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India’s leading telecom services provider Vodafone Idea has introduced a unique service to empower feature phone users and non-digital savvy customers to recharge their Vodafone Idea numbers with just a valid UPI ID. Vodafone Idea has tied up with Paytm to launch this service across the country. The move will help millions of consumers who use feature phones to top up their numbers without having the need to visit physical retail touchpoints. This service is based on the innovative payment service *99# which works on the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel. Envisioned as a key facilitator to financial inclusion,…

The customary exchange of Eid sweets between the Border Security Force (BSF) and its Pakistani counterpart, Pakistan Rangers, did not not take place along the India-Pakistan border on Monday, officials said. The event was given a miss as the relations between the two countries are strained at present, they added. However, the force exchanged sweets with its Bangladeshi counterpart, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), all along the eastern front. India and Bangladesh share a 4,096-km-long international border. “BSF and BGB share a very cordial relationship. Both the countries share a similar culture, traditions and festivals. “The warmth and bonding between the…

Rejecting reports on the detention of a joint patrol party detained by Chinese forces in Ladakh, the Indian Army said on Sunday that these were "inaccurate". It was claimed that an Indian patrol party comprising Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel was detained by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) last week after skirmishes in Ladakh. On Friday, Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General M M Naravane visited the headquarters of the 14 Corps based in Leh in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh amid growing tensions between the Indian and Chinese armies at multiple locations along the Line…

Even more than three years after demonetisation and all-out efforts to make most transactions through electronic, cash is still king, as it thrives in a digital India, said fintech start-up Paytm founder Vijay Sekhar Sharma. "While cashless economy is not possible in India, less cash economy will be in the future. Less cash is the only solution, not the elimination of cash," Sharma told IANS in an interview after unveiling an all-in-one payment gateway on Tuesday. India’s leading financial services company Paytm has today announced that‘Business Khata’ has become India’s fastest-growing e-ledger service. As more kiranastores are adopting digital transactions to avoid cash, Paytm has recorded…

Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited is the largest industrial paint and third largest decorative paint company of India based in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of Kansai Paint of Japan. As of 2015, it has the third largest market share with 15.4% in the Indian paint industry.  Kolkata, 22nd May 2020: Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd. (KNPL) has recentlyannounced a first of its kind industry-wide initiative, titled #PaintTheirFuture, toextend a helping hand to the painter community in India. As part of this initiative, acrowd sourced fund has been created to provide financial aid to painters and theirfamilies in case they get infected…

Cyclone Amphan made landfall in West Bengal, India, near the Bangladeshi border. Amphan became the strongest storm ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal on Monday night, though it has since weakened slightly. Indian officials said that up to 300,000 people in coastal areas are in immediate danger from potentially deadly storm surges and flooding. Evacuations across the region have been complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, as authorities attempt to maintain strict social distancing rules. Affected families are suffering through the aftermath of the most intense cyclones, risk ofspreading coronavirus pandemic is looming large. Maintaining social distance is getting difficultat this hour of crisis.…

Nilkamal Limited is a plastic products manufacturer based in Mumbai, India.It is the world's largest manufacturer of moulded furniture and Asia's largest processor of plastic moulded products. Kolkata:India's favourite furniture brand,Nilkamal has rolled out a wide range of exclusiveproducts such as the Covid Quarantine Bed, 7 position isolation bed,VirusGUARD partition,TravelGUARD partitionand Hand Wash Stations.The brand has further introduced theQuick Covid bed that is most economical and takes less than 3 minutes to assemble andinstall.Commenting on the innovation, Mr. Ajay Agarwal, VP Operations, Nilkamal Limited. said,“Thecoronavirus pandemic has augmented the necessity of innovative and applicablesolutions to meet the emerging need gap…

Electric vehicles produce less carbon dioxide than petrol cars across the vast majority of the globe – contrary to the claims of some detractors, who have alleged that the CO2 emitted in the production of electricity and their manufacture outweighs the benefits. Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found that under current conditions, driving an electric car is better for the climate than conventional petrol cars in 95 per cent of the world. The only exceptions are places like Poland, where electricity generation is still mostly based on coal, the researchers said. Average lifetime emissions from electric cars are…