Michael Phelps Closes Olympic Career With 23rd Gold Medal.
Michael Phelps closed out the Rio Olympics in the only way imaginable.
Golden.
Golden.
Phelps put the United States ahead to stay on the butterfly leg of the 4x100 medley relay and Nathan Adrian finished it off, giving the most decorated athlete in Olympic history his 23rd career gold medal.
If that was the end, and Phelps insists it is, what a way to go out.
He would finish his career with 28 medals overall, having won five golds and a silver at these games.
Vasundhra Raje inaugurates centralised kitchen of Akshay Patra in Ajmer.
Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje in Ajmer on Sunday inaugurated a central kitchen of NGO ‘Akshay Patra,’ which runs the world’s largest mid-day meal programme. This kitchen can cater to 24 thousand students at a time. Later, the CM inaugurated Smart Class Room Scheme in Senior Secondary School, Topdara, Collector Gorav Goyal said.
At a public meeting at regional College ground in Ajmer, she appealed people to made Total Sanitation Programme a success. The CM informed that Bhakti Sangeet Mahotsav will be organised in Pushkar in December and tourists from all over the world will participate in it.
Kotak Bank starts Innovation Lab, open to investing in startups.
Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank has started an ‘Innovation Lab’ in Bengaluru to tap into the best technology that impacts its operations, and is open to investing in startups, a senior company official has said.
“We started an ‘Innovation Lab’ recently which is right now a dedicated space from where we are partnering with startups in the fintech space to test concepts and launch them into commercial products,” Kotak Bank’s Chief Digital Officer Deepak Sharma told PTI.
The fourth largest private sector bank has put together a seven-member core team which is working with an equal number of startups in the artificial intelligence, analytics, biometric or iris scanning and machine learning space.
Havildar Hangpan Dada honoured with Ashok Chakra posthumously.
It was sheer grit and determination displayed by Havildar Hangpan Dada, who killed four intruding terrorists before laying down his life at the height of 13,000 feet in the harsh and icy Himalayan range of North Kashmir, that won him the Ashok Chakra.
He was honoured posthumously, with the government announcing the highest award to an army man during peace-time operations Monday on the eve of the Independence Day.
Pathankot NSG martyr gets Shaurya Chakra on Independence Day.
Lt Col Niranjan E K, head of NSG’s bomb disposal unit who was killed while sanitising a terrorist’s body during the Pathankot air base terror attack in January, has been honoured with the Shaurya Chakra, the third highest peacetime gallantry medal of the country, on the eve of the 70th Independence Day.
Niranjan, an officer of the Army’s Corps of Engineer, was part of the special NSG commandos unit that was rushed to the IAF base in Punjab after four terrorists entered the high-security military facility on the intervening night of January 1-2.
Venus Williams wins historic fifth Olympics medal.
American veteran Venus Williams became only the second tennis player in history to win five Olympic medals after reaching the mixed doubles final. The 36-year-old teamed up with Rajeev Ram to beat India’s Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna 2-6, 6-2, 10-3 in the semi-final. Britain’s Kathleen McKane also won five medals between 1920-24.
Venus also bids to become the first ever tennis player to win five Olympic gold medals. She currently shares the record of four golds with her sister Serena.
United States Becomes First Nation To Win 1000 Olympic Gold Medals.
When Simone Manuel touched the wall to clinch a gold medal Saturday night, it was a moment 120 years in the making.
The U.S. women’s 4×100-meter medley relay team of Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Dana Vollmer and Manuel – winners at the Rio Games on Saturday night – is being recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee as delivering the nation’s 1,000th gold medal in Summer Olympics history.
By their count, anyway. Keeping count of the gold total is not as exact a science as one might think.
The count accepted by the U.S. Olympic Committee coming into the Rio Games was 977 gold medals, and even that was adjusted a bit in recent weeks over a debated medal from the 1904 St. Louis Games. That means the gold medal in the women’s eights on Saturday morning was the 21st for the Americans in Rio, and No. 998 overall. Some sites say there’s a few more, some say a bit less. The USOC count is the accepted one.
And the relay win was No. 23 in Rio, so by the USOC’s count that made it official.
“A gold medal is like a newborn baby,” said long jumper Jeff Henderson, who put the U.S. on the brink with gold No. 999 earlier Saturday night. “It’s just lovely.”
Union Bank of India launches USSD based mobile app for basic banking needs with NPCI.
ational Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella organisation for all retail payments system in the country has partnered with Union Bank of India to launch an USSD based *99# mobile application for their customers.
This application can be downloaded in an android smartphone from the Google Play Store by the bank customers and can be used even without any internet connection as it does not require any data.
South Indian Bank, SBI Card to launch co-branded credit card.
South Indian Bank, leading private sector bank, and SBI Card, one of India's leading Credit Card issuers, on Friday, announced the launch of co-branded credit cards for the customers of South Indian Bank.
Through this alliance South Indian Bank and SBI Card will launch two variants of credit card on VISA platform, namely South Indian Bank Platinum SBI Card and South Indian Bank SimplySAVE SBI Card.
