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NATIONAL NEWS

Religious Texts to be included in Haryana School Curriculum

Assam to introduce file tracking system for transparency

Rs.5,000 cr. Central aid sought for Mission Kakatiya

Kerala Government To Ban E-Cigarettes

Teacher Education Portal 'Prashikshak' Launched

NHAI Gets Green Nod For Rs.1,246-Cr Up Road Upgradation Project

Union Cabinet Approves Recommendations Of 7th Pay Commission

Railway Ministry to install CCTV cameras at 1000 stations

Rapid Rural Police Response System launched

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit four African nations, namely Mozambique,

South Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya, from July 7 to 11

Puducherry govt to build toilets in 55,000 homes

J&K govt launches e-file tracking system

Tamil Nadu's fiscal deficit highest in India

BRICS Working Group Meeting on Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency begins in

Visakhapatnam

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert for the next 24

hours in Uttarakhand

India's first Integrated Defence Communication Network (DCN) was launched

Public canteens to be set up in Haryana by Nov 1

National Mineral Exploration Policy unveiled by Narendra Singh Tomar

India’s first Commercial Court & Disputes Resolution Centre inaugurated in Chattisgarh

2016 BRICS Youth Summit held with theme Youth as bridge for Intra-BRICS Exchanges

The IIT-Kharagpur announced to start a ‘Centre for Science of Happiness’

World's largest charkha unveiled at Delhi airport

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a four-nation tour to Mozambique,

South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya

Bombay, Calcutta, Madras High Courts renamed

Rajasthan becomes first state to introduce minimum wages for part time workers


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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon and photographer Aditya Arya are set to launch

the world's largest camera museum in Gurgaon on August 19, World Photography Day

Aurangabad to host first SAARC Tourism Summit

Kerala announces pension scheme for transgenders

A three-day Woodpecker Environment and Wildlife Film Festival has begun at historic

Gaiety Theatre in Shimla

DRDO test-fires India-made artillery gun system

Delhi gets first 3D Zebra crossing

WHO declares India as Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus free

Nabam Tuki resigns as Arunachal Pradesh CM

Madhya Pradesh becomes first state to approve setting up of Happiness Department

Over 14 lakh LPG connections released under PMUY

The Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Ministry has launched an online portal

'India Skills Online', and four other initiatives under the 'Skill India' campaign

The Indian Railways has launched a special train for car freight called 'Auto Express'

Pema Khandu of Congress Party was sworn in as the 10th Chief Minister of Arunachal

Pradesh, he became the youngest Chief Minister in the country

The Ministry of Railways developed the TRI-NETRA system on locomotives for

enhancing the vision of Locomotive Pilots in inclement weather. TRI-NETRA stands for

Terrain imaging for diesel dRiversINfra-red, Enhanced opTical&Radar Assisted system

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa launched the free bus pass scheme for school

and college students for 2016-17

To reduce paperwork in the day-to-day functioning of the Parliament, LokSabha

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan launched an e-portal enabling online interaction with various

branches of the Secretariat

Health Minister J P Nadda introduced Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill and

Dentists (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha

Parliament has passed the Regional Centre for Biotechnology Bill, 2016 with the Rajya

Sabha approving it

India’s first e-court was opened at High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad

The Netherlands and Uttar Pradesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to

set up a skill development centre to help farmers

India will host the BRICS Policy Planning Dialogue on 26th of July at Patna in Bihar


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Rajya Sabha has passed the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill

2012

The IIT-Indore has banned all social media websites including Twitter and Facebook on

its campus as its PhD scholars were using the platforms to protest against the recent

fee hike

India and Bangladesh will open the newly constructed modern integrated check-post at

Petrapole-Benapole point of the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal

The Union Cabinet approved The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016

to protect transgenders from discrimination

The Union Cabinet gave its approval for establishment of new All India Institutes of

Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh

The NITI Aayog signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) with Intel India to start the Atal

Tinkering Laboratories (ATL) initiative as a part of its flagship programme Atal

Innovation Mission (AIM)

The Kerala Assembly passed the Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualifications)

Amendment Bill, 2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the Gorakhpur city where he will

fulfil two promises made by him during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls – setting up an AIIMS

hospital and second revival of the fertilizer unit

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje launched mMitra, a mobile voice message

service that delivers weekly messages to families about pregnancy, family planning,

nutrition, childbirth, and maternal and child care

Mumbai Railway Police has successfully traced as many as 4,804 “missing” children

and reunited 4,386 of them with their family under ‘Operation Muskan’

The Karnataka government has imposed an "unconditional" ban on the sale, and

possession of Chinese 'manja' and other non-biodegradable threads used to fly kites

The Lok Sabha passed the National Institute of Technology, Science, Education and

Research (Amendment) (NITSER) Bill, 2016

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) organised a day-long conference

on Startup India on July 23 in Delhi to discuss policies and progress made on the Startup

India initiative

The Ministry of Science and Technology has come up with a ‘Solar Power Tree’, an

innovative way to generate electricity using solar power in a limited space


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The Mother Teresa International Film Festival (MTIFF), a film festival focusing on

