| 1. India's largest e-commerce player Flipkart buys eBay's India business. In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay has agreed to make a $500 million cash investment in and sell its eBay.in business to Flipkart. eBay.in will continue to operate as a separate entity from Flipkart and the two companies plan to tap in each other's inventory to expand sales, giving Flipkart customers and sellers access to eBay's global marketplace. |
| 2. Rajnath Singh launched the website and app named 'Bharat Ke Veer' to facilitate the monetary contribution . It is to facilitate the monetary contribution to the kin of soldier personnel killed in action. The Home Minister launched the website on the occasion of the 'Shaurya Diwas', which was organized to facilitate the CRPF with bravery awards and medals. |
| 3. More than 5 million businesses all over the world actively advertise on Facebook the number of advertisers on its platform has crossed the five million-mark with India featuring among the fastest growing markets.The fastest growing countries are India, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. |
| 4. "soinakshe" Website launched by UG for downloading government maps . The government today launched a dedicated website allowing the public the access to download 3,000 maps prepared by the Survey General of India (SGI) but made Aadhaar mandatory for the purpose. Using Aadhaar number, a person can download three maps every day from the portal (http://soinakshe.uk.gov.in/). |
| 5. China declines to acknowledge Indian Navy’s role in ship rescue . Somali pirates attacked the ship when it was travelling from Kelang in Malaysia to the port city of Aden. |
| 6. North India to get DNA bank for wildlife Scientists at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) in Bareilly are in the process of collecting DNA samples of all wild animals to set up the bank. It will help in research and also in bringing down poaching. |
| 7. Venkaiah Naidu launches 352 housing projects in 53 cities in 17 states It is made possible with an investment of Rs 38,003-cr to build 2,03,851 affordable houses. These housing projects would be implemented by the Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI) across the country in the first major private investment in affordable housing. |
| 8. Fino Paytech inks deal with ICICI group companies to distribute insurance products. Fino Payments Bank will sell life and general insurance products of ICICI Prudential and ICICI Lombard. |
| 9. India, Russia team up to promote innovation and R&D between them. With this collaboration, there will be an effort to promote innovation and technology entrepreneurship through the development of long-term cooperation, co-innovation and direct contacts between Russian and Indian innovation clusters. |
| 10. Samsung India’s R&D unit tops chart of IT patent applicants Samsung R&D Institute India, TCS, Wipro, IITs and HCL have filed 229, 213, 149, 60 and 49 applications, respectively. In the scientific and research and development organisations category, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has topped the chart. |
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