Union HRD Minister launched a web portal YUKTI to monitor and record the efforts and initiatives of MHRD. The portal intends to cover the different dimensions of COVID-19 challenges in a very holistic and comprehensive way.
Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge,Technology&Innovation
Oil marketing companies initiated the transfer of Rs5,606 crore to 7.15 Crore PMUY beneficiary accounts for availing free delivery of LPG cylinder under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan package.
There are over 8 crore PMUY beneficiaries in the country.
The government has approved the proposal for grant of ex-gratia monetary compensation to 1,08,714 workers and officers of the FCI including 80,000 labour who are working round the clock to supply food grains across the country amidst the pandemic.
Union Minister for Food & Consumer Affairs - Ram Vilas Paswan.
The Ahmedabad Railway station at Kalupur has become the first in the country to install a walk-through mass sanitizing tunnel. It is a pilot project and an attempt to ensure that passengers do not contract the infection.
It runs on vaporization process that converts sanitizer mixture.
China’s Central Bank, the People’s Bank of China raised its shareholding in HDFC to over 1%. It now has 17.49 million shares or 1.01% of HDFC equity capital, according to BSE. HDFC is India’s largest mortgage firm in the private sector.
HDFC Vice Chairman & CEO – Keki Mistry.
Private sector lender Karnataka Bank received RBI nod for reappointment of Mahabaleshwara M S as MD and CEO for next three years. The regulator has also approved for reappointment of P Jayarama Bhat as part-time (non-executive) chairman.
HQ: Mangalore, Karnataka.
Tagline:Your Family Bank, Across India
Jana SFB, a scheduled commercial bank has launched a digital banking platform, DigiGen where customers can open accounts instantly. It is a 3-step process and customers are eligible for a 4.5% interest rates on the savings account.
MD & CEO–Ajay Kanwal.
HQ: Bangalore. Tagline: Paise ki Kadar.
IIT Bombay developed a ‘digital stethoscope’ that can listen to heartbeats from a distance and record them minimising the risk of healthcare workers from contracting coronavirus. It has been developed with inputs from Reliance Hospital and Hinduja Group.
The IIT-B has received a patent for the device.
Former South Africa spinner and Zimbabwe selector, John Harcourt du Preez, fondly known as Jackie, has died at the age of 77. He was one of the many Zimbabweans to play for South Africa in his country’s pre-independence days.
Later years he served as national selector of Zimbabwe Cricket.
Congress leader and former Union Minister M V Rajasekharan passed away. He was also an agriculturalist and a rural development consultant. He represented Kanakapura constituency in Lok Sabha.
He hails from Ramnagara, Karnataka.
NASA announced a groundbreaking measurement of a brown dwarf star. A brown dwarf is described as an in-betweener that’s not quite a star & not quite a planet. The brown dwarf NASA measured is called 2MASS J10475385+2124234 & is 32 light-years from Earth.
Measurements showed winds moving around the planet at 1425 mph.
The latest release from Bryant’s Granity Studios, “The Wizenard Series: Season One,” made debut at No. 1 on The New York Times’ middle-grade hardcover list . It had already hit No. 1 on Amazon’s bestseller for children’s basketball books.
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play : Book by Kobe Bryant.
The reality-star-turned-makeup-mogul Kylie Jenner has sustained her reign as the world's youngest self-made billionaire for the second year in a row.22-year-old's Kylie Cosmetics empire is valued at $1.2 billion. Jenner launched Kylie Cosmetics in 2014.
Jeff Bezos topped Forbes list of billionaires, again.