Mother Teresa's life and teachings is going to be held at over 100 locations in India and

around 50 other countries

The Aanayoottu festival was held at the Njangattiri Bhagavathi Temple in Palakkad

district of Kerala

India to become Daimler's mobility strategy hub

Railway minister Suresh Prabhu inaugurated India’s first 'green train corridor' – a 114-

km stretch between Rameswaram and Manamadurai in Tamil Nadu

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for an

MSME technology centre under a World Bank-funded programme

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the broad gauge train service between

Delhi and Agartala from the national capital on July 31.The new direct train would be

named as ‘Tripureswari Super Fast express’

Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will lay the foundation stone for a new India-

Bangladesh railway project and flag-off the Agartala to New Delhi passenger

train service on July 31

Kochi to become the first Indian city where water connectivity will be developed as a

feeder service to the metro rail

UIDAI LokSabha passes IIT (Amendment) Bill

A life-size statue of former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was unveiled at

Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, on his first death anniversary

The Union Government has issued notification for the implementation of 7th Pay

Commission.

The cleanest railway stations in the country are in Gujarat and the dirtiest in Bihar and

UP, according to a passenger feedback survey on cleanliness carried out by the Railway

Ministry

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri NarendraModi has approved the

establishment of a new AIIMS at Bhatinda in Punjab under the Pradhan Mantri

Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY)

Parliament passes CAMPA Bill

The West Bengal Tourism department has launched a mobile App based on its theme of

‘Experience Bengal’.


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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

India up 19 Rank in Logistic Performance

BRICS Youth Summit to be held in Guwahati from July 1-3

Duterte, 'the punisher', sworn in as Philippines' president

Obama Signs Bill Easing Access To Govt Records

US Launches Scholarship Program For Afghan Women

Istanbul Ataturk Airport Attack: Deaths Rise To 42 As Turkey Mourns

International Solar Alliance Cell And World Bank Signs Declaration For Promoting Solar

Energy

India & Cyprus iron out DTAA issues

India's rank falls to 75 on money in Swiss bank

Exercise RIMPAC 2016, the Pacific military exercise, began at Hawaii with 26 nations

participating in the war games that will cover the Hawaiian Island and southern California

Abu Dhabi merger to create $175 billion bank

Paris has banned cars that were registered before October 1997 from its streets during

weekdays (Mondays to Friday), starting July 1

US, S Korea to deploy missile defence system

France has got its first floating hotel with the OFF Paris Seine, which is docked on the

River Seine in Paris.

China: Red alert issued as typhoon 'Nepartak' approaches coast

UK poised to have first woman PM since Margaret Thatcher

NATO Summit begins in Warsaw,Poland; Afghan forces, IS militants on agenda

Liberty Park opens at World Trade Center in New York

Theresa May wins first 1st round of UK Conservative Party Leadership vote

China's yuan hits new 5-1/2 year low

North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. US and South Korean

military officials said the missiles were launched from the western city of Hwangju


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China will conduct a 3-day military drill in South China Sea, state-run media quoting the

Maritime Safety Agency

UNESCO declared the Archaeological Site of Philippi in Greece and the Antequera

Dolmens Site in Spain to be 'World Heritage Sites'

UNESCO declared five 'World Heritage Sites' in Libya to be in danger, citing damage

caused by the conflict in the country as well as the threat of further damages

11th ASEM summit begins in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

China's GDP grows by 6.7% in April-June quarter

Emergency in France extended by 3 more months

Mud City in Mali added to UNESCO endangered list

US 1st to open high-band spectrum for 5G network

Bullet trains cross at record speed of 420 kmph

Adults-only ice cream van launched in UK

Foreign Ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations

(ASEAN) have begun a series of meetings in the Laotian capital of Vientiane

The Salzburg Festival began in the Austrian town of Salzburg, which was the birthplace

of late composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo unveiled the Pestana CR7, his first hotel, developed

in association with the Pestana Hotel Group in Funchal on his home island, Madeira

Jeff Bezos just snuck past Warren Buffett to become the third-richest person on Earth

The international airport in Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo's hometown, Madeira,

is set to be renamed after the footballer

Russian adventurer, FedorKonyukhov, has broken the record for the fastest

circumnavigation of the Earth in a hot air balloon in just over 11 days

One of the biggest electronic music festivals in the world, Tomorrowland entered its

first day on Friday in the Belgian city of Boom

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev suspended Deputy Sports Minister Yury

Nagornykh from his office

China has banned highway testing of self-driving cars until the rules governing the

testing of autonomous cars go into effect

China will expand its railway network to 150,000 kms by 2020. The National

Development and Reform Commission also said, as part of the country's 13th five-year

plan, China's high-speed rail network will increase to 30,000 kms by 2020


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India will host a crucial global summit in Nov to eliminate the illicit trade of tobacco

products.The summit is scheduled from Nov 7-12 in Noida will aim “to eliminate illicit

trade of tobacco products

The Indo-Thailand Military Exercise Maitree concluded on 29 July 2016 at Krabi,

Thailand

Hillary Clinton has been crowned as the Democratic presidential nominee, making

history as the first woman to be picked by a major political party to run for the White

House, and firing the gun on a fierce battle with Donald Trump, the Republican nominee

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Brazil free of measles. The step

was taken after no case of the disease was registered in 2015 on 26 July 2016

The BRICS policy planning dialogue meet is going to be held today in Patna

China has unveiled (announce publicly for the first time) the world's largest amphibious

(suited for both land and water) AG600 aircraft

Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli on Sunday resigned, plunging the Himalayan

nation into a fresh bout of political uncertainty.

NEW APPOINTMENTS

V Sasi Elected Kerala Deputy Speaker

Senior bureaucrat Nand Kishore was appointed as Deputy Comptroller and Auditor

General (CAG)

Suzuki Motors appoints Toshihiro Suzuki as CEO

Anil Kumble Takes Charge As Head Coach Of Indian Team

Indrajit Coomaraswamy, veteran economist, is the new Governor of the Central Bank

of Sri Lanka (CBSL).

Marissa Mayer gets re-elected to Yahoo's board

Intex Tech mobile business head Sanjay Kalirona resigns

Noted scientist Madhav Dhekane assumed the office of Director at ISRO Inertial

Systems Unit (IISU), Department of Space, at Vattiyoorkavu in Thiruvananthapuram,

Kerala

Linda Burney becomes first Indigenous woman elected to Australia's lower house


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K B Koliwad elected as Speaker of K’taka Legislative Assembly

Micro-blogging website Twitter appointed former Facebook Chief Technology Officer

(CTO) Bret Taylor to its Board of Directors

Sudarshan Sen appointed Executive Director of RBI

Deepak Singhal appointed as the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh

Zee Learn appoints Debshankar Mukhopadhyay as CEO

R Thiruppathi Venkatasamy appointed as Accountant General of Tamil Nadu

NCP leader Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar re-elected as Maharashtra Council Chairman

Vishal Kapoor to be the new CEO of IDFC MF

S K Kohli appointed chief defence accounts auditor

Luxury goods maker Christian Dior named Maria GraziaChiuri as its new creative

director, making her the first woman to take up the role at the French fashion label

Kevin Turner resigns as Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft

Goldman Sachs announced the appointment of José Manuel Barroso, former President

of the European Commission

Srini Gopalan quits Bharti Airtel and going to join Deutsche Telekom

ZopNow's CEO Mukesh Singh steps down

Rakesh Kumar Chaturvedi new CBSE chairman

India-born Kinshuk appointed as Dean of University of North Texas College of

Information

Sheila Dikshit is Congress' CM candidate for Uttar Pradesh polls

Congress leader Pema Khandu, son of late Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, was sworn-in

as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

Indian-origin UK MP Priti Patel has been appointed as the International Development

Secretary in PM Theresa May's cabinet reshuffle

Turkish musician Kudsi Erguner was appointed as the UNESCO Artist for Peace by the

Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova

BJP MP Navjot Singh Siddhu resigned from the Rajya Sabha. He was nominated to the

Upper House in April this year

World Bank Group appointed Paul Romer as World Bank Chief Economist with effect

from September 2016

Odisha-born bureaucrat Guruprasad Mohapatra was appointed as the Chairman of

Airports Authority of India (AAI) with effect from 19 July 2016


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Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in for another term as Australia’s prime minister after a

narrow election victory with budget repair and a public vote on same sex marriage

among his top priorities

Beverages company Coca-Cola appointed Sarvita Sethi as the new Vice-President

(Finance) for India and South West Asia

Roger Ailes resigned as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox News Channel,

putting an end to his 20-year reign over America's powerful cable news channel for

conservatives

Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named brand ambassador of the

Craig McDermott International Cricket Academy in Australia

The Union Government appointed Ajay Bhushan Pandey as the Chief Executive Officer

of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

BJP LokSabha member Ganesh Singh was appointed the new Chairperson of the Joint

Committee of Parliament examining the Land Acquisition Bill

Swedish mobile telecoms gear maker Ericsson's Chief Executive Hans Vestberg has

stepped down with immediate effect

The Central government appointed Dr Buddha Rashmi Mani as the Director General of

the National Museum

Dr. Sanjiv Misra appointed as Additional Director and Non-Executive (part time)

Chairman at Axis Bank

Indian-American Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democratic Congressional candidate from

Illinois, will be introduced as one of the party’s emerging leaders during the ongoing

Democratic National Convention

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appointed Michel Barnier, a

former EU Commissioner for internal markets, to lead negotiations with Britain to leave

the European Union

Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari sworn in as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court by Bihar

Governor Ramnath Kovind at a function herein Raj Bhawan

T Nanda Kumar, chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) that

controls Mother Dairy, has resigned with three more years left for his tenure to end

C.K. Mishra, a 1983 batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre, has been appointed the new

Health Secretary


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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Himachal Pradesh and Board of Control for

Cricket in India (BCCI) president Anurag Thakur

JN Singh appointed new Chief Secretary of Gujarat

Intex appoints Madhuri Dixit as brand ambassador for consumer durable products

Justice D B Bhosale takes oath as chief justice of Allahabad high Court

Shambhu Singh Yadav appointed as Deputy Lokayukta of UP

ECONOMIC & BUSINESS

Amul signs up as official sponsor of Indian team to the Olympics

Standard Chartered Rolls out ‘Touch ID’, a Fingerprint Verification System

Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) entered into a strategic partnership with The

Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) for two years

CBDT Notifies Rules For Foreign Tax Credit, FMV

P-Note investments rise to 2.15 lakh crore in May

Prasar Bharati to clear dues over Rs 156 crore to producers, including Ramesh Sippy

and Balaji Telefilms

India’s pharma industry expected to grow to $55 bn by 2020

MEA, MSDE sign pact to skill Indians seeking overseas jobs

Alibaba launches system to remove fake products

India's rank falls to 75 on money in Swiss banks

Indonesia's Nihiwatu voted World's Best Hotel

India's first crowd funded eco-friendly electric bike, named Spero, was unveiled

Zydus, Medicines Patent Pool inks agreement for Bristol-Myers Squibb's daclatasvir

tablets

India ranks 91 in Networked Readiness Index 2016

Avast acquires antivirus maker AVG for $1.3 bn

India tops air passenger growth globally in 2015

Royal Enfield to hold 1st women Himalayan Odyssey

Google buys image recognition startup Moodstocks

Aditya Birla Fashion acquires global clothing brand Forever 21


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TRAI launches app to track mobile data speed

Hero MotoCorp inked 3-year wage agreement with Gurgaon workers

Online pharmacy 1mg acquires lab aggregator Medd

3.1 tonnes gold mobilised under monetisation scheme

Mastercard changes logo for 1st time in 20 years

Tata, US-based Bell ink pact to make helicopters

ShopClues acquires mobile payments startup Momoe

TRAI releases paper on public WiFi networks

Tata Advanced Systems signs deal with Bell Helicopter

Travel Boutique Online partners with Fxkart.com

Yatra Online, Inc. and Terrapin 3 Acquisition Corporation entered into a definitive

merger agreement. The transaction values Yatra at an enterprise value of 218 million

dollars (1458 crore rupees)

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) trimmed its 2016 growth forecasts for developing

economies in Asia-Pacific region to 5.6% as against the earlier estimate of 5.7%

Japan's Softbank agreed to acquire ARM Holdings, the U.K. based semiconductor firm,

in a deal worth more than 32 billion US dollar

MoS for Textile Ajay Tamta inaugurated the India International Garment Fair 2016

Sajjan Jindal-promoted JSW Energy acquired the 500-megawatt (Mw) power plant of

debt-laden Jaiprakash Power Ventures at Bina in Madhya Pradesh for Rs 2,700 crore,

10 months after the two firms got into a binding agreement

Dabur India inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Defence Research

and Development Organization's (DRDO) Defense Institute of High Altitude Research

(DIHAR)

Apple has regained the status as the world's favourite company on Future Brand's

annual 'Global Top 100 Companies' list after losing it to Google last year

French cosmetics firm L’Oreal has agreed to acquire US-based IT Cosmetics for $1.2

billion, its largest acquisition in eight years

Fourteen public sector banks out of 27 posted losses in the last financial year. The main

reason for their losses was Asset Quality Review initiated by the Reserve Bank of India

Government says DBT scheme saves Rs 21K cr in LPG subsidy in 2 years

HDFC Ltd will issue non-convertible debentures (NCDs) on a private placement basis to

raise Rs 2,000 crore


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Government asks RBI to provide low interest-rate loans to EXIM Bank

With nearly 2.3 million employees in 68 countries, Walmart is the biggest private

employer in the world

US-based retail giant Walmart has emerged on top of the latest Fortune Global 500 list,

which ranks the world’s biggest companies in terms of their revenues

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has awarded a Rs 533 crore contract

for widening of Salasar-Nagaur Section of national highways 65

Ford Motor Company is in the process of setting up a Research and Development

(R&D) centre in Tamil Nadu, the first such facility to be located outside of the US

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India issued draft guidelines for instant

noodle standards amid attempts to bring clarity in regulating these products

TripAdvisor has ranked Mumbai the second cheapest city for travellers, with an

estimated cost of $767 for a three-night stay in a four-star hotel, tourist activities and

food

The Oberoi Hotels & Resorts has been voted 'The World's Best Hotel Brand' for the

second year in a row by the readers of the Travel + Leisure magazine

Online fashion retailer Myntra is buying a majority stake in actor Hritik Roshan's

clothing and shoes brand HRX

BPCL buys 21% stake in PE-backed FINO PayTech for $37.6 mn

The first-ever meeting of BRICS Employment Working Group (BEWG) to shape the

agenda for labour and employment track in the five-nation grouping will be held in

Hyderabad from July 27

E-commerce marketplace eBay India today said shoppers can access over 100 million

live product listings on eBay.in and its global easy buy platform geb.ebay.in across

electronics, lifestyle, media and other categories

Multilateral funding agency Asian Development Bank today stated that it has raised

around 500 crore by issuing five-year offshore Indian rupee-linked bonds

RBI slaps Rs 27-crore penalty on 13 banks for FEMA violations

LeEco acquires US TV company VIZIO’s businesses for $2 bn

State Bank of India and Indian Oil Corporation has tied up to implement the bank's

financial inclusion programme for farmers through the oil company's Kisan Seva

Kendras


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Travel services provider Thomas Cook (India) has entered into a partnership with

