1. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurates New Bank Note Paper Line unit in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the New Bank Note Paper Line unit of 6000 metric ton capacity at Security Paper Mill in Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He also flagged off the first consignment of one thousand rupee bank notes made indigenously from this paper mill to the Currency Note Press Nasik.
2. Maharashtra government launches Swachhata Saptapadi scheme
Maharashtra Government has launched Swachhata Saptapadi scheme on the lines of Union Government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The scheme was launched by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis along with actor Aamir Khan who is brand ambassador of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in Mumbai.
3. Snapdeal to expand payment by credit, debit cards on delivery
E-Commerce major Snapdeal will allow its users across 200 cities to pay through their credit and debit cards when they opt for pay-on-delivery option.
“The solution has been developed in partnership with GoJavas. Now customers can select the pay by card on delivery option, just like they would for COD.
4. HDFC Bank among top 100 most valuable global brands in 2015
Private sector lender HDFC Bank is the only Indian entity to find a place among the top 100 most valuable brands globally, along with Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Facebook.
HDFC Bank is ranked at 74th position in the BrandZ list compiled by Millward Brown, a global research agency, in association with WPP.
As per the report, the bank is the India’s most valuable brand with a value of $ 14 billion.
Apple tops the chart with a brand value of $ 246.9 billion, followed by Google with $ 173.6 billion and Microsoft with $ 115.5 billion.
At the fourth position is IBM with brand value of $ 93.9 billion while Visa is at fifth position with value of $ 91.9 billion.
Among the banking sector, Wells Fargo is at the top at the 16th position having a brand value of $ 59.3 billion followed by ICBC brand at 22nd position valued at $ 38.8 billion.
Among others are HSBC at 35th position with $ 24 billion, RBC Royal Bank at 36th position valued at $ 23.9 billion and China Construction Bank valued at $ 22 billion.
5. G R Aloria named chief secretary of Gujarat
Gujarat government on Saturday appointed 1981-batch IAS, G R Aloria as the new chief secretary to the state. Aloria, who is currently serving as the additional chief secretary of Urban Development Department, succeeded the incumbent chief secretary D J Pandian, who retires from the service on May 31.
In a notification issued on Saturday, the general administration department of the state government announced appointment of Aloria as the chief secretary to Government of Gujarat with effect from May 31, 2015.
Aloria is the senior most bureaucrat in the state administration and had served in several key positions including heading the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited during the land acquisition for the for canal network. He was also secretary in the revenue department, which fell under Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.
6. NGT issues bailable warrant against Delhi Chief Secretary
The National Green Tribunal has issued bailable warrant against the Delhi chief secretary for failure of officials to appear before it for apprising it about implementation of closure orders of stainless steel pickling firms.
The tribunal said it had issued the notice to the government of NCT of Delhi and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to respond before it regarding the implementation of the closure orders issued to the pickling industries.
Steel pickling is the process of removing impurities, such as stains and inorganic contaminants from the metal.
The green panel had issued notice to DPCC, DJB and Delhi government on implementation of closure orders against the several industrial units, mainly steel pickling units, in Wazirpur Industrial Area here for discharging harmful effluents in drains that empty in the Yamuna.
Earlier, on April 30, taking note of an NGO’s plea, the tribunal has directed Central Pollution Control Board to inspect stainless steel pickling industries in Wazirpur which are flouting mandatory pollution norms.
7. Web-based universal ID cards for disabled from Dec
the Government will roll out for persons with disabilities universal identity cards having a unique number with which their details can be accessed by the click of a button.
The initiative will help in a big way in ensuring the authenticity of disability certificates and eliminate hassle of having to carry the certificates for different purposes, as various details, including the type of disabilities would be made available online.
“We are aiming at issuing the first universal disability ID card on December 3. We have almost zeroed in on the software provider, who would also be tasked with the responsibility of uploading disability certificates,” Joint Secretary of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Awanish Kumar Awasthi, told PTI.
The department functioning under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to issue web-based cards instead of smart cards, proposed initially.
“Since most of the details of persons with disabilities would be available online, we have decided to go ahead with plastic cards, comprising a unique number,” an official said, adding that details of a differently-abled person can be accessed using their respective number.
8. Govt’s ‘khoyapaya’ website to help trace missing children
With 11 children disappearing every hour in the country, the government will on
June 2 roll out a web platform for people to directly report, track and upload information on missing children.
