President Shri Ram Nath Kovind has inaugurated the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention in New Delhi. MGISC is being organized to mark the beginning of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi.
MGISC-Organised by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
14th Exercise Yudh Abhyas is a joint India and United States Military exercise concluded at Chaubatia, Uttarakhand. This exercise started in 2004. It strengthens and broadens interoperability and cooperation between the Indian and US armies.
EYA was started under US Army Pacific Partnership Programme.
Board of state-run Vijaya Bank, Bank of Baroda gave in-principle approvals for their merger with another PSU lender Dena Bank. The merged entity will become the country’s second-largest public sector bank by assets and branches.
Num. of Public Sector Banks will reduce to 19 after this merger
Largest shareholders Life Insurance Corp (LIC), ORIX Corp, and State Bank of India (SBI) announced that they would subscribe to the proposed Rs 4,500 crore rights issue of the debt-laden ‘Infrastructure Leasing & Finance Services (IL&FS company)’.
Sunil Mathur is the Non-Executive Chairman of IL&FS.
According to the ‘Global status report on alcohol and health 2018’ released by the World Health Organization (WHO), per capita, alcohol consumption in India increased two folds between 2005 and 2016 from 2.4 liters to 5.7 liters.
WHO- HQ- Geneva, DG- Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Srinagar’s famous ‘Oont Kadal bridge’ will be restored through a conservation project with the help of Germany and INTACH. It is shaped like the hump of a camel and located in the middle of the picturesque Dal Lake in Srinagar.
INTACH- Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.
Ministry of Railways has partnered with Google to bring the history of Indian railways on Google Arts & Culture through a new online project called ‘The Railways- Lifeline of a Nation’. It was announced at an event in the National Rail Museum, New Delhi.
Bholu Elephant- Mascot of Indian Railway
N. Ravi has been unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Press Trust of India (PTI). He is the publisher and former Editor in Chief of The Hindu. Mr. Ravi succeeds Vivek Goenka who is the chairman and managing director of the Express Group.
Vijay Kumar Chopra has been elected as the Vice Chairman of PTI
12 years old Yuvraj Wadhwani beat Pakistan’s Anas Ali Shah in the finals of ‘Asian Junior Individual Championship’ (Under 13) to win the title. He is the first Indian player to win this title since 2014 since Veer Chotrani won it in Iran.
The competition was held at the Indian Squash Academy (ISA) Chennai
RBI has withdrawn the general permission given to Bandhan Bank to open new branches as the bank was not able to bring down the shareholding of Non-Operative Financial Holding Company (NOFHC) to 40 percent as required under the licensing condition.
Bandhan Bank- CEO- Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, HQ- Kolkata