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| Sarkari Naukri |
1. China has included the controversial $50 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor in its second scientific expedition to the 4,000-metre-high Qinghai-Tibet plateau to study changes in climate, biodiversity and environment over the past decades in the region.
2. Around 90 per cent of Reliance Jio users are estimated to have subscribed to its promotional Prime membership plan, as per a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
3. The World Twenty20 Championship’s seventh edition next year is all set to be scrapped and pushed to 2020 as the top member nations will be busy with bilateral commitments in 2018.
4. Actor Stephen Furst, best known for getting his start in “Animal House”, has passed away. He was 63.
5. Indian wrestlers clinched three medals, including a gold by Sharvan, on the final day of the Junior Asian Championships.
6. India’s largest natural gas field Bassein in the Arabian Sea has seen a remarkable turnaround with the natural decline that had set in at the 28-year old field reversed and output slated to rise by a quarter to a record high in 2018.
7. Sachin Tendulkar’s mother-in-law and social activist Annabel Mehta, a British national, has been awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for her work and service to the underprivileged.
8. Viraj Sagar Das was elected as the new president of Uttar Pradesh Olympic Association.