The web portal will be launched by the Women and Child Development Ministry. It will serve as a platform for people to not only report a missing child but also track the efforts towards his or her recovery.
The website, www.khoyapaya.gov.in, will answer all queries as to what action is to be taken when a child goes missing.
A joint initiative of the WCD Ministry and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the website will have three sections - ‘My child is missing’, ‘I have sighted a child’ and ‘Search a missing child’.
The website will also provide links to court orders wherein police have been mandated to register an FIR in the matter of a child gone missing and treat it as either abduction or trafficking unless it is proved otherwise in the investigation.
9. First facial recognition ATM developed in China
Chinese researchers have successfully developed the first automated teller machine (ATM) with facial recognition technology to reduce the risk of theft, media reports said.
The developers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan Technology, a Hangzhou firm in eastern China’s Zhejiang province that provides security protection for financial transactions, South China Morning Post quoted Chinese official media as saying.
Tzekwan chairman Gu Zikun, an anti-counterfeit technology expert, believes the technology will curb ATM-related crimes.
China currently relied mostly on imported ATM technology, the report said, but the new machine, which combines high-speed banknote handling, improved counterfeit-bill recognition and facial recognition, was wholly Chinese.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the New Bank Note Paper Line unit of 6000 metric ton capacity at Security Paper Mill in Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He also flagged off the first consignment of one thousand rupee bank notes made indigenously from this paper mill to the Currency Note Press Nasik.
2. Maharashtra government launches Swachhata Saptapadi scheme
Maharashtra Government has launched Swachhata Saptapadi scheme on the lines of Union Government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The scheme was launched by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis along with actor Aamir Khan who is brand ambassador of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in Mumbai.
3. Snapdeal to expand payment by credit, debit cards on delivery
E-Commerce major Snapdeal will allow its users across 200 cities to pay through their credit and debit cards when they opt for pay-on-delivery option.
“The solution has been developed in partnership with GoJavas. Now customers can select the pay by card on delivery option, just like they would for COD.
4. HDFC Bank among top 100 most valuable global brands in 2015
Private sector lender HDFC Bank is the only Indian entity to find a place among the top 100 most valuable brands globally, along with Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Facebook.
HDFC Bank is ranked at 74th position in the BrandZ list compiled by Millward Brown, a global research agency, in association with WPP.
As per the report, the bank is the India’s most valuable brand with a value of $ 14 billion.
Apple tops the chart with a brand value of $ 246.9 billion, followed by Google with $ 173.6 billion and Microsoft with $ 115.5 billion.
At the fourth position is IBM with brand value of $ 93.9 billion while Visa is at fifth position with value of $ 91.9 billion.
Among the banking sector, Wells Fargo is at the top at the 16th position having a brand value of $ 59.3 billion followed by ICBC brand at 22nd position valued at $ 38.8 billion.
Among others are HSBC at 35th position with $ 24 billion, RBC Royal Bank at 36th position valued at $ 23.9 billion and China Construction Bank valued at $ 22 billion.
5. G R Aloria named chief secretary of Gujarat
Gujarat government on Saturday appointed 1981-batch IAS, G R Aloria as the new chief secretary to the state. Aloria, who is currently serving as the additional chief secretary of Urban Development Department, succeeded the incumbent chief secretary D J Pandian, who retires from the service on May 31.
In a notification issued on Saturday, the general administration department of the state government announced appointment of Aloria as the chief secretary to Government of Gujarat with effect from May 31, 2015.
Aloria is the senior most bureaucrat in the state administration and had served in several key positions including heading the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited during the land acquisition for the for canal network. He was also secretary in the revenue department, which fell under Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.
6. NGT issues bailable warrant against Delhi Chief Secretary
The National Green Tribunal has issued bailable warrant against the Delhi chief secretary for failure of officials to appear before it for apprising it about implementation of closure orders of stainless steel pickling firms.
The tribunal said it had issued the notice to the government of NCT of Delhi and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to respond before it regarding the implementation of the closure orders issued to the pickling industries.
Steel pickling is the process of removing impurities, such as stains and inorganic contaminants from the metal.
The green panel had issued notice to DPCC, DJB and Delhi government on implementation of closure orders against the several industrial units, mainly steel pickling units, in Wazirpur Industrial Area here for discharging harmful effluents in drains that empty in the Yamuna.
Earlier, on April 30, taking note of an NGO’s plea, the tribunal has directed Central Pollution Control Board to inspect stainless steel pickling industries in Wazirpur which are flouting mandatory pollution norms.
