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Ajay Tyagi gets 18 months' extension as SEBI chairman to continue till Feb 2022

This is the second extension given to Tyagi. It comes at a time when the economy and capital markets are staring at uncertainties due to the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this year, he was given a six-month extension till August.

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Securities and Exchange Board of India, headquarters Mumbai.

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I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar launches DD Assam 24x7 channel through video conferencing

Assam and North Eastern Region is so full of natural diversity and cultural richness and yet it carries the thread of unity. DD Assam will help in taking messages, initiatives and programmes of the government to the grassroots"

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CEO of Prasar Bharati, Shashi Shekhar Vempati.

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NPCI launches loyalty platform ‘nth Rewards’

NPCI launched a business intelligence and analytics enabled omni-channel multi-branded loyalty platform, nth Rewards. It will allow users to earn points through various bank transactions and redeem them on various products, such as e-vouchers.

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NPCI is an umbrella organization for all retail payment systems.

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Jan Dhan accounts cross 40 crore mark

Flagship scheme for financial inclusion, Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) has crossed over more than 40 crore bank accounts. The objective of the PMJDY was to ensure availability of financial services to the weaker sections and lower-income groups.

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The scheme was launched six years ago on August 28, 2014.

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Ex-BMC chief Praveen Pardeshi to head UN crisis response team

Former BMC Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi will soon join United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) as global programme coordinator.The Appointments Committee of the cabinet of the Central government has approved his UN posting.

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In 2018, he was appointed BMC commissioner.

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SBM Bank collaborates with InstaReM to enhance outbound remittance

SBM Bank India has partnered with InstaReM, the consumer and SME brand under global fintech platform Nium, to improve existing outbound remittance service offerings from India, including introduction of new remittance corridors among others.

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State Bank of Mauritius (SBM), is a bank in Mauritius.

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Capital India Finance appoints former Nabard chairman Harsh Bhanwala as Executive Chairman

NBFC, Capital India Finance has appointed Dr Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, former NABARD chairman as Executive Chairman of the Board. Formerly he was the MD of Delhi State Cooperative Bank from 1999-2005 and as chairman and at NABARD.

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Govinda Rajulu Chintala current chairman of NABARD.

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Nippon Life India AMC appoints Parekh Ashvin as Independent Director

Parekh Ashvin has been appointed as an independent director of Nippon Life India Asset Management (NAM India), asset manager of asset manager of Nippon India Mutual Fund (NIMF) for a period of five years. He has more than 40 years of rich experience.

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Sundeep Sikka,Executive Director& CEO, Nippon India Mutual Fund.

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Airtel and AWS join hands to accelerate digital transformation of businesses in India

Bharti Airtel announced a multi-year, Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver a comprehensive set of innovative cloud solutions to large enterprise and small and medium enterprise (SME) customers in India.

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Andrew R. Jassy,CEO of Amazon Web Services.

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Former Maharashtra CM Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar passes away in Pune

Former Maharashtra chief minister Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar (89) passed away at Pune. Nilangekar, a Congress leader, who belonged to Latur in the Marathwada region, was Maharashtra CM between June 1985 and March 1986.

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Uddhav Thackeray,Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

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National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Webinar Series on "Hydro-Meteorological Hazard Risk Reduction" concludes

NIDM in collaboration with India Meteorological Department organized this webinar series. It include 4 webinars focusing on issues apropos of Thunderstorms & Lightning, Cloudburst & Floods,Cyclones & Storm Surges & Climate Change & Extreme Weather Events.

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Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai.

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IICT Scientist to be awarded Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal

Srihari Pabbaraja, the senior principal scientist from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT),Hyderabad, has been selected for the CRSI Bronze medal 2021. He is associated with the backward integration of hydroxychloroquine.

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He is a recipient of CSIR Young Scientist Award-2009.

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Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju chairs 1st General Council meeting of Khelo India Scheme

He urged the states to organize State-level Khelo India Games annually with an effort to identify a larger number of grassroots-level & spoke of the 5 zonal talent scouting committees that are being planned for east, west, north, south & north east India.

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Khelo India Programme was launched in the year 2018.

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Manoj Sinha Appointed J&K Lieutenant Governor After GC Murmu Resigns

GC Murmu resigned from his post in Jammu and Kashmir and Manoj Sinha has been appointed as his successor.Mr. Murmu, a 1985-batch Gujarat cadre officer, worked with Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he was the Gujarat Chief Minister.

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GC Murmu was the first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

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6 August: Hiroshima Day

On August 6, 1945, the US becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb known as 'Little Boy' on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II.

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On August 9, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki.