Around INDIA
# President, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind
inaugurated the 73 km long National Highway in Tripura
# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi,
interacted with the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi
Pariyojna and other Central Government health care schemes from across the
country, through video bridge. This is the fifth interaction in the series by
the Prime Minister through video bridge with various beneficiaries of
Government schemes.
# Ministry of Water Resources approved 2
major irrigation / multipurpose projects and 4 flood management schemes /
master plans with a cumulative cost of Rs. 84, 748 crore from six states / UT
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Major Irrigation projects
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Flood Management Schemes
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(i) Kaleswaram Project of
Telangana
(ii) Upper Pravara (Nilwande
– II) Project of Maharashtra
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(i) Mahananda Flood
Management Scheme (Phase – II) of Bihar
(ii) Seerkhad Porject of
Himachal Pradesh
(iii) Yanam Flood Protection
works of Puducherry
(iv) Ghatal Master Plan
(Phase – I) of West Bengal
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# Online RTI portal of Election Commission
of India was launched; the portal will help applicants looking for information
under the RTI Act
# Google said it had rolled out free public
WiFi at 400 Indian railway stations in collaboration with RailTel. Launched a s
a key initiative under Digital India programme, the service was kicked off from
Mumbai Central Railway Station in Jan 2016
TAMIL NADU
# Nearly
50, 000 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have been wound up in the
State in just one year on account of a host of factors
STATES SCAN
# Andhra Pradesh: Singapore Minister of
Trade and Industry Mr. S. Iswaran expressed confidence that significant
progress would be achieved in the construction of Amaravati in six months
starting with the seed capital consequent on the signing of two MoUs
# Odisha: Government announced welfare
measures for working journalists under GSSBJ (Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya
Bima Jojona)
BILATERAL ISSUES
# India and Norway to extend the
cooperation within health sector through the Norway India Partnership
Initiative (NIPI) for a period of three years starting from 2018 to 2020
# External Affairs minister, Ms. Sushma
Swaraj undertook a train journey from Pentrich to Pietermaritzburg, a railway
station in South Africa where a young Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of a
“Whites-only” compartment 125 years ago.
# India is not yet ready to sign the Hague
Treaty on inter – country abduction of children by parents fleeing a bad
marriage
# India joined Australia, Japan and the
United States to discuss the future of Asia – Pacific region as an inclusive
space
# A team of 20 scientists, along with a key
vessel of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) arrived Goa which marked the expansion of US – India collaboration in
the study of the Indian Ocean
WORLD
# China: World’s first European Pressurized
Reactor (EPR) nuclear reactor started its operations in Taishan, in Southern
China
# Myanmar: Myanmar and UN agencies signed
MoU for the eventual return of some of the 700, 000 Rohingya Muslims who fled
from Myanmar due to brutal attacks of Myanmar’s security forced and have camped
now in Bangladesh (CoxBazzar)
ECONOMICS
# UN India Business Forum and the Women
Entrepreneurial Platform of NITI Aayog formed a consortium to reduce gender
disparities in start – up investments by providing mentorship and networking
opportunities and accelerating financial and market linkages for women
entrepreneurs
SPORTS
# India’s Mitahli Raj has become the first
Indian cricketer and seventh woman to amass 2000 runs in T20 internationals.
She now has 2015 runs in 75 matches.
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Indian cricketers who crossed
2000 runs in T20 Internationals
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Player
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Runs
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Matches
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1
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Mithali Raj
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2015
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75
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2
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Virat Kohli
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1983
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53
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3
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Rohit Sharma
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1852
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79
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4
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Suresh Raina
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1499
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73
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5
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M. S. Dhoni
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1444
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89
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# Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli will
be presented the Polly Umrigar Award for the Best International Cricketer (2016
– 17 and 2017 – 18) at the BCCI Awards
· Harmanpreet
Kaur and Smriti Mandhana will be awarded the Best International Cricketer
(Women) for the 2016 – 17 and 2017 – 18 seasons respectively
MISC
# QS World Best Universities Ranking 2019
· From
India, three universities ranked in the list. They are: IIT Delhi (at 172nd),
IIT Bombay (at 162nd) and IISc Bengaluru (at 170th)
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QS World Best Universities
Ranking 2019
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University
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Country
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1
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Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)
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USA
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2
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Stanford University
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USA
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3
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Harvard University
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USA
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4
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California Institute of
Technology
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USA
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5
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University of Oxford
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UK
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# Veteran actor Anupam Kher will be
presented the Lifetime Achievement honour at the 19th edition of IIFA
(International Indian Film Academy) awards ceremony in Bangkok
# Botanist Krishna Chowlu discovered a new
wild flower and named it as Dorjee khnaduii, after the former Chief Minister of
Arunachal Pradesh, Mr. Dorjee Khandu
# A group of young Indian entrepreneurs
have won a $1 million dollar prize by developing a wearable smart device that
women can use to send out emergency alerts if threatened or assaulted
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