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Chandigarh :  The use of technology and digital transactions will grow rapidly this year, but the financial institutions will have to ensure to protect people from online frauds. Panjab University (PU) alumnus Dr Hemant Garg gave this opinion while commenting on the future trends of fintech in 2022. He recently made India proud by successfully managing the Infinity Forum, a global FinTech event, inaugurated by PM Modi and addressed by business leaders like Reliance MD Mukesh Ambani, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, Soft Bank CEO Masayashi Son and others. Dr Garg has done LLM from PU, Chandigarh .   Dr Hemant Garg Dr. Garg, Nodal Officer (Social Media) at the International Financial Services Centers Authority (IFSCA), believes that Crypto assets powered by blockchain technology will evolve and become popular in the same way as social media evolved from what it was in 2015. However, the RBI is in the process of releasing Blockchain CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) as...

  Ferozepur:  Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Ferozepur on Wednesday, January 5, Harkaramjot Kaur visited several border villages of the district along with her team to gather public support for the rally and inform the villagers about development plans of BJP for the region. She is the wife of Gurparvez Singh Sandhu, former National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) and former Punjab BJYM president. She has got an encouraging response from the villagers. Apart from Tendiwala, the last village on the Indo-Pak border, Harkaramjot Kaur also visited Bhane wala, Chandi wala, Khundargatti, Bhakra, Hazara etc. Apart from informing the villagers about the repeal of the three agricultural laws by PM Narendra Modi and development projects  being planned under the PM's leadership for the region, she also handed over invitation cards to them to participate in the rally. It is noteworthy that Gurparvez Singh Sandhu is himself actively contri...

New Delhi : The Home Textile Exporters' Welfare Association (HEWA) whole heartily thanked the Modi Government for giving patient hearing to various woes of Indian Textile exporters that were brought to the cognizance of various ministries and govt departments by HEWA. The Union Minister for Textile & Commerce, Piyush Goel and Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur declared during a press briefing recently that Government of India has approved disbursal of a hefty amount of Rs 56,000 crore arrear to the exporters under various schemes such as MEIS, RoSL, RoSCTL and RoDTEP. The declaration is a very big relief for the entire Export Industry, which includes MEIS worth Rs 33,000 crore, RoSCTL and RoSL worth Rs 5,500 crore and few other schemes aggregating Rs 5,000 crore. An amount of Rs 12,500 crore for RoDTEP and Rs 7,000 crore for RoSCTL has been sanctioned this year, which is over and above that of Rs 56,000 crore. As liquidity will be made availa...

The record for being the youngest patent holder was set by Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati (born on September 3, 2002) of Jaipur, Rajasthan. He invented a six-player Circular Chess Board, for which he received the patent on July 26, 2011 (Design no. 238319), at the age of 8 years, 10 months and 23 days, as confirmed on December 28, 2020. Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati is an "Amazing Youth from Jaipur" and 'Gem of Rajasthan'. He said, “Bringing pride for my country is the greatest inspiration in my case. I took India to top in the world in the field of ‘Number of Chess Variants invented’. Chess was initially invented in India and I have taken it forward by inventing 6, 12, and 60 players Circular Chess. This has been done for the first time in the world. I f elt very happy to get the India Book of Records certificate, as it is registered with the Government of India and has a great reputation.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted about Hridayeshwar on 24 th January 2020 at ...