Matrimony Bazaar to tap the 'romantic leisure travel' segment which is seeing an

"exponential" growth

Tata AIG General Insurance has launched an integrated travel product, for all Axis Bank

customers through the bank’s one stop solution called ‘Happy Holidays Package’

Vodafone M-Pesa, a mobile money transfer platform, has tied up with Punjab State

Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) to enable consumers pay their electricity bills

instantly

BANKING

SBI secures over Rs 4,000 crore from World Bank for solar programme

MEA, MSDE sign pact to skill Indians seeking overseas jobs

SBI launches social media banking platform

RIL, SBI sign pact to set up payments bank JV

No Pre-2005 Note Exchange At Banks From July 1

Apr-May Fiscal Deficit at 43% Of Annual Estimate

World Bank Commits $1bn For India Solar Projects

SBI to Raise Over Rs 10000 Crore

GIC Re profit rises 6 per cent in 2015-16

Axis Bank opens innovation lab for start-ups in Bengaluru

NSE launches trade repository for corporate debt

The State Bank of India (SBI) launched SBI Mingle, a social media banking platform for

Facebook and Twitter users

Home First Finance Company is looking to sell 30% stake for Rs 250 crore to fund

operations

Five private equities in race for 10% stake in Hero FinCorp for Rs 800 crore

HDFC Bank Launches SME Bank

ICICI arm tops IPO rankings

In line with the announcements under the Indradhanush initiative and the Budget, the

Centre has allocated Rs.22,915 crore for the capitalisation of 13 public sector banks for

the year 2016-17


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ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has filed for an initial public offering of shares, a draft

prospectus released, which will be India's first insurance sector IPO

State Bank of India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Canada-based

Brook field Asset Management Inc to form a joint venture which will independently

evaluate and invest in various stressed assets in the country

The New Development Bank launched by 5 emerging economies, known as BRICS, has

announced its first round of loans worth about 900 million dollars

Reserve Bank will shortly start monitoring banks on issues relating to customer rights

in five broad areas. The areas on which the regulator will be conducting surveys and

supervision at various banks are – Right to privacy, Right to fair treatment &

transparency, Fair and honest dealing, Right to suitability and Right to grievance

redress & compensation

Federal Bank has signed an agreement with Reliance Jio Money for one-click payment

service

IRCTC joins hands with SBI to promote rail ticketing

Corporation Bank has launched a new facility called ‘Green PIN’,an online module for

generation of Personal Identification Number (PIN) for credit card holders

The Managing Director of HDFC bank, Aditya Puri is the highest paid banker in India

with a total package of 31.53 crore, according to VCCircle's analysis

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore on Bank of Baroda

(BoB) after it found irregularities in the Rs 6,100-crore scam that was unearthed last

year

Global payments leader SWIFT said ICICI Bank and Axis have become the first domestic

lenders to sign up for its global payments innovation initiative, which already has over

70 other leading banks globally

Private sector lender Yes Bank said it has received an in-principle approval from the

capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to sponsor a

mutual fund and to set up an asset management company and a trustee company

State Bank of India launched a payment system at its ATMs which will allow the

account holders transfer money using mobile phone number as identifier, reported PTI


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Global payments leader SWIFT said ICICI Bank and Axis Bank have become the first

domestic lenders to sign up for its global payments innovation initiative, which already

has over 70 other leading banks globally

Andhra Pradesh government has requested the Centre to release Rs 7,269.46 crore

central sales tax compensation to the state pending since 2012-13

GDP growth to rise to 7.9% in FY 17 due to good monsoon: CRISIL

Canara Bank has got shareholders’ approval to raise its capital by up to Rs 2,000 crores

State Bank of India and tech giant Oracle have come together for corporate India's

largest volunteering programme to bring 'digital fluency' among underprivileged

school students

India's largest insurer Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has signed an agreement

with private sector lender Axis Bank as its bancassurance partner wherein the bank

will distribute LIC's products to its customers

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) plans to relax guidelines for listing of

start-ups

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

China builds world's largest radio telescope

World's 1st transparent directional speaker made

TRAI launches 'MySpeed' app to check internet speed on smartphones

India’s first integrated Defence Communication Network (DCN) was launched by Union

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in South Block, Delhi.

