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# Assembly elections 2018
- BJP gains majority in Tripura; ousts CPI-M’s rule in the state
for the past 25- years; BJP wins 43; CPI-M wins 16; Congress – 0
- Meghalaya threw up hung assembly; Congress – 21; NPP – 19; BJP
– 2; Others – 17
- Nagaland: NPF+: 29; BJP+: 27; Others – 4
- After, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, now Tripura also
won by BJP
TAMIL NADU
# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswamy and Opposition
leader, Mr. M. K. Stalin held discussion on Cauvery issue
STATES SCAN
# Odisha: Government launched “KHUSHI”, a scheme that offers
free sanitary pads to 17 lakh girl students in the State
BILATERAL ISSUES
# Vietnam President, Mr. Tran Dai Quang visited India; India and
Vietnam inked three pacts
# India to build a military base in Assumption Islands
(Seychelles)
WORLD
# Armenia: Parliament elected Mr. Armen Sarkisian as the next
President
# Marshall Islands: the nation said it became the first country
in the world to recognize a cryptocurrency as its legal tender
# USA: NASA launched GOES-S (Geostationery Operational
Environmental Satellites) another of world’s most advanced weather satellites
SPORTS
# India won the inaugural IBSF Snooker team world cup by
defeating Pakistan in the finals held in Doha, Qatar
MISC
# India’s Shatrughan Sinha has been honoured with a lifetime
achievement award for his contribution to the fields of arts and politics at
the annual “Political and public Life awards” presented by Britain’s Asian
Voice weekly newspaper
# “Namaste Shalom”, a
magazine on India – Israel relations was launched; the magazine was edited by
Tharun Vijay
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