Brazil star Neymar has signed for Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal from French champions Paris Saint-Germain, the two clubs announced.
Though financial details were not released, reports suggest that the fee was around 90 million euros plus add-ons which makes him the costliest player in cumulative transfer fee, overtaking Romelu Lukaku.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, President and CEO of Paris Saint-Germain.
Mohammed Habib, the playmaker par excellence in the history of Indian football is no more.
One of the highest points of Habib’s career was when he played for Mohun Bagan against the visiting Cosmos Club which also featured the legendary Pele in 1977 in a 'friendly'.
Sulabh International founder and social activist Bindeshwar Pathak, a pioneer in building public toilets, died.
Sh. Pathak founded Sulabh International in 1970 with a vision to eradicate open defecation and unclean public toilets.
It is a social service organisation that works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, waste management and reforms through education.
In a first, Goa has become the first Indian state to offer free in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. The inauguration of this service, alongside assisted reproductive technology (ART) and intrauterine insemination (IUI), was done by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant at the Goa Medical College (GMC) in Bambolim.
HCLTech has won a deal from Cricket Australia (CA), the national governing body for the game in Australia, for the next phase of CA’s digital transformation.
As part of the latest agreement, HCLTech will help Cricket Australia to deliver digital experiences to fans, players, partners, employees and volunteers across the world.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the development of a Public Tech Platform for Frictionless Credit. The Platform is being developed by Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH), a wholly owned subsidiary of RBI.
The Public Tech Platform would enable delivery of frictionless credit by facilitating seamless flow of required digital information to lenders.
RBI imposed a penalty of Rs 2.50 lakh on Nabapalli Co-operative Bank, West Bengal and Rs 1 lakh on Bally Co-operative Bank, West Bengal. The penalty on Aska Cooperative Bank, Aska (Odisha) was Rs 50,000 and on Baroda Gujarat Gramin Bank, Vadodara (Gujarat) was Rs 5 lakh.
The central bank said that the penalties were due to deficiencies in regulatory compliance by the banks.
The Reserve Bank of India has proposed a "transparent" framework for resetting interest rates and EMIs on floating-rate home loans.
Lenders would need to communicate to borrowers any reset in the schedule of loans and quantum of EMIs, provide options to switch to fixed-rate loans or foreclosure, and disclose various charges incidental to the exercise of these options.
Indian IT services company Infosys has won a USD 1.6 billion deal from Liberty Global to build and scale the entertainment and connectivity platforms of the digital communications firm. As per the current agreement between both parties, the initial tenure of the contract is five years. It can also be extended to eight years.
The Indian hotel market has significant growth opportunities and is poised to contribute $1,504 billion to the country’s overall GDP by 2047, from $65 billion in 2022, suggests a report by the Hotel Association of India. It forecasts that the demand for hotels will increase over the next 25 years, however, the supply will grow in the same ratio.
The G20 Film Festival has begun in New Delhi with screening of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali .
The festival aims to celebrate and showcase a vibrant and collaborative partnership existing amongst the G20 and invited countries in the field of cinema.
The festival is organised by the India International Centre and the G20 Secretariat of the Ministry of External Affairs
Indian Space Research Organisation is planning its next launch of the Aditya L1 satellite this month.
It will be the first space-based Indian mission to study the Sun.
The satellite will carry seven instruments to study the solar atmosphere, solar magnetic storms and its impact on the environment around Earth.
A new technology developed by Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), an arm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is now all set to be deployed to increase last mile connectivity of banking services in remote areas.
The financial network technology, based on LoRa (Long Range) wireless protocol, has been successfully tested at the field level.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Parminder Chopra for the post of Chairperson and Managing Director (CMD) of Power Finance Corporation (PFC) Limited. With this, she became the first full-time women CMD of PFC. PFC is a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Power.
The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has officially been renamed as the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML) Society with by the Centre.
The decision was taken at a special meeting of the Memorial Museum and Library Society which was presided over by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who is the Vice-President of the Society.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, was apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 4th June, 2023 between the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, and Ministry of Health, Government of the Republic of Suriname for Recognition of Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) in Suriname.