World number one Bajrang Punia won the gold medal as he defeated Viktor Rassadin in the finals of men's 65kg freestyle in the Ali Aliyev wrestling tournament in Kaspiisk, Russia.
He also won a gold medal last week at the Asian Championships.
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has announced to celebrate the February 27 strike against India as ‘Operation Swift Retort’. Relations between India & Pakistan aggravated after Pulwama attack in Kashmir.
Pakistan Capital-Islamabad
LIC Housing Finance (LIC HFL) has launched skilling centre, ‘Udyam’ in Bengaluru. It was launched in association with Lok Bharti Education Society. Udyam will provide training to marginalised youth in the BFSI, retail, and IT/ ITES sectors.
MD & CEO of LIC HFL- Vinay Shah
The 16th Ministerial Meeting of Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) was held in Doha, Qatar. Gen. (Dr) V.K. Singh (Retd), Minister of State for External Affairs led the Indian delegation. The theme of the meeting was "Partners in Progress”.
ACD was founded in 2002 and India is a founder member of it.
Jaipur will host the 8th Asian Youth Women Handball Championship from August 21 to 30 in which 10 teams, including defending champions South Korea, will be participating.
New Delhi hosted the event in the year 2015
Iraq for the second year in a row, become India’s top crude oil supplier, meeting more than a fifth of the country’s oil needs in 2018-19 fiscal year according to data sourced from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics.
India has stopped importing crude oil from Iran from 1 May 2019
The 26th celebration of World Press Freedom Day is jointly organized by UNESCO, the African Union Commission & the Ethiopian. This year's theme is “Media for Democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation”.
The main event took place at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 1-3 May.
To nab tax evaders and reduce black money generation, the income tax department Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) signed an agreement to facilitate the exchange of data between the two.
Pramod Chandra Mody is the Chairman of the CBDT.
The Vice President, Shri. M. Venkaiah Naidu released a postage stamp to commemorate the 750th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta Desikan in New Delhi. The saint mastered the Vedas & all the existing schools of Indian philosophy by the age of 20.
Venkaiah Naidu is the 13th Vice President of India
The former chief justice of the Kerala and Madras High Courts B. Subhashan Reddy passed away following a brief illness. He was 76 years. Justice Reddy was the first chairman of the Andhra Pradesh (AP) State Human Rights Commission.
AP CM- Chandrababu Naidu , Governor- E.S.L. Narasimhan