India Ratings & Research has revised downwards its growth projection for 2nd quarter of current financial year to 4.7% & the full-year growth estimate to 5.6%. Also private final consumption expenditure growth is estimated to grow 4.9% in FY20
Real GDP growth is projected at 6.1% in 2019-20: RBI
Framework valid from 2019-2020 provides certain concessions for swap drawals in Indian rupee where RBI will continue to offer a swap arrangement within the overall corpus of $2 billion though the drawals can be made in USD, euro or INR
SAARC currency swap facility came into operation in 2012
Atanu Das clinched a bronze in the men's recurve individual event against Jin Hayek Oh of Korea and also won a bronze in the recurve mixed team competition with Deepika Kumari. Indian archers are competing as neutral athletes under World Archery flag
Das with Tarundeep & Jayanta beat China in bronze medal tie
The web-portal of National Youth Parliament Scheme is available at www.nyps.mpa.gov.in. Objective of the portal is to increase the outreach of the youth parliament programme of the Ministry to hitherto untouched sections & corners of the country
Samvidhan Diwas- 70th anniversary of constitution adoption
ISRO launched Earth observation satellite, Cartosat-3 successfully using the rocket PSLV in its C-47 version carrying along with it 13 other customer payloads into the intended polar sun-synchronous orbit from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota
Cartosat-3 is 9th satellite of its class, 1st in 3rd gen payload
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri launched Credit-linked Subsidy Services Awas Portal, CLAP, in New Delhi which provides a transparent & robust real-time web-based monitoring system for credit-linked Subsidy Services, CLSS, beneficiaries
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana target year-2022
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved an increase in the authorised capital of Food Corporation of India to Rs 10,000 crore from ₹3,500 crore. The move will help FCI raise more money in the reduce the borrowings of FCI, save interest cost of FCI.
FCI was constituted under the Food Corporations Act, 1964
UP government will set up state's first vulture conservation & breeding centre in Maharajganj district, in association with Bombay Natural History Society, as the 1st scientific assessment of vultures in state to find out which species is most threatened
UP Governor: Anandiben Patel
Chhattisgarh government has decided to declare Guru Ghasidas National Park in the state's Korea district as a tiger reserve. Presently the state has 3 tiger reserves- Indravati in Bijapur district, Udanti-Sitanadi in Gariaband & Achanakmar in Bilaspur
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister: Bhupesh Baghel; Governor: Anusuiya
Union Cabinet approved Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement between India & Chile. The agreement helps tax-payers in these countries avoid being taxed twice for same income & applies in cases where tax-payer resides in one country & earns income in another
Chile Capital: Santiago
Currency: Chilean peso