Source: This post is based on the article “RBI permits card tokenization services” published in AIR on 26th August, 2021. What is the News? The Reserve Bank of India has permitted authorised card networks to offer card tokenization services to any token requestor in a bid to make card transactions more safe, secure and convenient… Continue reading RBI permits card-tokenization services in a bid to make card transactions more safe
India elected to key bodies of Universal Postal Union
Source: This post is based on the article “India elected to key bodies of Universal Postal Union” published in “ANI” on 30th August 2021. What is the News? India has won elections for membership of the Council of Administration (CA) and the Postal Operations Council (POC) of the Universal Postal Union(UPU) at the 27th UPU… Continue reading India elected to key bodies of Universal Postal Union
Mapping groundwater sources by CSIR will help to utilise groundwater for drinking purposes: Union Minister
Source: This post is based on the article “Mapping groundwater sources by CSIR” published in PIB on 30th August, 2021. What is the News? The Union Science and Technology Minister has said that the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is using the latest technology to map sources of groundwater in arid regions that will… Continue reading Mapping groundwater sources by CSIR will help to utilise groundwater for drinking purposes: Union Minister
102 Vande Bharat trains to be operational by 2024
Source: This post is based on the Article “102 Vande Bharat Trains” published in “The Hindu” on 31st August, 2021. What is the News? Indian Railways has planned to operate 102 Vande Bharat trains by March 2024. What is Vande Bharat Train? Vande Bharat is India’s first indigenously built engineless semi-high speed train. Earlier, it… Continue reading 102 Vande Bharat trains to be operational by 2024
PPP model of BharatNet: DoT starts meets, hopes to float bid by Sept-end
Source: This post is based on the article “PPP model of BharatNet” published in Indian Express on 31st August, 2021. What is the News? The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has started pre-bid meetings with various stakeholders with respect to the public-private partnership model implementation for BharatNet. What is BharatNet Project? BharatNet is a project envisioned… Continue reading PPP model of BharatNet: DoT starts meets, hopes to float bid by Sept-end
Dara Shikoh never became emperor. But he was a true child of India
Source: This post is based on the article “Dara Shikoh never became emperor” published in “Indian Express” on 31st August,2021. What is the News? At a time when incidents of intolerance in the name of faith are being reported from Afghanistan, Dara Shikoh, one of India’s most enlightened thinkers, needs to be remembered. About Dara… Continue reading Dara Shikoh never became emperor. But he was a true child of India
Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana
Source: This post is based on the article “Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana” published in The Hindu on 31st August, 2021. What is the News? Hurricane Ida has made landfall in Louisiana, US. It is an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm and one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US. What are Hurricanes?… Continue reading Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana
Habitat of bird that flies non-stop for 5 days from Japan to Australia under threat
Source: This post is based on article “Habitat of bird that flies non-stop for 5 days from Japan to Australia under threat“ published in Down to Earth on 31st August 2021. What is the news? The Latham’s Snipe shorebird, flies non-stop for five days over thousands of kilometres of ocean for its survival, twice a… Continue reading Habitat of bird that flies non-stop for 5 days from Japan to Australia under threat
We ought to clarify ourstance on Chinese apps
Source: This post is based on the articles “Banning Chinese apps has proved to be ineffective” & “We ought to clarify our stance on Chinese apps” published in Business Standard and Livemint respectively on 30th August 2021. What is the news? A little over a year after India’s post-Galwan crackdown on Chinese apps for smartphones,… Continue reading We ought to clarify ourstance on Chinese apps
Adopting crypto assets as currency is a risky bet: IMF
Source: This post is based on the article “Adopting crypto assets as currency is a risky bet: IMF” published in Livemint on 31st August 2021. What is the news? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that adoption of crypto assets such as Bitcoin as national currency can impact a country’s macroeconomic stability. The warning came ahead… Continue reading Adopting crypto assets as currency is a risky bet: IMF
