INDIAN AFFAIRS
- Korean President Moon Jae-in to attend India-Korea Business Forum in New Delhi
- Union Commerce and Industries Minister Suresh Prabhu and South Korean Trade Minister Kim Hyun-Chongsigned agreements on trade and commerce.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-inwould inaugurate ‘world’s largest mobile factory’ of Samsung in India.
- NITI Aayogreleased the ‘Strategy and Approach paper on the NHS’, terming it as ‘the blueprint for India’s futuristic digital health system’.
- University Grants Commission (UGC)announced that the HRD Ministry granted “Institutions of Eminence” status to three public and three private institutes.
- Global Housing construction technology challenge has been proposed to use the opportunity of large scale construction under PMAY-U to attract the best available global construction technologies.
- Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizersannounced that Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Ananthkumar will be inaugurating the CIPET: Centre for Skilling & Technical Support (CSTS) at ITI Building and laying the foundation stone of new Central Institute of Plastics Engineering &Technology (CIPET) Building at Doiwala, Dehradun
- 2 day International Round Table Conference is organized by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in New Delhi.
- Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, has finally decided to hold The 1st Global Travel Mart India (GTMI)in New Delhi.
- Himachal Pradesh Governmentannounced that it is banning the use of plastic and thermocol cutlery in the state.
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
- Engineering Export Promotion Council of India (EEPC)said that Indian engineering exports have risen up 20 per cent during the April-May 2018 period despite the US-China trade war.
- L&T Defence, the defence arm of engineering, technology and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) announced the inauguration of a new second production line for BRAHMOS Transport Launch Canister (TLC) at Ranoli, near Vadodara , Gujarat.
- The commerce ministry has approved a proposal of HCL Technologies to establish a new IT special economic zone (SEZ) in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, with a proposed investment ofRs 408.48 crore.
- Indian Railways introduced Double Stack Dwarf Container Servicesfrom Western Railway’s Rajkot railway station on its first commercial run.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- Michael Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’won the special one-off Golden Man Booker Prize to mark the 50th anniversary of the literary award at the Man Booker 50 Festival in London.
APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS
- drug firm Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said that, Sun Pharma Consumer Healthcare has named actorAkshay Kumaras the brand ambassador of health supplement Revital H.
- Anchor Electricals Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation announced that, Vivek Sharmahas been appointed as the company’s new Managing Director to head its electricals business.
- David Davis resigned as Brexit secretary.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Pakistan launched 2 indigenously built satellites named PRSS-1and PAK-TES-1A into the orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China, through a Chinese-made launch vehicle.
- Lupin, a drug firm said that, it has obtained approval from the U S Food and Drug Administration forHydroxychloroquine Sulfate tabletsthat is used to treat malaria.
ENVIRONMENT
- Seven new wasp species discovered in the Amazon forests
SPORTS
- Indian batsman Lokesh Rahulhas improved 9 places and reached a career-high 3rd position in the latest ICC T20 rankings.