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SC To Hear Plea Challenging Offline Mode Of Board Exams

Pooja YadavFebruary 22, 20220

Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to concentrate on a plea that seeks the cancellation of physical examinations for classes 10 and 12 to be conducted by the Central Board of exertion (CBSE) and several other boards this time. The plea is heard by Justice A M Khanwilkar's bench on Wednesday, February 23.   A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar said that an advance dupe of the solicitation is served to the standing counsel for the Central Board of pedagogy (CBSE) and other repliers concerned. The plea was mentioned for a critical table before the bench, also comprising Judges Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ravikumar. Admissions to all or any professional courses are delayed 2 times now. "Results of examinations held in 2021 were declared between July and August and admissions t...

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UGC Permits 900 Autonomous Colleges To Run Online Courses; Know Commission’s Stand On Delhi Colleges

Pooja YadavFebruary 22, 20220

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has granted permission to 900 additional colleges to produce online degrees for students. This decision will open up new learning opportunities for scholars. the choice was also made keeping in sight the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which promotes online education. Students are going to be able to get their degrees remotely with the assistance of online education. Before this order, only universities were allowed to own online courses. Now, around 900 autonomous colleges, which have National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) 3.26 grade, are allowed to supply online degrees and courses. The eligibility criteria for college students to enrol in online degree courses includes being Class 12 and undergraduate, qualified for takin...

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Russia-Ukraine Tensions To Impact Stock Markets, Other Sectors: Experts

Pooja YadavFebruary 22, 20220

The impact of the invasion of Ukraine by neighbouring Russia would be felt across the stock market and other markets from wheat and energy prices, sovereign dollar bonds to safe heaven to the stock markets. In general situations due to uneventful events, people tend to pull out their investments and divert them to safe-haven securities. People will start investing in bonds, especially sovereign bonds. In the present situation, there is anyways a risk of inflation. In the forex market, the Euro currency exchange is considered to be the biggest indicator of geopolitics risk in the eurozone as the Swiss currency has been long seen as safe haven by investors. The swiss currency exchange rate saw hit its highest hit since May 2015 in late January. Gold has also been seen as a shelte...

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Nepal Becomes First To Adopt India’s UPI System

Pooja YadavFebruary 22, 20220

Nepal is the primary country to adopt India's UPI system, which played a pivotal role in transforming the digital economy of the neighbouring country. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said on Thursday, it'll revolutionalize the digital payment system in Nepal. UPI is a real-time payment system providing simplicity, safety and security in P2P and P2M transactions in India. In 2021, it enabled 3,900 crore financial transactions valuable USD 940 billion which is reminiscent of approximately 31% of India's GDP. According to some reports, UPI is estimated within the yr 2022, making it to cross $1 trillion in overall volumes for the present yr. The international arm of NPCI has joined hands with the gateway payments services and Manam infotech to supply the service...

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No Development At Cost Of Livelihood: Ayodhaya Shop Owners Protest Against Road Widening Project

Pooja YadavFebruary 22, 20220

Road-widening projects are underway to cater to the crowds expected at the Ram temple. People who are running small shops, selling artefacts and puja material are afraid the project will raze their livelihoods. Ayodhya Development Plan In 2021, the event plan in the city hit its first roadblock when several hundred shopkeepers on the Hanuman Garhi road protested against the proposed widening of the roads. Several processions were taken out by the shopkeepers and many shopkeepers sat on dharna outside the district magistrate’s office to demand a response from the administration. Subsequently, letters too were written. The road-widening will cause the demolition of some shops, while others will lose a part of the shop area. Almost a year later, shopkeepers and traders are still up ...

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IRCTC Collaborates With RuPay For Contactless Payments; Learn Hegemony Of Domestic Payment System

Pooja YadavFebruary 22, 20220

IRCTC has collaborated with RuPay for contactless payments and credit payments. There are many institutions collaborating with RuPay nationally and internationally. What we need to understand that how this card system has created a hegemony and captured a major shareholder in the market. There was a time most of the online transactions were done through VISA and MasterCard, which are foreign companies. These companies used to store data related to every transaction in their servers located in foreign countries. It also collects per transactions charges from our banks to enable card-based transactions. RuPay emerged as the largest shareholder in India's debit card market. It has threatened the existence of international associations and today, they have been forced to complain US go...