India Successfully Test-Fires Surface-To-Air Missile For Second Day

MR-SAM Developed By India, Israel Successfully Test-Fired

India Test-Fires Surface-to-Air Missile

Porsche created world's 1st hybrid car

NASA successfully tests Mars-bound booster

Badminton-playing robot developed

NASA extends New Horizons mission to Kuiper Belt

NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully enters Jupiter orbit


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New Tarantula species named after Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harvard University researchers have used 200,000 genetically-engineered rat cells to

develop a robot that looks like a stingray

Instagram introduces 'Comment Moderation' option

Researchers using European Southern Observatory's 'Very Large Telescope' have

discovered a rare exoplanet orbiting three different stars located around 340 light-

years from Earth

The Borneanorangutan, an orangutan species native to the island of Borneo, has been

declared as a "Critically Endangered" species

Researchers build robot with human-like muscles

Microsoft wins overseas data protection case

Food Ink, which claims to be the world's first 3D printing restaurant, is coming to

London between July 25 and July 27

Three indigenously-developed 155 mm 'Dhanush' artillery guns have been handed

over to the Indian Army for user trial by the Jabalpur-based Gun Carriage Factory

South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope showed off its phenomenal power by revealing

1,300 galaxies in a tiny corner of the universe where only 70 were known before

SpaceX launched its unmanned Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space

Station, carrying a key piece of equipment that was lost in 2015 due to rocket

explosion

NASA has announced the discovery of 104 new planets outside our solar system

including four that could have Earth-like, rocky surfaces

Facebook launched a new tool called App Event Optimization, which will enable

advertisers to target those users who will not only install their applications but will

use them as well

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the National Aeronautics and

Space Administration (NASA) are jointly working on the development of a resource

mapping satellite.

Karbonn launches third manufacturing unit in Haryana

Apple Inc is planning to open its first Apple Store in Taiwan

Facebook Inc announced the successful completion of test flight of a solar-powered

drone named Aquila


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NASA celebrated a historical milestone on July 20, the 40th anniversary of the first

U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars

New ‘giant thief’ dinosaur found in Argentina

US-based startup, Teal has unveiled what it claims is the world's fastest production

drone.

A Hong Kong government-sponsored institute has collaborated with the City

University of Hong Kong on a project aimed at turning waste food into fabric

China has surpassed the US and Japan to become the number one country in iOS

games revenue, according to a recent report by market researcher App Annie.

The record for the world's smallest motorcycle is held by 'Smalltoe', which weighs 1.1

kg, as per Guinness World Records

About two million people are logging on to free Wi-Fi deployed by Google and RailTel

at major railway stations across India every month, chief of the global search giant

Sundar Pichai said

Gujarat govt selects Infibeam for e-com training programme

Scientists working toward storing digital information in DNA

Brazilian scientists have identified another type of Zika-transmitting mosquito

SPORTS

Cricket In 2024 Olympics If Rome Wins Host BID

Sameer Emerges Fastest Athlete Of Nat'l Inter-State Athletics

Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 1st Indian to start a Europa League game

Jayaram, Praneeth reach semifinals of Canada Open

Union Sports Ministry grants recognition to Paralympic Committee of India

Ravi Shastri resigns from ICC Cricket Committee after Anil Kumble takes charge as

India coach

Chinappa enters top 10 in World Squash Rankings

India will host the world’s first Mixed Martial Arts League from August 26 to October 1

Novak Djokovic knocked out of Wimbledon

Relief for Ailing Hockey Legend Mohammed Shahid as Sports Ministry Announces Rs

10 Lakh Grant


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Michael Phelps Books Third Rio Berth with 100m Butterfly Victory

Lewis Hamilton wins Austrian Grand Prix

ICC relaxes Decision Review System for LBWs

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports grants recognition to Paralympic Committee of

India

Gurpreet Singh Sandhu becomes first Indian to play in Europa League

Amla, Bravo set highest 5th-wicket stand in T20s

India will host the world’s first Mixed Martial Arts League from August 26 to October 1

Canada Open: B Sai Praneeth, Manu Attri-B Sumeeth Reddy Win Badminton Titles

Rohan Prem, Kerala Cricket Association’s cricketer of the year

Dipa becomes India's first 'World Class Gymnast'

Federer sets record for most wins in Grand Slam

Indian women’s relay team breaks national record

Javeline thrower Annu Rani sets national record at National Inter-state Athletics

Championships

The Olympians Association of India (OAI), the first-ever association for Indian

Olympians, by the Olympians, was launched

Justin Gatlin posts 2016's fastest 100m timing

India's Sai Praneeth wins men’s 2016 Canada Open

Niranjan wins eight medals in IWAS World Games

Abdul Wahid Tanveer of Team TVS clinched the 2016 MRF MoGrip FMSCI National

Rally Championship for two-wheelers, as he extended his run to the fourth round at

the MRF Rally of Coimbatore in the six-round competition

China will send 416 athletes to Rio de Janeiro, its largest overseas delegation in

Olympic history, continuing its pursuit of medals that saw it take second spot in the

table behind the United States four years ago

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has called on international sports society to

ban Russian athletes from taking part in all international athletic competitions,

including the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil in August

Dipika Pallikal, Karthik, Saurav Ghosal clinches 73rd Senior National Squash

Championship

Pakistan registered their first Test victory at Lord's after a gap of 20 years, with their

75-run-win over England


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Wrist spinner Yasir Shah has scaled the number 1 spot in the ICC Test rankings,

becoming the first Pakistani bowler to do so since Mushtaq Ahmed achieved the feat

in December 1996

Himachal Pradesh won the champion trophy in the 41st All India Electricity Board

Kabaddi tournament held at Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu

India sealed a spot in the Davis Cup World Group Playoff after taking an unassailable 3-

