SBI has engaged Indian Oil Corporation’s Kisan Seva Kendras
as banking correspondents to extend banking facilities to farmers across the
country. The MoU was signed by K M Trivedi, CGM-Rural Business, SBI and Sivasis
Dey, GM – Retail Sales, IOC. State Bank of India (SBI) has signed an MoU with
IOC as part of its financial inclusion programme that will help the lender
further its services to the farming
American author James Alan McPherson passed away on 27 July
2016 in Iowa City, U.S. He was 72. McPherson was the first black author to
receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1978. Born on 16 September 1943,
James Alan McPherson was an American short story writer and essayist. In
1978, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection
Elbow Room, becoming the first African-American to
Government to create buffer stock of 20 lakh tonne of pulses
to meet shortfall; Food and Public District Minister Ram Vilas Paswan urged
states to play their role in curbing price rise. Food and Public Distribution
Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said that prices of all essential commodities
other than pulses are under control. eplying to a short duration discussion in
the Rajya Sabha, Paswan said, government has taken
India has launched 13 indigenously made satellites during the
last two years since April 2014 to June 2016. These satellites include six
navigational satellites, three communication satellites, one earth observation
satellite, one space science satellite and two University/academic institute’s
satellites. Replying to question in Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Union Minister of
State, Dr Jitendra Singh said, Indian Space Research
Flood situation deteriorates in several states; Over 17 lakh
affected in Assam, Chief Minister Sarbhanand Sonowal directs Ministers to visit
affected areas; Forecast of heavy rain in Uttarakhand in the next 48 hours; UP,
Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir also reeling after the impact of floods. Heavy
rains and rising water levels have created flood like situation in many states.
Worst hit are JK, Assam, Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, while
India and Bangladesh have agreed to enhance cooperation on
anti-terror efforts with Dhaka saying that New Delhi will be
"side-by-side" with it in fighting terrorists. Both leaders concurred
on the need to immediately operationalise the Agreement on Combating Terrorism
and Organised Crime and Illicit Drug Trafficking between the two countries.
During the Home Minister-level bilateral talks between India and Bangladesh in
Turkey has said it was discharging 149 generals and ordering
the closure of dozens of media outlets in the next phase of its controversial
crackdown in the wake of the failed coup. Eighty seven land army generals, 30
air force generals, and 32 admirals were being dis-honourably discharged from
the military over their complicity in the coup bid. Meanwhile the closure was
ordered of three news agencies, 16 television stations,
A new class of antibiotics has been discovered by analysing
the bacterial warfare taking place up people's noses, scientists report. Tests
reported in the journal Nature found the resulting drug, lugdunin, could treat
superbug infections.The researchers, at the University of Tubingen in Germany,
say the human body is an untapped source of new drugs.The last new class of the
drugs to reach patients was discovered in the 1980s.
NEW DELHI, July 28: Multilateral funding agency Asian
Development Bank (ADB) has raised Rs 5 billion, or around Rs 500 crore, by issuing
five-year offshore Indian rupee-linked bonds. The Asian Development Bank (ADB)
has raised Rs 5 billion (about USD 74 million) from its issuance of 5-year
offshore Indian rupee (INR) linked bonds, ” it said in a release today. This
was, ADB said, its third bond issue in the offshore
New Delhi: India saw a record 53 per cent increase in FDI in
last two years as the investment climate brightened due to steps taken to
foster growth, price stability and fiscal prudence which also improved the
overall macroeconomic stability, government said on Friday. Emphasising that
investments are not made for "charity", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
told the Lok Sabha that improving the ease of doing business was a
The Centre today announced the formation of District
Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DDCMC) to be named “Disha”
for effective development coordination of almost all the programmes of Central
Government, whether it is for infrastructure development or Social and human resource
development. Making a suo-motu statement in the Lok Sabha, the Union Minister
of Rural
Shambhu Singh Yadav, a retired IAS officer and secretary to
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was today appointed as the Deputy
Lokayukta of the state. “The governor today appointed Shambhu Singh Yadav as
the new Deputy Lokayukta (Up-Lokayukta) of the state,” a Raj Bhawan release said.
