1. eMudhra launches
eSign Services
i.
eMudhra Limited, a leading certifying firm in the country for digital
signatures launched first of its kind eSign services in the country as part of
the Digital India Vision.
ii. ESign
is an online electronic signature service which can facilitate an Aadhaar
holder to digitally sign a document within seconds. The signatures generated by
eSign are legally valid and secure under the Information Technology Act, 2000
iii. As
part of the Digital India Vision, Prime Minister launched eSign services in the
country on July 1st.
iv. ESign
can "revolutionise" the way business and governance is conducted in
the country and pave the way for a digital transformation into a paperless
environment, eMudhra said in a statement.
v. By
using eMlocker along with eSign, one can store documents such as PAN cards,
Aadhaar cards, electricity bills or any other documents electronically.
2. Satish Pillai,
new MD & CEO of CIBIL
i. Credit
Information Bureau India Ltd (CIBIL), India’s leader in credit information, has
appointed Satish Pillai as its new Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer on Thursday.
ii.
Pillai succeeds Arun Thukral who retires this year after a decade. Satish
Pillai has been serving CIBIL in the capacity of Chief Operating Officer for
more than four years where he was responsible for product development and
bureau operations.
iii.
Earlier, Pillai led TransUnion’s operations in India overlooking the creation
of the solutions team that supported generic and custom analytics and
decisioning technologies, including the launch of the CIBIL TransUnion Score-
India’s first generic scoring model, CIBIL said in a statement.
iv.
CIBIL, India’s largest credit information bureau, maintains credit information
on more than 406 million consumer accounts and 22 million business accounts and
has a membership base of over 1400 banks and credit institutions.
3. Lord Kamlesh
Patel becomes first British-Asian appointee to ECB Director
i.
Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel has become the first British Asian to be appointed
as Director of England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
ii. He
succeeds Lord Morris of Handsworth, who had stepped down after 11 years as an
ECB Director. Lord Patel was born to Indian parents in Nairobi, Kenya. He later
had moved to United Kingdom. He hails from Bradford and is a leading voice on
health, social care and community cohesion in UK.
iii.
Presently, he is Labour Peer in the House of Lords and professor at the
University of East London. He is also Chair of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals
NHS Foundations Trust and is a former Chairman of the Mental Health Act
Commission.
iv. He
had played cricket for number of local clubs and was allrounder. He had retired
in 1998 from cricket after taking all 10 wickets in a league game. He formerly
had worked for the Yorkshire Cricket Academy as a part-time coach.
4. Union Government
appoints Sriram Kalyanaraman as MD and CEO of NHB
i. Union
government has appointed Sriram Kalyanaraman as the Managing Director (MD) and
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Housing Bank (NHB) for a period of
five years.
ii. With
this he became the first person from private sector to be appointed as head of
a public sector financial institution.
iii.
Presently, Kalyanaraman is director-business development Equifax Credit
Information Services. Prior to joining Equifax, he was Director, Business
Clients and Asset Products at Deutsche Bank India.
iv. NHB
is apex regulator for housing finance sector and a wholly owned subsidiary of
Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
5. Indian Railway’s
launches Mobile ticketing app for suburban commuters in Mumbai
i. Indian
Railways launched a mobile ticketing application for unreserved tickets for
commuters in Western Railway. It was launched by Union Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu. This mobile ticketing service will cover 35 stations between the 123 km
long Churchgate -Dhauroad and facilitate a hassle free travel for lakhs of
daily passengers in Mumbai.
ii. The
app is based for both Android and Windows platforms and it can be downloaded
from Google Play Store or Windows Store by the user.
iii. The
app provides necessary on-screen alerts to guide the passenger during the
booking process. Payment for booking the ticket can be done through railway
wallet feature in the App. Passenger will get ticket confirmation screen after
booking the ticket.
6. Sanjeev Nandan
Sahai appointed as Delhi's new Home Secretary
i. Senior
IAS officer Sanjeev Nandan Sahai was today appointed as the new Home Secretary
of Delhi, ending a bitter tussle between Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and
the AAP government.
ii. The
order appointing Sahai, a 1986 batch Union Territory cadre officer, was issued
by Union Home Ministry, official sources said.
iii.
Sahai's name was zeroed in as a compromise candidate for the high post after
continuous tussle between the LG and the Arvind Kejriwal-led government.
iv. Pal
was removed by the AAP government after he signed a notification appointing
Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police M K Meena as new chief of Anti-Corruption
Branch (ACB) following Jung's order.
7.Essar Oil signs pact to sell 49% stake
to Russia's Rosneft
i.
Russian oil firm Rosneft will buy 49 per cent stake in Essar Oil, the firm that
owns India's second biggest oil refinery, for an undisclosed amount, the
Ruia-owned firm said on Thursday.
ii. The
proposed transaction is conditional upon various factors such as due diligence,
determination of the transaction price, execution of definitive transaction
documents and receipt of requisite approvals
iii.
Also, a Long Term Crude Oil Supply Agreement by the two firms in was signed in
Ufa, Russia for import of 10 million tonnes a year of crude oil for a period of
10 years.
iv. This
contract has been signed in pursuance to the Key Terms executed between the two
companies in December 2014 at New Delhi.
8. Indian athletes
win more than 150 medals at World Police & Fire Games
i. Indian
athletes put up an impressive show at the 2015 World Police & Fire Games
which concluded here on Sunday, winning more than 150 medals.
ii. Hosts
United States won by far the most medals, 1,777, including nearly 700 golds.
Canada finished second with nearly 430 medals.
iii. The
Indian athletes’s tally included 89 golds and 50 silvers. They competed in only
seven sporting categories: athletics, wrestling, boxing, judo, archery,
swimming and shooting.
iv. Kaur,
an assistant sub inspector with Punjab Police, earned 5 gold medals in the
track and field events, winning every event she competed in. CRPF’s Mishra, who
was taking part in her fifth Police & Fire Games, won an impressive 6 golds
and 2 silvers in swimming events.