Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed Akasa Air revealed its much-anticipated brand identity with the unveiling of its ‘Rising A’ symbol and tagline, ‘It’s Your Sky’.
The airline is wearing a ‘Rising A’ symbol to represent 'the spirit of flying, the aim of height and the pursuit of dreams.'
Belson Coutinho, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing & Experience Officer, Akasa Air.
Vinay Dube, Akasa Air Founder, MD and CEO.
Scientists have resumed tagging of Olive Ridley sea turtles at Rushikulya rookery along the Odisha coast, which would help them identify the migration path and places visited by the marine reptiles after congregation and nesting.
The exercise was undertaken in Odisha in January 2021 after a span of about 25 years and 1,556 turtles had been tagged.
December 24 is observed as the National Consumer Day or Bharatiya Grahak Diwas.
Consumers are provided protection against unfair trade practices like hoarding, fake advertisements, false gift offers and many others.
The overhauled Consumer Protection Bill, 2019 was passed by the Indian Parliament in August that year.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has inaugurated T-Setu, the State’s longest bridge over Mahanadi in Cuttack district.
The 3.4 km long bridge, connecting Gopinathpur in Badamba, Baideswar in Banki to Singhanath Pitha located in the middle of the river, has been built in the shape of English alphabet ‘T’ at a cost of Rs 111 crore.
Bank of Baroda (BOB) has announced it has won the top position in overall digital transactions amongst large banks for FY20-21.
The bank showed the exceptional growth of digital payment transactions achievement and was felicitated by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India at the Digital Payments Utsav.
Hasmukh Adhia (Chairman); Sanjiv Chadha (MD & CEO of BOB).
A new book chronicles how Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath transformed the state in various aspects like law and order, connectivity, education, health infrastructure, and overall growth.
Written by author Shantanu Gupta, "The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh: How Yogi Aditynath Changed UP Waala Bhaiya' abuse to a Badge of Honour", is published by Garuda Prakashan.
The book's foreword is written by TV Mohandas Pai.
Mastercard and Google announced the rollout of tokenisation for Google Pay users, who will be able to make hassle-free transactions using their Mastercard credit and debit cards. Through tokenisation, Mastercard cardholders will be able to make payments through a secure digital token without having to share their credit / debit card details such as card number, expiry date.
On the third day of play in the pink-ball Test at the Adelaide Oval, Anderson created a unique record with the bat. In fact, he became the first player to achieve this feat in the history of the sport.
After staying unbeaten on the crease as England were bowled out for a meager 236 runs, Anderson became the first batter to stay not-out in a Test inning 100 times.
Courtney Wash is second on the list having stayed unbeaten 61 times.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended the card-on-file (CoF) tokenisation deadline by six months to June 30, 2022
Card-on-file, or CoF, refers to card information stored by payment gateway and merchants to process future transactions.
The earlier deadline was December 31, 2021.
CSB Bank has been empanelled as ‘Agency Bank’ by the Reserve Bank of India.
This appointment will allow CSB Bank to undertake general banking business of the central and state governments which may be entrusted by the RBI.
It will also enable bank to handle a broad range of transactions related to government business, such as, TDS, GST, stamp duty, registration, etc.
U GRO Capital, an NSE & BSE listed, MSME lending FinTech platform, announced that it has signed a co-lending agreement with Central Bank of India.
Under this partnership, the two entities aim to disburse up to INR 10 billion to U GRO Capital’s varied MSME segments under its programs like Pratham, Sanjeevani, Saathi, GRO MSME and Machinery financing, in next 12 months.
Central Bank of India (nationalised bank)- under the ownership of Ministry of Finance.
In a major boost to the country's air defence capabilities, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is deploying the first squadron of the S-400 air defence missile system in the Punjab sector.
The first squadron is being deployed in the Punjab sector.
The batteries of the first squadron would be capable of taking care of aerial threats from both Pakistan and China.
The Government of Odisha through the Department of Mission Shakti and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), signed an agreement to announce the launch of the Mission Shakti Living Lab.
The Living Lab is a joint initiative designed by the state Government of Odisha and UNCDF through its Centre for Financial Health.
President Ram Nath Kovind on basis of the recommendations of the Chief Justice of India has appointed Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra as acting Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
Justice Mishra, who is the senior-most Judges of the Uttarakhand High Court, will perform the duties of the office of the Chief Justice of the HC from December 24, 2021.
The Uttarakhand High Court is located at Nainital.
The Comptoller and Auditor General of India in its report on Railways’ finances tabled in Parliament noted that the Indian Railways’ operating ratio of 98.36% in 2019-2020 does not reflect its true financial performance and if the actual expenditure on pension payments is taken into account, the ratio will be 114.35 %.
Girish Chandra Murmu is the current CAG of India.
The CAG report noted that against a target of 95% in the budget estimates.
Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh announced retirement from all forms of cricket.
He has 417 wickets to his name in just 103 matches. While picked up 227 wickets in 236 ODI matches. For T20Is, the Turbanator played for India in 28 matches and claimed 25 wickets.
Harbhajan, now 41, made his international debut back in March 1998, in a Test match against Australia.