0 lead in their Group 1 tie against South Korea in Chandigarh

Indian professional boxer Vijender Singh became the WBO Asia Pacific Super

Middleweight champion after defeating Australia’s Kerry Hope in New Delhi by

unanimous decision

GM Harika Dronavalli wins Fide Women’s Grand Prix trophy in China

India jumps 11 places to 152nd in football rankings

Spain announces Lopetegui as Del Bosque’s replacement for head coach position

Sam Allardyce is set to be hired as the New England manager at a Football Association

board meeting at Wembley

India test team captain Virat Kohli became the first Indian captain to score a double

century outside India

American hurdler, Kendra Harrison broke the 28-year-old world record in the 100-

metre hurdles after clocking 12.20 seconds at the London Anniversary Games

Sony Pictures Networks India has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights to telecast

the 2016 edition of the International Champions Cup (football) in India

Jamaican sprinter and six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt won the 200-metre sprint

at the Anniversary Games in London's Olympic Stadium

Indian para-swimmer Vishwas KS won three medals at the 2016 Speedo Can Am Para-

swimming Championships in Canada

The Indian men’s junior cycling team has topped the Union Cycliste Internationale

world rankings, which is a first for India in the sport across any age category

Javelin Thrower Neeraj Chopra Becomes 1st Indian to Set World Record in Athletics

Australian roller-skater Marawa Ibrahim set a record for the longest duration on high-

heel skates while spinning three hula hoops, taking 2 minutes 29 seconds to complete

the spin


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In order to create ‘Olympic Fever’ in the country ahead of next month’s multi-sporting

spectacle in Brazil, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off ‘Run for Rio’ event at

India Gate in New Delhi on July 31.

India defeated West Indies in Antigu by an innings and 92 runs in the first cricket Test

match

Feliciano Lopez wins Swiss Open Gstaad

British Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix for

Mercedes to take the lead in the championship from team mate Nico Rosberg for the

first time this season

Promising Indian shooter Manavaditya Rathore won the trap bronze medal in

the'Champion of Champions' match at the Junior World Cup in Porpetto, Italy

R Ashwin becomes No. 1 Test bowler again after taking 7 wickets

Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan, along with three others, will be inducted

into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame later this year

India named Parveen Rana as a replacement for dope-tainted wrestler Narsingh Yadav

for Rio Olympics in the 74kg freestyle category on 26 July 2016. The Rio Olympics is

scheduled to happen from 5 August to 21 August 2016

Odisha government has announced 60 lakh rupees cash special incentive for six

sportswomen of the state who have qualified for the Rio Olympics on 26 July 2016

Rio bound shot putter Inderjeet Singh fails dope test: NADA

IOC Olympic channel to launch at Rio 2016 Games end

Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger on Friday announced his retirement from

international duty with immediate effect

Russia's weightlifting team has been banned from competing at the Rio Olympics

because of doping offences


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BOOKS & AUTHORS

A book titled Courage & Commitment: An Autobiography by Margaret Alva.,Via this

book, Alva narrates her forty-year career under four Prime Ministers, namely Indira

Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, PV NarasimhaRao and Manmohan Singh

Who Moved My Interest Rate? authored by Duvvuri Subbarao

The Book titled The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

authored by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh was released

AWARDS & HONOURS

Actor Abhishek Bachchan holds the Guinness world record for most public

appearances made by a film star in 12 hours for promoting the same film

Amazon named world's smartest company of 2016

P T Bopanna Gets Gourmand Award For World’s Best Book On Coffee

President Pranab Mukherjee presents B C Roy National Awards for 2008, 2009 and

2010

6 Indian amusement parks among Asia's top 25

Katy Perry first to cross 90mn Twitter followers

Sudarsan Pattnaik creating 100 sand raths for new world record

Captain Radhika Menon first woman to receive Exceptional Bravery award at Sea

Double Dhamaka Prize Money( $40,000) for UNESCO KALINGA PRIZE

Forty-two-year-old mother-of-two from Britain, Masha Gordon has become the fastest

woman to finish the Explorers Grand Slam by achieving the feat in seven months and

19 days

South African writer Lidudumalingani Mqombothi wins 2016 Caine Prize


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Shusmita Neog from Assam has broken a 50-year-old Delhi University record by

scoring 91.8% in the recently declared MA results in Geography from Delhi School of

Economics

Former England captain Nasser Hussain has set a Guinness World Record for the

highest catch of a cricket ball

Jawaharlal Nehru Port becomes India’s first port to implement Logistics Data Tagging

of Containers

Kohli in GQ’s 50 Most Influential Young Indians

Tamil Nadu top Indian tourist destination in '15

Sikkim's Khangchendzonga National Park has been designated as India's first “Mixed"

site on the UNESCO World Heritage List, by fulfilling the criteria under both natural and

cultural heritage.

