NATIONAL UPDATES:
1.
World Sufi Forum: PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate four-day conclave: PM
Modi will inaugurate the World Sufi Forum in New Delhi, where more than 200
Indian and international delegates, including Sufi Shuyukh, spiritual leaders, scholars,
academicians and masters of Sufism, are participating.
2.
India has signed $35 million loan agreement with The World Bank for MP Project:
The
Government of India has signed a loan agreement with the World Bank for
Neeranchal National Watershed Project in Madhya Pradesh.
3. Arun Jaitley to inaugurate National
Community Radio Sammelan in New Delhi: The theme of the
conference is ‘Community Radio in India: Towards Diversity and Sustainability’.
4. Indian Railways tied up with ISRO for
route surveys: The agreement will leverage the space
technology for providing passenger information in all trains.
5. Denmark firm to set up pumps
manufacturing unit near Hyderabad: Desmi Technology a
leading international manufacturer of pumps and pump solutions to set up a
plant on the outskirts of Hyderabad shortly.
6. Vijay Mallya quits as RCB Director.
7. TCS named Virgin Money London
Marathon as official tech partner for London Marathon.
8. Surat is the cleanest railway station
in the country followed by Rajkot and Bilaspur (Chattisgarh), according to an
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) survey; Varanasi is
among the dirtiest one.
9. Hitachi to setup ATM making firm in
India.
10. Amar Abrol appointed as the new CEO
of Air Asia India.
11. Freecharge allows payments via chat
in 5 seconds: Mobile wallet and digital payments
player FreeCharge has announced the launch of its ‘Chat and Pay’ feature.
12. Ex Wipro CFO Suresh Senapathy has
been appointed the new chairman of Honeywell Automation.
13. Union Minster Ram Vilas Paswan
launched FCI’s Depot Online System.
14. Goa Government classified its
country liquor, Feni as Heritage Spirit of Goa.
15. Llyod’s appointed Shankar
Garigiparthy as Country Manager for India.
16. Pfizer India names S Sridhar as
Managing Director.
17. Ramesh Iyer re-designated as
vice-chairman at Mahindra Finance.
18. India, ASEAN Plus multilateral
military exercise FORCE 18 concluded in Pune.
INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:
1.
10th Asian Film Awards announced in Macau; The Assassin won maximum
awards: Best Film: The Assassin, Best Director: H
Hsiao-Hsien for the Assassin, Best Actor: Lee Byung-hun for The Inside Men,
Best Actress: Shu Qi for The Assassin.
2.
Bangkok to impose curfew during Songkran festival, the world’s biggest water
festival.
3.
90% of domestic workers excluded from Social Protection: It
was revealed by the International Labour Organisation in its Social Protection
Paper 16 entitled Social Protection for Domestic Workers: Key Policy Trends and
statistics.
4.
Glenmark Pharma received final approval from US Food and Drug Administration
for Frovatriptan Succinate tablets for Migraine.
5.
My Biosphere, My Future campaign launched in Lima.
OTHER UPDATES:
FINANCE/BANKING:
1. 5600 wilful defaulters owe banks Rs
60K crore: According to the data from credit
information bureau CIBIL, more than 5600 borrowers who owe banks close to Rs
60,000 crore have been declared wilful defaulters by lenders as on December 31.
2. Interest rate in Public Provident
Fund cut to 8.1% from 8.7% and to 7.8% from 8.7% in KVP schemes.
SPORTS:
2. UN
suspended Maria Sharapova as goodwill brand ambassador after doping
allegations.
3.
Vijender Singh registers fourth straight win in Pro Boxing beating Hungary’s
Alexander Horvath.
4. Sri
Lankan Cricket Board constituted Arvinda de Silva-led National Cricket
Selection Panel.
AWARDS:
5.
India-based software engineer Abdulqadir Rashik won first prize in UN
#LinksSDGs Data Visualisation Challenge.
6.
Priyanka Kakodar and Raksha Kumar won Chameli Devi Jain Award for their work
that clubs social concern and compassion with pioneering reportage and
analytical skills.
OBITUARIES:
6. US Actor Larry Drake passed away at
the age of 66.
7. Renowned Singer and Actor K Mani
passed away at the age of 45 following a liver ailment.
8. American Actress Nancy Reagan died at
the age of 94.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS:
9. Book titled ‘Gandhi: An illustrated
Biography’ authored by Pramod Kapoor was in news recently.
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