Finance ministry has announced that number of Jan Dhan accounts in the country has crossed the 50-crore mark, as on 9 August, since scheme was launched nine years back, in 2014.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had earlier said that ex-gratia payment of Rs 500 would be credited to female Jan Dhan account holders for the next three months.
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.
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