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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday unveiled a nationwide capacity-building initiative for urban cooperative banks, as part of its continuing efforts to strengthen the sector’s resilience and governance standards.The programme, titled Mission SAKSHAM, has been conceived as a mission-mode, sector-wide training exercise aimed at upgrading skills across all levels of urban cooperative banks…
Union minister for electronics and information technology and railways Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday laid out a roadmap to transform southern India’s transportation, placing the proposed bullet train network as a major driver of economic integration across key cities while also announcing significant rail and digital infrastructure expansion.Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Google Cloud India…
It takes a village to raise a child. Really? Maybe not literally, but financially, it can certainly feel like that, especially in today’s day and age. For many parents, bringing a new human into the world is one of life’s most joyful milestones. But, it’s not just the start of your journey into parenthood, but…
Ongoing conflicts have demonstrated that drones are rewriting how wars are being fought. The army, keeping pace with this remarkable technology, has released a document titled – Indian Army’s Technology Roadmap for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Loitering Munitions (LM). The drone roadmap for the army was released by Lt Gen Rahul R Singh, Deputy…
Dharmendra Pradhan (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Centre will revise a contentious NCERT textbook chapter on the judiciary under the supervision of a committee led by former Supreme Court judge Indu Malhotra, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said.The minister said the move follows guidance from the Supreme Court, adding that the effort aims to ensure…
The government on Tuesday informed Parliament that the 8th Central Pay Commission (CPC) is examining revisions in pay scales, salaries, allowances and pension structures for central government employees, while consultations with stakeholders are currently under way.In a reply to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha, minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary said the…
Nasa on Tuesday unveiled a broad set of agencywide initiatives at its “Ignition” event, laying out plans to speed up its return to the Moon, build a long-term lunar presence, shape the future of low Earth orbit, expand science missions, and move nuclear propulsion closer to flight as part of President Donald Trump’s National Space…
Health insurance has become a priority area for the government, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday, expressing hope that the country would achieve universal insurance coverage by 2033 as the sector expands its reach.Replying to supplementary queries during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Sitharaman said the insurance industry had already made significant progress,…
The government currently has no roadmap for mergers among public sector banks, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, indicating that consolidation is not under active consideration even as a new banking reform panel is set to review the sector’s future.“I am not familiar with any roadmap…there isn’t one,” Sitharaman said in a media briefing after her…
What was once seen as the engine of India’s clean fuel transition is now grappling with oversupply, with ethanol production capacity significantly exceeding current blending needs.Industry estimates show nearly 20 billion litres of installed ethanol capacity, with another 4 billion litres expected shortly, against an annual requirement of about 11 billion litres to meet the…
