India
12-day long Krishna Pushkar festival begins on
grand note in Telangana & AP
- A 12-day long Krishna Pushkar
festival began in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on a grand note today. The
festival comes once in every 12 years.
- Telangana government has
made elaborate arrangements as over three crore people expected to turn up
for a holy dip at various places in Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda districts on
the banks of the sacred river.
India's first touch-and-feel garden for
visually impaired
- A first-of-its-kind touch and
feel garden for the visually impaired people in the country was
inaugurated near Calicut University campus by Kerala Assembly Speaker P
Sreeramakrishnan.
- · The garden has nearly 70
aromatic, medicinal and herbal plants brought from various parts the
country.
Badal inaugurates first 'Sewa Kendra' in
Punjab
- Punjab Chief Minister Parkash
Singh Badal has inaugurated city’s first Sewa Kendra at Ladhewali today
where people will be able to avail services under one roof.
- While Deputy Chief Minister
Sukhbir Singh Badal has inaugurated Sewa Kendras at Mansa, Pathankot,
Bholath and Amargarh.
Assam becomes the first state to ratify GST
- Assam has become the first
state to ratify the Goods and Services Tax Constitutional Amendment
Bill.
- The Parliament had earlier
cleared the bill to usher in a uniform tax regime throughout the country,
and it now awaits the ratification of at least 15 states to make it a law.
The Centre seeks to roll-out the GST by April 1, 2017.
Awards
& Appointments
Birender Singh Yadav appointed as next HC to
Ghana
- IFS officer of 1997 batch
Birender Singh Yadav currently working as Joint Secretary in the Ministry,
has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the West
Africa’s Republic of Ghana.
- Yadav will succeed K.
Jeeva Sagar in Ghana.
Sports
Phelps 3rd to win Gold in the same event at 4
Olympics
- Michael Phelps won the gold
medal in the 200m individual medley to become only the third athlete to
win an individual Gold in the same event at four Olympics.
- This was Phelps 22nd
Olympic Gold and 4th consecutive in 200m individual medley starting
2004.
Business
& Economy
NABARD sanctions Rs 26.06 crore to Punjab
- National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs 26.06 crore to the Punjab
government.
- The project will reclaim
5,913 hectares of land in 87 villages of Muktsar and Fazilka districts.
Flipkart now on Kotak Mahindra Bank's mobile
banking app
- The private sector lender Kotak
Mahindra Bank (KMB) has announced the availability of Flipkart’s mobile
site in its mobile banking app to gives the customer a secure in-app
shopping environment.
- KMB has been expanding
the scope of offerings on its mobile banking app, and this move further
strengthens its mStore which already allows booking of air tickets,
hotels, and bus tickets.
RBI transfers Rs 65,876 crore surplus to
government
- The Reserve Bank will transfer
to the central government its surplus profit of Rs 65,876 crore which is
marginally lower than the amount given last year.
- The approval to transfer the
surplus was taken at the 559th meeting of the Central Board of the RBI,
chaired by Governor Raghuram Rajan.
- The surplus is generated
through RBI's investment activities, primarily in other sovereign bonds
like that of the US T-bills, which is its single largest investment
source.
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