| 1. Dipak Misra has been appointed as the 45th Chief Justice of India Justice Dipak Misra has been appointed as the 45th Chief Justice of India. He was nominated by present CJI JS Khehar last month. He is known for the judgment on Yakub Memon who made a last minute attempt to escape the gallows. He had rejected his plea for a stay on the death warrant. |
| 2. Iran signs its biggest-ever car deal with France’s Renault. Iran’s official news agency says two Iranian companies have signed the country’s biggest-ever car deal with French multinational automobile manufacturer Group Renault to produce 150,000 cars, beginning in 2018. The Euro €660 million or $778 million deal follows the lifting of international sanctions after Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers. |
| 3. Axis Bank has cut savings account interest rate to 3.5% on balances of up to Rs. 50 lakh. Axis Bank will continue to offer an interest rate of 4% per annum on savings account balances of Rs. 50 lakh and above The move comes after State Bank of India introduced two-tier interest rates on savings accounts.In 2011, the Reserve Bank of India had freed savings bank deposit rates |
| 4. Amazon India has singned MOU with the Telangana Department of Handloom and Textiles. Amazon India has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Telangana Department of Handloom and Textiles, to educate, train and enable weavers and artisans to directly sell their products to Amazon customers across the country. According to a statement issued by the e—commerce giant, with over 17,000 handlooms in the state, this association will further help elevate popular handloom products from clusters such as are Pochampally, Warangal, Gadwal, Narayanpet and Siddipet which have a tremendous potential and demand in urban areas. |
| 5. Centre has launched Swachh Survekshan Gramin to encourage states and districts to improve sanitation coverage. Centre has launched Swachh Survekshan Gramin to encourage states and districts to improve sanitation coverage and solid liquid waste management. All districts of the country will be ranked under the Swachh Survekshan Gramin on the basis of performance, sustainability and transparency. So far, 4,600 villages and 1.4 lakh households have been covered under Swachh Sarvekshan (Gramin) Survey. |
| 6. Maharashtra to raise $270 m from Green Climate Fund. Green Climate Fund, which will be invested in integrated watershed programmes such as Jalyukt Shivar Yojana. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a new fund under the UN and is guided by the principles and provisions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. |
| 7. Railways earned Rs.540 crore through flexi fare scheme. The Railways has earned an additional revenue of Rs 540 crore in less than a year through the flexi fare scheme and there is no plan to discontinue it. The scheme, launched on 09th September 2016, is applicable in Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto trains, allowing 10 per cent of the seats to be sold at the normal fare and thereafter increasing it by 10 per cent with every 10 per cent of berths sold with a ceiling of 50 per cent. |
| 8. Public banks have written off ₹2.5 lakh crore loans in 5 yrs. Public sector banks have written off nearly ₹2.5 lakh crore loans in the last five financial years, the Finance Ministry said. As many as 27 public sector banks have written off ₹81,683 crore in 2016-17, the highest in the last five fiscals. Notably, SBI and its erstwhile associates alone have written-off ₹27,574 crore during the 2016-17 period. |
| 9. Rinku Hooda won silver medal in the javelin throw F46 at the first World Para Athletics Junior Championships. India's junior para-athlete Rinku Hooda won a silver medal in the javelin throw F46 at the first World Para Athletics Junior Championships in Switzerland on Monday. The 18-year-old threw a distance of 54.92 metres to finish second. Rinku got disabled as a three-year-old when his left arm got stuck in a machine. |
| 10. Ravindra Jadeja overtake Shakib Al Hasan to top ICC all-rounders' rankings. India's Ravindra Jadeja today edged out Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan to claim the top-rank among all-rounders apart from maintaining top position in the bowlers' chart in the latest ICC test match rankings. Jadeja currently has 438 points among the all-rounders while Shakib has 431 points. Cheteshwar Pujara gained a place to be third among batsmen while Virat Kohli maintained his fifth position. |
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