1. Lalita Prasida
Sripada Srisai, a class IX student from Damanjodi in Koraput district in Odisha
won the ‘Community Impact Award’ at the prestigious Google Science Fair in
California.
2. European Union (EU)
has imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 31.2 per cent on imports
of sewage and water steel pipes from India.
3. Zayn Khan elected as the President of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI).
4.Bank of Maharashtra has launched Mudra card to meet the credit requirements of micro and small entrepreneurs on 81st foundation day.
Chairman-cum-Managing Director, S Muhnot
5. Facebook rebrands
internet.org as “Free Basics by Facebook”
6.Sebi imposed a penalty of Rs 7,269.5 crore on Pearls Agrotech Corporation Limited (PACL) and its four directors.
7. Union Government has announced Special Assistance of 1000 crore rupees to the Andhra Pradesh.
8.A powerful earthquake magnitude 6.6 on Richter scale has hit Indonesia’s eastern region of Papua.
3. Zayn Khan elected as the President of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI).
4.Bank of Maharashtra has launched Mudra card to meet the credit requirements of micro and small entrepreneurs on 81st foundation day.
Chairman-cum-Managing Director, S Muhnot
6.Sebi imposed a penalty of Rs 7,269.5 crore on Pearls Agrotech Corporation Limited (PACL) and its four directors.
7. Union Government has announced Special Assistance of 1000 crore rupees to the Andhra Pradesh.
8.A powerful earthquake magnitude 6.6 on Richter scale has hit Indonesia’s eastern region of Papua.
9. Marathi film ‘Court’
has been selected as India’s official entry to the Best Foreign Language category
of the 88th Academy Awards 2016 (popularly known as Oscars. It has been produced by Vivek Gomber. The film
also has won the Best Feature Film award at the 62nd National Film Awards in
2015.
10. Arvind Panagariya, vice-chairman of Niti Aayog, has been appointed as
the sherpa for G20 negotiations.
11. The Union Cabinet gave its approval for minor amendments in earlier MoU
signed to facilitate implementation of Indo-German Strategic Partnerships in
Higher Education Programme.
12. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has inked a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with Sports Ministry of China.
WADA Headquarters:
Montreal, Canada
13. Alexis Tsipras of
left wing Syriza party has sworn in as the Prime Minister of Greece.
14. Sourav Ganguly has
been appointed as President of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)
15. Asian Development
Bank slashed India’s growth forecast to 7.4 per cent in 2015-16 from its
earlier projection of 7.8 per cent in March.
16. The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has
been awarded SKOCH Award for Smart Governance.
EPFO is a statutory body of Union Government that comes under the aegis of
Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Headquarters: New Delhi
17. Industrialist Mukesh
Ambani has been named as India’s richest person for ninth consecutive year in a
row. Flipkart’s
co-founders Sachin(86th) and Binni Bansal(86th) have made
their debut in this edition of list. RIL is
India’s second most valuable company by market value after Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS).
18. India will purchase 22 Apache Attack helicopters and 15
Chinook heavy-lift choppers from Boeing (US).
19. Norway-based Telecom service
provider Uninor has rebranded itself as Telenor in India.
20. Dr Kamal Kishore
Goenka has been conferred with prestigious 24th Vyaas Samman for year 2014.This
award was instituted by the K.K. Birla Foundation in 1991.
21.Hindustan Times Group
chairperson Shobhana Bharatia and PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi have been
awarded 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US-India Business Council (USIBC).
22. Baseball legend Yogi
Berra from United States has passed away.
23. Rajasthan Legislative
Assembly has passed two bills to provide reservation in educational
institutions and government jobs to economically backward classes (EBC) and
special backward classes (SBC) including Gujjars.
24. Volkswagen Chief
Executive Martin Winterkorn has resigned.
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