On joint recommendation of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Lokayukta Justice
Sanjay Misra, a letter was sent to
He was extremely prolific, with a substantial body of work in
television and appearing in popular advertisements as well. eteran Marathi
theatre actor Nandu Pol, who was a founder-member of the prestigious city-based
‘Theatre Academy’, passed away on Thursday at a private hospital here following
a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 68. Short in stature and
endowed with an eternally jovial look,
New Delhi, July 27 (IBNS): The Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE) has released a new study report which shatters the myth of
star-rated ACs. “We wanted to find out how AC units perform under different
outdoor temperature conditions and how that affects the energy savings from the
star labeling programme of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE),” said Anumita
Roychowdhury, executive director-
New age e-passports in the offing will come with enhanced
security features such as biometrics, a move that will help the government
secure data and curb the menace of fake passports, the government has informed
Parliament. Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for
External Affairs V K Singh said the government was in the process of procuring
devices for e-passport. An e-Passport contains an electronic
A new measure introduced by some private banks makes the
process of authentication adopted for phone banking much easier for users. In
what will come as a major relief for users who frequently use phone banking,
banks have now introduced a voice recognition process which acts as a quicker
way of authentication. The development could come in handy for customers in an
emergency to report loss or theft
Even as India is making last ditch effort to save Indian
national Gurdip Singh from execution, Indonesia today rejected appeals of
international community to halt the execution of 14 drug convicts hailing from
different countries including India and Pakistan. The group, including Gurdip
Singh, Pakistani national Zulfiqar Ali and citizens of Nigeria and Zimbabwe as
well as Indonesia, have been placed in isolation on a prison island
Patna High court today revoked the membership of Bharatiya
Janata Party MP Chhedi Paswan for concealing information in his affidavit to
the election commission. The honourable court acted upon a petition filed by
one Ganga Mishra who had alleged that the Sasaram lawmaker concealed his
criminal record in his affidavit to the election commission resulting in his
nomination. This was Paswan's third term as MP as he has
In a step taking forward, India can become a country to mark
its biggest achievement by starting mining in the space.“Earth's resources are
finite and there is a shortage of minerals. The next best opportunity is to
trap resources lying in the objects near the earth," eminent nuclear
scientist Anil Kakodkar told reporters in Kolkata. He said besides we can take
steps to tap some asteroids in the outer space for mining. Even the
The Congress has paved the way for the government to take up
the GST Bill in the Rajya Sabha early next week with party president Sonia
Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi indicating to the government that the
outcome of negotiations on the legislation has been ‘positive’. This was told
by the Congress leadership during an informal interaction with the media in
Parliament’s Central Hall yesterday.The change in Congress
he Rajya Sabha passed the Compensatory Afforestation Fund
Bill, 2015, on Thursday permitting the Centre to return Rs 36,125 crore to
states that had lost forest cover to industrialisation and growth since 2006.
The passage of the Bill would also ensure an annual fund flow to states,
estimated at Rs 2,000-Rs 4,000 crore. Union environment, forests and climate
change minister Anil Madhav Dave told the House the rights of tribals
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday allowed demat
account-holders with depositories to bid for trades in the online anonymous
bond trading platform of the central bank.The platform so far was available
only for institutional investors, but the central bank had announced in the
first bi-monthly monetary policy in April that it would allow individual
investors to use the platform too in order to increase retail participation in
T Nanda Kumar has resigned as chairman of Gujarat-based
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) from August 1, about 30 months ahead of
the end of his tenure. In his parting letter to colleagues, Nanda Kumar wrote,
“I took over as chairman on March 3, 2014, amid apprehensions about the wisdom
of posting a retired IAS officer to a job so far held by just two tall leaders
of the dairy industry and that too for
Sunil Kant Munjal has decided to bow out as the joint
managing director of Hero MotoCorp, the country’s largest two wheeler maker,
five years after he was appointed to the post. In 2011, after Hero and its
Japanese partner, Honda, parted ways, he was elevated to this position. Till
then, he was a non-executive director on the board of Hero Honda. Munjal, now
55, will pursue new business interests and lead Hero
Create a new architecture of policy making that anticipates
problems and suggests remedies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the NITI
Aayog on Thursday. This was his second visit to the policy-making think tank he
established in January 2015, after scrapping the historic Planning Commission.
