Demonetisation: Paytm wallet will merge with coming payments bank

December 5, 2016

New Delhi, Dec 5: The Alibaba-backed digital payments and commerce platform Paytm is transferring its wallet business into the newly created entity for its planned payments bank. This is a mandatory step being followed by the company to fulfil the rules laid out by the Reserve Bank of India. Paytm , which is run by One 97 Communications, has two key businesses--payments business and commerce marketplace. The Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, so far, has got an in-principal approval from the country's central bank for launching a payments bank which is under the name of Sharma. For the commerce business, the company has created another entity--Paytm E-commerce Private Limited.

paytmPaytm spokesperson confirmed the development. "As per the directions of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the company would transfer its wallet business to the newly incorporated Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL) after receipt of necessary approvals.The transfer will be complete once payment bank licence is obtained," the spokesperson said in an emailed response. The company said the transfer of its wallet business into the payments bank entity is being done with the consent of all shareholders and the board. "The structure was a part of our payment bank application itself when we applied for it in 2014," the statement said.

As per the RBI guidelines, Sharma will have to hold a majority stake of 51%, in the payments bank entity. He has put Rs 112 crore as of now in the entity. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is the largest shareholder in Paytm's holding company One97 Communications with about 40% stake in the parent company.

To be sure, Paytm's payment bank launch has been getting delayed since middle of this year with the company announcing a beta version of payments bank by Diwali this year. "We are working with Fidelity, Infosys and Oracle to deploy a scale-able platform that will be able to meet with the requirements of the bank when it launches. There are no timelines.," the spokesperson said. Telecom major Airtel has already launched their payments bank in Rajasthan. The Noida-based company is also in middle of fresh fund raise to the tune of $250-300 million out of which $60 million has already come into the company's account from Taiwan's Mediatek.

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January 12,2020

Washington D.C., Jan 12: A recent study has claimed that people end up wasting almost an entire day when they take a vacation.

This can happen while standing in a queue or searching for places to visit, people do not keep a count of the time they have actually utilised during the trip. As a result, they end up doing much lesser activities than they originally had planned.

According to a recent report in Fox News, the study has also shared the fact that people try to justify time waste with planning and scheduling activities whereas the truth is that these things can be done well ahead to save time during the trip.

The average time waste according to the study commissioned by Sykes Holiday Cottages also said the people taking a seven days' trip waste a minimum of 17-and-a-half hours to figure out various factors.

But there are other causes involved as well. When one visits any crowded location, the real-time spent to enjoy the location is lesser than the time spent on reaching and trying to get involved. For instance, if one visits an amusement park, the activities take lesser time than the preparatory and other phases.

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February 29,2020

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The incident took place on Friday when the passengers were boarding the Ahmedabad-Jaipur flight.

"Two pigeons had found their way inside the flight G8 702 while the passengers were boarding," an airline statement said on Saturday.

"The crew immediately shooed away the birds. The flight took off at its scheduled time at 5 p.m.," it added.

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June 28,2020

The US space agency has thrown open a challenge to win over Rs 26 lakh, calling the global community to send novel design concepts for compact toilets that can operate in both microgravity and lunar gravity.

NASA is preparing for return to the Moon and innumerable activities to equip, shelter, and otherwise support future astronauts are underway.

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NASA said that while astronauts are in the cabin and out of their spacesuits, they will need a toilet that has all the same capabilities as ones here on Earth.

The public designs for space toilet may be adapted for use in the Artemis lunar landers that take humans back to the Moon.

"Although space toilets already exist and are in use (at the International Space Station, for example), they are designed for microgravity only," the US space agency said in a statement.

NASA's Human Landing System Programme is looking for a next-generation device that is smaller, more efficient, and capable of working in both microgravity and lunar gravity.

The new NASA challenge includes a Technical category and Junior category and the last date to send designs is August 17.

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The Artemis programme is part of America's broader Moon to Mars exploration approach, in which astronauts will explore the Moon and experience gained there to enable humanity's next giant leap, sending humans to Mars.

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