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1. The nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India JS Khehar in a landmark unanimous decision has declared right to privacy a fundamental right under the constitution.

2. The Union Cabinet has given its approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Nepal on Drug Demand Reduction and Prevention of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and precursor chemicals and related matters.

3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and actress Priyanka Chopra have found a spot in the Social networking site LinkedIn Power Profiles List of 2017. Professional networking giant LinkedIn on Wednesday announced its fourth edition of Power Profiles, a list of the most viewed LinkedIn profiles of professionals in India.

4. Ashwani Lohani, CMD of Air India, has been named the Chairman of the Railway Board following the resignation of A.K. Mittal. While, Rajiv Bansal has been made Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air India for three months.

5. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has entered into strategic alliances with Ola and Uber that will provide passengers the option to hire these cabs at select aerodromes.

6. General Electric (GE) announced the appointment of Vishal Wanchoo as President & Chief Executive Officer of GE South Asia.

7. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the name of the new central food processing scheme as Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY). It aims to benefit 20 lakh farmers by 2020 and create 5.30 lakh jobs.

8. Sanjivani Jadhav, one of the rising stars of Indian athletics, clinched the silver medal in the women’s 10,000 metres at the 29th World University Games.

9. Tata Sons appointed Roopa Purushothaman as Chief Economist and head of Policy Advocacy to drive research.

10. India’s oldest cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta died. He was 101.

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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.

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1. Ajay Vipin Nanavati has been appointed as the chairman of Syndicate Bank.

2. Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched a digital police portal under the CCTNS project, which aims to create a national database of crimes and criminals.

3. The board of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) gave in-principle approval to acquire government’s 51.11 per cent stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL).

4. CISF ADG Dharmendra Kumar has been appointed as Director General of the Railway Protection Force.

5. In order to expand its amphibious warfare capabilities, the Navy inducted a landing craft utility ship.

6. India’s table tennis player, Mudit Dani won three medals including a gold in the 2017 El Salvador Junior and Cadet Open.

7. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has entered into an agreement to collaborate on vaccine research and development with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), South Korea.

8. Ten-year-old golfer, Aryaman Singh won the first five events of the Indian Golf Union-West Zone, this year, thereby breaking his own zonal and national records.

9. The Supreme Court struck down triple talaq terming the practice of instant divorce among Muslims as “void, illegal and unconstitutional”.

10. Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Anatoly Antonov as the new Russian ambassador to USA. He will replace Sergey Kislyak.

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1. A 12-year-old Indian-origin boy, Rahul Doshi has been crowned as the UK’s ‘Child Genius’ in a popular television quiz competition.

2. Australia defeated Iran to win the FIBA Asian Basketball Championship 2017.

3. South Korea and the United States began their annual military exercise “Ulchi-Freedom Guardian”.

4. Spain’s Garbine Muguruza defeated Romania’s Simona Halep to win the Cincinnati Open women’s singles title.

5. Retired IAS officer P V R K Prasad, who was Additional Secretary and Media Advisor to former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, passed away. He was 77.

6. Virendra Nanavati, Chief Executive Officer of the Swimming Federation of India (SFI) has been appointed as Vice Chairman of FINA’s Swimming Committee.

7. Famous Hollywood comedian Jerry Lewis died. He was 91.

8. China is going to launch the world’s first nuclear power plant (Sanmen Nuclear Power Station) that is immune to meltdown.

9. Freedom fighter Amar Bahadur Singh, who was the Colonel of Azad Hind Fauj and an associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, died. He was 102.

10. Ramkumar Ramanathan became India’s number one player in the ATP rankings.

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1. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao has been selected for the Agriculture Leadership Award 2017, instituted by the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture.

2. China issued a special postal stamp to commemorate the ninth annual BRICS summit scheduled to be held early next month in the coastal city of Xiamen in the country’s south-eastern Fujian province.

3. Teenager Shapath Bharadwaj won a bronze medal in the double trap event at the ISSF Junior Shotgun World Cup in Porpetto, Italy.

4. The Indian pair of Soumyajit Ghosh and G Sathiyan settled for a silver in the men’s doubles at the Bulgaria Open after getting defeated by the top-seeded Japanese duo of Jin Uda and Maharu Yoshimura.

5. US-Norwegian company Kolos is set to build world’s largest data centre in Arctic Norway, powered by 100% sustainable energy.

6. A North East Centre for Ethno Medicinal Research has been inaugurated at Hengbung village in Kangpokpi district of Manipur.

