Sushma Swaraj & Nitin Gadkari flagged off Suraksha Yatra - a motor car rally from Rajghat in New Delhi to mark the launch the 30th National Road Safety Week. The rally would conclude at Yangon, Myanmar covering a total distance of over 7,000 kms
Union Minister of External Affairs: Sushma Swaraj
Indian opener Smriti Mandhana climbed three spots in the batters' list to become No.1 in the latest ICC women's ODI rankings. Skipper Mithali Raj slipped down one spot to finish at the 5th position
She was also ICC Women’s Player of the Year 2018
National Testing Agency recently launched a ‘NTA mobile app’ to enable students for practicing or taking mock tests on their own computers or smart phones, while paying nil fees for any of the services.
Minister of State (HRD): Dr Satya Pal Singh
Department of post poised to set up its own insurance company to deal with its business of 2 products, Postal life insurance and Rural Postal Life Insurance. The plan unveiled by MoS for Communications Manoj Sinha is waiting for cabinet approval
India Post Payment Bank MD & CEO: Suresh Sethi
Indian Banking Association recently issued advisory guidelines which requested banks to waive off processing, documentation, inspection, ledger folio charges and all other service charges for Kisan Credit Card/crop loans upto a limit of Rs 3 Lakhs
IBA HQ: Mumbai, CEO: V. G. Kannan
Objective of the MoU is to foster relations in the field of coal mining and clean coal technologies through the established Joint Coal Working Group as well as research institutes and academia between the 2 countries covering the related areas
Union Minister of Coal: Piyush Goyal
The Kerala government recently set up a price monitoring and research unit (PMRU), which would track violation of prices of essential drugs and medical devices under Drugs Price and Control order. It is the 1st state in India to do so.
Kerala Capital: Thiruvananthapuram, Governor: P Sathasivam
British Home Secretary Sajid Javid recently signed the order of extradition for completing the process of fugitive Vijay Mallya to India, who has been for a while wanted for wilful default of over Rs 9,000 crore loans from Indian banks
UK PM: Theresa May
1.38 lakh projects have been set up by the women entrepreneurs under Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) Scheme, a major credit-linked subsidy scheme which helps to set up micro-enterprises
Minister of State for MSME is Giriraj Singh
Asian Development Bank has bought a 14% stake in micro-financier Annapurna Finance for ₹ 137 Crore. The expansion of equity will help the firm expand its loan portfolio in asset classes such as MSME and affordable housing.
Annapurna Finance is Bhubaneswar based NBFC.