7. Web-based universal ID cards for disabled from Dec
the Government will roll out for persons with disabilities universal identity cards having a unique number with which their details can be accessed by the click of a button.
The initiative will help in a big way in ensuring the authenticity of disability certificates and eliminate hassle of having to carry the certificates for different purposes, as various details, including the type of disabilities would be made available online.
“We are aiming at issuing the first universal disability ID card on December 3. We have almost zeroed in on the software provider, who would also be tasked with the responsibility of uploading disability certificates,” Joint Secretary of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Awanish Kumar Awasthi, told PTI.
The department functioning under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to issue web-based cards instead of smart cards, proposed initially.
“Since most of the details of persons with disabilities would be available online, we have decided to go ahead with plastic cards, comprising a unique number,” an official said, adding that details of a differently-abled person can be accessed using their respective number.
8. Govt’s ‘khoyapaya’ website to help trace missing children
With 11 children disappearing every hour in the country, the government will on
The web portal will be launched by the Women and Child Development Ministry. It will serve as a platform for people to not only report a missing child but also track the efforts towards his or her recovery.
The website, www.khoyapaya.gov.in, will answer all queries as to what action is to be taken when a child goes missing.
A joint initiative of the WCD Ministry and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the website will have three sections - ‘My child is missing’, ‘I have sighted a child’ and ‘Search a missing child’.
The website will also provide links to court orders wherein police have been mandated to register an FIR in the matter of a child gone missing and treat it as either abduction or trafficking unless it is proved otherwise in the investigation.
9. First facial recognition ATM developed in China
Chinese researchers have successfully developed the first automated teller machine (ATM) with facial recognition technology to reduce the risk of theft, media reports said.
The developers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan Technology, a Hangzhou firm in eastern China’s Zhejiang province that provides security protection for financial transactions, South China Morning Post quoted Chinese official media as saying.
Tzekwan chairman Gu Zikun, an anti-counterfeit technology expert, believes the technology will curb ATM-related crimes.
China currently relied mostly on imported ATM technology, the report said, but the new machine, which combines high-speed banknote handling, improved counterfeit-bill recognition and facial recognition, was wholly Chinese.
1. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurates New Bank Note Paper Line unit in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the New Bank Note Paper Line unit of 6000 metric ton capacity at Security Paper Mill in Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He also flagged off the first consignment of one thousand rupee bank notes made indigenously from this paper mill to the Currency Note Press Nasik.
2. Maharashtra government launches Swachhata Saptapadi scheme
Maharashtra Government has launched Swachhata Saptapadi scheme on the lines of Union Government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The scheme was launched by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis along with actor Aamir Khan who is brand ambassador of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in Mumbai.
3. Snapdeal to expand payment by credit, debit cards on delivery
E-Commerce major Snapdeal will allow its users across 200 cities to pay through their credit and debit cards when they opt for pay-on-delivery option.
“The solution has been developed in partnership with GoJavas. Now customers can select the pay by card on delivery option, just like they would for COD.
4. HDFC Bank among top 100 most valuable global brands in 2015
Private sector lender HDFC Bank is the only Indian entity to find a place among the top 100 most valuable brands globally, along with Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Facebook.
HDFC Bank is ranked at 74th position in the BrandZ list compiled by Millward Brown, a global research agency, in association with WPP.
As per the report, the bank is the India’s most valuable brand with a value of $ 14 billion.
Apple tops the chart with a brand value of $ 246.9 billion, followed by Google with $ 173.6 billion and Microsoft with $ 115.5 billion.
At the fourth position is IBM with brand value of $ 93.9 billion while Visa is at fifth position with value of $ 91.9 billion.
Among the banking sector, Wells Fargo is at the top at the 16th position having a brand value of $ 59.3 billion followed by ICBC brand at 22nd position valued at $ 38.8 billion.
Among others are HSBC at 35th position with $ 24 billion, RBC Royal Bank at 36th position valued at $ 23.9 billion and China Construction Bank valued at $ 22 billion.
5. G R Aloria named chief secretary of Gujarat
Gujarat government on Saturday appointed 1981-batch IAS, G R Aloria as the new chief secretary to the state. Aloria, who is currently serving as the additional chief secretary of Urban Development Department, succeeded the incumbent chief secretary D J Pandian, who retires from the service on May 31.
