Malayasia approves visa free entry – Good news for Indian travelers Indian travelers bound for overseas have been finding it difficult to travel because of passport and visa hassles. But now Malaysia has also joined those countries giving visa free entry to Indian travelers in their country and now can travel throughout Malaysia for 30…
Iconic Jazz pianist dies at 88 Les McCann, the iconic jazz pianist, renowned for the protest song ‘Compared to What’, breathed his last today, Friday, 5 January at 88 at a hospital in Los Angels. This was confirmed by his Manager. He had been hospitalized last week due to pneumonia, though no cause of death…
Mumbai builder Vijay Machinder arrested in.Rs 50 crore fraud case – has underworld links As part of their crackdown on fraud builders, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested a Mumbai-based builder identified as Vijay Machinder, one of the directors of Ornate Spaces Private Limited. Reportedly he has collaboration with Arif Abubakar Shaikh, also recognised…
SingerTaylor Swift shatters Elvis Presley’s record as solo artiste Singer Taylor Swift has shattered Elvis Presley’s long standing record for the most weeks spent atop the Billboard 200 album chart by a solo artiste. She set a new mark of 68 total weeks and landed on top of the chart for a fifth time in…
Hiranandani Group’s Yotta Data Services to install largest Supercomputer, Shakti Cloud, Hiranandani Group’s Yotta Data Services is ambitiously endeavouring to construct India’s largest Supercomputer, Shakti Cloud, potentially ranking as the world’s 10th largest. In pursuit of this goal, Yotta is acquiring 16,000 of Nvidia’s H100 Tensor GPUs. After all, Nvidia practically owns 90% of the…
Meet Simala Prasad daughter of IAS Officer Dr Bhagirath Prasad who worked in films -today an IAS officer There are several families whose generations have served the country as civil servants in over 70 years of India’s history. One such woman is Simala Prasad daughter of Dr Bhagirath Prasad IAS Officer. Joning the civil services…
Fresh regulations and changes for UPI transactions comes into effect from Wednesday 3 Jan In a bid to intensify the scope of UPI payments, the Reserve Bank of India has announced some measures and changes. There will also be a 1.1 per cent interchange fee on certain merchant UPI transactions above Rs 2,000 The Unified…
RBI’s new directive to banks No minimum balance charges on ‘inoperative accounts RBI has initiated a new move with No minimum balance charges on ‘inoperative accounts. It states that banks cannot impose a penalty for not maintaining minimum balance on accounts that are inoperative – those that have not recorded any transaction for over two…
Residents of Andheri Lokhandwala fight illegal encroachments in BMC park Residents in Lokhandwala, Mumbai, are campaigning for the removal of an alleged illegal gurdwara and open kitchen from a local park. They argue that the park is being used for religious purposes, which is depriving residents of open space and threatening the secular environment. Construction…
Truckers rescind strike following government’s assurance on contentious law With the trucker’s strike having heavily impacted on fuel supply and essential items such as milk and vegetables, the government reached out to the agitating transporters and after a late evening meeting amidst Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla and All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) representatives and…
