- Appointments
- IRS officer Nitin Gupta has been appointed as the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
- Coin switch appointed Ramesh Bafna as its chief financial officer.
- Justice Satish Chandra Sharma took oath as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
- Brand Ambassador: PokerBaazi.com, a poker platform appointed actor Shahid Kapoor as its brand ambassador.
- Banking & Insurance: Star Health and Allied Insurance Company have signed an agreement with IDFC FIRST Bank for the distribution of its health insurance products.
- RBI has imposed a fine worth Rs 10 lakh on The Tiruchengode Co-operative Urban Bank, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, for non-adherence to directions issued under various guidelines including Know Your Customer (KYC) Guidelines.
- Muffin Finance, an NBFC has received approval from the RBI to issue semi-closed prepaid payment instruments.
- The Reserve Bank of India has given approval to the State Bank of India for its proposed operations support subsidiary.
- Reserve Bank of India has awarded Professor Renu Jatana and Dr. Sagar Sanwariya as the best Hindi language authors of the books 2020-21.
- Awards & Honours: A Tennis player Vijay Amritraj has been named the 2021 recipient of the Golden Achievement Award by the International Tennis Hall of Fame and International Tennis Federation.
- Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna, Infosys founder veteran N R Narayana Murthy, and former badminton player Prakash Padukone have been selected for the ‘Kempegowda International Award’.
- Obituaries: Shapoorji Pallonji group chairman and billionaire industrialist Pallonji Mistry passed away at the age of 93.
- The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has given Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers and cloud service operators additional time till 25 September to comply with new rules.
- Meta has launched reels APIs to a number of endpoints on the Instagram Platform for developers.
- The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) celebrated 7 years of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U).
- Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 has launched the Revised Swachh Certification Protocols for ODF, ODF+, ODF++, and Water+ certifications.
- IN-SPACe authorizes India’s first set of space start-ups to launch payloads.
- India saw 9.36 bn Transactions worth Rs 10.2 trn in Q1 2022
- Indian banks to post a larger Increase in Margins in FY23
- Non-banking finance sector’s profit to be Stable
- Finance Ministry permits State-owned NBFCs
- India’s 1st mRNA Covid-19 vaccine likely to be Available Soon
Questions:
Q.1 Star health has signed an agreement with one of the following banks for the distribution of its health insurance products?a. IDFC Bank
b. ICICI Bank
c. HDFC Bank
d. Axis Bank
Q.2 Which of the following actor has been appointed as the brand ambassador of PokerBaazi.com?
a. Shah Rukh Khan
b. Salman Khan
c. Ranveer Singh
d. Shahid Kapoor
