| 1.China has launched its first X-ray space telescope to study black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts. The 2.5-tonne Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), named 'Insight,' was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi desert. It was delivered into orbit, 550km (341 miles) above the Earth, by the Long March-4B rocket. |
| 2. David Grossman has won the Man Booker International Prize 2017 for his novel `A Horse Walks Into a Bar'. Grossman beat out five other finalists, including fellow Israeli author Amos Oz for the counterpart to Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. |
| 3. Yes Bank has partnered with TerraPay to enable real-time money transfer to bank accounts in India. TerraPay’s global clearing and settlement service, the partnership will make it faster and convenient for consumers to send money to any bank account. TerraPay has partnered with Yes Bank in a Rupee Drawing Arrangement which enables TerraPay’s network partners to make instant cross-border money transfer to bank accounts in India |
| 4. India ranked 60th in the Global Innovation Index rankings 2017. Switzerland tops the list.India improved its position from 66 to 60. Its improvement is part of a trend both in the middle-income countries and Asian countries, many of which have improved their innovation capacities in recent years. The GII was first developed 10 years ago by the business school INSEAD in Paris. |
| 5.Neeru Chadha became the first Indian Woman to be elected as the Member of ITLOS. Nehru chadha, the international law expert, got 120 votes with the highest in the Asia-Pacific group. She will have a nine-year term as the Judge at International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea(ITLOS) from 2017 to 2026. Currently, an eminent jurist from India P Chandrasekhara Rao is a judge at the tribunal. |
| 6. Yeshe Dorjee Thongshi conferred with Bhupen Hazarika Award. The award has been instituted a Maharashtra-based social organization ‘Sarhad’ for outstanding literary work at national and international level. The award consists of Rs. 51,000, a memento and a certificate. Yeshe Dorjee Thongshi belongs to the West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 7. India has claimed the top spot among the remittance-receiving nations. The United Nations, in its report, stated that Indians working across the globe sent home 62.7 billion US dollars in 2016. According to the ‘One Family at a Time’ study by the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development, about 200 million migrants globally sent more than 445 billion dollars as remittances in 2016 to their families. |
| 8. Railway Ministry launches "Mission Retro-Fitment" to enhance the passenger experience. Mission Retro-Fitment is an ambitious program to upgrade the level of furnishing & amenities in the coaches of Indian Railways. This is one of the largest retro fitment project in the world as Indian Railways’ 40,000 coaches will be refurbished and retrofitted in the next five years. |
| 9. India-Australia naval exercise ‘AUSINDEX 17’ begun at coast of Western Australia. The second AUSINDEX exercises are aimed at increasing interoperability between Australian and Indian naval forces, executing complex naval manoeuvres. The first AUSINDEX was held in the Bay of Bengal in 2015. |
| 10. China-led AIIB has approved USD 150 million equity investment loan to the India Infrastructure Fund. It is the bank's first such loan to fund private projects. The Board of Directors of the AIIB, who met in Jeju in South Korea has approved USD 150 million equity investment to the India Infrastructure Fund. The bank, in which India is a lead partner, has approved two loans and one equity investment totalling USD 324 million to support infrastructure projects in India, Georgia and Tajikistan. |
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