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1. Shashi Shekar Vempati has been appointed as the CEO of Prasar Bharati based on the recommendation of the three-member committee headed by Vice President.
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has developed a wireless technology called ‘AmbuSens‘ for remote monitoring of condition of those patients who are ferried in ambulances.
3. India has been ranked 137th in the Global Peace Index 2017. This is the eleventh edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI) which is compiled every year by the Sydney-based think tank Institute for Economics and Peace.
4. Ireland’s Indian-origin Minister Leo Varadkar has been elected the country’s youngest and first openly gay Prime Minister, at the age of 38.
5. Anil Ambani announced the merged entity of Reliance Communications and Aircel will be called Aircom. RCom will hold a 50% stake in the new company.
6. Indian-origin student Ananya Vinay won the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee contest, held annually in the United States of America.
The 12-year-old student from Fresno, California, has been awarded a trophy and $40,000 (₹25.79 lakh) cash prize.
7. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley has announced that the second Scorpene-class submarine,INS Khanderi is ready for surface sea trials. INS Khanderi has been built at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) in Mumbai.
8. India’s First Automatic Coastal Warning for Disasters to come up in Odisha. The ambitious Early Warning Dissemination System (EWDS) will warn the vast population on the occurrence of natural disasters like a tsunami or a cyclone.
