- ICICI Bank launched India’s first digital bank, Pockets
- ICICI Bank today launched ‘Pockets’, a digital banking service, enabling users to instantly send money to any e-mail id, mobile number, friends on Facebook and bank account.
- Anyone, including those who are not customers of ICICI Bank, can easily download the e-wallet from Google Playstore, fund it from any bank account in the country and start transacting immediately.
- Users can choose to add a zero-balance savings account to the wallet, which will allow them to earn interest on their idle money.
- The universal wallet and the savings account are the first two products to be launched as part of the ‘Pockets’ digital bank.
- Facebook, Reliance Communication tie up to provide free access to Internet
- Facebook has tied up with Reliance Communications to offer free access to subscribers of Anil Ambani-led firm to the social networking site as well as about three-dozen general information websites.
- India will become the first country in Asia to get the new Internet.org app. The app targets mobile phone users.
- Besides accessing Facebook, RCom subscribers can also access 33 websites offering news and information on weather, jobs, government services, and health without incurring data charges.
- The service has been initially launched for Reliance customers in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
- Scheme for grant of government pension to journalists
- Puducherry government has initiated steps to bring into effect a scheme evolved in 2003 to pay monthly pension to media persons.
- The scheme envisages payment of monthly pension of Rs 6000 to a media person who had completed 20 years of continued service in a newspaper, periodical, news agency or in electronic media.
- The beneficiary should be aged 58 years and above at the time of presenting the application.
- Israel offers expertise to clean up Ganga
- Israel has offered its expertise and technological capabilities to India in its ambitious drive to clean up the Ganga.
- Israel has made significant technological advancement in desalination and drip irrigation with the world’s largest desalination plants and recycles 90 per cent of water for agricultural needs
- National Games mascot in Limca Book of Records
- National Games mascot Ammu, the Great Hornbill, has immortalised itself by finding a mention in the Limca Book of Records.
- The mascot found a place in the record books owing to a play, Kalikkunna Kuttikalkkayi Bharatham Kathirikkunnu (India Awaits Children Who Play) in which Ammu is featured.
- According to the Limca Book’s 2015 Special Literature Edition, it is a play about a mascot which had been staged in most number of schools.
- By April 9, 2014 the drama starring Ammu, the Great Indian Hornbill, had been staged in 147 schools across seven districts of Kerala.
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