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Current Affairs – December 2017

 

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• MP CM flags off mobile museum Adi Shankara Sandesh Vahini in Kochi

• China cuts the ribbon of its first solar highway which will charge the running electric vehicles

• Viswanathan Anand bags bronze

• Israel withdraws from UNESCO

• Maiga appointed as the new PM of Mali

• Mystery Writer Sue Grafton passes away at 77

• Nepal bans solo climbing on Mount Everest and other peaks

• Pratibha Gai honoured with Damehood by queen Elizabeth

• NASA’s “Girl of the Year” doll

• Jitu Rai bags men’s 50m pistol national title

• India leads in global milk production

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• China launches World’s Largest Human Genome Research Project

• Vinay Sahasrabuddhe appointed as President of ICCR

• US and Turkey open gates for visa services

• Bilateral Meeting held between External Affairs Minister of India and Jordan

• Cristiano Ronaldo wins best player at Globe Soccer Award

• Nirmala Sitharaman launches Start-up Incubation Centre in Mangalore

• 78th Session of Indian History Congress held in Kolkata

• China successfully tested its first Photovoltaic road

• Delhi govt launches mobile app that would connect 1600 SMC members

 

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• Former Zimbabwe army chief sworn in as vice president

• Amardeep Singh Bhatia appointed as Director of SFIO

• Israel to name a station after Trump

• Indo-Maldives Joint Exercise ‘Ekuverin’ Concludes

• Prithvi supersonic interceptor missile successfully test fired

• Agriculture Minister launches LDF app

• Prince Harry named President of African Conservation Group

• Chola MS honoured with Golden Peacock Award for risk management

• India ranks 5th in list of countries with highest NPA levels

• Viswanathan Anand wins World Rapid Chess Championship

• Ex-footballer George Weah to become Liberia’s president

• International sweet festival going to held in Hyderabad

• India’s first bitcoin trading app

• Russia launches satellite for Angola

• Triple Talaq Bill passed in Lok Sabha

 

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• Gujarat CM inaugurates 25th National Children’s Science Congress

• Vin Diesel, Forbes 2017 top-Grossing Actor

• IPS officer Abhay appointed DG of Narcotics Control Bureau

• Reddy’s unveils cancer drug in U.S.

• Anushka Sharma crowned PETA’s ‘Person of the Year’

• India provides medical assistance to Yemen

• Paytm becomes India’s first payments app to cross 100 mn downloads on Play Store

• United Nations cuts budget by $286 million

• Anisa wins Womens 25m Pistol with New National Record

• The creator of Bugs Bunny, Bob Givens, passes away at 99

• K S Chitra bags ‘Harivarasanam’ Award

• PM Modis Mann Ki Baat among most trending Twitter hashtags in 2017

 

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• ISRO, NASA jointly working Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Satellite

• Music Legend Robbie Malinga passes away

• In a first, Saudi Arabia hosts World Chess Games

• Indian Boxers won 5 Medals at Galym Boxing Tournament

• India’s first pod taxi to follow US safety norms

• Guatemala to move embassy to Jerusalem

• Only 1.7% Indians paid income tax

• President inaugurates conference at ANU in Andhra Pradesh

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• Modi to be First PM to attend World Economic Forum in 20 years

• India’s First Runway on ‘Sea Bridge’ in Lakshadweep

• Bengali film actor Partha Mukhopadhyay passes away

• Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates world’s biggest sand Santa face at Puri beach

• UP govt launches free household power connection scheme ‘Prakash hai to vikas hai’

• Bengaluru becomes First Indian City to have its own Logo

• Singapore’s Dy PM to join Sushma Swaraj at ASEAN-India PBD in Singapore

• India to become fifth largest economy in 2018: Report

 

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• Book on Gauri Lankesh’s writings launched

• 25 December: Good Governance Day

• World’s Longest Glass Bridge opens in China

• Maharashtra tops in GST collection in first five months

• Indian Economy may reach 7% growth

• AG600: World’s largest amphibious aircraft takes off

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• India is the 5th most vacation deprived country globally

• BCCI appoints Saba Karim as General Manager

• Mumbai, Gurugram girls win Mrs India contest

• BND-4201: India’s first home-grown high purity gold reference standard launched

• China launches land exploration satellite

• UN appoints Henrietta Fore as UNICEF head

• Vijender Singh retains WBO Oriental and Asia Pacific Super Middleweight titles

• US President Signs $1.5 Trillion Tax Overhaul Law

• IOC bans 11 Russians for life over alleged Sochi Games doping violations

• Jairam Thakur will be Himachal Pradesh’s new CM

• WHO to add ‘gaming disorder’ as a mental condition in 2018

• Sushil becomes PWL’s Most Expensive Wrestler at Rs.55 lakh

• Banwari Lal Joshi passes away

• Uttarakhand CM launches his biography

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• Kohli becomes India’s most valued celeb

• No shooting at 2022 Commonwealth Games

• National Family Health Survey shows decline in Child Marriages

• 23 December: Kisan Diwas

• UN Security Council imposes new sanctions on North Korea

• Subbarayudu appointed as Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Peru