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“Statue Of Equality And Politics”

Pooja YadavFebruary 21, 20220

Earlier this month, a 216-foot high statue of Ramanujacharya – founding father of the Vishishta Advaita school of Vaishnavism in 11 century South India – was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The statue is called ‘Statue of Equality, presumably on the lines of the Statue of Liberty in the big apple. Modi said Ramanuja’s Statue of Equality and Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel’s Statue of Unity will change India. The main institutionalize of the most recent statue is Chinna Jeeyar Swamy, said to be the guru of Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao. Chinna Jeeyar Swamy claims and also the prime minister of India affirms, that a good spiritual movement of equality was launched, then again why was untouchability in those areas even more widespread than the remainder of India. For thos...

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Police Seen As Insensitive Towards Commoners: Parliamentary Committee

Pooja YadavFebruary 19, 20220

A parliamentary panel has expressed anguish that the general public image of police across the country is negative and they are often seen as insensitive towards the soul and vulnerable sections. The Parliamentary Committee on the ministry of home affairs, headed by Congress leader Anand Sharma, also noted concernedly that corruption complaints were filed against some IPS officers. The committee noted with anguish that the general public image of police throughout the country is more on the negative side. The panel said the police are often seen as insensitive towards the commoner and vulnerable sections. “While there's no question that various reasons might have attributed to such behaviour on the part of the police, emphasis on right training during this regard is one among the wa...

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North Korea Tests Biggest Missile After 4 Years, US Gets Worked Up

Pooja YadavFebruary 19, 20220

North Korea has verified on Monday that it had launched a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile. It is the identical armament it had formerly hovered to concentrate on the US home of Guam, sparking fears the nuclear-fortified state could renew long-range testing. The launch of the intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) was first reported by South Korean and Japanese authorities on Sunday. It was the seventh test conducted by an Asian country this month and thus the first time a nuclear-able missile of that size has been launched since 2017. The US seems worried due to North Korea’s raising bullet tests which may be precursors to proceeded tests of nuclear munitions and multinational ballistic dumdums (ICBMs) and pledged an unidentified response “designed to point out...

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“Yamana Language Dies With The Death Of Cristina Calderon Being The Last Guardian”

Pooja YadavFebruary 19, 20220

Cristina Calderon died on Wednesday, aged 93. She had mastered the Yamana language of the Yagan community and after the death of her family in 2003 was the last person within the world who could speak it An indigenous language from South America’s remotest south has near vanished after the death of its last living speaker and guardian of its ancestral culture. Cristina Calderon failed on Wednesday, aged 93. She had learned the Yamana language of the Yagan community and after the death of her family in 2003 was the last person within the world who could speak it. She worked to save lots of her knowledge by creating a wordbook of the language with paraphrases to Spanish. “ With her, a veritably important part of the artistic memory of our people is gone,” said Lidia Gonzalez, Calderon...

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Over 11 Lakh Ineligible Farmer Benefitted Under PM KISAN Scheme: Assam Government To High Court

Pooja YadavFebruary 19, 20220

The Assam government has informed the Gauhati High Court that a total of 12 lakh ineligible farmers in the state have received benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme. The court was hearing a plea filed by NGO Amguri Naba Nirman Samity. The division bench comprising justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Soumitra Saikia asked the state government to file a close status report on the case. Nearly 12 lakh ineligible farmers received benefits under the ambitious scheme in Assam, the government has informed the HC indicating an enormous scam within the farmer flagship program. “The state has filed an affidavit wherein it's verified that over eleven lakh persons are wrongly given the good thing about the aforesaid scheme,” the HC order given on Tuesday ...

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“Chattisgarh Gets Another District-Shakti”- Know More!

Pooja YadavFebruary 19, 20220

The Sakti district is carved out of the Janjgir -Champa district. Sakti was the tehsil of janjgir-Champa. Sakti has a tropical wet and dry climate. Temperatures remain moderate through most of the year, though not from march to June which can be extremely hot. The temperature in April may sometimes rise above 44 degrees celsius. These summer months also have dry and hot winds. The city receives about 1300mm of rain mostly in the monsoon season from late June to early October. Winters last from November to January and are mild although lows can fall to 5 degrees. The total number of villages in the shakti district is 127. Shakti's sex ratio is 999females per thousand males. As per the 2021 Aadhaar estimates Sakti districts' population in 2021 is 173162. Accor...

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