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EPFO Meet In First Week of March , IMD Forecasts Snowfall & Rainfall In These States, Goa Assembly Polls 2022, Arya.ag Ties Up With MAS Financial Services

8 February 2022

  • IMD Forecasts Snowfall & Rainfall In These States For The Next 2 Days

    From Tuesday night to Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall and snowfall with thunderstorms and lightning over Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. "A western disturbance in the form of cyclonic circulation has formed over north Pakistan and the surrounding area, with its axis at 3.1 km above mean sea level. "The induced cyclonic circulation is located in lower tropospheric levels over northeast Rajasthan and the surrounding area," according to the IMD.

  • Goa Assembly Polls 2022: Petro, Diesel & Gas Cylinder In BJP’s Manifesto

    The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made 22 pledges in its manifesto for the 2018 Goa assembly elections, including maintaining state levies on petrol and diesel unchanged for three years. The party has also claimed that every household will receive three free gas cylinders per year, as well as housing for all. It further stated that funding will be distributed to each gramme panchayat and municipality to improve infrastructure and ease of life, with the goal of making Goa the "ideal tourism destination, a football destination, and more."

  • Arya.ag Ties Up With MAS Financial Services To Offer Agri-Finance To The Farmers

    Arya.ag, an integrated grain commerce platform, established a partnership with MAS Financial Services, an NBFC, on Tuesday to provide agri-finance to farmers, with an emphasis on small farmers and FPOs. Arya.ag's loan services arm, Aryadhan Financial Services, would provide the services. The partnership will make advantage of Arya.ag's digital technologies-driven customer interface, which provides a seamless and intelligent new-age end-user experience via the financial platform. Arya.ag's unique near-farm gate integrated offering, which includes storage solutions, digital loans, and a digital marketplace, is the appropriate platform for small and marginal farmers who would otherwise be unable to obtain financial services.

  • EPFO Meet In First Week of March To Finalize Interest Rate

    The Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO central)'s board of trustees (CBT) will meet in Guwahati in the first week of March to finalize the interest rate on provident fund deposits for 2021-22. The retirement fund board had set an interest rate of 8.5 percent for 2020-21, the same as the previous year. The EPFO's Finance, Investment, and Audit Committee will meet on Wednesday to evaluate the EPFO's earnings to date, based on which it will recommend an interest rate to the CBT.

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