current affairs 30 May 2022

India Post Payments Bank introduced issuer charges for AePS.

India Post Payments Bank (IPPB), Department of Post (DoP), and Ministry of Communication have introduced issuer charges for the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS).
AePS Issuer transaction charges will be in effect from June 15, 2022.
AePS is a bank-led model that enables online interoperable financial inclusion transactions at the Point of Sale (MicroATM) using Aadhaar verification through any bank’s business correspondent.
AePS provides six different transaction types.
The monthly first 3 cumulative AePS Issuer transactions, such as cash withdrawal, cash deposit, and mini statement, will be provided free of charge.
Over the free transaction limit, AePS issuer cash withdrawals and cash deposits will be charged Rs. 20 plus GST for each transaction and mini statement transactions will be charged Rs. 5 plus GST per transaction.

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh has inaugurated the country's first Lavender Festival at Bhaderwah, Jammu. Bhaderwah in the Doda district is the birthplace of India’s purple revolution.
The Purple or Lavender Revolution was launched in 2016 by the Union Ministry of Science & Technology through the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Aroma Mission.
The aim of the mission is to support the domestic aromatic crop-based agro-economy by moving from imported aromatic oils to homegrown varieties.

India’s ace long jumper Murali Sreeshankar won the gold medal at the 12th International Jumping Meeting in Greece with an effort of 8.31m.
Sreeshankar was followed by Sweden's Theobias Montler and France's Jules Pomery with jumps of 8.27m and 8.17m to finish second and third respectively.
It was Sreeshankar's first outdoor international meet after the Tokyo Olympics where he recorded a best effort of 7.69m.

Bank of Baroda Financial and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) in partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), have launched HPCL BoB co-branded contactless RuPay Credit Card.
The card includes various features such as rewards for spending on utilities, grocery and departmental stores.
This card can be used across merchants and ATMs globally through the JCB network.
BOB Financial is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bank of Baroda (BoB).
The NSM is a joint initiative of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
Under the NSM, a total of 15 supercomputers have been installed across the country with compute capacity of 24 petaflops.

MUFG Bank becomes the first Japanese bank to open a branch at Gujarat International Financial Tech City (GIFT City) in a bid to offer a wide range of banking services to both domestic and global clients.
MUFG Bank has already taken all necessary approvals from the International Financial Services Centre Authority (India) and the Financial Services Agency (Japan) to set up a branch at GIFT City.
MUFG had opened its first branch in Mumbai in 1953.