New Delhi, Mar 14 (UNI) Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the government on Thursday appointed former bureaucrats Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as election commissioners. The two ex-bureaucrats are batchmates (1988), but from different cadres. “In exercise of powers conferred by Section 4 of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment,…
Mumbai, March 14 (UNI) Mumbai clinched the Ranji Trophy title after an eight-season gap with a convincing 169-run victory over Vidarbha at the Wankhede Stadium here on Thursday. However, Mumbai’s victory march was delayed due to Vidarbha skipper Akshay Wadkar (102) and Harsh Dubey’s (65) strong partnership of 130 runs. Despite their resistance, Mumbai bowlers…
New Delhi, Mar 14 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday distributed loans to one lakh street vendors (SVs) including 5,000 from Delhi under the SVANidhi scheme. During the event at JLN Stadium here, he handed over PM SVANidhi loan cheques to five beneficiaries. Addressing the beneficiaries, Modi said till date 62 lakh of them…
New Delhi, Mar 14 (UNI) In a relief to Paytm and Paytm Banks Limited, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) today granted approval to One97 Communications Limited (OCL), the parent company of PPBL, to participate in UPI as a Third-Party Application Provider (TPAP) under the multi-bank model. This will enable existing users and merchants…
Kolkata, Mar 14 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Thursday admitted to the state government-run SSKM Hospital here after sustaining a major head injury, official sources said. The sources said Banerjee was shifted to the Woodburn block of the hospital after she sustained a deep wound on her forehead after a fall…
New Delhi, March 14 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led three-member panel has selected bureaucrats Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu for appointment as election commissioners, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said here on Thursday. It is expected that a formal order in this regard will be issued shortly. Chowdhury, who is leader of opposition…
New Delhi, Mar 14 (UNI) In an interesting finding, social platform Meta has found a rising prevalence of gaming in India in both the categories of casual and real-money gamers coming from non-metro cities. Meta (formerly known as Facebook) held its inaugural Gaming Summit in India today to mark the rising importance of the sector,…
New Delhi, Mar 14 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Ajit Pawar faction, which has been officially recognized as the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) by the Election Commission of India to submit an undertaking in the court that they will not use the name and pictures of former NCP supremo Sharad Pawar in…
New Delhi, March 14 (UNI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday moved the sessions court challenging the summons issued to him by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Court which directed him to appear before it on March 16 on the Enforcement Directorate (ED) complaint over the non-compliance of summons in the money laundering case…
New Delhi, Mar 14 (UNI) On World Kidney Day, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) revealed the effectiveness of an Ayurvedic formulation in regulating serum creatinine levels and improving renal functions that they found in a controlled study. According to the study published in the Avicenna Journal of Medical…
