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Second Phase of the Covid-19 Vaccination

25Feb

By Shalini SinghNo Comments

Business, news

Second Phase of the Covid-19 Vaccination

New 13,742 Covid-19 cases and 104 deaths are added to the list, updated by the Union Health Ministry. With this, the total count of Covid-19 cases hiked to 1,10,30,176, and total deaths to 1,56,567. As per the reports declared by the Union Health Ministry, within 24 hours 16, 738 new Covid-19 cases and 138 deaths have been reported. About 90% of new coronavirus cases listed. After the first dosage of the covid-19 vaccination, the center announced the second phase of the Covid-19 vaccination on Wednesday, and the boost of these vaccines will begin on March 1. The said vaccination is for the citizens aged above 60 years and for those who are above 45 years. The vaccination will be convenient for free at 10,000-odd government healthcare facilities. Those vaccines supplied ...

BJP President JP Nadda Will Launch ‘’ Lakkho Sonar Bangla’’ Campaign In West Bengal

25Feb

By MadhviNo Comments

news, Politics

BJP President JP Nadda Will Launch ‘’ Lakkho Sonar Bangla’’ Campaign In West Bengal

With the eye of Mamta Banerjee ruled West Bengal, the BJP on Thursday will launch a ‘’ Lakkho sonar Bangla’’ campaign to unseat the ruling Trinamool Congress from power in the state. BJP president JP Nadda, who has arrived in the state will launch an election manifesto crowdsourcing campaign in West Bengal. https://twitter.com/JPNadda/status/1364806472828215300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1364806472828215300%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fzeenews.india.com%2Fwest-bengal%2Fbjp-chief-jp-nadda-launches-lokkho-sonar-bangla-campaign-in-west-bengal-2344209.html He will also address a public rally in the state later today. Although According to the statement released by the party ‘’ Nadda will address a conference of the intelligen...

Blockchain Technology Benefits To Be Exploited: RBI

25Feb

By Ayushi Sharma2 Comments

Blockchain, news

Blockchain Technology Benefits To Be Exploited: RBI

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, on Wednesday, expressed his concern over the impact of cryptocurrencies. They are feared that cryptocurrency may have on the financial stability of the country. Blockchain technology is still supported. In an interview, he voiced out the major concerns related to cryptocurrencies. RBI has already filed a petition for the ban to the government. It is under consideration and they will soon make a decision with the involvement of the government and parliament. He clearly stated that; blockchain technology is different. Therefore, the government is planning to make the best use of it in the coming future. But crypto has concerns over the financial stability angle and reported the same to the officials. Blockchain Stocks to invest other than crypto However...

19 Women In UP Chosen To Drive State Buses For The First Time

24Feb

By MadhviNo Comments

news, Politics

19 Women In UP Chosen To Drive State Buses For The First Time

On February 24, for the First time in Uttar Pradesh, several women have been shortlisted to drive state buses run by Uttar Pradesh state roadways transport corporation. When the pink express bus service was launched in the state. As the service was meant to provide a safe travel option for women with the women staff board only. Since there were no certified bus conductors, staff and women drivers. Now onwards, after long research, there have been 19 women shortlisted to serve their service. S.P. Singh, the principle of the UPSRTC model driving training and research institute in Kanpur. He said that ‘’ the process of trained women bus staff is initiated in the UP for the first time in a while.‘’ 19 women had been selected for driving state buses and will undergo 17 months o...

Musk Slips From World’s Richest Man; $15 Billion

24Feb

By Ayushi Sharma1 Comment

Bitcoins, news

Musk Slips From World’s Richest Man; $15 Billion

Elon Musk is famous for his non-sensical tweets in the past. He has gotten into trouble due to this in the past as well. Tesla Inc. shares slid 8.6% on Monday, wiping $15.2 billion from his current net worth. Making Musk lose the tag of World's Richest Man. This decline in Tesla's since September was embarked on by Elon's tweet about the prices. He tweeted about the price of Bitcoin and its other competitor "do seem high". This tweet became contradictory to the other tweet he made regarding the investment of Tesla in Bitcoin for $1.5 Billion. The cryptocurrency which has always seen its high, fallen down below $50,000 on Tuesday. Musk drop on the second number on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index of the world's 500 richest. His now net worth is $183.4 Billion down from $210 Billion ...

