India Post Payments Bank successfully launched the initiative of doorstep service for submission of Digital Life Certificate through Postman. The facility to submit life certificate online through Jeevan Pramaan Portal was launched by PM Modi in 2014.
Dept of Pensions &Pensioners’ Welfare roped in for the facility
The Govt set up a 22-member inter-ministerial committee for strengthening India's capital goods sector through interventions that help it in contributing actively towards achieving the target of a $5 trillion economy and a $1 trillion manufacturing sector.
Arun Goel is the Secretary of Department of Heavy Industries.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated Sarhad Vistar Vikasotsav 2020 in Kutch, Gujarat. It is aimed to address the problems relating to health, education and road connectivity in remote and border villages, so that standard of living can be improved.
Amit Shah Constituency: Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Capital of the UAE, Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Wealth Fund - MIC Redwood 1 RSC Limited became the first foreign SWF that has been notified and granted 100% income-tax exemption for the long-term investments to be made in the specified priority sectors in India.
SWF is state-owned investment fund derived from surplus reserve.
The second World Heath Expo was inaugurated in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province of China. This Expo will focus on displaying the most cutting-edge science and technology in the global health industry and help Wuhan build city of global health industry.
China Capital: Beijing.
Currency: Renminbi.
The Odisha government is set to introduce fish & fish-based products in the supplementary nutrition programme for children, pregnant and nursing women, and adolescent girls. The pilot programme will start across 50 Anganwadi centres in Mayurbhanj district.
MoU was also signed between the state govt & World Fish.
Telangana government has recently launched two mobile applications viz Palle Pragati PS App (panchayat secretary app) and Monitoring App for effectively monitoring the works undertaken by the gram panchayats and improving their efficiency & transparency.
Telangana Capital: Hyderabad.
CM: K Chandrashekar Rao.
Manipur CM N. Biren Singh launched Oil Palm Project, which is seen as an alternative to replace Jhum & poppy cultivations. The project was launched under the National Mission on oilseed and palm oil which aims to make India self-sufficient in edible oils.
Imphal is the capital of Manipur.
Governor: Najma Heptulla
Jammu and Kashmir government has launched an e-Auction portal to promote trading of GI tagged ‘Kashmir Saffron’ across the country. This e-auctioning will provide an efficient platform to the saffron growers for getting optimum returns of their yield.
J&K incumbent Lieutenant Governor: Manoj Sinha.
Payout Links was launched to process pay-out transactions easily. It will allow businesses to send incentives to the customers’ accounts. It is aimed at helping small businesses in sectors like gaming, retail, export, manufacturing and e-commerce.
This feature is a new addition on the Paytm Payout feature.
Market regulator SEBI formed a seven-member expert group chaired by Sandip Bhagat Partner at S&R Associates to revisit the framework of share-based employee benefit and that of sweat equity regulations vis-a-vis the Companies Act and suggest policy changes
Sweat equity shares reward employees for their contribution.
HDFC Bank announced the launch of SmartHub Merchant 3.0. It will allow merchants and self-employed professionals to instantly open a current account and start accepting payments in-store, online, and on-the-go. The interface is available in nine languages.
HDFC Bank CEO: Sashidhar Jagdishan.
TATA AIA Life partnered with PayBima to distribute its industry-leading life insurance solutions. It is in line with Tata’s mission to provide Ease of Doing Business to its customers & aims to make the process of buying life insurance solutions easy.
PayBima is the digital arm of Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd.
Boskiyana: The Life and the World of Gulzar is a book to know the philosophy of Gulzar’s life. Gulzar is a great person, famous poet, film director, writer-songwriter. Gulzar has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke, Grammy, Oscar, etc.,
Vyas has been associated with Gulzar for around 2-3 decades.
The 13th Urban Mobility Conference 2020 was held virtually under the theme ‘Emerging Trends in Urban Mobility’. The Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) of Odisha won the Award of Excellence again. Mo Bus Service was adjudged the best bus service in India
14th UMI Conference is scheduled to be held in Kochi, Kerala.
CCI approved acquisition of 7.73% equity share capital of Jio Platforms Limited by Google International LLC (GIL) under Section 31(1) of Competition Act, 2002. GIL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google LLC. JPL is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd.
Google International LLC is a Delaware ltd liability company.
CCI approves transfer of 100% shareholding of SinoChem Group Company Limited & China National Chemical Corporation Limited to a new company wholly owned by China State-owned Assets Supervision & Administration under Section 31(1) of Competition Act, 2002.
SinoChem and ChemChina are headquartered in China.
The Competition Commission of India approved the acquisition of Orix Wind SPVs by Greenko Energy Holdings (GEH) from ORIX Corporation (Orix) & equity stake in GEH by Orix. Hyderabad-based GEH is the holding company of the Greenko group of companies.
Japan-based Orix offers a wide variety of financial services.
India was ranked at 196th place w.r.t BMI (Body Mass Index), according to a recent publication by the Lancet. Indian 19-year-olds have a BMI of 20.1. Indian boys ranked 180th with an average height of 5.46 ft & girls 182nd with average height of 5.06 ft.
The normal BMI ranges between 20 & 25.
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co. Ltd. (Chola), a Murugappa group firm named Vellayan Subbiah as the chairman in the place of M.M. Murugappan, who will step down upon reaching the retirement age. Subbiah is the MD of Tube Investments of India Ltd.
Chola is the financial services arm of Murugappa Group.
Union Min Shripad Naik launched the 5th Scorpene class submarine Vagir of Project 75 in Arabian Waters at Mazagon Dock in Mumbai. Vagir is a part of 6 Kalvari-class submarines being built in India. They are designed by French Naval Defence company DCNS.
Vagir is named after a sandfish, a predator of Indian Ocean.