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
Safe Cities Index (SCI) 2019 ranks 60 countries worldwide
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.
Prakash Javadekar, also Min. for Information and Broadcasting.
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
ISSF HQ: Munich, Germany; President: Vladimir Lisin
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
Angikaar has been launched for social behaviour change
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
Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs: Hardeep Singh Puri
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%.
Credit flows from banking sources rose 44% in FY19
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)
Infosys partnered with Google Cloud for Cloud MSP
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
Dindigul is famously called the Lock City
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.
Mastercard HQ: New York; CEO: CEO: Ajaypal Singh Banga
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.
BSE SME is India’s largest index with over 250 listed Companies