Nineteen-year-old Welshman Aneurin Donald hit a 123-ball double century in an

English county match to equal Ravi Shastri's record for the fastest double ton in first-

class cricket

Travel guide Lonely Planet has published its 'Best in Asia' list, ranking the Japanese

island of Hokkaido the best destination in Asia

Jeff Bezos, CEO and Founder of Amazon.com, is currently the fourth richest person in

the world with a net worth of $63.9 billion

NGOs in Manipur conduct an annual competition and give cash prizes to women with

the highest number of children

Cook becomes most prolific opener in Test cricket

World 1st hospital train completes 25 years of service

UNESCO declared the Nalanda University in Bihar a World Heritage Site

Four Indian women bikers complete 10,000 km trip to 10 Asian countries

The oldest to climb Everest is an 80-yr-old man

Dwayne world's highest paid actor: Forbes

Misbah-ul-Haq becomes oldest captain to score Test hundred

Kochi's Startup Village has topped the '100 Best Startup Incubators in India' list

released by the India edition of Entrepreneur Magazine

Renuka Yadav, a former milk seller from Rajnandgaon, Chattisgarh, has become the

state’s first female Olympian, after being selected in the women’s hockey team


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Kerala Tourism won two Gold Gongs at the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)

Awards

West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels was named Cricketer of the Year and ODI

Player of the Year at the West Indies Cricket Board annual awards’ function in Antigua

New Zealand diver William Trubridge has set a new world record of 102 metres for the

deepest unassisted freedive

Advay Ramesh, a Class 10 student from Chennai, won the prestigious Google

Community Impact Award from Asia, a theme based award part of Google Science Fair

2016

New Zealand's $5 currency note, featuring mountaineer Edmund Hillary, was named

the banknote of 2015 by International Bank Note Society

Ranked at number six, the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bengaluru has been listed

as the top Indian university in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings

2016 for BRICS nations

Rohit Khandelwal became the first Indian to win the 'Mr World' title at this year's

male beauty pageant held in Southport, England

Nigerian journalist Didi Akinyelure wins BBC World News Komla Dumor Award

The 2016 edition of the Annual World Snail Racing Championship was won by a snail

named Herbie

Indian calligrapher Muqtar Ahmed wins top prize at Cairo International Festival

Kanyakumari, an outstanding and versatile violinist, will get the Sangita Kalanidhi

award of the Music Academy this year

Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar's statue to be installed in Haridwar

Kolkata’s football club East Bengal has announced that the 2016 Bharat Gaurav Award,

also known as Pride of India Award on 26 July 2016, will be conferred on legendary

athlete Milkha Singh

Carnatic musician TM Krishna and social activist Bezwada Wilson are the 2016 Ramon

Magsaysay awardees from India

West Bengal has been selected for the All India Coordinated Rice Improvement Project

Award 2015. This is the first time the state will be receiving this award


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OBITUARIES

Michael Cimino, director of film The Deer Hunter, died

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel passed away aged 87 in

New York

Eminent Marathi writer R C Dhere, known for his exhaustive research in folk literature

and bhakti tradition of Maharashtra, passed away

Former French prime minister Michel Rocard dies

Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post-industrial age whose books, including Future Shock,

anticipated the transformation brought about by the rise of digital technology, has died

Senior artist K.G. Subramanyan passes away

Eminent Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi died

Noel Neill, the first actress to play Superman's girlfriend, 'Lois Lane' on the big screen,

passed away on Sunday aged 95

Abbas Kiarostami, the critically acclaimed Iranian director died following a prolonged

illness in Paris

Cong's longest serving district Prez passes away

Veteran communist leader Romesh Chandra passes away

India's Olympic Silver Medalist Joe Antic passed away

Amar, Bose of sound, is dead at 83

Legendary singer Mubarak Begum passed away at her residence in Mumbai last night

after a prolonged illness

Modern Indian artist Syed Haider Raza passed away aged 94 today following prolonged

illness

Eminent Journalist and Doordarshan News Correspondent in Hyderabad, Sanjiv Thomas

is no more

Former French cyclist Dominique Arnaud passed away in Dax, Aquitaine, France due to

cancer

Filmmaker Garry Marshall, director of the Richard Gere and Julia Roberts starrer 'Pretty

Woman', passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 81


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Mohammed Shahid, who was a part of the 1980 Moscow Olympics gold-winning Indian

hockey team, passed away at the age of 56 in Gurgaon

Mohammad Hashim Ansari (95), the oldest litigant in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri

masjid dispute, died today due to heart-related ailments

Rajjat Barjatya, MD and CEO of Rajshri Media, passed away on Friday (July 29) at a

hospital in Mumbai

Tabla maestro Pandit Lacchu Maharaj passed away in Varanasi

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson died July 27, 2016, in a hospital in

Iowa City, Iowa, according to multiple news sources

Noted agricultural scientist Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao, passed away in Hyderabad

on Wednesday

Former Indian diplomat Arundhati Ghose passed away on 26 July 2016 in New Delhi

Syed Haider Raza, the last surviving member of the six modern artists who founded the

influential Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group in 1947, has died

IMPORTANT DAYS

July 1 - Doctor's Day

July 2 - World UFO Day

July 4 - American Independence Day

July 7 - International Day of Cooperatives

July 11 - World Population Day

July 17 - World Day for International Justice

July 18 - Mandela Day

July 26 - Kargil Victory Day

July 27 - Central Reserve Police Force Foundation Day

July 28 - World Hepatitis Day

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