7. The first-ever student to have scored 100 percent in the prestigious Joint Entrance Examination- Mains, Udaipur boy Kalpit Veerwal has made it to the Limca Book of Records for his feat.

8. The Goa government launched three biofuel-powered buses here on a pilot basis.

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1. Nepal and China signed three pacts to further boost their ties in power and energy sectors.

2. Former Australian Olympic track cyclist, Stephen Wooldridge died. He was 39.

3. Senior BJP Leader and former Uttar Pradesh revenue minister, Ravi Gautam died. He was 71.

4. According to a Deutsche Bank report, India’s growth momentum will get stronger and real GDP growth is expected to average at about 7.4 per cent over 2017 and 2018.

5. Australian city Melbourne has been named the world’s most liveable city for the seventh year in a row by The Economist in its Global Liveability Report.

6. India is going to host the next steering committee meeting of the proposed 1,814 kilometre-long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline.

7.United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of Ruby Sandhu-Rojon as his new Deputy Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel.

8. Italy will host the G-7 Interior Ministers’ summit on security issues.

9. Kerala Blasters FC, a team that competes in the Indian Super League (ISL), announced a partnership with city-based Hyderabad Football Academy (HFA) to nurture talent at the grassroots.

10. Australian state government has approved the world’s biggest single tower solar thermal power plant, a 150-megawatt structure to be built in South Australia by 2020.

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1. Santosh Sharma has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Coper Limited (HCL). With this, Government has appointed Emandi Sankara Rao as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IFCI Ltd.

2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a new website http://gallantryawards.gov.in/ to honour all the gallantry award winners since Independence. The portal will preserve & tell the stories of our bravest men & women, civilians as well as armed forces personnel.

3. Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib Jathedar Giani Mal Singh died. He was 63.

4. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh laid the foundation stones of various developmental projects in Rampur sub-division of Shimla district.

5. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani announced the setting up of ten industrial estates for small industries, financial aid to fishermen, and free Wi-Fi to educational campuses.

6. Adani Transmission has acquired 100 per cent share capital of Hadoti Power Transmission Services Ltd from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd (RVPN).

7. The tenure of L C Goyal as Chairman and Managing Director of India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) has been extended by one year.

8. Hindustan Unilever Chief Financial Officer (CFO) P B Balaji resigned from the company and will join Tata Motors as group CFO.

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1. Three Indian firms — Hindustan Unilever (7th place), Asian Paints (8th place) and Bharti Airtel (78th place) — are among Forbes list of the world’s 100 most innovative companies, where Salesforce.com has replaced Tesla Motors on the top position.

2. ICICI Bank introduced an instant credit card which can be availed online and helps a customer to start shopping even before the plastic card gets delivered.

3. Minister of State for Human Resource Development Upendra Kushwaha launched a web portal that will enable schools and individuals to place orders for their books online. The portal will ensure better distribution of textbooks across the country. The Web Portal can be accessed at www.ncertbooks.ncert.gov.in.

4. Qatar announced Visa free entry to the citizens of 80 countries including India.

5. Bollywood actor Sitaram Panchal passed away. He was 54.

6. A consortium of 12 British and Indian universities has received a 7-million-pound grant from the UK government to build five self-sufficient solar-powered buildings in remote Indian villages. The grant is part of a new solar project ‘SUNRISE’.

7. Novo Nordisk India appointed former Indian cricket team captain Anil Kumble as the Changing Diabetes Brand Ambassador.

8. Kynan Chenai with his partner Shreyasi Singh won a bronze medal in the mixed team trap event at the 7th Asian Championship Shotgun in Astana, Kazakhstan.

9. Online marketplace Amazon announced the launch of Virtual Customer Service (VCS) model.

10. India has ratified the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, reaffirming its stand on 

climate action. With this, India became the 80th country to accept the amendment relating to the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the international emissions reduction treaty.

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1. Indian-origin actor Dev Patel is among nine individuals to be honoured with the ‘Asia Society Game Changers Award’ by a leading educational organisation for making a “transformative and positive” difference for the future of Asia and the world.

2. The Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh released a book on the noted author and journalist Khushwant Singh titled ‘Khushwant Singh: In Wisdom and in Jest’.

3. Over 100 delegates from 10 ASEAN countries will participate in the India-ASEAN Youth Summit to be held in Bhopal from August 14-19.

4. Australian Olympic icon Betty Cuthbert died. She was 79.

5. Ma Huateng, Chairman of Chinese internet giant Tencent, became China’s richest man after overtaking e-commerce major Alibaba’s Founder Jack Ma.

