Ministry of Railways announced 40 pairs of new special trains (80 trains), the train reservation went live today. These special trains will start running from 12 September. These will be fully reserved trains. These 80 new trains will be in addition to 230 special trains already in operation, said YadavContinue Reading
The Food Ministry is considering extending the period of implementation of Ration Card Portability from March 2021 under the ‘One Nation one ration card’ initiative. This was discussed in the meeting of an empowered committee to improve the Public Distribution System. Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey presided over it. The meetingContinue Reading
New Delhi : Bobde appointed as the 47 th chief justice of India .Today morning 9..30 president of india administers oath Sharad Arvind Bobde is an Indian Judge serving as the 47th and current Chief Justice of India. He is a former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court. HeContinue Reading
Sixteen states and Union territories on February 19 joined a pan-India network of single emergency helpline number 112 on which immediate assistance can be sought by anyone in distress. The 112 helpline is an integration of police (100), fire (101) and women (1090) helpline numbers. The health helpline (108) willContinue Reading
The 42nd AGM is expected to happen in July and the telco is once again expected to announce some much-awaited products. Reliance Jio has not confirmed anything so far, but there are reports which suggest that the company might announce the following in the upcoming AGM 2019 event. Jio GigaFiberContinue Reading
A UPSC aspirant must have a good general awareness and needs to be well abreast with the current happenings. Analysis of the question papers from the recent past shows the shift of focus from static syllabus to current affairs. There also is an influence of the current affairs news onContinue Reading
Earlier in September this year, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) directed mutual funds houses to rationalise or reduce the Total Expense Ratio (TER) for both equity-oriented and other than equity-oriented mutual fund schemes. Following this, some mutual fund schemes slashed their TERs charged under direct plans drastically, but a fewContinue Reading
BHIM, Rupay, and UPI users can now avail cashbacks for payments GST Council has now cleared the route to give cashbacks to customers on trial basis for digital payments through Rupay cards, BHIM app, and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system to promote cashless transactions in rural and semi-urban areas. FinanceContinue Reading
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has implemented “National Automated Clearing House (NACH)” for Banks, Financial Institutions, Corporates and Government a web based solution to facilitate interbank, high volume, electronic transactions which are repetitive and periodic in nature. NACH System can be used for making bulk transactions towards distribution ofContinue Reading
The Owner of Virgin Group, Richard Branson signed a preliminary agreement on Sunday in Mumbai to develop Hyperloop framework. The Hyperloop project in India A demonstration track is scheduled to be built in two to three years from the signing of the final agreement. The second phase of the projectContinue Reading