meter air pistol event in Shooting World Cup

Abhishek Verma won the gold medal and Saurabh Chaudhary the bronze, in the men's 10m air pistol event of the World Cup at Rio de Janeiro. Elavenil Valarivan had won gold in the women's 10m air rifle event on the opening day

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ISSF HQ: Munich, Germany; President: Vladimir Lisin

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Campaign Angikaar & E-Course on Vulnerability Atlas Launched

MoS Hardeep S Puri launched Angikaar- a campaign for change management & e-Course on Vulnerability Atlas of India. e-course on Vulnerability Atlas is offered in collaboration of School of Planning & Architecture & Building Materials Tech Promotion Council

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Angikaar has been launched for social behaviour change

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National Urban Livelihoods Mission conferred SKOCH Governance Gold Award

DAY-NULM), a flagship mission under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has been conferred the prestigious SKOCH Governance Gold Award for its Portal for Affordable Credit & Interest Subvention Access (PAiSA) in a function held at Delhi

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Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs: Hardeep Singh Puri

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Banking fraud amount rises by over 70%: RBI

RBI data shows that in FY19, banking sector reported 6,801 frauds involving a total Rs 71,542.93 crore as against 5,916 cases involving Rs 41,167.04 crore reported in 2017-18, up by a whopping 73.8%.

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Credit flows from banking sources rose 44% in FY19

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Wipro expands its partnership with Google Cloud

Wipro said it has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate cloud adoption and digital transformation for global enterprises. The software services exporter said it has a dedicated practice focused on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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Infosys partnered with Google Cloud for Cloud MSP

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Dindigul lock, Kandangi saree get GI tag

Dindigul lock & Kandangi saree were given the GI tag by the Geographical Indications Registry in Chennai. The applications were made by Hardware & Steel Furniture Workers Industrial Co-operative Society Limited & Amarar Rajeev Gandhi Handloom Weavers

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Dindigul is famously called the Lock City

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Samsung India ties up with Mastercard, RBL Bank for mobile payments

Mastercard, RBL Bank & Samsung India have announced the launch of Samsung Pay for RBL Bank’s credit card holders. It allows RBL Bank Mastercard credit card holders to make contactless mobile payments using their Samsung Pay-enabled phones.

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Mastercard HQ: New York; CEO: CEO: Ajaypal Singh Banga

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BSE ties up with SUFI for steel futures

Steel Users Federation of India has signed a MoU with the BSE to help the later launch futures trading in steel. They will work towards enlisting steel futures in both long and flat steel to help industry players hedge the risk on the exchange platform.

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BSE SME is India’s largest index with over 250 listed Companies