6. Anny Divya became the youngest female commander of a Boeing 777 in India and in the world.

7. Firoz Merchant, an Indian businessman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who has spent over USD 4 million to help free prisoners languishing in jails due to non-payment of debts, has been honoured with UAE’s prestigious Community Service Medal.

8. India’s Ravindra Jadeja edged out Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan to claim the top-rank among all-rounders apart from maintaining top position in the bowlers chart in the latest ICC rankings.

9. Indian-American Dilip Chauhan has been appointed as the Deputy Comptroller for Minority Affairs in Nassau County.

10. Two Iranian companies have signed the country’s biggest-ever car deal with French multinational automobile manufacturer Group Renault to produce 150,000 cars, beginning in 2018.

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1. Indian-origin actor Dev Patel is among nine individuals to be honoured with the ‘Asia Society Game Changers Award’ by a leading educational organisation for making a “transformative and positive” difference for the future of Asia and the world.

2. The Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh released a book on the noted author and journalist Khushwant Singh titled ‘Khushwant Singh: In Wisdom and in Jest’.

3. Over 100 delegates from 10 ASEAN countries will participate in the India-ASEAN Youth Summit to be held in Bhopal from August 14-19.

4. Australian Olympic icon Betty Cuthbert died. She was 79.

5. Ma Huateng, Chairman of Chinese internet giant Tencent, became China’s richest man after overtaking e-commerce major Alibaba’s Founder Jack Ma.

6. Anny Divya became the youngest female commander of a Boeing 777 in India and in the world.

7. Firoz Merchant, an Indian businessman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who has spent over USD 4 million to help free prisoners languishing in jails due to non-payment of debts, has been honoured with UAE’s prestigious Community Service Medal.

8. India’s Ravindra Jadeja edged out Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan to claim the top-rank among all-rounders apart from maintaining top position in the bowlers chart in the latest ICC rankings.

9. Indian-American Dilip Chauhan has been appointed as the Deputy Comptroller for Minority Affairs in Nassau County.

10. Two Iranian companies have signed the country’s biggest-ever car deal with French multinational automobile manufacturer Group Renault to produce 150,000 cars, beginning in 2018.

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1.The Bengaluru International Airport, in partnership with Thumby Aviation Private Limited, will reportedly soon have India’s first helicopter-taxi service. The HeliTaxi service would ensure quick and seamless transfers to and from airports, Civil Aviation Minister Jayant Sinha said.

2. Japan’s SoftBank has invested a sum of $250 million in US-based online lender Kabbage. In 2015, Kabbage raised about $135 million at a $1 billion valuation.

3. Actor Robert Hardy, who portrayed the role of Minister of Magic ‘Cornelius Fudge’ in four of the ‘Harry Potter’ films passed away. He was 91.

4. Saina Nehwal became the first Indian badminton player to win a medal at the Olympics, after clinching the bronze medal at the London Games

5. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath announced the appointment of actor Akshay Kumar as the Brand Ambassador of Swachh Bharat Mission in the state.

6. MoS for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir approved a proposal to rename the Mughalsarai railway station in UP after Deendayal Upadhyaya. The junction, India’s fourth busiest railway station, houses Asia’s largest railway marshalling yard.

7. The Haryana government has constituted a Scheduled Castes Development Council (SCDC) under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for the implementation of plans related to this section.

8. Darshan Lal has become the first Hindu to be inducted in Pakistan’s cabinet of ministers in over 20 years. New Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has named Lal as the Interprovincial Coordination Minister.

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1. Christopher Wray sworn in by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions as the new FBI director.

2. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave ex-post facto approval for a MoU signed by India and other BRICS nations for setting up of an agriculture research platform.

3. The Indian Army has developed a mobile app ‘Humraaz’ through which serving soldiers can track details like postings and promotions. Through this app, soldiers can also view their monthly salary slips and the Form 16 and also download them.

4. Paralympics gold medalist Devendra Jhajharia will become the first para athlete to be awarded the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna’, the country’s highest sporting honour.

5. Walmart India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Walmart Stores Inc has appointed Devendra Chawla as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.

6. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has appointed a 10 member expert panel committee headed by Justice B N Srikrishna that would study various issues relating to data protection in the country and will suggest a draft data protection Bill.

7. Peter O’Neill has been reappointed as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.

8. Veteran molecular biologist Pushpa Mittra Bhargava passed away in Hyderabad. He was 89.

9. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani was officially sworn in for a second term.

