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Coast Guard (ICG) and its Bangladesh counterpart BCG was held on Monday, an official said.

Paytm-pioneered QR Codes have changed the entire payments landscape, teaching ‘scan and pay’ to millions of users. With the launch of Paytm Soundbox in 2019, in-store payments got a complete overhaul. Paytm became the first company to introduce audio payment alerts through its iconic Soundbox.

Mangalyaan in November 2013 with an objective of exploring Mars' surface, morphology, and mineralogy; studying the Martian atmosphere; testing interplanetary mission technologies and demonstrating India's space capabilities. With the mission, the objective of developing the technologies required for interplanetary missions was achieved.

ethos pervades everything that we conceive, believe, and achieve at Reliance. Esteemed Friends, In all humility, I would like to say that the new Reliance has been a forerunner of the emerging new India. With soaring ambition, we have set seemingly impossible goals and achieved them.

Today, Prime Minister Modi handed over appointment... moreToday, Prime Minister Modi handed over appointment letters to 51,000 'Amrit Rakshaks' during the 8th edition of 'rozgar mela'.

Ukraine-Pakistan ties have gradually deepened amid the ongoing war with Russia. Islamabad started importing wheat from Kyiv earlier this year and is reportedly shipping weapons and other defence items to the war-hit nation. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba had also made a day trip to Pakistan last month - the first ministerial visit from Ukraine since the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries in 1993.

New Delhi: Shell India on Monday announced the appointment of Mansi Madan Tripathy as the new country chair of the company, effective 1 October, the company said in a statement. Tripathy will succeed Nitin Prasad who has been the country chair since 2016, it added.

Sunil Gavaskar on Monday said India will rise as a 'sporting country' in the next 10-15 years, while lauding historic achievements of javelin sensation Neeraj Chopra, chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa and badminton star HS Prannoy. Chopra on Sunday became the first-ever Indian to win a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships, while Praggnanandhaa last week created history by reaching the World Cup final at 18 years. Prannoy defeated the world No 1 Viktor Axelsen en route to winning a World Championships bronze. «Earlier, you would see only a few sports would be talked about, media coverage would only be for those,» the Indian cricket icon told the media here after he was revealed as the principal advisor of the Midwicket Stories. «Now all sports have got an outlet and exposure and because of the other sports, we are getting to see the (emergence of) stars.» The Little Master was brimming with joy as he witnessed Chopra's triumphant moment of becoming a world champion in Budapest. «I remember when he (Neeraj Chopra) had won the Tokyo Olympics gold, the India-England series was going on… »I was watching from England, and I was prompted to sing a song 'Mere desh ki dharti sona ugle...' Yesterday, I experienced the same feeling," he said. «We had seen Neeraj two years earlier when he won the gold medal in the Olympics.

AI), IT major IBM is bullish on the innovations coming out from its research and development (R&D) centres in India and the company will continue to invest more as the country aims to become a trillion dollar digital economy by 2026, its Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said here on Monday. AI adoption is steadily on the rise globally and India is well poised to lead the AI revolution and establish itself as an AI innovation garage of the world. The company has close to 100,000 employees in the country, with its facilities spread across the country, he said. «Our researchers in India are doing some of the deepest work on AI than anywhere in the world.

B L Verma Monday said the Centre has distributed job letters to 5.5 lakh youth since last October and aims to provide 10 lakh jobs by year-end. Addressing a Rozgar mela at the Border Security Force (BSF) headquarters here, Verma handed over appointment letters to 250 candidates, out of a total of 1,000 selected for various Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) such as BSF, CRPF CISF, SSB, and ITBP. This morning, Modi distributed over 51,000 appointment letters to the youth, mostly in the security forces, joined in from 45 locations across the country. Distributing job letters at the event here, Verma said this Rozgar Mela scheme is part of the government's efforts to abate unemployment in the country. «In October 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a commitment that 10 lakh jobs will be given to youth by December 2023.

