Tuesday, May 14
As the two countries continue to explore how to create a financial system that would not be impacted by Western sanctions on Russia, cards based on the Mir payment system from Russia may soon be accepted at ATMs and point-of-sale terminals in India. Additionally,Russia is also likely to clear the way for acceptance of India’s RuPay payment system. Indian ATMs and terminals may soon start accepting Russian Mir debit and credit cards, while Russia is reportedly planning to reciprocate and begin accepting India’s RuPay cards, according to India’s Deccan Herald newspaper. Both Russia and India are discussing options for the mutual implementation of interbank transfer services, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and SPFS, the Russian version of SWIFT. In addi
Dr. Omendra Ratnu The best-selling author of “MAHARANAS: A Thousand Year War for Dharma” “Maharanas” is the story of the greatest Hindu dynasty in history. For more than one millennium, the Sisodiya Rajputs of Mewar fought and refused to surrender to the barbarians even once. Enemy changed names and colors with time but their purpose was destruction of Dharma. They attacked relentlessly for over one thousand years. Mewar was besieged and plundered more than once but the Maharanas never gave up. About the Author The author, Dr. Omendra Ratnu is a practicing ENT surgeon in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He is also a founding member of “Nimittekam”, a registered society which has rescued more than 10,000 persecuted religious minorities from India’s ne
Oil prices may be booming again, but growing demand for cheap home-grown energy as Russia's war in Ukraine squeezes supplies is giving Aberdeen another reason to shift its focus to renewables Shell Plc Engineer Denise Neill knows as well as anyone in Aberdeen, the UK’s oil capital, that the fortunes of a city that gets its income from one source can change quickly. The daughter of a farmer, she witnessed in the 1970s how the discovery of North Sea oil transformed the lives of local people, including her father who switched to selling rock from a quarry on his land for the expansion of the city’s airport. Now as a deputy project manager for two giant floating offshore wind farm developments, she’s at the forefront of another transition that could make or break th
Apple's Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri has sold shares worth $16.9 million as part of an arranged trading plan. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the transactions was executed in two tranches. One transaction was for 66,390 shares, sold for $174.66 each, while the other was 30,345 shares fetching $175.60 apiece. MacRumors reports that a total of 96,735 shares were sold by Maestri. "The transactions were made pursuant to a predetermined trading plan adopted by Maestri in November 2020, in accordance with insider trading laws", the report mentioned. Maestri still holds around 110,000 shares of Apple stock following the sale, according to the US SEC filing. Maestri joined Apple in 2013 and reports directly to CEO Tim Co