10. SEBI has set up a committee under the chairmanship of former law secretary T K Viswanathan on ‘fair market conduct’. This committee will suggest measures for improving surveillance of the markets and strengthen rules for trades.

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1. Reserve Bank of India have slashed Repo rate by 25 bps to 6% and Reverse Repo rate adjusted to 5.75% in its third bi-monthly monetary policy.

2. India and Russia have signed contracts for priority design works and supply of main equipment for units 5 and 6 of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu.

3. The government launched a portal, ‘e-RaKAM’, to provide a platform to sell agricultural produce. The portal is a joint initiative by state-run-auctioneer MSTC and Central Warehousing Corporation arm CRWC.

4. Market regulator Sebi has approved the appointment of Dhirendra Swarup as the new chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

5. Former Union Minister Santosh Mohan Dev died. He was 83.

6. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been elected as the 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan by country’s National Assembly.

7. Sanjaya Baru, who was media advisor to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has been appointed new secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

8. The additional chief secretary of Rural Development department of Jharkhand, N N Sinha, will be the new managing director National Highway Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL).

9. Famous American playwright, Sam Shepard died. He was 73. Sam was also famous as an actor, screenwriter and director.

10. Airtel Payments Bank, India’s first payments bank has announced a strategic partnership with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) for ATM services.

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1. India’s richest man and Reliance Industries Chairman, Mukesh Ambani overtook Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing to emerge as Asia’s second-richest man.

2. Senior bureaucrat Ambuj Sharma has been appointed Secretary-General, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

3. The UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Home Ministry have joined hands to combat human trafficking originating from the neighbouring countries.

4. American neuroscientist Marian Diamond who studied Albert Einstein’s brain in 1984, passed away. She was 90.

5. JNU Professor Manoj Pant has been appointed as the Director of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT).

6. State-run India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) has appointed Ravneet Kaur as the Chairperson and Managing Director.

7. The government has allowed trade of several commodities at four border haats between India and Bangladesh.

8. US President Donald Trump awarded the first ‘Medal of Honor’ to an Army medic James

McCloughan who ran into danger to save wounded soldiers during a Vietnam War.

9. Technology giant Cisco has named former Philips Healthcare executive Sameer Garde as the President for its India and SAARC operations.

10. Off-spinner Moeen Ali became the first English spinner in 79 years to pick up a Test hat-trick against South Africa.

11. E-commerce major Flipkart completed the merger with eBay India’s operations.

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1. According to the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017-2026 report, India is the world’s third-largest beef exporter and is expected to retain the spot in 2026.

2. American swimmer Caeleb Dressel equalled compatriot Michael Phelps’ 2007 record of most golds at the World Aquatics Championships, winning his seventh gold in the competition.

3. Ferrari’s Formula One racer Sebastian Vettel won the Hungarian Grand Prix title.

4. The Reserve Bank of India imposed Rs 1 crore penalty on Union Bank of India for non-compliance of KYC norms.

5. According to Moody’s, India’s GDP growth rate will be in the range of 6.5 to 7.5% during the next 12 to 18 months.

6. Veteran Karnataka BJP leader B B Shivappa passed. He was 89.

7. US second seed John Isner defeated Ryan Harrison his fourth ATP Atlanta title.

8. The world’s smallest spacecraft successfully launched into low-Earth orbit by Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Known as ‘Sprites’, these tiny satellites are just 3.5cm x 3.5cm.

9. The Renault-Nissan alliance overtake rivals Volkswagen and Toyota to become the world’s largest carmaker.

10. Eminent classical singer Ustad Sayeeduddin Dagar died. He was 78.

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1. The Indian women’s basketball team defeated Kazakhstan 75-73 in a thrilling contest to climb to Division A of the FIBA Asia Cup 2017.

2. The World Bank has approved a total of USD 570 million for two projects in Bangladesh to improve health, nutrition, and population services and strengthen the country’s public procurement.

3. Ravi Mittal, additional secretary in the Finance Ministry, has been appointed a part-time member on the board of Irdai.

4. Mumbai’s Aditya Patil and Suhaani Lohia have clinched bronze medals at the Asian School Chess Competition in China.

5. India shooter Tejaswini Sawant of Maharashtra won the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event in the XVII Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting championship.

6. The Centre announced to set up a 220-acre mega electronic systems design and manufacturing cluster in Assam.

7. Senior leader of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal and state agitator Ved Uniyal passed away. He was 65.

8. Indian boxers packed quite a heavy punch at the 48th Grand Prix Usti Nad Labem, clinching five gold, two silver and one bronze medal at the event in the Czech Republic.

