NITI Aayog has launched Move Hack, a global mobility hackathon to crowdsource solutions aimed at the future of mobility in India. Move Hack is focused on 10 themes and structured over 3 legs: online, followed by Singapore leg, and the finals in New Delhi.
NITI Aayog – Vice Chairman- Rajiv Kumar, CEO- Amitabh Kant
NHAI will sign Rs 25,000 crore long-term, unsecured loan from SBI. This is the largest amount of loan sanctioned to NHAI in one stroke by any institution. This is also the largest long-term unsecured loan sanctioned by SBI at a time to any entity.
NHAI- Chairman- Yudhvir Singh Malik, Headquarters- New Delhi
Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal has approved a new policy for promotion of Railway Sportspersons whereby in addition to the sportspersons who won a medal in Olympics, all sportspersons & coaches who awarded with Padma Shri will be promoted as officers.
‘Bholu, the Train Manager’ elephant is a mascot of Indian Railway
DRDO conducted the successful test of the Ballistic Missile Interceptor Advanced Area Defence (AAD) from Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha. It is indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming hostile ballistic missile.
Dr. Abdul Kalam Island was formerly known as Wheeler Island.
Lok Sabha has unanimously passed the 123rd Constitutional Amendment bill, 2018 that provides constitutional status to the OBC commission. The bill seeks to grant constitutional status to the National Commission on Backward Classes (NCBC).
Commissions for SC and ST have constitutional status already.
Apple Inc. became the first US-based company with a market value of $1 trillion, four decades after it was co-founded by Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage and later revolutionized the worlds of computing, music and mobile communications.
Timothy Donald Cook is the Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc.
Cisco Systems Inc has announced that it would buy Duo Security, a venture capital-backed cybersecurity company, for $2.35 billion in cash, as it seeks to expand its offerings in cloud computing. Cisco is the world’s largest networking gear maker.
CISCO: – CEO- Chuck Robbins, HQ- San Jose, California, USA
Reliance Jio has tied up with SBI to provide a platform offering digital banking, commerce, & financial services to customers via the YONO app. Services would be provided through YONO (You Only Need One), a digital banking app launched by the SBI.
RIL and SBI have a 70:30 joint venture, the Jio Payments Bank.
India-origin mathematician Akshay Venkatesh was awarded the prestigious Fields medal. It is referred to as the Nobel prize for mathematics. The Fields medal is awarded once in four years to the most promising mathematicians under the age of 40.
Other 3 awardee- Caucher Birkar, Peter Scholze, Alessio Figalli
Incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe's presidential election in a poll marred by violence and opposition allegations of vote rigging. He, of the ruling ZANU-PF party, defeated Nelson Chamisa, of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDA) Alliance.
Zimbabwe- Capital- Harare. Zimbabwe is a landlocked country.