1. Despite all these advances, the world is still shy of reaching the "Millennium Development Goal 4," a joint goal from the UN and World Health Organization to cut the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, UNICEF warned.
2. Hindi Diwas is being observed all over the country on Saturday as President Pranab Mukherjee gave away Official Language Awards for outstanding contributions made towards promotion of Hindi language
3. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. and Russia have agreed that Syria's chemical weapons must be destroyed or removed by mid-2014.
4. India and Japan will jointly launch research programmes in the fields of Biology, Life sciences and material sciences.
5. The Government has appointed M.K. Goel, who is also the Director (Commercial), as the Chairman and Managing Director of Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC).
6. Myanmar will host the ASEAN drug meeting in Yangon from the 24th of this month. Its official media said the four-day meeting will be attended by high-ranking officials from the ASEAN Secretariat, and representatives from ASEAN dialogue partner countries - China, Japan, South Korea and India.
7. Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) has strongly advocated for liberalising FDI norms and resolve tax concerns of the industry to promote growth.
8. The industrial output for July grew by 2.6 percent over the corresponding month of the previous year, government data showed on Thursday; The factory output, measured in terms of Index of Industrial Production (IIP), however, contracted 2.2 percent in June.
9. Union Minister for Industry and Commerce Anand Sharma has launched the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project in Madhya Pradesh.
10. The government approved the proposal of Rs 700 crore capital infusion in Export-Import Bank of India to support future growth of the lender.
2. Hindi Diwas is being observed all over the country on Saturday as President Pranab Mukherjee gave away Official Language Awards for outstanding contributions made towards promotion of Hindi language
3. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. and Russia have agreed that Syria's chemical weapons must be destroyed or removed by mid-2014.
4. India and Japan will jointly launch research programmes in the fields of Biology, Life sciences and material sciences.
5. The Government has appointed M.K. Goel, who is also the Director (Commercial), as the Chairman and Managing Director of Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC).
6. Myanmar will host the ASEAN drug meeting in Yangon from the 24th of this month. Its official media said the four-day meeting will be attended by high-ranking officials from the ASEAN Secretariat, and representatives from ASEAN dialogue partner countries - China, Japan, South Korea and India.
7. Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) has strongly advocated for liberalising FDI norms and resolve tax concerns of the industry to promote growth.
8. The industrial output for July grew by 2.6 percent over the corresponding month of the previous year, government data showed on Thursday; The factory output, measured in terms of Index of Industrial Production (IIP), however, contracted 2.2 percent in June.
9. Union Minister for Industry and Commerce Anand Sharma has launched the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project in Madhya Pradesh.
10. The government approved the proposal of Rs 700 crore capital infusion in Export-Import Bank of India to support future growth of the lender.
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