On Thursday, officials said Modi, who is also the chairman, gave last-minute
directions to NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind
Uttarakhand will soon begin a multi-million dollar search in
the Himalayas for the mythical Sanjeevani Booti plant believed to hold
life-saving properties, a minister told news agency AFP today. Uttarakhand will
spend Rs. 25 crore of tax-payers money to hunt for the herb, referred to in the
Ramayana. While many wild plants with medicinal properties grow in the
Himalayas, there is scant evidence that the plant ever existed, with
Agra: Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in a reply to an
RTI query filed by TOI has surprisingly said that the parliamentary standing
committee "had not asked for any conservation work" at the Taj
monument complex. As reported earlier, committee members had visited the
monument in April 2015 and criticized the archaeological body for dark spots on
the minarets of the white marble mausoleum. Subsequently, ASI had
ITANAGAR, Jul 28: State Legislative Assembly speaker T N
Thongdok has constituted an Adhoc committee to examine the grievances of Former
Legislator’s Welfare Association regarding enhancement of pension amount and
medical allowances of Ex-Legislators. Consisting of former Chief Minister
Kalikho Pul as the chairman and MLAs Tamiyo Taga, Tumke Bagra, Pasang Dorjee
Sona and Tapuk Taku as members,
Ms. Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Ministry of Steel, has
been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
An official press release said Ms. Sundararajan, an Indian Administrative
Service (IAS) officer of the 1982 batch (Kerala cadre), would succeed Ms. Aruna
Sharma, IAS (MP 82), who will take her place in the Ministry of Steel. The
release said the Appointments Committee
Philadelphia, July 28 (Reuters): US presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton said on Thursday Americans faced challenges at home and abroad
that demand steady leadership and a collective spirit, and attacked Republican
Donald Trump for sowing fear and divisiveness. In the biggest speech of her
more than 25 year old career in the public eye, Hillary accepted the Democratic
presidential nomination for the Nov. 8 election
The Air Odisha Aviation Pvt. Ltd (AOAPL) has decided to start
an inter-State flight service from August 15. The company has obtained
permission of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to commence
flights from Bhubaneswar to three cities, Ranchi, Raipur and Nagpur. As there
are no direct flight services from Bhubaneswar to these three cities, the
initiative of the Air Odisha would come as a big help for the
Indian and US officials will meet at Washington on Thursday
for the 14th US-India counter-terrorism Joint Working Group, an official
statement said. “The United States looks forward to continued counter terrorism
exchanges with India to broaden and deepen the partnership between the two
countries,” the State Department said in a statement on Wednesday. The American
delegation would be led by the acting
Britain has reacted frostily to the naming of Michel Barnier,
the former French foreign minister and scourge of the City of London, as the
European Commission’s chief Brexit negotiator. The surprise nomination places
an architect of Europe’s post-crisis financial regulation at the helm of the
technical talks for Britain to leave the EU. Jean-Claude Juncker, the
commission president, said he wanted an “experienced politician for this
Director Chaitanya Tamhane, whose debut feature film Court
premiered at the 71st Venice Film Festival and also won the Venice Lion of the
Future two years ago, has been named one of the jury members for the 73rd
edition of the international event. He will be a part of the Horizons section,
which is dedicated to cutting-edge fare, reported The Variety. This section is
headed by French director Robert Guédiguian.
Kolkata: Eminent author and social activist Mahasweta Devi,
whose writings focused on the marginalised communities in the country and
served as the voice of the oppressed, died here on Thursday after a multi-organ
failure. She was 91. P Tandon, CEO of Belle Vue nursing home, where she was
admitted since 22 May, said she was suffering from multi-organ failure and died
at 3.16pm. She suffered a cardiac arrest
The Union Cabinet has given its approval for raising foreign
shareholding limit from current 5% to 15% in Indian Stock Exchanges. The
decision brings the investment limit of foreign entities at par with that of
domestic institutions. This enhanced limit is for a stock exchange, depository,
banking company, insurance company and commodity derivative exchange.
Additionally, the Union Cabinet also gave its approval for
The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has announced
that India Meteorological Department (IMD) will use supercomputer to forecast
India’s annual summer monsoon. The forecast made by a supercomputer will be
based on a dynamical monsoon model and will be operational from year 2017. This
model will be used along with the present traditional ensemble model. The
dynamical monsoon model works by simulating
India on 27 July 2016 signed a one-billion dollar deal with
the US defence and aerospace major Boeing for procuring four long-range
maritime surveillance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, Poseidon-8I. First
of the four new P-8I aircraft will be delivered in 50 months. Incidentally,
India is P-8I's first international customer and was also Boeing's first
military sale to India. The contract was inked during the on-going visit
of the US
As per the report published by US Geological Survey on 19
July 2016, Joint expedition titled Indian National Gas Hydrate Program
Expedition 02 by India and the United States (US) have resulted in the
discovery of large, highly enriched accumulations of natural gas hydrate (an
icy form of the fuel) in Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean. The international
team of scientists was led by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
International Tiger Day was observed on 29 July 2016. The day
is held annually on 29th July to give worldwide attention to the reservation of
tigers. The goal of the day is to promote a global system for protecting the
natural habitats of tigers and to raise public awareness and support for tiger
conservation issues. It was founded in 2010 at the St. Petersburg Tiger
Summit, with the aim to double the big cat
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