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Top 10 News for today
1. Forbes' world's billionaires list for 2021 includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires. Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person for the fourth year running, worth $177 billion, up by $64 billion from 2020 as a result of surging Amazon shares
2. Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has reclaimed his spot as Asia's richest person. He dethroned Chinese investor and philanthropist Jack Ma, who was the richest person in the region till 2020
3. Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das has announced three significant changes for prepaid instruments (PPI). These were announced on 7 April 2021
4. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the end-of-day balance for account holders to ₹2 lakh. The current limit for the end-of-day balance is ₹1 lakh.
5. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will constitute a committee to review the working of asset reconstruction companies (ARCs)
6. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced a secondary market government security acquisition program (GSAP 1.0) on 7 April 2021
7. Jana Small Finance Bank has announced its tie-up with Axis Securities, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Axis Bank
8. Bharti Enterprises Ltd and consumer durable manufacturer Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd have inked a pact
9. Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy committee has voted unanimously to leave the repo rate and reverse repo rate unchanged at 4 and 3.3.5 percent, respectively
10. In Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, on 6 April 2021, launched JK Public Works- Online Management, Monitoring and Accounting System (JKPW-OMMAS)
