The agriculture ministry has signed an SoI with IBM for undertaking a pilot study on weather forecast & soil moisture information in 3 dists of Bhopal, Rajkot & Nanded in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat & Maharashtra respectively for the Kharif crop season 2019.
Min of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare - Narendra Singh Tomar.
RBI has set up a working group to review the regulatory and supervisory framework for core investment companies. The 6-member panel will be headed by Tapan Ray. It will suggest measures to strengthen corporate governance & disclosure requirements for CICs.
RBI had introduced a framework for CICs in August 2010.
The government has set a target to raise health services expenditure to 2.5% of the country's GDP by 2025. The National Health Policy 2017 recommends that State govts should spend more than 8% of their budget on the health sector by 2020.
Minister of Health & Family Welfare - Dr Harsh Vardhan.
Karnataka Bank Ltd has launched the web tool ‘Vasool So-Ft’ for digitalizing the NPA recovery process of the bank. It will enable easy and faster processing, real-time information and immediate decision making in the recovery area.
Tagline of Karnataka Bank - Your Family Bank, Across India.
Aparna Kumar scaled Mount Denali in Alaska to become the first IPS officer to complete the Seven Summit challenge. In January, she became the first Indian Police Service and ITBP officer to complete her expedition to the South Pole.
Denali is the tallest mountain in North America.
The railways have set a target to install CCTV cameras in more than 7,000 coaches of mainline passenger trains by March 2021. The cameras have also been installed in 1,300 coaches of mainline passenger trains.
Ask Disha chatbot was launched by IRCTC.
Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with Bharti AXA Life Insurance to offer Bharti AXA Life POS Saral Jeevan Bima Yojana. It is a pure life term insurance plan aimed at the under-insured and uninsured segments in India.
Anubrata Biswas - MD and CEO of Airtel Payments Bank.
ICICI Bank has tied up with NBFC IndoStar Capital for vehicle financing for small and medium fleet owners to buy new & old commercial vehicles. Under this partnership, IndoStar will originate and service the customers through the entire loan lifecycle.
Girish Chandra: Non-executive (part-time) chairman of ICICI Bank
Indian middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu retired from all forms of cricket. He played 55 ODIs for India, scoring 1694 runs at an average of 47.05. The 33-year-old Andhra Pradesh batsman was in India's official standbys list for the on-going World Cup.
Duleep Trophy is associated with Cricket.
Industrialist Basant Kumar Birla has passed away at the age of 98. He was Chairman of the BK Birla Group of Companies, the Krishnarpan Charity Trust & BK Birla Institute of Engg &Tech. He also set up the Birla Public School in Qatar.
He received the highest Ethiopian Award 'Menelik II'.