1. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon on Monday appointed a Pakistani army general as the Military Adviser for United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmed, who replaces Senegal's Lt Gen Babacar Gaye whose tour of duty ended on July 8, recently completed his duties as a Corps Commander in the Pakistan Army, an appointment that he had held since February 2013.
2. The two militaries pledged to strengthen defence ties during a meeting between Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan and Bangladesh's Chief of Army Staff Gen Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan on Tuesday. Chang told Gen Karim that China attaches great importance to developing relations with Bangladesh and is committed to cementing the two sides' comprehensive partnership of cooperation, media reported.
3. Over one lakh villages in the country have been fully electrified under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY). Minister of State for Power Jyotiraditya M. Scindia said in the Rajya Sabha that around 3 lakh 82 thousand villages have been partially electrified.
4. Projects worth over Rs 1,82,000 crore have been cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI), including 18 power projects needing 83,772 crore rupees investment for which banks have already disbursed over 30,000 crore rupees.
5. A spokesman for the British Prime Minister David Cameron says that Britain is making contingency plans for a military response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
6. The Japanese government is deploying officials to supervise the cleanup of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant following a series of leaks of highly radioactive water.
7. In Odisha, at least four BSF personnel have been killed and many others injured by a landmine blast by Maoists in Koraput district this morning.
8. Agriculture sector has attracted FDI inflows worth Rs 70 crore during the first quarter of this fiscal.
9. India stormed into the semi-finals of the ninth Men's Asia Cup hockey tournament at Ipoh in Malaysia. In their second Pool-B fixture yesterday, India defeated defending champions Korea, 2-0 to win their second consecutive match of the tournament.
10. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma today said India needs to seriously look at currency swap arrangements with important trading partners with a view to stabilise the rupee. A currency swap is a foreign-exchange agreement between two institutions to exchange aspects (namely the principal and/or interest payments) of a loan in one currency for equivalent aspects of an equal in net present value loan in another currency.
2. The two militaries pledged to strengthen defence ties during a meeting between Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan and Bangladesh's Chief of Army Staff Gen Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan on Tuesday. Chang told Gen Karim that China attaches great importance to developing relations with Bangladesh and is committed to cementing the two sides' comprehensive partnership of cooperation, media reported.
3. Over one lakh villages in the country have been fully electrified under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY). Minister of State for Power Jyotiraditya M. Scindia said in the Rajya Sabha that around 3 lakh 82 thousand villages have been partially electrified.
4. Projects worth over Rs 1,82,000 crore have been cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI), including 18 power projects needing 83,772 crore rupees investment for which banks have already disbursed over 30,000 crore rupees.
5. A spokesman for the British Prime Minister David Cameron says that Britain is making contingency plans for a military response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
6. The Japanese government is deploying officials to supervise the cleanup of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant following a series of leaks of highly radioactive water.
7. In Odisha, at least four BSF personnel have been killed and many others injured by a landmine blast by Maoists in Koraput district this morning.
8. Agriculture sector has attracted FDI inflows worth Rs 70 crore during the first quarter of this fiscal.
9. India stormed into the semi-finals of the ninth Men's Asia Cup hockey tournament at Ipoh in Malaysia. In their second Pool-B fixture yesterday, India defeated defending champions Korea, 2-0 to win their second consecutive match of the tournament.
10. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma today said India needs to seriously look at currency swap arrangements with important trading partners with a view to stabilise the rupee. A currency swap is a foreign-exchange agreement between two institutions to exchange aspects (namely the principal and/or interest payments) of a loan in one currency for equivalent aspects of an equal in net present value loan in another currency.
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