Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment(SJE) is in Seoul to attend the 3rd ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Conference on ‘Global Ageing and Human Rights of Older Persons’.It is organized by Republic of Korea & National Human Rights Commission of Korea.
SJE Minister - Thaawarchand Gehlot.
The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of permanent campus for seven new IIMs. The seven IIMs are at Amritsar, Bodh Gaya, Nagpur, Sambalpur, Sirmaur, Vishakhapatnam and Jammu. These IIMs were established in the year 2015-16 & 2016-17.
Each of these IIMs will be constructed in an area of 60384 Sqm.
At 52nd ISSF World Championships, India’s Saurabh Chaudhary hunted down yet another gold medal as he won the men's junior 10m air pistol title, even his teammate Arjun Singh Cheema took a bronze medal.
India at the 3rd spot With 14 medals 4 gold, 6 silver, 4 bronze.
PM Modi will inaugurate MOVE: India's 1st ever Global Mobility Summit organized by NITI Aayog at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Focused at raising awareness about various aspects of Mobility & bringing together stakeholders involved in enhancing mobility.
NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar, and CEO- Amitabh Kant.
At the 2+2 bilateral summit ,A military information sharing pact, which will give India access to the US technology to keep an eye on China and the neighbourhood was signed. A new tri-Services joint exercise on the eastern coast next year is also planned.
COMCASA - Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement.
The Odisha Assembly passed a resolution for the establishment of a Legislative Council in the state. The resolution got support of 104 of 147 members of the Assembly ,Congress & BJP walked out. The resolution will be sent to the Centre for approval.
Odisha , Capital- Bhubaneshwar, C M- Naveen Patnaik.
Google launched a new search engine called Dataset Search for the scientific community ,to help them make sense of millions of datasets present online. It will work like Google Scholar, the company's popular search engine for academic studies and reports.
Google CEO: Sundar Pichai, Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin.
The Supreme Court restored a landmark Delhi High Court judgement which had decriminalised homosexuality in a move that was immediately hailed by the minority LGBT community. Now, the LGBT community has a right to enjoy equal rights under the constitution.
A Five-judge bench was led by CJI Dipak Misra.
President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in Czech Republic on the final leg of his visit to 3 European countries Cyprus, Bulgaria & Czech Republic. He is the 5th Indian President to visit the central European country, and the 1st since Shankar Dayal Sharma.
Czech Republic ,President -Milos Zeman, PM- Andrej Babis.
Union Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation will organize a global sanitation convention to mark the beginning of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi, also coinciding with the 4th anniversary of the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission.
Uma Bharti - Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation.