Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday announced that his party will contest the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (HSGMC) elections. "Our focus is on giving Sikhs in Haryana the right to have their own gurdwara committee, besides freeing them from the present committee which is indulging in free-for-all fights and abuses in official meetings," Badal alleged in a party statement. The SAD leader also appealed to the Sikh community "to free the gurdwaras from the clutches of the modern-day mahants, who have taken over control with the connivance of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)".
PM Narendra Modi says this key G20 platform unites business stakeholders for economic growth focus.
"At 12 noon tomorrow, 27th August, I will be addressing the B20 Summit India 2023. This platform is bringing together a wide range of stakeholders working in the business world. It is among the most important G20 Groups, with a clear focus on boosting economic growth," tweets PM.
Technology has changed the way we work, communicate, educate and learn, Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court said on Saturday, adding that unified payments interface (UPI) has empowered India leading to a revolution. Speaking at the Indian Science Competition hosted by Anand and Anand law firm, Justice Varma called the initiative a great step.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi halted his speech and asked doctors from his team to attend to a person who had fainted during a function at the Palam airport here on Saturday. Modi was addressing a function organised to welcome him on his return from official visits to South Africa and Greece, and to mark the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission on the Moon. During his speech, Modi noticed that a person in the crowd had taken ill, apparently due to the afternoon heat, and stopped his address.
India's finance ministry is considering a proposal to include electric vehicles under the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) priority sector guidelines, a move that would make it cheaper to raise funds, a government official said on Saturday. The proposal was made to the finance ministry by the power ministry. "We will discuss with the RBI, and a detailed examination will be done," the official said, requesting anonymity because the discussions are ongoing.
India is considering raising the retirement age for chairmen and managing directors of state-owned banks, which control over 60% of the banking system's assets, a government official said on Saturday. The proposal under consideration is to raise the age limit for the chairman of the country's largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), to 65 years from 63 years, and that for managing directors of other state-owned banks to 62 years from 60, the official said.
More than 50.09 crore accounts have been opened under the PM Jan Dhan Yojana in the last nine years and the deposit balance swelled to over Rs 2.03 lakh crore, the Finance Ministry said on Saturday. The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was launched on August 28, 2014, with the aim to provide universal banking services through the opening of zero-balance bank accounts for every unbanked household, based on the guiding principles of banking the unbanked, securing the unsecured and funding the unfunded.
State Bank of India Chairman Dinesh Khara is likely to get an extension as the government is considering relaxing the retirement age of chiefs of all public sector banks and LIC. The proposal before the government also includes hiking the retirement age limit of managing directors of public sector banks (PSBs) to 62 years, from the current 60 years, a senior government official said on Saturday.
A PhD student of Assam'sTezpurUniversity is working hard as a member of the team behind India's first solar mission, scheduled to be launched next month by the Indian Space ResearchOrganisation(ISRO).JanmejoySarkarjoined the ambitiousAdityaL1 mission as a Senior Research Fellow from the Inter-UniversityCentrefor Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune two years ago, the university said in a statement on Saturday.
No capital infusion in non-life general insurance companies in FY24: Senior Finance Ministry official
