NATIONAL UPDATES:
1.
Six year old Indian boy enters Guinness World
Record: A six-year-old boy, Om Swaroop Gowda from Karnataka has set the world
record for covering longest distance by limbo skating under cars. He clinched
the Guinness World records title after a successful attempt to travel a
staggering 65.283-metre distance while holding his body just above the
ground and maintaining a splits position throughout.
2.
LS Speaker inaugurates DRDO exhibition in Parliament premises: LokSabha Speaker SumitraMahajan has inaugurated the three-day
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) exhibition in
the Parliament premises in New Delhi.
3. Urban Development Ministry approves investment of Rs 4404
crore to 8 states, UTs: Ministry
of Urban Development has approved an investment of Rs. 4,404 crore in
augmenting water supply, sewerage networks, drainage, urban transport and
public and green spaces in urban areas in 8 States and UTs under Atal Mission
for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) for the current
financial year.
4. Vasundhara Raje lays the
foundation of 14 projects in Jaipur:
Rajasthan's Chief Minister
VasundharaRaje has laid the foundation of 14 projects worth Rs 2,229 Crore and
stated that the city of Jaipur will be a 'wonder city' in next two years.
The project aims to make the 47-km long water body pollution free and beautiful
in the next two years. Plantation of 16,000 saplings in
65,000 sq meters will also be a part of the beautification of the
river, etc.
5. Shipping Corporation of India inks MoU amid Growth
Plans: Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. has signed the
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Shipping for the
financial year 2016-17.
6. Dr
D K Gayen appointed as the new GM of East Central Railway.
7. Sudhanshu
Mani appointed as new GM of Integral Coach Factory (ICF).
8. Nimesh Kampani resigns as
Managing Director of JM Financial Ltd.
INTERNATIONAL
UPDATES:
1.
4 Indian-origin persons
among US’ top wealth advisors: Forbes:
Raj Sharma and Ash Chopra, both working
in Merrill Lynch - Private Banking & Investment Group, have been ranked
17th and 129 respectively on the Forbes 2016 'America's Top Wealth Advisors'
list. While Sonny Kothari of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has been
ranked 176, RajuPathak of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is placed at 184.
OTHER
UPDATES:
FINANCE/BANKING:
1. RBI launches new website ‘Sachet’ to curb Illegal
Collection of Deposits: The Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) Governor RaghuramRajan has launched ’Sachet-
www.sachet.rbi.org.in’, a web portal to curb illegal collection
of deposits. Sachet is an SLCC (State Level Coordination
Committees) website from which the members of the public would be able to
obtain information regarding entities that are allowed to accept deposits,
lodge complaints and also share information regarding illegal acceptance of deposits
by unscrupulous entities.
2. RBI constitutes a committee on Household Finance:
The Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) has set up a committee to look at the various facets of household finance
in India and to benchmark India’s position vis-à-vis both the peer
countries and advanced countries.
SPORTS:
3. IOC gives nod to addition of five new
sports in Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has agreed to add
Baseball-Softball, Karate, Skateboard, Climbing Sports and surfing in the 2020
Tokyo Olympics. The decision was taken by the 129th IOC session being held
in Rio de Janeiro.
AWARDS:
4.
ShubhaMudgal to be awarded Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award: Mudgal will be honoured for her outstanding
contribution towards the promotion of communal harmony, peace and goodwill on
20 August 2016 at JawaharBhawan Auditorium.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS:
5. Book titled ‘Grassroots Innovation’
authored by Prof. Anil K Gupta has been released.
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