In a notification issued on Saturday, the general administration department of the state government announced appointment of Aloria as the chief secretary to Government of Gujarat with effect from May 31, 2015.
Aloria is the senior most bureaucrat in the state administration and had served in several key positions including heading the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited during the land acquisition for the for canal network. He was also secretary in the revenue department, which fell under Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.
6. NGT issues bailable warrant against Delhi Chief Secretary
The National Green Tribunal has issued bailable warrant against the Delhi chief secretary for failure of officials to appear before it for apprising it about implementation of closure orders of stainless steel pickling firms.
The tribunal said it had issued the notice to the government of NCT of Delhi and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to respond before it regarding the implementation of the closure orders issued to the pickling industries.
Steel pickling is the process of removing impurities, such as stains and inorganic contaminants from the metal.
The green panel had issued notice to DPCC, DJB and Delhi government on implementation of closure orders against the several industrial units, mainly steel pickling units, in Wazirpur Industrial Area here for discharging harmful effluents in drains that empty in the Yamuna.
Earlier, on April 30, taking note of an NGO’s plea, the tribunal has directed Central Pollution Control Board to inspect stainless steel pickling industries in Wazirpur which are flouting mandatory pollution norms.
7. Web-based universal ID cards for disabled from Dec
the Government will roll out for persons with disabilities universal identity cards having a unique number with which their details can be accessed by the click of a button.
The initiative will help in a big way in ensuring the authenticity of disability certificates and eliminate hassle of having to carry the certificates for different purposes, as various details, including the type of disabilities would be made available online.
“We are aiming at issuing the first universal disability ID card on December 3. We have almost zeroed in on the software provider, who would also be tasked with the responsibility of uploading disability certificates,” Joint Secretary of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Awanish Kumar Awasthi, told PTI.
The department functioning under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to issue web-based cards instead of smart cards, proposed initially.
“Since most of the details of persons with disabilities would be available online, we have decided to go ahead with plastic cards, comprising a unique number,” an official said, adding that details of a differently-abled person can be accessed using their respective number.
8. Govt’s ‘khoyapaya’ website to help trace missing children
With 11 children disappearing every hour in the country, the government will on
June 2 roll out a web platform for people to directly report, track and upload information on missing children.
The web portal will be launched by the Women and Child Development Ministry. It will serve as a platform for people to not only report a missing child but also track the efforts towards his or her recovery.
The website, www.khoyapaya.gov.in, will answer all queries as to what action is to be taken when a child goes missing.
A joint initiative of the WCD Ministry and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the website will have three sections - ‘My child is missing’, ‘I have sighted a child’ and ‘Search a missing child’.
The website will also provide links to court orders wherein police have been mandated to register an FIR in the matter of a child gone missing and treat it as either abduction or trafficking unless it is proved otherwise in the investigation.
9. First facial recognition ATM developed in China
Chinese researchers have successfully developed the first automated teller machine (ATM) with facial recognition technology to reduce the risk of theft, media reports said.
The developers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan Technology, a Hangzhou firm in eastern China’s Zhejiang province that provides security protection for financial transactions, South China Morning Post quoted Chinese official media as saying.
Tzekwan chairman Gu Zikun, an anti-counterfeit technology expert, believes the technology will curb ATM-related crimes.
China currently relied mostly on imported ATM technology, the report said, but the new machine, which combines high-speed banknote handling, improved counterfeit-bill recognition and facial recognition, was wholly Chinese.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the New Bank Note Paper Line unit of 6000 metric ton capacity at Security Paper Mill in Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He also flagged off the first consignment of one thousand rupee bank notes made indigenously from this paper mill to the Currency Note Press Nasik.
2. Maharashtra government launches Swachhata Saptapadi scheme
Maharashtra Government has launched Swachhata Saptapadi scheme on the lines of Union Government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The scheme was launched by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis along with actor Aamir Khan who is brand ambassador of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in Mumbai.
3. Snapdeal to expand payment by credit, debit cards on delivery
E-Commerce major Snapdeal will allow its users across 200 cities to pay through their credit and debit cards when they opt for pay-on-delivery option.
“The solution has been developed in partnership with GoJavas. Now customers can select the pay by card on delivery option, just like they would for COD.
4. HDFC Bank among top 100 most valuable global brands in 2015
Private sector lender HDFC Bank is the only Indian entity to find a place among the top 100 most valuable brands globally, along with Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Facebook.
HDFC Bank is ranked at 74th position in the BrandZ list compiled by Millward Brown, a global research agency, in association with WPP.
