INDIAN AFFAIRS
- Home Ministryset up a tribunal to decide on banning 2 militant groups from
- Women and Child Development Ministry approves setting up over 1023 fast-track courts to dispose off rape, POCSO cases
- 2-day 9th Session of the India – Kyrgyz IGC concluded in New Delhi
- Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry hosts, 2 days conference of Global Digital Content Market 2018 (GDCM 2018) in New Delhi.
- Government to pay employers 7-weeks maternity leave given to staff
- 4-day Regional meeting of World Customs Organisation held in Jaipur
- India’s first specialized hospital for elephants was unveiled at Churmura village in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- India, Morocco signed pacts to combat global terror including ISIS
- India and China held the 9thAnnual Defence and Security Dialogue in Beijing, China.
BANKING & FINANCE
- Government of India and ADB signed $300 Million Loan to support Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL) in New Delhi.
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
- Credit Rating Agency Fitch affirmed India’s “Long term Foreign-currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR)” at ‘BBB-‘with a stable outlook.Fitch kept India’s Credit rating unchanged for the 12thyear in a row.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- Saroj Suman Gulati conferred with Global Education Leaders Award 2018
APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS
- British Prime Minister Theresa May appoints junior health minister Stephen Barclay as new Brexit Secretary
- Oracle veteran Thomas Kurian to become CEO of Google Cloud
- Ex-IndiGo President Aditya Ghosh joins OYO as CEO for India, South Asia
- OP Bhatt resigned from External Expert of Search & Selection Committee of Yes Bank
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Chinahas built an ‘artificial sun’ that reaches 100 million °C, 6 times the temperature of Sun’s core of 15 million °C.
OBITUARY
- ad film makerAlyque Padamsee, known as the Brand Father of Indian advertising, passed away