NCW member Rekha Sharma,54 has been appointed as the chairperson of the National Commission for Women. She was holding the additional charge of chairperson
She recently stoked a controversy by suggesting abolition of confessions in churches.
The NCW was set up as statutory body in January 1992.
PayPal has partnered with HDFC Bank to drive incremental digital spend. HDFC cards will be presented as a payment option during enrolment and subsequent payments, It will also facilitate consumers to easily open PayPal accounts.
PayPal-American company, CEO-Daniel Schulman.
NDA candidate and JD(U) member Harivansh Narayan Singh was elected as deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha, defeating opposition's B.K. Hariprasad by 20 votes.The post was lying vacant since the retirement of P.J. Kurien on July 1.
Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu.
The Union Cabinet has approved three key changes in the bill.
• Mandated FIR firing by either victim or immediate blood relations.
• Its now a compoundable offence.
• Inclusion of a provision of granting bail to men found guilty.
Union Cabinet led by- Prime Minister
Marie Curie, the pioneering scientist has topped a poll asking which woman has had the most significant impact on world history by BBC. She was followed by Rosa Parks, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ada Lovelace and Rosalind Franklin.
She Won Two Nobel prizes in 1903 & 1911.
Supreme Court modified its “one state, one vote” policy for BCCI members and granted permanent membership of the board to the cricket associations of Mumbai, Saurashtra, Vadodara and Vidarbha. Directing them to adopt the BCCI constitution within 30 days.
Board of Control for Cricket in India, HQ -Mumbai.
Astronomers using Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) telescope, Pune has discovered the most distant radio galaxy ever known, located at a distance of 12 billion light-years. Galaxy is of a time when the universe was only 7 % of its current age.
GMRT- array of thirty steerable parabolic radio telescopes.
The Appointment Committee of Cabinet has reappointed RS Sharma as the chief of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). He will now head the telecom watchdog till September 30, 2020.
He is a former UIDAI director general.
Ace Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra has been appointed as a member of the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which aims to uphold the athletes’ viewpoint in all decisions. He is second after Saina Nehwal back in 2016.
IOC Headquarter-Lausanne, Switzerland
United Bank of India has reported net loss for the fifth consecutive quarter even as it managed to restrict fresh generation of sticky loans by two-third.
The ratio of gross NPAs slipped to 22.73% from 17.17% a year back.
United Bank of India ,HQ- Kolkata