Paytm Payments Bank helps 2.6 lakh FASTag users get back wrongly deducted toll charges

24Feb

By Nikita DhyaniNo Comments

Business, Finance, news, Paytm

Paytm Payments Bank helps 2.6 lakh FASTag users get back wrongly deducted toll charges

Paytm Payments Bank on Tuesday said it has won 82 percent of dispute cases on behalf of FASTag users with toll plazas in 2020 and facilitated refund of wrongly deducted toll charges to 2.6 lakh customers. The payments bank said it has set up an automated dispute management process that recognizes deductions and immediately raises claims to reverse the additional charges. Paytm Payments Bank MD and CEO Satish Gupta announced in a press release, “We have endeavored to empower our users with seamless and hassle-free travel on road. In this quest, we support our users in every possible way, including fast redressal of any grievance they face with toll plazas.” The company repeatedly strives to ensure that customers are at all times charged the correct toll amount, he added. Pay...

Cut Indirect Taxes On Petrol, Diesel: RBI Said To The Centre And State Governments

23Feb

By MadhviNo Comments

Life Style, news, Politics

Cut Indirect Taxes On Petrol, Diesel: RBI Said To The Centre And State Governments

As the fuel prices are touching historic heights in India. Thus, RBI interferes in between and urged the Centre and state governments to reduce the prices of petrol and diesel. There is 60% of indirect taxes on petrol and 54% in the case of diesel by the central and local government. Therefore, the stride in fuel prices could burn the pocket of the common man, thus the governor of the RBI(shaktikanta das) has raised his attention on this subject. According to the monetary policy meetings on Monday, the governor said ‘’calibrated unwinding’’ of the taxes is necessary to reduce the price pressure from the economy. ‘’CPI inflation, excluding food and fuel remains elevated at 5.5% in December’’, due to the inflationary impact of rising crude oil rising and indirect taxes on pet...

Union Bank of India, Syndicate Bank post highest UPI failure rates; Paytm sees lowest decline rate – sources

23Feb

By Nikita DhyaniNo Comments

Business, Finance, news

Union Bank of India, Syndicate Bank post highest UPI failure rates; Paytm sees lowest decline rate – sources

Public sector lender Union Bank of India continued to witness the highest failure price for UPI transactions amongst India’s prime 30 UPI remitter banks due to technical factors in January. From 10.75 percent technical decline (TD) in December, the failure price jumped to 12.89 percent in January for Union Bank of India, information from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) showed. In January, eighty percent of UBI's transactions were approved out of 85.95 million transactions, out of which almost 80 percent had been authorized while 7.36 percent were declined. Due to factors which include invalid pin entered by the customer, incorrect beneficiary account, exceeding per transaction limit or permitted count of transactions per day or quantity limit for the day, and so...

Maharashtra Govt. Banned The Public Gathering As In The Scenario Of Rising Covid – 19 Cases

22Feb

By MadhviNo Comments

news, Politics

Maharashtra Govt. Banned The Public Gathering As In The Scenario Of Rising Covid – 19 Cases

The chief minister of Maharashtra Mr uddhav Thackeray restricted the political, religious and social gatherings and imposed lockdown in some new areas as a rise of covid - 19 cases. He said on Sunday (21st February) that the daily cases of covid -19 have risen to almost 7000 from 2000 cases in January only. Although Maharashtra Sunday reported 6,971 new confirmed cases of covid, whereas, 2471 numbers of cases have been recovered in the last 24 hours. Even though uddhav Thackeray demanded strict measures to be taken from Monday onwards to control the covid- 19 situations. Uddhav Thackeray addressed the television and said’’ the second wave of covid is knocking on our door. Whether it has come or not will be confirmed in the upcoming 10 -15 days.’’ After the sudden spike in...

Blockchain Stocks To Invest Other Than Crypto

22Feb

By Ayushi Sharma2 Comments

Blockchain, news

Blockchain Stocks To Invest Other Than Crypto

Crypto is tricky. I’m not 100% certain what the future of cryptos holds, I’m much more confident in the belief that the decentralized distributed public ledger system will carry on. Not only that, the blockchain stocks will spark additional innovations in the world of fintech. Crypto has made its mark in the investment market. Hence, the innovation lies in blockchain technology. Let's go through an example: Transfer through a bank wire is a slow and expensive process. Moreover, countries with robust economic infrastructure have difficulty accepting bank transactions. To combat that we need an alternative which is fast and cheap. And to date, blockchain stocks is the only technology to put the proposal upfront. Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: IEEE Virtual Conference 2021 Addition...