INDIAN AFFAIRS
- Government sanctioned 254 projects worth over 24 thousand crore rupees under National Mission for Clean Ganga in India Water Summit 2018
- Centre Empowers Lt Governors, Administrators to Set Up Special Courts
- Rs 50 crore Science and Technology Innovation fund, first in the country, approved by Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- India tops in road deaths; globally fatalities increase by 1 lakh in 3 years: WHO report
- Two day 175th Meeting of the OPEC Conference & one day 5th OPEC and Non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting held in Vienna, Austria
- Luxembourgbecame the first country to abolish all fares on public transport by 2019.
- Dubai Crown Prince Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launches world’s largest Arabic audio library in Dubai
- Conference on the theme ‘Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code of India – New Paradigm for Stressed Assets’ was held at the Indian Consulate in New York.
- United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched a new framework named as UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact.
BANKING & FINANCE
- Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) announced extension of credit facility of USD 500 millionto Tanzania for water supply projects in the country.
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
- Indiaretain its position as the world’s top recipient of remittances this year with its diaspora sending $80 billion back home.India is followed by China ($67 billion), Mexico and the Philippines ($34 billion each) and Egypt ($26 billion).
- Current account deficit widens to 2.9% of GDP in Q2:RBI
- Australiasurpassed Qatar to become the world’s leading exporter of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) for the first time.
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
- Forbes released The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2018.
- IT stalwart Roshni Nadar Malhotra ranking 51stin the list,
- Biotechnology pioneer Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw ranking60th,
- Media mogul Shobhana Bhartia at 88th position and
- Actor Priyanka Chopra at94th
- Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India was conferred the Skoch Award for National Significance in New Delhi.
- Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzaiwas honored by Harvard University in the United States for her work promoting girls’ education.
- Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Bharti Mittalhas received ESCP Europe’s highest honour ‘Doctor Honoris Causa’ for his innovative entrepreneurship and contribution towards philanthropy in the field of education.
APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS
- Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), chaired by PM Narendra Modi, appointed Krishnamurthy Subramanian as Chief Economic Advisor for a period of 3
- Axis Bank inducted Amitabh Chaudhryas additional director on its board. He will replace incumbent Shikha Sharma whose fourth term has been curtailed by the RBI by nearly two-and-half years.
- Kirthiga Reddy, the former managing director of FacebookIndia, has joined SoftBank as its first venture partner at its $100 billion Vision Fund. She the first women coming on board in a company where the rest are all men.
- SPORTS
- Ashwin makes Marsh break 130-year-old Australian record
- BOOKS & AUTHORS
- Vice President Releases the book on selected speeches of the President Titled “The Republican Ethic” in English and “Loktantra ke Swar” in New Delhi