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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has now directed all the banks to complete the process of upgrading ATM software by June 2019. Several ATMs were still running on Windows XP and other unsupported software. RBI earlier asked banks to upgrade software up to March 2017. Later, this was again appealed in November 2017. However, 30%
On Wednesday, The Meghalaya Land Record and Survey Department began an exercise to survey the land of settlers in Punjabi Lane, a locality at the centre of a communal flare-up in State capital Shillong. This survey was initiated in accordance with the recommendation of the high-level committee formed by the state government. This committee is
As per National Health Profile 2018, India’s public health expenditure is 1% of the GDP. In 2014, it was 0.98% of the GDP. It has certainly improved. Still, it is way behind even the low-income countries that spend 1.4% of the GDP. India’s neighbour countries are having better percentage invested in Health. Bhutan (2.5%), Sri
Just two days after the Union government decided to resume counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir, news about the end of the BJP-PDP coalition has come. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended its almost 40-month-old alliance with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and withdrew support to her government. Mehbooba Mufti was busy handling government files at her
M Ajanya, a 19-year-old girl successfully defeated Nipah virus and walked out of the hospital. While she was going for the treatment for this dreadful infection, only a few people had an expectation of her to come alive. PV Usha Devi, nurse of the hospital stated that it was one of the best days of
An overnight Internet sensation, rebel software engineer Roopesh Kumar Verma from Bengaluru, taught all of us the superb way to celebrate last day at the office. Verma, who hails from Rajasthan become an overnight Internet sensation after his photos riding a horse went viral. In these photos, he is on a white horse and entering
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a medical aspirant’s plea to let him pursue an MBBS course despite suffering from the disability of “low vision” in which the eyesight cannot be corrected or improved. The issue arose before a bench of Justice UU Lalit and Justice Deepak Gupta, which asked whether a person
Index of NITI Aayog’s composite water management published on Thursday showed that Gujarat topped the report regardless of the ongoing water crisis and Jharkhand is the worst performer. Supposedly, by 2030, India is going to face water scarcity as the demand will become twice the accessible supply of water. Amitabh Kant, The CEO of NITI
A letter to Justice B.S. Chauhan, the Law Commission of India Chairperson, by Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Board, Syed Waseem Rizvi read that introducing the UCC (Unifrom Civil Code) is not going to be a threat to the “Muslim Identity.” The Law Commission is finding out if the UCC is going
One of India’s top women chess players has pulled out of an upcoming championship in Iran in protest at having to wear an Islamic headscarf. Soumya Swaminathan, a former world junior girls champion wrote on Facebook. “I find the Iranian law of compulsory headscarf to be in direct violation of my basic human rights including
