INDO-US joint military training Exercise Yudh Abhyas,18 is scheduled to be held in the foothills of Himalayas at Chaubattia in Uttarakhand from 16 Sep. to 29 Sep. 2018.Both nations will work together in counter insurgency & counter terrorism environment.
This will be the 14th edition of the joint military exercise.
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal launched a web portal 'Rail Sahyog', a platform for the corporates and PSUs (Public Sector Undertakings) to contribute to the creation of amenities at Railway stations through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds.
The first railway minister of independent India was John Mathai.
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Radha Mohan Singh in Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi ,released a booklet titled ‘NCDC-Assisting Cooperatives. Always!’ highlighting the role & activities assisted by National Cooperative Development Corporation.
NCDC embarked a mission for doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022.
NITI Aayog, Intel, & Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) will set up a model ICTAI towards developing and deploying AI-led application-based research projects. It’s a part of NITI Aayog’s ‘National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence’.
International Centre for Transformative Artificial Intelligence.
Acc. to the Department of Atomic Energy ,'Apsara-U', a higher capacity version of Asia's first research reactor- 'Apsara' has become operational, In its new avatar, the reactor was born at the Trombay campus of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Maharashtra.
Apsara became operational in August 1956.
BSE, PTC India Ltd & ICICI Bank have come together to form India’s 3rd electricity exchange. A power exchange functions on the lines of commodity exchanges and provides a platform for buyers, sellers and traders of electricity to enter into spot contracts.
Power Exchange of India & India Energy Exchange are the other 2.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the acquisition of Reliance Industries Holding's subsidiary Pipeline Infrastructure by India Infrastructure Trust. The Trust is proposed to be registered as an infrastructure investment trust (InvIT).
Devender Kumar Sikri- CCI Chairperson.
EC withdrew the ‘none of the above’ (NOTA) option from ballot papers of the Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Council polls following a Supreme Court directive. NOTA continue to be an option in direct elections such as the LS and the state assemblies.
Chief election commissioner - OP Rawat.
Justice Om Prakash Mishra has been sworn in as new Chief Justice of Nepal. Parliamentary Hearing Committee (PHC) unanimously endorsed his name for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court in 2014.
Nepal President - Bidya Devi Bhandari.
According to a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),Asia and the Pacific account for a growing share of global gross domestic product (GDP), while the region continues to make progress to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
ADB Headquarter- Manilla ,Philippines ; 67 members.