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25 Aug

Bank Employees opposed privatization move of public sector banks

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The Bank Employees’ Federation North Eastern Region, in its virtual meet held yesterday, strongly opposed privatization move of public sector banks, while demanding further improvement in 11th Bipartite Settlement. The Federation feels that skeletons stored in the cupboard of recent bank mergers are falling off. The bank mergers was formalized in April 2020, while the entire country was under lock-down. The declared objective was to strengthen public sector banking sectors. Now, couple of months apart, the real agenda stands revealed. If media reports are any indication, the Govt is set to privatize several PSBs. Everyone knows Govt of India nationalized…

24 Aug

Vedanta Foundation’s Vedanta Rojgar Yojana

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Vedanta Rojgar Yojana has been launched by Vedanta Foundation. This program will train and provide job-placements to unemployed youth. For this Vedanta Foundation has roped in with Quess Corp. Ltd. as their training and placement partner. Vedanta Foundation is a philanthropic initiative of Vedanta Resources Ltd. Since 1992 it has trained more than 1.4 million youth, through its Vocational Training Centres across the nation. The Vocational Training Program has now been revamped into Employment Linked Skill Training Program. Quess Corp. is India’s largest private sector employer. Presently, 2000 candidates are enrolled and undergoing training in 50 centres as a pilot…

24 Aug

Bandhan Bank celebrates its 5 years

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Bandhan Bank will be completing five successful years of operations on August 23, 2020. In June 2015, the Bandhan Group was given approval by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a universal bank. For around two decades, Bandhan has tirelessly worked for the upliftment of India’s economically weak through access to timely microcredit, freeing the poor from the clutches of usurious moneylenders. After becoming a bank, Bandhan Bank has spread its reach to diverse corners of India across 34 states and UTs via its 4,559 banking outlets and 485 ATMs. Apart from its microcredit offerings, which account…

24 Aug

Nuvoco introduces InstaMix Xpress

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Nuvoco Vistas Corporation Limited launched InstaMix Xpress. It is a pre-mixed, ready-to-use, bagged, dry concrete. With this, Nuvoco has made premium quality concrete available anytime anywhere which is easy to use. InstaMix Xpress is a pre-blended mixture of Cement, Sand and Aggregates with special admixture, requiring only the addition of water before pouring the concrete. It is produced in a controlled environment and is fast, easy-to-use, and ready-to-pour in just three steps – Open, Mix and Pour. In the current scenario, the majority of small concrete work is done by mixing cement, aggregates and water at site. The challenge lies…

21 Aug

PropTiger‌ ‌launches‌ ‌Property‌ ‌Expo ‘Right‌ ‌to‌ ‌Home’‌

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Elara Technologies-owned Proptiger.com has launched India’s largest live online property expo, ‘Right to Home’. The expo was unique in that it enabled buyers to attend online presentations made by leading property experts and to hold one-on-one digital interactive sessions with property advisors from developers and Proptiger.com. Prospective home buyers took advantage of exciting spot offers during the event and bought their dream homes digitally. During the two-day virtual event (August 20 & 21), as many as 30 leading developers participated to showcase more than 80 projects located across India’s top 9 cities namely, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata, MMR, Noida and Pune.…

21 Aug

Bandhan Bank Turns 5: Going from strength to strength

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Bandhan Bank, India’s youngest universal bank focussed on serving the needs of the unbanked and underbanked sections of society will be completing five successful years of operations on August 23, 2020. In June 2015, the Bandhan Group, which addresses the financial needs of those at the bottom-of-the-pyramid across India’s rural and semi-urban areas, was given the final approval by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a universal bank. For around two decades, Bandhan has tirelessly worked for the upliftment of India’s economically weak through access to timely microcredit, freeing the poor from the clutches of usurious moneylenders. …

21 Aug

State govt striving to benefit 68,000 MSMEs under Aatma Nirbhar Bharat: Sonowal

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Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today reviewed the implementation status of the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme for MSMEs of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts under Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan at a meeting held at the Deputy Commissioner’s office, Dibrugarh. He also held a discussion with the MSME owners of the two districts and urged them to take advantage of the Atma Nirmal Bharat initiative. Saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had started the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan with financial outlay of Rs 20 lakh crore to revive and revitalise the country’s economy affected by COVID-19 lockdown, Sonowal stated that the state…

19 Aug

Ministry of Food Processing Industries sanctions 16 new food processing projects

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Ministry of Food Processing Industries has sanctioned 16 new food processing /preservation and infrastructure projects with a total cost of Rs.230 crore with subsidy commitment of Rs.85 crore for Assam in the last one year. It include 3 agro-processing clusters or Mini Food Parks with the objective to create common modern food processing/preservation infrastructure facilities for the processing/preservation units, 12 food processing/preservation units and 1 backward and forward linkage infrastructure. The Ministry has so far sanctioned 53 food processing/preservation projects in the different states of North East region in various supply chain component in the food processing sector with a…

19 Aug

Google India’s flood forecasting initiative

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Over the past several months, along with the Central Water Commission (CWC), Google India have deployed its flood forecasting initiative and sent numerous public alerts to people in impacted regions across India. These alerts provide timely, updated, and critical information that can help users make informed decisions on their safety. Any user in the affected region with an Android smartphone with location services enabled will receive these alerts. Google India is currently issuing these notifications in English, Hindi and Bengali depending on the device language and location of users. One can also use Search to simply enter a query on…

19 Aug

Flipkart: 8,000 new sellers participated in their first sale event

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During the Flipkart’s recently concluded five-day-long Independence Day Sale (August 6-10)Kick-starting the festive season, sellers on the Flipkart Marketplace platform witnessed significant business growth. In this period, the Flipkart marketplace platform recorded a 54 per cent increase in transacting sellers compared to last year. The Independence Day Sale event saw participation from sellers primarily from Tier 2 cities and beyond. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce has emerged as the preferred channel to connect with consumers nationwide. Since the nationwide lockdown, Flipkart saw an increased interest from sellers to join the platform. Since then, the company has onboarded…