| 1. Mukta Dutta Tomar appointed next ambassador to Germany She will succeed Gurjit Singh. Tomar is presently Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. |
| 2. Zeta ties up with RuPay to push for a more inclusive adoption . Zeta offers digital employee benefits for tax optimisation.With RBL Bank as its banking partner, Zeta’s pre-paid card called the Zeta Super Card will now be available on the RuPay platform. Thereby allowing users make payments across more than 12 lakh outlets across India as well as online stores. |
| 3. Manappuram Finance tied-up with Yes bank to launch prepaid card . It can be pre-loaded up to a maximum amount of Rs.50,000 and then be used to withdraw money from all ATMs. As the card works on the popular MasterCard and RuPay networks, it can also be used for online transactions and at merchant establishments with point of sales (PoS) terminals. , the company will also launch its branded eWallet under the name, "MaKash". |
| 4. China topped on ‘executions in 2016’ according to Amnesty International The agency said it believes that China executed thousands each year, Iran executed (567 people), Saudi Arabia (154 people) and Pakistan (87 peoples) in 2016. |
| 5. Colson Whitehead wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Underground Railroad' The novel is about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality. This is for the first time in more than 20 years that the same work won the Pulitzer and National Book Award for fiction. The novel had last year received the National Book Award of the US. |
| 6. first NIMCARE World Health Day Summit 2017 inaugurated in New delhi . The slogan of the first NIMCARE World Health Day Summit was 'Unite for a Healthy Mind’. In the Summit special emphasis was given to people suffering from the problem of Depression. |
| 7. first female defence minister of spain "Carme Chacon " died at the age of 46. chacon helped modernize the armed forces when she took the helm of the Ministry of Defence in 2008. Before taking charge of the defense ministry, she had previously been the minister of housing and a national lawmaker. |
| 8. Atu Zumvu becomes first Nagaland cop to receive ‘Shaurya Chakra’ award. Atu Zumvu, who is a Sub-Divisional Police Officer with the Nagaland Police received the prestigious Shaurya Chakra award at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. |
| 9. PM Modi launched special digital exhibition marking 100 years Champaran Satyagraha in new delhi The exhibition titled “Swachhagraha – Bapu Ko Karyanjali – Ek Abhiyan, Ek Pradarshani " . |
| 10. P V Sindhu is among the nine shuttlers vying for a position in the BWF Athletes Commission. Apart from Sindhu, the list also comprises two former world No.1s in men’s doubles and a former European men’s singles champion. The Chinese player, who became a member of the Athletes’ Commission in 2015, has resigned following her retirement from badminton last year, thus leaving a vacancy on the Commission. |
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