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1. Nitish Kumar became the Chief Minister of Bihar for the sixth time and Sushil Modi took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar.

2. India’s third largest private sector bank, Axis Bank acquired Snapdeal-owned recharge app ‘FreeCharge’ for $60 million.

3. State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Bajaj Allianz General Insurance have signed an agreement for the distribution of insurance products through the branches.

4. The government has appointed Economic Affairs Secretary S C Garg as Alternate Governor on the Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB).

5. Private airline, GoAir has appointed Anand Sahai as its chief commercial officer (CCO).

6. Leading global technology giant Microsoft has officially launched ‘Kaizala’, a productivity app that has been designed to enhance the collaboration and communication experience for Indian enterprises.

7. Former chief minister of Karnataka N. Dharam Singh passed away. He was 80.

8. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a memorial dedicated to former president APJ Abdul Kalam at Peikarumbu near Rameswaram on his second death anniversary.

9. Narendra Modi has given approval for revision of guidelines of Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) Scheme.

10. Arundhati Roy’s new book ‘The Ministry of Utmost happiness’ has made it to the Man Booker Prize list for this year.

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1. Leading bourse BSE joined hands with Egyptian Exchange (EGX) for cooperation in exchange of information across business areas.

2. Wipro Limited partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to offer IT infrastructure solutions in a consumption-based or pay-per-use business model for enterprises.

3. World-renowned singer, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, died. He was 46.

4. The Union Government introduced a mobile app ‘Aarambh’ for road maintenance. Aarambh is a mobile phone based app for performance based maintenance contracting and community contracting for maintenance of rural roads.

5. Mervyn Rose, who won two grand slam titles and a pair of Davis Cups for Australia, died. He was 87.

6. Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley released a Case Study on the birth of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India – ‘The GST Saga: A Story of Extraordinary National Ambition’.

7. Facebook has acquired a US-based start-up Source3 to prevent piracy.

8. Chief Editor of Greater Kashmir Fayaz Ahmad Kaloo has been elected as the first president of Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG).

9. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee conferred this year’s ‘Mahanayak Samman 2017’ to veteran actress Shakuntala Barua for her contribution to the world of cinema.

10. Reliance Defence and Engineering Limited (subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure) launched its first two Naval Offshore Patrol Vessels – ‘Shachi’ and ‘Shruti’ – at Pipavav, Gujarat.

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1. Science journalist Pallava Bagla has been awarded with the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for popularisation of science.

2. According to International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) World Economic Outlook Update, India’s growth is projected to accelerate to 7.7 per cent in 2018-19, from 7.2 per cent forecast for 2017-18.

3. Standard Chartered Bank has launched a ‘Multicurrency Forex Card’ that offers customers the convenience of loading up to 20 widely used currencies on one card.

4. India will host the men’s World Boxing Championship for the first time in the year 2021.

5. Famous Indian scientist and academician Yash Pal died. He was 90.

6. Yatra Online Inc, India’s second-largest online travel operator, has acquired corporate travel services provider Air Travel Bureau (ATB).

7. India skipper Mithali Raj has been chosen as the captain of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 team by the International Cricket Council.

8. The world’s first full-scale floating wind farm – with turbines taller than the Britain’s Big Ben – is being built off the coast of Scotland.

9. Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai has been appointed to the board of directors of Alphabet, the search giant’s parent company.

10. Veteran freedom fighter and social worker Kubersingh Saklecha passed away. He was 94.

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1. Eminent space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Udupi Ramachandra Rao died. Rao was 85.

2. HS Prannoy defeated Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap to clinch the USD 120,000 US Open Grand Prix badminton title.

3. India has ranked 132nd out of 152 countries in the “Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index” released by international NGO Oxfam in association with Developmental Finance International.

4. The Women and Child Development Ministry launched an online portal SHe-box (sexual harassment e-box) for the central government’s women employees to file complaints related to workplace sexual harassment.

5. England defeated India to win the ICC Women’s World Cup for the fourth time.

6. The US Navy officially inducted USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78), the world’s largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

7. Retired football player, Philipp Lahm has been awarded with the ‘Footballer of the Year award’ by the German football magazine kicker.

8. Waldir Peres, the goalkeeper of Brazil’s feted 1982 World Cup team, has passed away. He was 66.

9. Fertiliser major IFFCO has signed an agreement with Sikkim government to explore business opportunities in organic food market with an initial investment of Rs 200 crore.

10. World youth boxing champion Sachin Siwach clinched a gold medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas.

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