Fintech Open Month

 

Key Points

• On this common platform, professions, leaders and start-up communities collaborate, exchange ideas, and innovate.
• It was started by NITI Aayog.
• Summit was inaugurated by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in the presence of Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, Dr Rajiv Kumar.
• Key highlight of the Fintech Open Month summit will be India’s biggest fintech hackathon ever. It will provide an opportunity to present breakthrough ideas to individual developers and start-up community with the potential to solve real-world problems.

Theme of the FinTech Month

The FinTech month will create an immersive learning experience, with overarching theme ‘OPEN’. It aims to achieve three key objectives:

1. Encourage an OPEN ecosystem across the FinTech industry
2. Foster co-innovation and growth
3. Ensure financial inclusion and leverage new models such as Account Aggregator to unleash next wave of fintech innovation.

Week One of the Fintech month

Week One of the Fintech Open Month included deep dives, in-depth conversations, and panel discussions to highlight opinions, innovation, and diverse perspectives from industry leaders.

Who is organising the Fintech month?

Fintech Open Month is being organised by NITI Aayog, in collaboration with PhonePe, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and EY, in order to showcase the importance of the fintech industry. It is a three-week-long virtual summit, being organised from February 7–28, 2022.

(GS Capsule) - कासिम सुलेमानी (जनरल, ईरान)

कासिम सुलेमानी (जनरल, ईरान)

* अमेरिकी रक्षा विभाग के मुख्यालय पेंटागन ने 3 जनवरी 2019 को कहा कि विदेश में अमेरिकी नागरिकों की रक्षा को लेकर किए गए ड्रोन हमले में ईरान के रिवोल्यूशनरी गार्ड्स के शक्तिशाली कमांडर जनरल कासिम सुलेमानी मारे गए हैं

* अमेरिका के हवाई हमले में ईरान के जनरल कासिम सुलेमानी की मौत ने दोनों देशों के बीच तनाव बढ़ा दिया है

* अमेरिका और ईरान में तनाव बढ़ने का असर भारत सहित विश्व के दूसरे देशों पर भी पड़ेगा

* ईरान के सुप्रीम लीडर अयतुल्ला खमेनेई ने जनरल कासिम की मौत पर तीन दिन के शोक की घोषणा की

Arts and Culture: Languages and their Distribution

Arts and Culture: Languages and their Distribution

Languages and their Distribution

            India, a country rich with different cultures, religions and beliefs, is home to not just one or two languages but to an uncountable number of different lingual families. Languages belonging to the two major language families – Indo Aryan and Dravidian – are spoken by more than 90% of the people of India.

India is considered to be home to 461 languages, out of which 14 have been reported to be extinct. But still there is not a single Indian language that is spoken across its length and breadth. Hindi is spoken by a majority of North Indians, but it is not a popular means of communication in the southern part of India. Similarly, South Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam are not understood by the people of North India.

For the convenience of people, the Constitution of India has recognised 22 languages as the official languages of India. These are known as Scheduled Languages and constitute the major languages of the country. The list of some of the Indian languages includes:

1. Sanskrit

1. Hindi

1. English