| 1. Centre bans sale & purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter. The union environment and Forests ministry has notified new rule, banned the sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter by notifying a stringent Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Rules 2017 under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. The rules prohibit the sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets, effectively barring this nationwide, including in states such as Kerala which allow the slaughter of cows. |
| 2. India announced a $500 million line of credit to Mauritius. the two countries resolved to deepen ties in a range of areas including the maritime domain. The two countries also signed a maritime security agreement after extensive talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth. |
| 3. World Bank offers help to make Haryana state Open Defecation Free. The state would achieve ODF status by 25th September this year and after that a cleanliness drive would start to get ODF plus status. ODF plus refers to total sanitation in terms of solid waste management, improved sewerage lines, storm water drains and pucca cement roads. Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, he said, 44 villages, two each from a district, would be taken up under a pilot project to ensure cleanliness by 1st November this year. |
| 4. Nagpur will be the India’s first e-vehicle public transport city. Marking the third anniversary of the Narendra Modi government, Union surface transport minster Nitin Gadkari along with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis flagged off taxi aggregator Ola's electronic vehicle (EV) services in the city.A battery charging station for the vehicles was also inaugurated at the airport where the launch function was held. |
| 5.Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu has become the first Indian to summit Mount Everest a record six times. The mountaineer, a Padma Shri awardee who works as an assistant commandant with the Border Security Force in Dehradun, achieved the feat early on Saturday morning. Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, the premier institute of mountaineering under the ministry of defence in Uttarkashi, has confirmed to TOI that Dharmshaktu is the first Indian to summit the peak six times. |
| 6. Haryana government to form committee for safety of school girls. The state education department has now roped in village panchayats and police to ensure that there is adequate security for the girls when they visit their schools. A committee will be formed in every school to ensure safety of the school girls. This has been done after school girls in around nine districts across Haryana demanded that their schools be upgraded to class twelve. The students stated that travelling to other villages to attend school is a hassle as they often face eve-teasing and feel unsafe on the way. The trend to fast upgrade the schools started on May 10 when around 83 girls from Gothda Tappa Dahina village in Rewari went on an indefinite hunger strike. |
| 7. All scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) made higest ever wrote off of Rs 2.2 lakh crore in the five-year. SCBs represent all public sector banks, private sector banks, foreign banks, regional rural banks and some co-operative banks. These represent over 95% of the formal credit given out by all financial institutions in the country. This could be the highest ever write-off in a five-year period in absolute terms as are the total stressed assets in the banking system. |
| 8. The 'Taj Mahal' has become the Indian monument to figure in the world's top 10 Travellers' Choice awards for Landmarks. The historic monument Taj Mahal has ranked at the fifth position in the list. The top spot clinched by the world’s largest religious monument 'Angkor Wat' in Cambodia. The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. |
| 9. PM Narendra Modi pays tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on his 53rd death anniversary . Pandit Nehru was born on November 14, 1889 in Allahabad. In 1919, he joined the Indian National Congress and joined Mahatma Gandhi in the independence movement. He became the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in September 1923. On August 29, 1928 he attended the All-Party Congress and was one of the signatories to the Nehru Report on Indian Constitutional Reform, named after his father Motilal Nehru. In 1929, Nehru was elected the president of the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress, where complete independence for the country was adopted as the goal. |
| 10. Over two lakh villages have become open defecation free in India. the drinking water and sanitation minister announced and said While for rural areas the next challenge is to deal with the liquid waste generated, the situation across cities and towns seems to be getting worse as urban areas struggle to manage their daily municipal waste and open urination.Apathy of municipal authorities, safai karamcharis shirking their responsibilities and inadequate facilities to process solid waste remain big challenges for this flagship programme. An online survey by LocalCircles recently showed that 57% of respondents said their cities haven't become cleaner due to Swachh Bharat. |
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