As per the report, the bank is the India’s most valuable brand with a value of $ 14 billion.
Apple tops the chart with a brand value of $ 246.9 billion, followed by Google with $ 173.6 billion and Microsoft with $ 115.5 billion.
At the fourth position is IBM with brand value of $ 93.9 billion while Visa is at fifth position with value of $ 91.9 billion.
Among the banking sector, Wells Fargo is at the top at the 16th position having a brand value of $ 59.3 billion followed by ICBC brand at 22nd position valued at $ 38.8 billion.
Among others are HSBC at 35th position with $ 24 billion, RBC Royal Bank at 36th position valued at $ 23.9 billion and China Construction Bank valued at $ 22 billion.
5. G R Aloria named chief secretary of Gujarat
Gujarat government on Saturday appointed 1981-batch IAS, G R Aloria as the new chief secretary to the state. Aloria, who is currently serving as the additional chief secretary of Urban Development Department, succeeded the incumbent chief secretary D J Pandian, who retires from the service on May 31.
In a notification issued on Saturday, the general administration department of the state government announced appointment of Aloria as the chief secretary to Government of Gujarat with effect from May 31, 2015.
Aloria is the senior most bureaucrat in the state administration and had served in several key positions including heading the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited during the land acquisition for the for canal network. He was also secretary in the revenue department, which fell under Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.
6. NGT issues bailable warrant against Delhi Chief Secretary
The National Green Tribunal has issued bailable warrant against the Delhi chief secretary for failure of officials to appear before it for apprising it about implementation of closure orders of stainless steel pickling firms.
The tribunal said it had issued the notice to the government of NCT of Delhi and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to respond before it regarding the implementation of the closure orders issued to the pickling industries.
Steel pickling is the process of removing impurities, such as stains and inorganic contaminants from the metal.
The green panel had issued notice to DPCC, DJB and Delhi government on implementation of closure orders against the several industrial units, mainly steel pickling units, in Wazirpur Industrial Area here for discharging harmful effluents in drains that empty in the Yamuna.
Earlier, on April 30, taking note of an NGO’s plea, the tribunal has directed Central Pollution Control Board to inspect stainless steel pickling industries in Wazirpur which are flouting mandatory pollution norms.
7. Web-based universal ID cards for disabled from Dec
the Government will roll out for persons with disabilities universal identity cards having a unique number with which their details can be accessed by the click of a button.
The initiative will help in a big way in ensuring the authenticity of disability certificates and eliminate hassle of having to carry the certificates for different purposes, as various details, including the type of disabilities would be made available online.
“We are aiming at issuing the first universal disability ID card on December 3. We have almost zeroed in on the software provider, who would also be tasked with the responsibility of uploading disability certificates,” Joint Secretary of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Awanish Kumar Awasthi, told PTI.
The department functioning under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to issue web-based cards instead of smart cards, proposed initially.
“Since most of the details of persons with disabilities would be available online, we have decided to go ahead with plastic cards, comprising a unique number,” an official said, adding that details of a differently-abled person can be accessed using their respective number.
8. Govt’s ‘khoyapaya’ website to help trace missing children
With 11 children disappearing every hour in the country, the government will on
The web portal will be launched by the Women and Child Development Ministry. It will serve as a platform for people to not only report a missing child but also track the efforts towards his or her recovery.
The website, www.khoyapaya.gov.in, will answer all queries as to what action is to be taken when a child goes missing.
A joint initiative of the WCD Ministry and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the website will have three sections - ‘My child is missing’, ‘I have sighted a child’ and ‘Search a missing child’.
The website will also provide links to court orders wherein police have been mandated to register an FIR in the matter of a child gone missing and treat it as either abduction or trafficking unless it is proved otherwise in the investigation.
9. First facial recognition ATM developed in China
Chinese researchers have successfully developed the first automated teller machine (ATM) with facial recognition technology to reduce the risk of theft, media reports said.
The developers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan Technology, a Hangzhou firm in eastern China’s Zhejiang province that provides security protection for financial transactions, South China Morning Post quoted Chinese official media as saying.
Tzekwan chairman Gu Zikun, an anti-counterfeit technology expert, believes the technology will curb ATM-related crimes.
China currently relied mostly on imported ATM technology, the report said, but the new machine, which combines high-speed banknote handling, improved counterfeit-bill recognition and facial recognition, was wholly Chinese.
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