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Mumbai: The NPCI on Wednesday launched a slew of new payment options on popular payments platform UPI, including conversational transactions. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das announced the launch of the products by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) at the ongoing Global Fintech Festival. The latest offerings — Credit Line on…
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World Cup 2023: Rohit Sharma (L) and Ajit Agarkar© AFP Former Indian cricket team opener Aakash Chopra praised the Cricket World Cup 2023 squad but suggested two possible changes. In the latest video on his YouTube channel, Chopra analysed the 15-member squad and said that he would have picked veteran spinner Yuzvendra Chahal over Axar…
Myanmar photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike is seen working in these undated photo, he was arrested in late May in Rakhine state while reporting about a cyclone and a court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison on Wednesday his employer said, the longest known prison term handed down to a media…
File image of Yuzvendra Chahal© AFP Ignored by national selectors for the ongoing Asia Cup and upcoming ODI World cup, Indian leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has signed up with English county side Kent to play three County Championship games. Chahal will be available for Kent’s remaining home ties against Nottinghamshire and Lancashire, as well as the…
Almonds from California on display in Visakhapatnam. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Two days before U.S. President Joe Biden arrives in New Delhi for a bilateral meeting as well as the G-20 Summit, India has dropped the retaliatory customs tariffs it had imposed on imports of some American goods like almonds and lentils, effective…
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When the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) was released in 2017, it revealed the unemployment rate of India to be 6.1%, the highest ever recorded in India. The PLFS of 2021-22 showed unemployment reducing to 4.1%, much lower than before, but higher than some developed economies. The U.S unemployment rate fluctuated between 3.5% in July…
File picture of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) landed on the Moon on August 23, 2023. This monumental achievement firmly cemented India’s position as one major players in the space community. Since then Chandrayaan-3 has found sulphur, a temperature difference of 50°C between the surface and 10…
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Haris Rauf bowled a couple of hostile spells, while Imam-ul-Haq struck a silken 78 as Pakistan secured a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh in a Super Four clash of the Asia Cup in Lahore on Wednesday. Rauf (6-0-19-4) proved to be too quick for the Bangladeshi batters, who were also troubled relentlessly by Naseem Shah…
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In this April 21, 2019, file photo, Sri Lankan police officers inspect the site of an explosion at the Shangri-la hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that…
In this undated photo provided by the Ukrainian Parliament Press Office, Rustem Umerov poses for photo in Kyiv, Ukraine. On Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023 Umerov was appointed Ukraine’s new Defense Minister. Photo: Ukrainian Parliament Press Office via AP Ukraine’s parliament approved the appointment of former lawmaker Rustem Umerov as Defence Minister on September 6, in…
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