Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has appointed homegrown payments player Paytm to facilitate its digital payments.
The new agreement requires an easy payment process, a broader range of payment options, and more players (wallets, banks, etc) in payment channels.
Greek star Stefanos Tsitsipas landed the first Masters 1000 title of his career as he scored a thumping 6-3 6-3 win over Andrey Rublev in Monte Carlo.
Rublev beat 11-time Monte Carlo champion Nadal in the quarter-finals.
Uttar Pradesh government has decided to establish 10 oxygen plants for unabated supply of oxygen to the hospitals. A team of DRDO officials will help the state administration in this task.
On the other hand Hindustan aeronautics limited will help state administration in preparing a new all facility covid hospital in Lucknow.
The Nagaland government in consultation with all the stakeholders would prepare a Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN) to protect the indigenous people and their traditional life and culture.
The main purpose of RIIN is to identify the citizens who settled in Nagaland prior to December 1, 1963, the day the mountainous region became a full-fledged state.
New Zealand is about to become the world’s first country to bring a law into force that demands environmental accountability from financial firms by asking them to report on how their businesses affect climate change.
Punjab State reiterated the commitment of the State to achieve ‘Har Ghar Jal’ target by 2022 as planned. Punjab has 34.73 lakh rural household, out of which 25.88 lakh (74.5%) have tap water supply. In 2021-22, the State plans to provide 8.87 lakh tap connections, thereby providing tap connection to every rural household.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted a committee that would examine the role of asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) in stressed debt resolution and review their business model.
Headed by former RBI executive director Sudarshan Sen, the committee will submit its report within three months from the date of its first meeting.
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have launched the construction of an international center for trade and economic cooperation named "Central Asia" on the border of the two countries.
The capsule was laid at the construction site of the logistics center, which is located in the vicinity of the border checkpoint Gisht Kuprik (called Zhibek Zholy in Kazakhstan).
Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and his Kazakh counterpart, Askar Mamin.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen won a chaotic Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to register his first race victory of the Formula One 2021 season ahead of his Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, who still leads the driver's championship leaderboard with 44 points.
McLaren's Lando Norris completed the top three.
Italy launched its first-ever mega food park project in India involving food processing facilities.
This pilot project named "The Mega Food Park" was launched today virtually, with the signing of a Letter of Intent between the ICE Office in Mumbai and Fanidhar Mega Food Park, in Gujarat.
Defence Research and Development Organisation has developed a SpO2-based supplemental oxygen delivery system for soldiers serving in extremely high altitude areas & COVID-19 patients.
This automatic system delivers supplemental oxygen based on the SpO2 (blood oxygen saturation) levels & prevents the person from sinking in to a state of hypoxia, which is fatal in most cases.
NASA successfully flew its tiny helicopter Ingenuity, the first powered flight on another planet.
Ingenuity was on autopilot for its entire flight, out of sight, direct control, or contact with the men and women on Earth who had ordered it aloft—because radio signals take too long to travel between the planets for any human operator to intervene.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)- Founder: Dwight D. Eisenhower.