In the excitement over the allocation of bank licences for the private sector, a new category of licence offered by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last year went almost unnoticed. That was when the RBI consolidated the rules for prepaid payment instruments (PPI), popularly understood as e-wallets or gift cards. In the process, the regulator has fast-forwarded a bottom-up card usage industry in India that is completely different from the world of bank-linked credit and debit cards.
In the application, Habibullah, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and social activist Bahadur Abbas Naqvi have also sought direction to authorities to ensure safety of women sitting on protest against the CAA at Shaheen Bagh and other places in the national capital.
Here are some of the worst terror attacks in recent history with trains and passengers as intended targets.
With its fleet of nearly 1,000 electric three-wheelers in Delhi-NCR, it moves around 100,000 commuters daily. The company will use the funding to rapidly increase its fleet size within Delhi-NCR as well as other key cities around the country.
The wrestlers protesting at the Jantar Mantar, about two kilometres from Parliament, said that they will go ahead with their 'Mahila Mahapanchayat' near the new building at any cost.
About 45 per cent work has been completed on the 33.494 km long Janakpuri-Kalindi Kunj Metro corridor by September
Prakash Javadekar said the forest cover in the national capital has increased since then and public transport system has also improved.
A lady in a white salwar suit leads the chants of people holding both Indian and US flags.
Around 1,200 protesters demanding scrapping of the amended citizenship act were detained on Thursday when they defied prohibitory orders imposed by the Delhi Police in Red Fort area. Internet, voice and messaging services by Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Reliance Jio were suspended in parts of Delhi-NCR, in perhaps for the first time that the national capital experienced such restrictions.
No stranger to the Cannes red carpet, Neelam Gill rubbed shoulders with the fashion world's biggies like Adrianna Lima and Karlie Kloss.
A look at security arrangements in and around Delhi as it prepares to welcome Chief Guest Obama.
A video of cutting and felling of trees in Aarey is being circulated by protestors on social media.
India's power consumption grew 11.45 per cent to 55.37 billion units (BU) in the first half of October this year, mainly driven by buoyancy in industrial and commercial activities, as per government data.
The count of active cases has further reduced to 24,19,907, which is 8.84 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 90.01 per cent, the data showed.
Store will directly employ 500-700 people, half of them women, and create 1,500 jobs indirectly
The assailant, Donald Thurman, 26, was arrested Sunday from a Chicago metro station.
'A slum free Mumbai cannot happen with Dharavi at the centre of the city.'
On May 5, the Gauhati high court had rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Srinivas in a case lodged by expelled chief of Assam Youth Congress Angkita Dutta, accusing him of causing mental agony to her.
Alphonse Lyoura, an airport baggage security officer, did not flee the scene when two bomb blasts erupted in the departures area on Tuesday but began to help the injured.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra warned that 'the more the government tries to suppress the voice of people, the louder it will become'.
Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who helped kill 14 people when he set off his suicide vest at Brussels airport on Tuesday, left the will in the bin of the terror cell's Schaerbeek safehouse.
The ministry of external affairs on Monday confirmed the death of Raghavendran Ganesh
The police said 10 companies have been deployed outside JNU. One company comprises 70 to 80 personnel.
"Raghavendran Ganesh -- We have tracked his last call in Brussels. He was travelling in the metro rail," Swaraj said in a tweet.
Earlier in the day, heavy traffic congestion was reported in places such as Rani Jhansi Road, Qutub Road, Old Iron Bridge, Kishan Ganj Road and Lajpat Nagar Metro Station.
Mohamed Abrini was arrested in the borough of Anderlecht, in Brussels, next to the western district of Molenbeek, while two other suspects were detained at the same time as Abrini, and two further arrests made in an undisclosed location in Brussels.
Mumbai bids adieu to its iconic red double-decker buses.
'If you look through the optics of BJP leader Kapil Mishra, he was standing with a deputy commissioner of police while giving a hate speech.' 'Immediately, the message goes down that the police is 'with us' so let's start rioting.'
The driver and the conductor of a bus that got stuck at the Minto Bridge underpass due to waterlogging were rescued by fire department personnel, officials said.
In the note it was written that Pandey, a 2012-batch IAS officer, was fed up with his life.
"Seven lines of the Delhi Metro network are now open! Thank you dear commuters for following the safety guidelines and helping us maintain good service. #MetroBackOnTrack," the DMRC tweeted after the three new lines resumed services.
Notably, after coming to power in November 2019, the then MVA government scrapped certain policy decisions of its predecessor BJP-Shiv Sena government led by Fadnavis.
Laxman Maake, 47, tells us why he is disappointed with the ATM that he often goes to.
Delhiites woke up to the sound of thunder and lightning this morning and, according to the weather department, the city recorded 117.9 mm rainfall from 5:30 AM to 2.30 PM.
The fire department said the four-storey building, which did not have a fire safety certificate, had a single entry and exit point.
Protesting farmers owing allegiance to different farmers' bodies blocked state and national highways at several places on Saturday, causing inconvenience to commuters.
Protesters raised slogans against the BJP-ruled South Delhi Municipal Corporation as well as the central government and demanded to stop the action.
The 24-year-old Snapdeal employee who went missing on Wednesday said that she was abducted by four men at knife point while she was on her way back home in an auto-rickshaw.
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