NATIONAL UPDATES:
1.
All India Launches Balochi Website, Mobile App: All India Radio (AIR) has been launched a website
and mobile app for its Balochi service to reach people who speak this language
across the globe.
2.
India Signs MoU With Sri Lanka To Support
Fishermen And Farmers: India and Sri Lanka Signed MoU to support
livelihood of the fishing and farming communities by providing them equipment
worth USD 2 million in the country’s southern Hambantota district.
3.Paytm to power IRCTC’s payment
gateway:Mobile
payment and commerce platform Paytm has tied up with the country’s largest rail
ticketing platform IRCTC to enable digital payments for travellers.
4. Telangana signs MoU to
help Goa in IT development: The Telangana government has been signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Goa government to help the latter in
information technology (IT) development.
5. HAL gets membership of
APAQG with voting rights:Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited on Friday has been conferred the prestigious membership of
the Asia-Pacific Aerospace Quality Group (APAQG)under the category 'Full Member
with voting rights'.
6.
V K Sharma gets additional charge as LIC chairman:V K Sharma, who is currently one of the two
managing directors at Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), has taken
additional charge as Chairman, LIC of India. Sharma joined LIC in the year 1981
as a Direct Recruit Officer.
INTERNATIONAL
UPDATES:
1. Former
Italian president, prime minister and central bank governor Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has died
at the age of 95.
OTHER
UPDATES:
SPORTS:
1. Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit
Sharma conferred with Arjuna Award: Sports Minister Vijay Goel conferred Arjuna
Awards on cricketers Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane at a function in New
Delhi.Sharma was given the award for 2015 and Rahane for 2016.
AWARDS:
2.
Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd, a microfinance
institution, has won the Platinum Award for Inclusive Insurance at the SKOCH
Insurance Awards 2016.
OBITUARIES:
3. Legendary playwright Edward Albee, widely
considered one of the greats of his generation, has died at the age of 88.
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