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20 Sep

Newly sworn-in Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi urges Centre to withdraw farm laws

editor0 CommentsIndiaFarmers Protest, punjab

In his first address as the Punjab Chief Minister, Charanjit Singh Channi urged the Centre to withdraw the three farm laws. “We have to strengthen Punjab. It is the state of farmers. I appeal to the Centre to withdraw the farm laws. I will sever my head but I won’t let any harm come to the farmers,” he said. Farmers in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana have been protesting against three contentious farm laws. Several rounds of meetings between the Centre and farmer leaders have ended in deadlock. Channi, the first Dalit chief minister of the state, said he will…

20 Sep

India To Resume Export, Donations Of Surplus Covid Vaccines Next Month

editor0 CommentsCovid-19, India, International

The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on September 20 said the government will resume exports of COVID-19 vaccine under the Vaccine Maitri initiative from October. Mandaviya told the media that India will resume vaccine exports to fulfil the country's commitment towards the world in the collective fight against COVID. This announcement has come just a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US where the issue of vaccine export was likely going to be raised by US President, Joe Biden. Addressing the media, Mandaviya said that this is an effort to restart the 'Vaccine…

20 Sep

BYJU’S Tripura student scores over 99 per cent

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Arijit Pal, the student of BYJU’S, the world’s leading Edtech Company, has done Tripura proud by securing 99.8 per cent marks in the 10th board examination. Studying at Vivekananda Vidyapith Higher Secondary School of Gomati. Arijit has secured prominent positions in the merit list announced by CBSE earlier this month. He has been learning with BYJU’S for over a year to strengthen his conceptual clarity through the app's digital learning tools. Speaking on the success, Vinay MR, Chief Content Officer, BYJU’S, said, “Arijit’s achievement is a true testimony to the efficacy of our platform. We wish him luck in his…

20 Sep

HDFC Mutual Fund announces launch HDFC Developed World Indexes Fund

editor0 CommentsIndiahdfc, mutual fund

HDFC Asset Management Company Limited has launched its first international offering – HDFC Developed World Indexes Fund of Funds (“the Fund”), the first of its kind, providing exposure to 5 regions across 23 developed markets countries, 1500+ constituents and 14 currencies with coverage of 56% of global GDP & ~ 50% of world market cap in one single fund. The Fund is being launched in association with Credit Suisse Asset Management, one of the world’s leading global asset managers with USD 510bnin assets under management. The Fund will invest in Credit Suisse Index Funds and/or ETFs which will in aggregate…

20 Sep

Poshmark, Inc. Social Shopping Experience Now Available in India

editor0 CommentsIndia, LifestylePoshmark

Poshmark, Inc. has launched its simple, social and sustainable shopping experience in India. As India’s first technology-advanced and truly social marketplace, Poshmark makes it simple and easy for anyone to sell items from their closet, enabled by a full suite of end-to-end seller tools and services, including seamless listing, merchandising, promotion, pricing, and shipping. Indian consumers will be able to join Poshmark's booming community of more than 80 million users and a vibrant network of millions of shoppable closets to make money, save money, connect with others, and foster entrepreneurship. Manish Chandra, founder and CEO of Poshmark, said, “I am…

20 Sep

Livspace announces expansion across India and APAC

editor0 CommentsIndiaLivspace

Livspace, India and Southeast Asia’s largest home interior andrenovation platform announced its expansion plans across 80 markets, including 60 new marketentries across India and 20 Asia Pacific cities. Consolidating its leadership in the segment,Livspace, which holds a 65% market share in the organised home interiors sector, plans to set up150 Design Experience Centre (ECs) over the next 18 months. With this phase of expansion, thecompany is best placed to capture the demand for modular solutions from markets such asIndore, Surat, Lucknow, Mysore and many more. The new centres will supplement an existingnetwork of over 25 stores in both metros and…

20 Sep

How Parents Can Keep Their Children Safe From Covid-19

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Children are the heart of the concerns for an anticipated third wave of Covid-19 in India. A child with a COVID-19 infection may be asymptomatic, mildly symptomatic, moderately sick, or severely ill. The symptoms for children are similar to those for adults including fever, cough, shortness of breath and fatigue among others. is an ayurvedic syrup that helps in improving appetite and mothers can easily give home-cooked nutritious food to their children. It contains nine natural ingredients including Giloy, Amla, Pippali, etc. That is even recommended by Ayush Mantralaya to help children strengthen their natural immune system. Making sure that…

20 Sep

UTI Mid Cap Fund: Benefit From The Market’s Potential Sweet Spot

editor0 CommentsIndiaUTI Mid Cap Fund

UTI Mid Cap Fund is an open-ended equity scheme investing predominantly in mid-cap companies. Mid-cap stocks fall in between the large-cap and small-cap stocks and are typically determined based on the market capitalization of the companies. As defined by SEBI, 101st to 250th companies by full market capitalization are mid-cap stocks. A mid-cap fund predominantly invests in mid-cap stocks with a minimum of 65% of the fund’s corpus in equity & equity-related instruments of mid-cap companies. The Fund has about 67% invested into mid-cap companies, 18% into small-cap companies, and remaining in large-cap companies as of August 31, 2021. The…

18 Sep

Bengaluru: 5 family members, including 9-month-old baby, found dead in house

editor0 CommentsIndiakarnataka, suicide

A two-year-old girl survived with the bodies of her five family members for three days after they allegedly died by suicide at their Bengaluru home. But another nine-month-old infant starved to death. The two-year-old was finally rescued on Friday and the shocking details of the deaths emerged as H Shankar returned to his home after five days and realised his family had met a tragic end, police said. Only his granddaughter was alive."We found out that there were five bodies inside the house. A baby was found alive…. we don't know the reason behind the deaths. We have rescued the…

18 Sep

Shilpa Shetty shares a strong message on ‘bad decisions’ & ‘new ending’

editor0 CommentsIndiaShilpa Shetty

Amid the ongoing pornography case of businessman Raj Kundra, his wife and Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra on Saturday shared an excerpt from a book that reflected on the thoughts of 'bad decisions' and ‘brand new ending’. Taking to her Instagram stories, Shilpa shared a picture of a quote by Carl Bard. The quote read, "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." Titled 'New endings', the excerpt for the chapter read, "We can spend a lot of time analyzing the bad decisions we've made,…