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INDIA
# Supreme Court to hear the petitions filed by the Centre and
Tamil Nadu Government on the Cauvery river issue
# A special CBI Court has issued non – bailable warrants against
absconding diamond merchants Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, accused of defrauding
the Punjab National Bank, the country’s second largest lender, of over Rs. 13,
500 crore
# 22 coaches of the Ahmedabad – Puri express travelled 15 km
without engine
# After a glorious run of 51 days across 17 cities of India, the
historic event 8th Theatre Olympics drew to a colourful close in Mumbai
TAMIL
NADU
# Power allocation to
Tamil Nadu from NLC India Ltd is expected to increase by an additional 500 MW
with the first unit of the Neyveli Thermal Power Project expected to be
commissioned in the next three months
STATES
SCAN
# Bihar: Madhubani railway station in the State, which was once
considered as a dirty railway station in the country has got a makeover with
the traditional Mithila paintings (also called as Madhubani art)
# Kerala: Government to start a “Community Radio” to update
farmers about the latest developments in the sector; this is the first such
community radio in India, under the government initiative to get connected with
the farming community
# Uttarakhand: State’s Second mega food park was inaugurated in
Udham Singh Nagar Dt (First in Haridwar)
# Uttar Pradesh: “Ganga Hariteema Yojana” (Ganga Greenery Scheme)
was launched in 27 districts of the State; it envisages carrying out plantation
drives in one – kilometer areas from the banks of river
BILATERAL
ISSUES
# Chinese military strongly protested against the Indian Army’s
“transgression” into the strategically sensitive Asaphila area along the
disputed border in Arunachal Pradesh but India rejected the complaint
# Nepal Prime Minister, Mr. K. P. Oli sought the research
expertise of G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in Uttarakhand
to revolutionise agriculture in his country
# India and South Korea are set to boost bilateral relation in
the ports and shipping space and would sign an agreement to provide Indian
seafarers employment on more than 500 Korean ships
# President, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind visited Equatorial Guinea
yesterday on the first leg of his State Visit to three African nations
–Equatorial Guinea, Swaziland and Zambia. This is the first ever visit of a
Head of State from India to Equatorial Guinea. The President was received at
the Malabo airport by Mr. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the President of
Equatorial Guinea, along with his cabinet colleagues and other dignitaries.
- President Mr. Kovind was conferred with the Condecoracion, the
highest honour accorded to a non-citizen by the government of Equatorial
Guinea, and previously given to select Heads of State from friendly countries.
WORLD
# Japan: activated its Amphibious Rapid Deployment Bridge (ADB),
its first marine unit since World War Two
# Pakistan: after being put on the grey list by the Financial
Action Task Force (FATF), Pakistan is working on a law to replace the
presidential ordinance which banned Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)
# Singapore: Indian – origin lawmaker Pritam Singh elected
unopposed as the new Secretary – General of Singapore’s main opposition
Worker’s Party
# Syria: a chemical attack on a rebel – held town in Eastern
Ghouta has killed 49 people
# UAE: UAE and Malaysia held the joint military exercise named
as “Exercise DESERT TIGER 5”
ECONOMICS
# RBI has decided to use GDP instead of GVA (Gross Value Added)
to measure economic activity in India; RBI said that, this change has been done
to confirm with international practice and for ease of comparison
SPORTS
# 4th day of CWG 2018:
India won 3 Gold medals
- Gold: Punam Yadav in Women’s Weightlifting (69 kg)
- Gold: Manu Bhaker in Women’s 10m Air Pistol
- Gold: Table Tennis team of Manika Batra, Madhurika Patkar and
Mouma Das
- Silver: Heena Sidhu in Women’s 10m Air Pistol
- Bronze: Vikas Thakur in Men’s Weightlifting (94 kg)
- Bronze: Ravi Kumar in Men’s 10m Air Rifle
- As of now, India is at fourth place in medals table with (7 G
+ 2 S + 3 B)
MISC
# Prof. Panchanan Mohanty, foremer dean of the School of Humanities
at University of Hyderabad (UoH) has discovered two new languages (Walmiki and
Malhar); These languages were unknown to
linguists so far; Walmiki is spoken in Koraput of Odisha and in the bordering
districts of Andhra Pradesh; Malhar is spoken in an isolated region of 165 km
away from Bhubaneswar in Odisha
# Dadasaheb Phalke Foundation has decided to honour Hindi film
actress Anushka Sharma with the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award for 2018
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