Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) has decided to suspend its weekly ratings of TV news channels for a period of three months, covering all Hindi, regional, English news and business news channels with immediate effect. BARC measures TV viewership on behalf of broadcasters, advertisers and advertising agencies. BARC will not publish the weekly individual ratings […]
State Bank of India (SBI) core banking services have been hit, the lender informed in a tweet. But not everything is down as users can still access ATMs and POS machines for transacting money. The top lender, in the tweet, confirmed that it has been facing some connectivity issues. “Intermittent have delayed making our Core […]
Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (RKA) chairman Vallabhbhai Kathiria unveiled a ‘chip’ made of cow dung on Tuesday and claimed that it reduces radiation from mobile handsets and has been scientifically proven. Addressing at the launch of a nationwide campaign ‘Kamdhenu Deepawali Abhiyan’, which is aimed at promoting cow dung products, Kathiria said, “Cow dung will protect […]
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared results of compartment exams for class 10 on Monday. According to CBSE, the pass percentage for the exam was at 56.55%. Out of the total 1,46,604 students who appeared for the exam, 82,903 passed it. Last month, Supreme Court had asked CBSE to declare the compartment results as […]
First instalment of the 8.5% interest that Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) was going to pay to its subscribers for the financial year (FY) 2019-20, will likely be credited by Diwali and the second instalment of 0.35% will be credited by December. However, this is still under discussion. The board in September had decided to […]
Popular video conferencing platform Zoom has added an authentication feature called Single Sign-On (SSO) to keep the classrooms secure amid the pandemic. Using SSO feature, users will be able to log in one time, under one set of credentials, to get access to all the applications, data, and services they need. Zoom already has an SSO […]
Restoring the pre-Covid system of preparing second reservation chart half-an-hour before departure time, from October 10 railway seats will be available even five minutes before the train leaves the station. Regular passenger train services were suspended in the wake of the pandemic. But the Indian Railways is restoring the pre-Covid practices in a staggered manner […]
United Nations (UN) food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), won the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas. The announcement was made in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. “The need for international solidarity and multilateral co-operation […]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday kept key repo rate unchanged at 4% in its October policy review meeting in view of rising inflation and faint signs of economic growth amid gradual lifting of countrywide lockdown. The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by RBI governor Shaktikanta Das, kept repo rate untouched; and […]
Railways has decided to run Vande Bharat express train from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir’s Katra and Shree Shakti Express, which was suspended due to the pandemic. Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that the Vande Bharat express train from Delhi to Katra, a town near the Mata Vaishno Devi temple, will resume soon. […]