The Union Cabinet approved additional funding of Rs 820 crore for India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) for the expansion of its services to all post offices in the country. Out of the 1.56 lakh post offices, IPPB currently operates from 1.3 lakh post offices. Since the launch, it has opened over 5.25 crore accounts with 82 crore aggregate number of transactions.
Rajiv Ranjan has been appointed as the ex-officio member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
By inducting the two robots into Delhi's firefighting fleets, the firefighters would be able to extinguish fires easily in narrow streets, warehouses, basements, stairs, and forests and enter places like oil and chemical tankers and factories.