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High court chief justices appointed to the Supreme Court

KM Joseph, Indira Banerjee and Vineet Saran were appointed to the Supreme Court. Justice Banerjee becomes the eight-woman judge in the history of the Supreme Court. They were appointed by President Ram Nath Kovind.

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Chief Justice of India- Dipak Misra

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India third Asian nation to get STA-1 status from US

India has become the third Asian country after Japan and South Korea to get the Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) status. India is the 37th country to be designated the STA-1 status by the US.

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STA1 status paves way for high technology product sales to India

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Sunil Chhetri named ‘Asian Icon’ by Asian Football Confederation

Sunil Chhetri was named an 'Asian Icon' by the game's continental governing AFC. Chhetri is currently the highest goal-scoring active Asian and third in the world after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

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Sunil Chhetri has scored 64 goals from 101 matches.

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First woman judge to lead J&K High Court

Justice Geeta Mittal was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, becoming the first woman judge in the history to head it. Sindhu Sharma also became the first woman judge of the Jammu and Kashmir HC.

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Governor of Jammu and Kashmir- N. N. Vohra

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Merger of Tata Teleservices with Bharti Airtel receives approval

Shareholders of Bharti Airtel approved the merger of the mobile business of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) with the company.

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Chairman of Airtel- Sunil Bharti Mittal; MD & CEO- Gopal Vittal

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HDFC Bank raises Rs 15,151 crore capital

HDFC Bank has raised Rs 15,151 crore from domestic and foreign institutional investors. The money has been raised through a mix of qualified institutions placement (QIP) in the domestic market and American Depository Receipts (ADRs) in the US market.

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HDFC Bank CEO - Aditya Puri

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Incentives for digital transactions under GST

States will roll out on pilot basis incentives for digital transactions through Rupay card and BHIM app under the GST. Payments made using Rupay card and BHIM UPI, would get a cashback of 20 percent of the total GST amount (maximum limit of Rs100).

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GST Council is chaired by the Union Finance Minister.

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Neeraj Aggarwal to head Boston Consulting Group’s Asia Pacific region

Boston Consulting Group has elevated the company’s India head Neeraj Aggarwal as the new regional chair for the Asia Pacific region. He takes over from Janmejaya Sinha.

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BCG is a management consulting firm. President and CEO- Rich

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HDFC Life ties up with Vijaya Bank

HDFC Life Insurance and Vijaya Bank have entered into a corporate agency tie-up. As part of this plan, the bank will sell the insurer's products through its branches.

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Amitabh Chaudhry, MD&CEO, HDFC Life

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Amended Technology Upgradation Funds Scheme introduced

Union Ministry of Textiles has introduced Amended TUFS, allowing co-operative banks to lend to textile units for technology upgradation under this scheme. The scheme also been extended to limited liability partnership (LLP) firms.

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TUFS was introduced in 1999 to replace age-old technology.