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Mar 06, 2019

One Nation One Card

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the indigenously-developed National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Dubbed as ''One Nation One Card'', the card will allow people to pay multiple kinds of transport charges, including metro services and toll tax, all over India.
The inter-operable transport card can also be used to pay for bus travel, toll taxes, parking charges, retail shopping and withdraw money
This card runs on RuPay card.

RLD Joins SP-BSP Alliance

The Rashtriya Lok Dal has been officially inducted into the alliance of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh and has been allotted three out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the State.
The announcement was made here by RLD vice president Jayant Chaudhary and SP president Akhilesh Yadav at a joint press conference.

Mar 05, 2019

IDBI Bank to Appoint New Deputy MDs

IDBI Bank has invited applications for the posts of two deputy managing directors (DMDs).
The tenure of the candidates shall be three years, extendable by a further period of two years or attainment of age 60.
One of the current DMDs, K.P. Nair, retires in May. The other, G.M. Yadwadkar, was appointed in September 2016 for three years. He would retire in 2022.
Both were appointed by the government as the majority shareholder. Now, with LIC becoming the promoter, the appointments, including that of MD and CEO, would be made by the insurer.

Mar 04, 2019

Mumbai Monorail's Second Leg Inaugurated

Railway minister Piyush Goyal and chief minister (CM) Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated phase-2 of the Monorail, extending from Wadala to Jacob Circle, operationalising the entire 19.5-km (Chembur to Jacob Circle) stretch after a delay of eight years.
Mumbai will become the first city in the country to have a Monorail, Metro and suburban rail services.
The first phase of the Monorail, from Chembur to Wadala, became operational in 2014.

Umesh Jadhav Likely to Join BJP

Umesh Jadhav, one of four Congress rebel MLAs in Karnataka submitted resignation to Karnataka Assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar.
Jadhav is a two-time MLA from the Chincholi constituency.
He is expected to join the BJP soon and could be their candidate against Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge for the Gulbarga seat in the Lok Sbaha elections.

Mar 03, 2019

India Rebuffs Russian Mediation

India has clearly stated that it is not interested in an escalation of the situation. And the best way to achieve a normal state of affairs in the region resides in the actions of Pakistan in the fight against terrorist groups.
According to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement, Mr. Lavrov had expressed Moscow's readiness to promote the de-escalation of tensions and the lack of an alternative to resolving any differences between Islamabad and New Delhi by politico-diplomatic means.

Mar 02, 2019

Research Cell on ISIS Approved

As per Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the government has approved a proposal of the National Investigation Agency to open a research cell on terror-group Islamic State (ISIS).
The Minister said that 100 new posts have been created in the NIA for effective investigation and supervision. The way NIA performed its role, the result is that there has been a decline in terror funding compared to earlier.

Vijayakanth Set to Join NDA

The Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), led by actor-turned politician Vijayakanth, is all set to join the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) front in Tamil Nadu for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The move comes after the DMDK's attempts to make an alliance with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which has already entered into a pre-poll alliance with the Congress and several others, failed.

Congress Divided on a Tie-up with AAP

The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) could work out an alliance for the seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi as early as next week if the central leadership of the former can convince the Delhi unit of the party.
If the deal is sealed, each party could contest three seats and support a common candidate for another. Names that are being discussed include BJP rebels Shatrughan Sinha and Yashwant Sinha as the common candidate.
Surveys and polls done by both the parties indicate that if the AAP and the Congress contest separately in Delhi, the BJP could sweep the Lok Sabha polls.

CAPF Retirement Age Anomaly

The Union Home Ministry has asked the chiefs of the Central Armed Police Forces to conduct a data analysis and assess long-term age profile issues of combat units once the retirement age of their troops is raised from 57 years to 60 in the wake of a court order to fix an existing anomaly.
A meeting was held in the Ministry on the subject in the wake of the Delhi High Court order that called the current policy of different age of superannuation in the four forces — CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB — as discriminatory and unconstitutional which created two classes in these uniformed forces.

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