4th July is Independence Day of United States.
- This day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on 4th July 1776, by the Continental Congress declaring that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and no longer part of the British Empire.
- This day celebrates the co-operative movement observed on the first Saturday in July since 1923 by the International Co-operative Alliance.
BSNL launched its mobile wallet SpeedPay.
- The service was launched by Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
- It comes with a cash withdrawal option so you can use it to send money to other people who can then use SpeedPay to withdraw cash from a bank even without an account.
- Customers will be charged a 1% transaction fee for transferring money to a bank account of withdrawing it.
- There will be no charges for wallet to wallet transfers and while the daily limit for cash withdrawal is Rs 5,000 in the case of verified customers that can go up to Rs 1 lakh.
- Currently BSNL has tied up with Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank to roll out the service.
- BSNL Chairman and Managing Director : Anupam Shrivastava
Four Indian Americans were honoured with the 2015 Great Immigrants
The Pride of America award by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
They are :
- Preet Bharara United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
- Rakesh Khurana Professor, Dean, Harvard College
- Madhulika Sikka Vice President, Executive Editor, Mic
- Abraham Verghese Physician and Writer
UPSC declares results of Civil Services Examination, 2014.
- Women bag top four positions.
- Ira Singhal tops the examination, while Renu Raj has secured the second rank and Nidhi Gupta has got the third position.
- A total of 1,236 candidates have been recommended for appointment into the prestigious IAS, IPS, IFS and other central services.
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