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SBI Card Partners With Aditya Birla Finance; Launches ‘Aditya Birla SBI Card’

Opportunity India Desk Jul 04, 2022 - 3 min read

SBI Card, India’s largest pure-play credit card issuer, announced the launch of ‘Aditya Birla SBI Card’, a highly rewarding lifestyle credit card, in a strategic partnership with Aditya Birla Finance Ltd. (ABFL), the lending subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. The card has been designed to give customers significant reward points on their spending ...

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Here’s All You Should Know about the Agnipath Scheme

Opportunity India Desk Jul 01, 2022 - 6 min read

Getting selected for the army is a dream that almost everyone has seen once in his or her lifetime. Becoming army personnel is like boiling the ocean, as you need to cross a long selection process, and the job itself is very hard in terms of physical and mental pressure. Still a big number of ...

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Reliance Forays Into Food And Beverages Retail With Pret

Opportunity India Desk Jul 01, 2022 - 3 min read

Reliance Brands Limited has announced a strategic partnership with global fresh food and organic coffee chain Pret A Manger to launch and build the brand in India. With this long-term master franchise partnership, RBL will open the food chain across the country starting with major cities and travel hubs. Pret A Manger, French for ...

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Single-Use Plastic Ban: MSMEs to face hardship, says AIMA

Opportunity India Desk Jul 01, 2022 - 4 min read

The nationwide ban on single-use plastic has come into effect from today, even after the request made by the industry associations to extend the date and not to put a blanket ban. The Union Environment Ministry had said that the government will be initiating an enforcement campaign against the units engaged in production, distribution, ...

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Virtual workshop Launched Plastic Waste Management

Opportunity India Desk Jul 01, 2022 - 3 min read

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) on June 30 organised a virtual workshop on “Effective Plastic Waste Management to Tackle Plastic Pollution” under the aegis of the “India-Norway Marine Pollution Initiative”. Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment of Forest, Forest and Climate Change reiterated the important role of municipal bodies in managing plastic ...

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Logically Launches Monitoring Platform To Indentify Disinformation

Opportunity India Desk Jul 01, 2022 - 3 min read

In order to tackle mis-and disinformation using combination of Artificial Intelligence and human expertise, Logically—a tech company has launched its monitoring platform which enables investors, institutional traders, regulators and exchange platforms involved in the cryptocurrency market, to identify inauthentic and fraudulent online activity, false narratives, and platform manipulation. The cryptocurrency market is particularly ...

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Vedantu Launches Its First Hybrid Learning Center In Muzaffarpur

Opportunity India Desk Jun 30, 2022 - 3 min read

Vedantu—an online tutoring platform on Thursday launched its first hybrid, “Vedantu Learning Center” in Muzaffarpur, aligning to its vision to provide accessible and affordable quality education for millions of students across the country. The courses will cover preparation for IIT JEE and NEET, a two-year course for students of Grade 11thand a one-year course ...

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GST Council Gives Relief To Transport, Tourism Sector

Opportunity India Desk Jun 30, 2022 - 2 min read

Giving some relief to the transport sector, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) council has cut GST on ropeways, on renting of goods carriage including fuel cost and exempted the foreign component of the tour package from GST. The council has also waived the mandatory registration guidelines for the small businesses with annual turnover up ...

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India Needs To Form Green Hydrogen Corridors: NITI Aayog

Opportunity India Desk Jun 30, 2022 - 3 min read

NITI Aayog said that cumulative value of the green hydrogen market in the country could be USD 8 billion by 2030 and USD 340 billion by 2050 and suggested a production-linked incentive scheme for electrolyser and fuel cells, two crucial components for the development of the domestic green hydrogen industry. While India consumes around 6 ...

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Govt Approves Computerisation Of PACS For INR 2516 Crore

Opportunity India Desk Jun 30, 2022 - 3 min read

With an aim to increase the efficiency of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) and bringing transparency and accountability in their operations, the cabinet has approved Computerisation of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies with a total budget outlay of INR 2516 crore. “This project proposes computerization of about 63,000 functional PACS over a period of 5 years ...

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