The National Payments Corporation of India has asked payment apps to stop charging a platform fee for payments enabled on the Bharat Bill Payment Platform. This is in light of the RBI coming out with a discussion paper on payment charges in the country.
Dilip Asbe is the MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
Mr. A. P. Hota was the first MD & CEO of NPCI.
During its inspection, the RBI team observed that City Union Bank has a separate loan product for pawnbrokers.
The Supreme Court on April 26, 2019 had made clear that the RBI was “duty bound to furnish all information relating to inspection reports and other material” under the RTI Act except those which pertained to “matters of national economic interest”.
Right to Information Act is an initiative of the Department of Personnel & Training, GoI.
The National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC) signed an agreement with ICICI Bank for the development of financial accounting software and mobile application.
ICICI Bank will design, develop and deploy the application for NMDFC, and provide source code and executable database information among others.
The NMDFC was incorporated in 1994;
Dr. Rakesh Sarwal is Chairman-cum-Managing Director.
World football governing body FIFA lifted the ban imposed on the AIFF after the Supreme Court terminated the mandate of the Committee of Administrators (CoA), clearing the decks for India to host the Women's U-17 World Cup in October.
The suspension, the first time in AIFF's 85-year history, lasted just 11 days.
AIFF acting general secretary: Sunando Dhar.
ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India), a joint venture between ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire ports, power plants, and other logistics and infrastructure assets from the Essar group for a net value of about $2.4 billion (Rs 19,000 crore).
The Government has notified new rules for environmentally sound management of waste batteries.
The rules cover all types of batteries such as electric vehicle batteries, portable batteries, automotive and industrial batteries.
The New rules, published by the Environment Ministry on 24 August), will replace Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001.
Achieving net zero emissions by 2070 could boost India's economy by as much as 4.7 per cent above the projected baseline growth in GDP terms by 2036 — worth a total of USD 371 billion, illustrates modelling and research commissioned by the High-level Policy Commission on Getting Asia to Net Zero.
Households could save as much as USD 9.7 billion in energy costs by 2060.
On 2 December 2009, the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests. The resolution was initiated by the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with a large number of sponsors and cosponsors with a view to commemorating the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site on 29 August 1991.
India celebrates National Sports Day on 29th August to commemorate the birth anniversary of hockey legend, Major Dhyan Chand. The day is also dedicated to the nations’ sports heroes and champions, honoring their contribution and dedication towards bringing laurels to the country. The day was first observed in 2012.
World number one shuttler Viktor Axelsen clinched his second BWF World Championships title after beating Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn in Tokyo. The women's singles title has been retained by Japan's reigning champion Akane Yamaguchi. In the men's singles final, reigning Axelsen prevailed over Denmark's Vitidsarn. Yamaguchi defeated China's Olympic champion Chen Yufei.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Maruti Suzuki Vehicle Manufacturing Facility for Haryana and Suzuki EV Battery Plant for Hansalpur in Gujarat.The Suzuki Motor Gujarat Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Facility at Hansalpur, will be set-up with an investment of around Rs 7,300 crores to manufacture Advance Chemistry Cell batteries for EV
He laid the foundation stone in Gandhinagar to mark 40 years of Suzuki Company in India
National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, NPPA will celebrate its Silver Jubilee in New Delhi. Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya will launch Integrated Pharmaceutical Database Management System 2.0, an integrated responsive cloud-based application. It will provide a single window for submissions of various forms as mandated under Drug Price Control Order, 2013.
Founded: 29 August 1997
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana PMJDY, the National Mission for Financial Inclusion completed eight years of successful implementation on August 28th. More than 46.25 crore beneficiaries banked under PMJDY since inception, amounting to over one lakh 73 thousand crore rupees. PMJDY Accounts grew from 14.72 crore in March 2015 to 46.25 crore as on the 10th of August 2022.
Cryogenic equipment and solutions provider INOXCVA flagged-off India's largest-ever made bulk Liquid Hydrogen Storage Tank.
The tank with a storage capacity of 238 cubic meters was flagged off from company's Kandla facility to South Korea, for installing at hydrogen liquefication plant by Doosan Corporation.
The 13th Edition of India – USA Joint Special Forces Exercise VAJRA PRAHAR 2022 culminated at Bakloh (HP) on 28 August 2022.
This annual exercise is hosted alternatively between India and the United States. The 12th edition was conducted at Joint Base Lewis Mc Chord, Washington (USA) in October 2021.
The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has become the first amongst States/UTs to establish an Atal Tinkering Lab in partnership with the government think tank NITI Aayog.
NITI Aayog is keen to replicate the J&K model of Atal Tinkering Lab to rest of the country on 50:50 cost sharing basis. ATL was started with an aim to build 10,000 labs and the target has been achieved
Virat Kohli represented the nation in his 100th T20I match and will also became the first player in history to play a hundred matches for India in all formats of the game during the first Asia Cup game against Pakistan. Virat has represented Team India in 99 T20I games across which he has scored 3,308 runs at an average of 50.12.