Around INDIA
# As part of a radical "privatisation project", the
Health Ministry and NITI Aayog have developed a framework to let private
hospitals run select services within district hospitals, on a 30-year lease
# China is India's "real enemy" rather than Pakistan:
SP Chief, Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav in Lok Sabha
# A total of 34 incidents of infections from the two global
ransomware attacks, WannaCry and Petya were reported to the Indian Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT - In) by organisations and individuals
# Supreme Court observed that, the Right to Privacy is not
absolute and cannot prevent the state from making laws imposing reasonable
restrictions on citizens
# Lynchings and atrocities against minorities and Dalits are
part of a conspiracy to take the discourse away from the government's
development agenda: MoS for Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
# Lok Sabha passed a Bill to declare the IITs established under
the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as Institutes of National Importance
(INIs)
# Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, Mr. Khurien requests BSP Chief,
Ms. Mayawati to take back resignation
# President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee presented the ‘Pranab
Mukherjee Award for Academic Excellence’ to Aman Aggarwal for scoring the
highest aggregate in Class XII CBSE Examination, 2017 among the students of Dr.
Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya located in the President’s Estate
# Union Cabinet has given the approval for the signing of
Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) in respect of tax matters between India and the
Revenue administrations of BRICS countries namely, Brazil, Russian Federation,
China and South Africa
# Union Cabinet has been apprised of the Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between India and Netherlands on cooperation in the
exploration and uses of outer space for peaceful purposes.
# Union Cabinet approved the sale of the government's 51.1%
stake in oil refiner HPCL to India's largest oil producer ONGC
# Union Cabinet approved the second phase of the BharatNet
project that forms the backbone for the government's Digital India initiative
# Union Cabinet gave its nod to Inland Water Authority of India
(IWAI) for raising Rs. 660 crore in bonds for extra budgetary resources in
2017-18
TAMIL NADU
# The monthly salary and allowances paid to every MLA in Tamil
Nadu will be increased from the present Rs. 55, 000 to Rs. 1. 05 lakh
# Funds under the Member of Legislative Assembly Constituency
Development Scheme (MLACDS) for each legislator will go p from Rs. 2. crore to
Rs. 2.50 crore a year
# Out of 8000 seats for persons with disability, only 233
students appeared for the ongoing engineering counselling in Anna University,
Chennai
STATES SCAN
# Karnataka: Government made 72.24% of seats reserved to the
students of Karnataka in the admission of medical seats; 70.98% of seats
reserved to the students of Karnataka in the admission of dental seats
# Kerala: State Cabinet gave nod for Sabarimala airport on
Cheruvally estate; Cheruvally estate is 2.5 km from the Theni - Kottarakara
National Highway and close to Erumeli town in Kottayam Dt
# Nagaland: Mr. T.R. Zeliang was sworn in as the Chief Minister
BILATERAL
ISSUES
# India launched a Solar Electrification Project to electrify a
remote village named Agaween in Egypt
# India has a "critical role" to play in breaking the
stalemate in Afghanistan: U. S. Senate Committee on Armed Forces
- US called for enhancing trilateral cooperation between Afghanistan,
India and the U. S.
ECONOMICS
# World Bank will help draw up a granular makeover blueprint for
the Indian Railways, which is investing Rs.5 lakh crore to transform itself
from a colonial-era mass transporter into a strategic platform underpinning
growth in Asia's third-biggest economy.
SPORTS
# Women's World Cup (Cricket): Semifinal between India and
Australia
MISC
# A research conducted at the Washington University School of
Medicine has unveiled that a commonly used malaria drug
"hydroxychloroquine" can effectively block the Zika Virus from
crossing the placenta and getting to the foetus and damaging its brain
- The drug "hydroxycholorquine" already has approval
for use in pregnant women
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