Odisha government distributed Rs 869 crore to 41.85 state farmers under the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme and assured them of additional aid for crop losses due to floods in the state.
The Reserve Bank of India is working on a new "fraud registry" - a reporting mechanism under which data shared by banks with RBI on fraudsters will enable the regulator to blacklist such callers.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) is the first academic institute in the country to join an IBM programme promoting quantum computing development and research.