Railway Budget set to be merged with Union Budget from next fiscal.
Ending a 92-year-old tradition which started during the colonial era, Railway Budget will be merged with the General Budget from 2017-18 onwards.
The move is considered to be a relief to the national transporter, which was suffering from an additional burden of about Rs 40,000 crore on account the Seventh Pay Commission and close to Rs 35,000 crore on subsidy burden. If the merger happens, the Railways will get rid of the annual dividend that it has to pay for gross budgetary support from the government.
According to a report, the finance ministry has given a go-ahead signal to the proposal by the Railways ministry and has set up a five-member committee in this regard.
Nasscom launches operations of its startup warehouse in Visakhapatnam.
The apex IT industry body in the country, National Association of Software and Services (Nasscom) has launched operations of its startup warehouse at Sunrise Startup Village at Rushikonda in Visakhapatnam, AP.
This is the first Nasscom Startup Warehouse in AP and ninth under its 10,000 startup initiative by 2020, which was kick-started from Bengaluru in 2013.
The warehouse would provide affordable co-working space with incubation for six months. In this regards, Nasscom has selected five teams to join the incubation programme at their Visakhapatnam facility.
J. P. Nadda inaugurates AMRIT outlet at Safdarjung hospital.
Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda has inaugurated an AMRIT pharmacy at the city-based Safdarjung hospital in News Delhi.
The new AMRIT (Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment) Pharmacy, the 10th such in the country, will sell drugs at highly discounted rates.
The project has been floated in a tie-up with government-owned HLL Lifecare Ltd, which is mandated to establish and run the AMRIT chain of pharmacies across the country.
Rajasthan signs MoU with India Trade and Exhibition Centre.
Rajasthan government led by Vasundhara Raje has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Trade And Exhibition Centre (ITEC), Dubai for the promotion of skill development, investment and tourism sectors.
As per the agreement, ITEC would work as a service providing agency for promotion of skill development, investment and tourism sectors in Rajasthan.
Manipal Technologies acquires CrossFraud detection solution from Bengaluru company.
Manipal Technologies Ltd (MTL), which is a secure print solutions organization has announced that it has acquired CrossFraud - an advanced fraud detection and anti-money laundering solution from Bengaluru-based Saraansh Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition comes with four international patents in risk and fraud detection area which is already implemented in two banks in Thailand and six banks in India.
Syndicate Bank launches Project Ananya aimed at digital banking.
India's major commercial banks of India, Syndicate Bank has launched a program called "Project Ananya" that focuses on improved customer service and offering the latest in digital banking services.
Project Ananya over the next 2 years will upgrade the products, services and digital channels of the Bank to cater to the fast changing customer needs including those of the younger generation, who are more tech-savvy and prefer to do banking online. The project is also focused on improving business through enhanced sales and service focus as well as improving the HR policies and practices of the Bank.
The bank plans to transform 10 % of its branches to the new format in the next 6-12 months. The first Ananya branch was opened by MD and CEO Arun Srivastava.
Lionel Messi announces to continue to play for Argentina.
Lionel Messi has announced that he will play on for Argentina, reversing his decision in June to retire from international soccer.
The Barcelona forward Messi had announced not to play for Argentina again after the team lost to Chile in the final of the Copa America in the United States.
A few hours later the announcement, Messi was named in new coach Edgardo Bauza's squad to face Uruguay and Venezuela in 2018 World Cup, South American qualifiers to be held in the first week of September.
Saraswat Cooperative Bank appoints it new Chairman – Gautam Eknath Thakur
Gautam Eknath Thakur has been elected Chairman of the leading co- operative banker, Saraswat Bank.
Saraswat Bank is an urban co-operative banking institution based inMumbai, Maharashtra and operating as a co-operative bank since 1918.
Manjula Chellur is the new chief justice of Bombay high court.
The Ministry of Law and Justice has notified the appointment of Justice Manjula Chellur as the next Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
Justice Chellur, who is currently the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, will take charge of Bombay High Court on or before August 24, 2016.
She replaces CJ Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela.
Cipla names Umang Vohra as MD & Global CEO.
Indian's multinational pharmaceutical company Cipla Limited has appointed Umang Vohra as the managing director (MD) & global chief executive officer (CEO) of the company effective September 1, 2016.
The current incumbent, Subhanu Saxena will step down from his position on August 31, 2016, to attend to emergent family priorities.
The company also announced that Samina Vaziralli, Executive Director (ED) and the global head - strategy, M&A and Cipla New Ventures, will be the executive vice-chairman of Cipla effective September 1, 2016.
Former Chief Secretary Sudhanshu Mishra passes away.
Former Odisha chief secretary Sudhanshu Bhushan Mishra has passed away in Bhubaneswar. He was suffering from cancer. Mishra was 76 years old and a 1965 batch IAS officer.
Mishra was the Chief Secretary of Odisha during the tenure of former Chief Minister JB Patnaik from 1995-1999.
The former IAS officer was also a member of the Indian Red Cross Society-Odisha State Branch Working Committee. He was also actively involved in various social organisations and was an independent director of the Nalco.
