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FIRST METRO AVAILABLE FROM 7pm in kolkata

Kolkata: For the convenience of the Metro Railway commuters, Metro will run 272  daily services (136 UP & 136 DN) instead of 266  services from Monday to Friday from 07:00 hrs. to  22:30 hrs. w.e.f. 15.11. 2021 (Monday) .  Metro is going to run 06 additional daily services on weekdays. Out of these 272  services, 173  services (86 UP & 87 DN) will run in between Kavi Subhash and Dakshineshwar instead of 167  services (83 UP & 84 DN). During morning and evening peak hours, Metro will run services at an interval of 5 minutes.

Hunar Haat in Lucknow from today

Lucknow: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Chemical and Fertilizers Dr Mansukh Mandaviya will inaugurate “Hunar Haat”, “Perfect Platform” to “promote and preserve” traditional art and craft of the country, in Lucknow tomorrow 12th November, 2021.

 Talking to media persons at “Hunar Haat” in Awadh Vihar Yojana Ground in Lucknow, Union Minister for Minority Affairs  Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said that UP Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma; UP Cabinet Ministers  Suresh Kumar Khanna;  Ashutosh Tandon; Siddharthnath Singh; Brijesh Pathak;  Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi; MoS  Swati Singh and  Baldev Singh Aulakh and other dignitaries will be present during the inauguration of the 32nd “Hunar Haat”.

Sebi amends rules for introduction of silver ETFs

 New Delhi: Markets regulator Sebi has amended  rules to introduce silver exchange traded funds, a move that will expand the options available for investing in commodities through stock exchanges. Currently, Indian mutual funds are allowed to launch ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) tracking gold. The watchdog has amended the rules to enable the introduction of silver ETFs, according to a notification issued on Tuesday. Sebi said that a silver ETF scheme means a mutual fund scheme that invests primarily in silver or silver-related instruments which have silver as the underlying product. “Mutual fund schemes investing in exchange traded commodity derivatives may hold the underlying goods in case of physical settlement of such contracts,” the regulator said.