INDIAN AFFAIRS
- Government imposed standard environment clearing conditions for 25 sectors; Expert committee has been constituted
- NITI Aayogreleased the 5 Thematic Reports on Sustainable Development in Indian Himalayan Region that had been prepared by the 5 Working Groups (WGs) in June 2017.
- Committee of Secretaries approved setting up National Logistics Portal as a e-marketplace
- Punjab Cabinet approves bill for price stabilisation fund
- Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaikinaugurated several projects through video conferencing.
- Chief Minister of Rajasthan Vasundhara Rajelaunched India’s largest Business Incubator “Bhamashah Techno Hub” In
- India’s only aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya will be upgraded and fitted with a marine hydraulic system to boost the air operations of the ship for the first time.
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
- ‘2gud’: Flipkart’s dedicated portal for Refurbished Goods has been launched
- Reliance Industries (RIL) became the first Indian company to cross Rs 8 lakh crore
- Fortune’s 4th‘Change the World’ list 2018 has been released; Reliance Jio tops the list
- Paytmhas launched “Paytm AI Cloud for India” for developers, start-ups, and enterprises in partnership with Alibaba, a global tech giant.
APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS
- Anil Kumar Pathak took charge as Member (Planning) at the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
- Industry chamberAssocham appointed former bureaucrat Uday Kumar Varma as its new Secretary General.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- NASA’s 2 virtual reality apps:NASA Selfies app and NASA’s Exoplanet Excursions, lets you click selfies with galaxies
- New antibiotic candidate identified in human body
ENVIRONMENT
- The Oldest, Thickest Arctic Sea Ice Is Breaking For the First Time on Record
SPORTS
- FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) has taken temporary control over the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) due to governance issues.
- Veteran pacer Jhulan Goswami retires from T20Is