India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani has clinched the 35th men's Asian Snooker Championship in Doha. He defeated Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon in the final to become the only one to win the Asian and World championships in all formats.
He became a snooker professional in 2012.
Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated the Central Command Centre for Air Traffic Flow Management in New Delhi to ensure higher standards of safety. It integrates flight data from subsystems like ATC Automation System, flight updates and flight update messages.
Hardeep Singh Puri is the Civil Aviation Minister.
Viral Acharya has resigned as a Deputy Governor of the RBI. He served as a member of the advisory council of the RBI Academy & a member of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Securities Markets, SEBI since 2014.
He joined RBI on January 23, 2017, for a three-year term.
Odisha govt unveiled a Flood Hazard Atlas for better preparedness. It will help identify the disaster-prone areas of the state to tackle the situation. It was prepared by National Remote Sensing Centre & Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA).
National Remote Sensing Centre is located at Hyderabad.
The expert committee for Macroeconomics & Employment came out with suggestion to achieve $5 Trillion economy target. Improvement of governance in PSU banks, enhancing growth rate of exports & employment generation were some of the key areas identified.
NITI Aayog organized a meeting on Economic Policy-The Road Ahead
Mauritania's ruling party candidate Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has won the presidential election with 52 percent of the vote. The election was the first in the nation's history, since independence from France in 1960.
Mauritania: Capital – Nouakchott; Currency – Ouguiya.
A multi-stage, multi-purpose lift irrigation project, Kaleshwaram was dedicated to the nation by Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao. It has become the world's biggest in terms of capacities. It is built across the Godavari river.
KLIP will lift the water to a height of half-a-kilometer.
Roger Federer defeated David Goffin to win the Halle Open title for the 10th time. Federer fired 7 aces and broke Goffin's serve 3 times to down Goffin. He clinched the 102nd tour-level title that moved him to within seven of Jimmy Connors’ record.
Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player.
Govt has developed a National Strategic Plan to eradicate Tuberculosis by 2025. India ranks 35th in the world in terms of TB cases per lakh population. As per the Global TB report, the estimated cases of TB are 204 per lakh population for the year 2017.
Min of State for Health & Family Welfare - Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Pankaj Razdan has resigned as the Deputy chief executive officer of Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance. He will be replaced by Kamlesh Rao who is the present managing director of the retail arm of Kotak Securities.
HQ of Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance – Mumbai.