NATIONAL UPDATES:
1.
TRAI bats for net neutrality, says no to differential pricing: In
a big blow to social media giant Facebook, India’s telecom regulator TRAI ruled
out differential pricing for internet service providers.
2.
DMICDL to implement India’s largest green-field Smart City in Dholera: With
Larson and Toubro being awarded the Rs 1734-crore EPC contract, work on the
construction of ancient port-city of Dholera in Gujarat, touted as India’s
largest green-field smart city under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor is
all set to roll out with a SPV created to manage the new township on a
sustainable basis.
3. National Air Quality Indices for
24 cities released by Central Pollution Control Board: The
CPCB published the National Air Quality Indices (NAQI) for 24 cities. The NAQI
published with a colour code and a numeral value will help in comparing
pollution levels in each cities. Varanasi and Muzzafarpur topped the list and
were coded as ‘severe’.
4. India’s first aviation park to
come up in Gujarat: To strengthen the
aviation sector in Gujarat, the state government has planned to set up the
country’s first ever aviation park here, having a slew of facilities, including
an airstrip, training school, helipad and space for setting up small
manufacturing units among others at 30km from Bagodara village.
5. Union Government launched 24X7
toll free Tourist Infoline in 12 International languages including Hindi,
English, Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Chinese,
Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
6. PM Modi inaugurated Paradip Oil
Refinery in Odisha: It is Indian Oil
Corporation Limited’s 11th refinery, which was dedicated to the
nation by PM Modi.
7. First machine harvestable
chickpea variety NbeG 47 released: It
was released by International Corps Research Institute for the
Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) in Andhra Pradesh.
INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:
1.
HCL to collaborate with Microsoft for Industrial Internet of Things: HCL
Technologies has launched an Internet of Things (IoT) incubation centre in
Redmond, Washington, USA, designed to leverage Microsoft Azure IoT Suite to
accelerate enterprise IoT adoption.
2.
First joint tactical exercise Sino-India Cooperation 2016 held in Chusul-Moldo
area along LoAC.
3.
France became first country in the world to ban supermarket food waste: The
French Senate unanimously passed a law to ban large food stores from throwing
away food that is approaching its expiration date, forcing them instead to
donate it to charities and food banks.
4.
United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) unveiled a set of six commemorative
stamps to promote UN Free and Equal, a global United Nations campaign for
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality.
OTHER UPDATES:
FINANCE/BANKING:
1.
RBI cancels licence of 4 NBFCs: The Reserve Bank
of India has cancelled the certificate of registration of four non-banking
financial companies (NBFCs) in exercise of the powers under the Reserve Bank of
India Act, 1934. Goyal Commercial Pvt Ltd and First Debt Management Co. of
India Ltd are the NBFCs belonging to Kolkata, while Nostalgia Finvest Pvt Ltd
and Narad Realtors Pvt Ltd belong to Mumbai.
SPORTS:
2.
Brendon McCullum ends ODI career with series win against Australia.
3.
Sapna Devi won gold in women WushuTaulu competition of the 12th South
Asian Games.
4.
ICC suspends Pakistan’s leg-spinner Yasir Shah for doping offence.
5.
Australia won three match women ODI series against India 2-1.
AWARDS:
6.
The Revenant director Alejandro Gonzalez won Directors Guild of America Award
2015.
OBITUARIES:
7.
Acclaimed Poet-Lyricist Nida Fazli died at the age of 78.
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