8th edition of the India-China joint training exercise – “Hand-in-Hand 2019” commenced at Umroi in Meghalaya. 14 days joint exercise is aimed at practicing joint planning & conducting counter-terror operations in semi-urban terrain
Chief of the Army Staff: Bipin Rawat
First event of Human Library, Mysuru Chapter 2, organised at Mysore Institute of Commerce & Arts. human Library is a concept which seeks to replace books with humans to generate greater human cohesion across various social, religious & ethnic diversities
Human Library is a Non-profit organisation in Denmark
TRIFED has sanctioned 676 Van Dhan Vikas Kendras in 18 States covering 2,00,740 beneficiaries for a sanctioned amount of Rs. 99.81 Cr. PMVDY is a Market Linked Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Program for forming clusters of tribal Self Help Groups.
TRIFED aims to establish 3000 VDVKs each year over next 5 yrs
Power generation company NTPC has signed a term loan agreement for Rs 5,000 crore with State Bank of India, extended at an interest rate linked to 3-month MCLR for 15 year tenure to be utilised to part finance the capital expenditure of NTPC
Present installed capacity of NTPC: 57,356 MW across 54 stations
Odisha government reduced the financial assistance given to farmers under the Kalia scheme to Rs 4,000 per annum from Rs 10,000. Decision to reduce the Kalia assistance was taken after the Odisha government merged the scheme with PM-KISAN
PM-KISAN scheme provides assistance of Rs 6,000 per annum
ZestMoney, an EMI financing platform, partnered with smartphone company, Xiaomi, to provide cash loans to Indian customers. MiCredit platform, allows customers to avail instant credit straight into their bank accounts for amounts ranging Rs 7,000- 1 lac
Indian fintech industry to touch $31 billion in 2020: NITI Aayog
RBL Bank raised ₹2,025 crore through a qualified institutional placement (QIP) to boost its capital position from a host of domestic and foreign institutional investors in order to increase the bank’s total capital adequacy ratio to 15.3%.
RBL Bank HQ: Mumbai
Indian Railways organized a 2-days conclave “Parivartan Sangosthi” in New Delhi for transforming and improving Indian Railways to make it world class and most modern by receiving suggestions from the officers of various Zonal Railways
Minister of State of Railways: Suresh C. Angadi
Grab, SE-Asia’s leading everyday super app, launched GrabPay Card, Asia’s 1st numberless card offering users card security, access to an expanded rewards ecosystem & hassle-free Grab payments integration in order to bring cashless convenience to millions
GrabPay Card is powered by Mastercard
Ron Leibman, an acclaimed film, television and Tony-winning actor, has died, at the age of 82 battling pneumonia. In 1993, Leibman won a Tony Award for best actor in a play for his role as Roy Cohn & starred as as Dr. Leonard Green in TV sitcom "Friends"
Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has included its health insurance policy to cover employees involved in a same-sex relationship.Under the new policy, up to 50% of the cost of sex/gender reassignment surgery (max. of Rs 2 lc ) will be covered by insurance.
Rajesh Gopinathan, CEO & MD of Tata Consultancy Services.
Bank of Baroda signed a MoU with Investor Education & Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) to initiate awareness and information among investors who often fall prey to tempting offers for investments and Ponzi scheme due to lack of communication.
Manoj Pandey, CEO IEPFA.