Investing.com — China slashes a levy on stock trading in a bid to reinvigorate capital markets and boost investor confidence. Shares in the country rise following the announcement, although ailing property group Evergrande's shares slide sharply after they start trading for the first time since March 2022. Meanwhile, 3M's stock climbs in premarket trading on reports that the industrial conglomerate has reached a settlement over personal injury claims related to earplugs it has sold to the U.S. military.

Mansi Madan Tripathy will take over as the new country chair of Shell India from October 1, the company said in a statement. She will succeed Nitin Prasad who has been heading Shell in India since 2016. Mansi joined Shell in 2012 from Procter & Gamble and has held multiple assignments at the energy major. Currently, she is based in Singapore as vice president of Shell Lubricants for Asia Pacific, a role she will not relinquish when she returns to New Delhi in October to head the Indian operation. Before moving to Singapore, Tripathy served as the managing director of Shell Lubricants India. Tripathy is an engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra and has an MBA in Marketing from S.P.

Solar capacity addition in the country declined 58 per cent to 1.7 gigawatt in the April-June period, mainly due to land and transmission-related issues, Mercom India said on Monday. The country added 4 GW of solar capacity in the year-ago quarter, the research firm said in 'Q2 2023 India Solar Market Update'. «India added 1.7 GW solar capacity in Q2 of 2023.

The financial capital of India has recorded the sixth highest year-on-year growth in prime residential property prices among global cities in the April-June period of 2023. In the second quarter of 2023, the prices of prime residential properties rose by 5.2 per cent year-on-year in Mumbai.

Article 35A of the Indian Constitution that was scrapped in 2019, ‘took away fundamental rights’. The CJI made the comments during the hearing of petition challenging the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status. A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant for the eleventh day on Monday, continued hearing petitions challenging the Centre's decision to repeal the special status of Jammu and Kashmir by diluting Article 370 and Article 35A.

During a discussion in which Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang, Matters' co-founder and current CEO Zhang Jieping, and Ethereum's co-founder Vitalik Buterin participated, an unexpected finding was made.

Skyroot Aerospace, which launched India's first private rocket in 2022, aims to double its planned launches starting next year on a likely boost to the country's fledgling private space sector from the success of the Chandrayaan-3 moon mission. The Hyderabad-based company, backed by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, GIC, is also aiming to raise more money by the end of next year, co-founder Pawan Kumar Chandana told Reuters in an interview. «From 2024 and later, we're looking at at least two launches per year and will probably ramp up as we move further,» said Chandana, whose company is set to send its second rocket to space by the end of the year. Chandana, a former scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, said he was receiving «a lot of messages from global and domestic investors» who want to understand Skyroot's business ever since India became the first country to achieve a safe landing on the lunar south pole. The company conducted India's first private rocket launch looking to cut satellite launch costs in an industry fast getting crowded as various firms build out networks to deliver broadband services, which need small satellite launches.

R Praggnanandhaa has made a name for himself. From the country's Prime Minister to renowned businessmen, the FIDE World Cup 2023 silver medallist has been receiving praise from well-known personalities for his exceptional run at the tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. On Monday, billionaire business tycoon Anand Mahindra took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to announce that he will be giving an XUV4OO EV to the chess prodigy's parents Rameshbabu and Nagalakshmi.

Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani sounded upbeat about the India story and revealed the company's ambitious plans in his speech at the 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the company. Highlighting that the new India is full of self-confidence and the new Reliance is the forerunner of the emerging new India, Ambani pointed out that Reliance Industries’ consolidated revenues stood at ₹9,74,864 crore, while EBITDA for FY23 was ₹1,53,920 crore in FY23. The net profit was ₹73,670 crore.

China is set to lift the requirement for incoming travelers to provide a negative COVID-19 test result starting Wednesday. This move marks a significant milestone in the country's efforts to ease the stringent virus-related restrictions that have been in place since early 2020. The announcement was made by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin during a briefing on Monday.

free trade in the belief that it would liberalize China. But Biden maintained much of his predecessor’s tough policies toward Beijing. Tariffs remained in place.