NATIONAL UPDATES:
1. ISKCON's
Govardhan Eco Village wins Smart Village Award: ISKCON’s (International
Society for Krishna Consciousness) Govardhan eco-village (Thane district) has
been conferred Smart Village Award for being a sustainable project in rural
Maharashtra. The ‘Smart Village Award’ has been instituted by the India Trade
Promotion Organisation.
2. Uttar
Pradesh Assembly passes GST bill: The Uttar Pradesh Assembly has unanimously
passed the UP Goods and Service Tax Bill, 2017. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
termed it as revolutionary move which is in the interest of both consumers and
traders.
3. Plastic
park to come up in Panipat: Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister, Mr Ananth
Kumar announced to open 2 new CIPET centres in Haryana, a plastic
park at Panipat on an area of 75 acres at an estimated cost of Rs 1,500 crore
and a pharmaceutical park at Karnal. Ananth Kumar said 9 CIPET centres were in
the pipeline in Medak, Jaipur, Jammu and Kashmir, Haridwar, Baghalpur,
Varanasi, Agartala, Mumbai and Ranchi.
4. Bengali mandatory in West Bengal schools: West Bengal Education Minister
Partha Chatterjee has announced that from now, students of all schools
irrespective of boards or mother tongue would have to learn three languages
from Class I to X, one of which would have to be Bengali.
5. Indian Boy makes history - World’s smallest satellite for NASA: Rifath Sharook, an
18-year-old student from Tamil Nadu, has developed the world’s smallest and
lightest satellite. He is all set to break a global space record by launching
the lightest satellite in the world, weighing a mere 64 grams. The satellite is
made using reinforced carbon fibre polymer, is named ‘KalamSat’, after former
President APJ Abdul Kalam.
INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:
1. Impeachment against Duterte rejected: Philippine
parliamentary panel has rejected a proposal for an impeachment motion against
President Rodrigo Duterte for his alleged involvement in extrajudicial killings
and other crimes.
2. Syria
peace talks restart in Geneva: A new round of Syria peace talks aiming to
resolve a six year conflict, opens in Geneva. The UN’s Syria envoy Staffan de
Mistura said, the negotiations are focused on four separate baskets:
governance, a new constitution, elections and combating terrorism in the
war-ravaged country.
3. Yemen
declares state of emergency over cholera outbreak: A state of emergency has
been declared in the Yemen’s capital ‘Sanaa’ due to a deadly outbreak of
cholera. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the disease
killed at least 115 people and left more than 8,000 others infected
across the country.
4. International
Day of Families celebrated: The International Day of Families is observed on the
15th of May every year. The Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in
1993. Theme of International Day of Families 2017 : “Families, education and
well-being”.
5. Edouard
Philippe appointed as Prime Minister of France: French President Emmanuel
Macron has appointed Edouard Philippe as the new Prime
Minister of France.
OTHER UPDATES:
SPORTS:
1. Deepti Sharma and Poonam Raut create record: Indian
women’s cricket team openers Deepti Sharma and Poonam Raut have become the
first pair in women’s ODIs to share a 300-plus stand for any wicket. They achieved
this feat against Ireland.
BANKING & FINANCE:
2. HDFC
Life inks distribution tie-up with Catholic Syrian Bank: HDFC Life has
entered into a banc assurance tie-up with ‘Catholic Syrian Bank’ to distribute
its individual life insurance products to the private lender’s customers. Now,
HDFC Life will offer its leading range of individual life insurance, health,
and pension products to the Catholic Syrian Bank’s customer over a period of
time.
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