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1. Shah Rukh Khan has been named India’s highest paid actor with ₹243.7 crore ($38 million) earnings, beating Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar on the Forbes’ 2017 list of World’s Highest Paid Actors. Shahrukh is on the 8th place in this list and Salman and Akshay are at 9th and 10th place respectively.
2. Indian American novelist and playwright Padma Viswanathan won the 2017 Porter Fund Literary Prize.
3. Former Manipur chief minister and Rajya Sabha MP Rishang Keishing passed away. He was 98.
4. Punjab-cadre IPS officer Jagdale Nilambari Vijay took over as the first woman Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
5. NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant launched the “Mentor India” Campaign, a strategic nation building initiative to engage leaders who can guide and mentor students at more than 900 Atal Tinkering Labs, established across the country as a part of the Atal Innovation Mission.
6. Former Jammu and Kashmir minister and PDP leader Sofi Ghulam Mohiuddin died. He was 67.
7. App based cab services provider Ola has partnered with Google for its outstation Cabs (facility to book inter-city rides).
8. New Zealand’s oldest surviving cricketer, Tom Pritchard, died. He was 100.
9. Internet Company Google and Retail Company Walmart announced a partnership that will make the Walmart’s products available on the Google’s online shopping mall.
10. Tony de Brum, who had a supporting role in 2015 Paris Agreement on global warming, died. He was 72.