• Made-in-India Surface-to-Air Missile QRSAM successfully test fired

• Patanjali ranked India’s most trusted FMCG Brand

• Bengali Singer Jatileswar Mukhopadhyay passes away

• Lt Gen B S Sahrawat takes over as Director-General of NCC

• Rohit Sharma hits fastest T20I century, equals world record

• Russia’s Dy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin visits India

• Airtel Payments Bank CEO Shashi Arora resigns

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• 2017 may be among top 3 hottest years

• Justice U.D. Salvi appointed acting chairperson of NGT

• Samsung Unveils ‘World’s Smallest’ DRAM Chip

• 12th edition of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence Awards

• Mamang Dai, Ramesh Kuntal win Sahitya Akademi Award 2017

• India’s Mithali Raj, Ekta Bisht selected in ICC Women’s ODI Team of the Year

• India and Switzerland ink deal for Information Exchange

• ICGS Sujay commissioned into by Indian Coast Guard

• 22 December: National Mathematics Day

• Salman Khan tops Forbes India Celebrity List 2017

• UN General Assembly rejects US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

 

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• Messi beats Ronaldo for La Liga Best Player Award

• Bobsledder banned for life from Olympics

• India’s first design university ‘World University of Design’ opens campus

• Golden Jubilee celebrations of Indian Women Pilots Association held

• Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh resigns

• Delhi ranks 7th in Most Expensive Office Locations list

• Indian Hockey Umpires named as umpires for 2018 Hockey Men’s World Cup

• Naseem-Al-Bahr 2017: India, Oman conducts naval exercise

• UK tops Forbes’ List of Best Countries for Business in 2018

• India’s First National Rail and Transportation University to come at Vadodara

• India, Myanmar sign MoU for Rakhine State’s development

• OEC 2017 kicked off to foster Sustainable River Basin Management

• DARPAN Project launched for Financial Inclusion of Rural Population

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• NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar retires

• Pop singer Keely Smith dies at 89

• BBC Sports Personality 2017: England women cricketers win team award

• World’s longest wedding dress train sets Guinness record

• HAMESHA VIJAYEE: Southern Command conducts major exercise in Rajasthan

• India and Sri Lanka completes 2nd phase of joint oceanographic survey

• 20 December: International Human Solidarity Day

• Training of Trainers Program for Sendai Framework held in New Delhi

• Haryana govt to provide free sanitary napkins to poor women

• Sonu Sood honoured with Punjab Ratan award

• UK govt extends pilot student visa scheme to 23 more universities

• Shree Saini from Washington crowned Miss India USA 2017

• France passes law to ban all Oil and Gas Production by 2040

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• BJP wins Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Elections

• Odisha CM inaugurates Tribal Sports Meet 2017

• Smita Nagaraj takes over as UPSC member

• Rekha receives first Smita Patil Memorial Award

• India won 10 medals in Wushu Sanda Asian Cup

• Losar Festival celebrated in Ladakh

• Aakarshi Kashyap wins U-17 & U-19 singles titles at Badminton Jr Nationals

• India finishes 1st at Junior Boxing Championship in Germany

• India ranked 60th most Innovative Country, Switzerland Tops

• Goa celebrates 56th Liberation Day

• Tata Steel Joda Mine gets Golden Peacock Innovation Award

• Iraq overtakes Saudi Arabia as top Oil supplier to India

 

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• 2002 World Cup winner Kaka retires from Football

• 18 December: International Migrants Day

• Sushil Kumar, Sakshi Malik clinches Gold at Commonwealth Wrestling C’ships

• PV Sindhu wins Silver at Dubai World Badminton Superseries

• Sebastian Pinera wins Chile’s Presidential Election

• SpaceX for first time successfully launches recycled rocket and spaceship

• Andhra Pradesh Cabinet approves Pension for State’s Transgenders

• India reaches 2nd position on horticultural crops, fruits production list

• Samsung, UNESCO partner for videos on Indian Heritage Sites

• Real Madrid presented with the FIFA World Champions Badge

• Satheesh Reddy conferred with National Design Award

• Mo Farah wins BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year Award

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• WHO certifies Gabon as polio free

• Man Sails around the World in 42 days, breaks World Record

• Women to drive trucks, bikes in Saudi

• Vodafone India appoints Dawar as its CFO

• Nepal hosts first International Wheelchair Cricket Tournament

• Joy Goswami to get 31st Moortidevi Award

• Christian Pulisic becomes youngest to get US men’s footballer of the year

• FIFA bans head of Brazilian football

• China unveils satellite network plan for South China Sea

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• India-Maldives bilateral military exercise ‘Ekuverin 2017′ held in Belagavi

• World Telugu Conference begins

• Roger Federer named BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year

• Official emblems for Beijing 2022 Winter Games unveiled

• National Workshop on Role of Sakhi One Stop Centres held in New Delhi

• 16 December: Vijay Diwas

• R Hemalatha takes charge as Director, NIN

• PM Modi inaugurates 60-Megawatt Tuirial Hydro power Project in Aizawl

• Income Inequality Highest in India since 1980s

• ‘Youthquake’ named Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries

• Meghalaya launches India’s first social audit law

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• Lucknow’s Jitesh Singh Deo named Mr India 2017

• Sri Lanka accede to landmine ban treaty

• Norway becomes 1st Nation to Shut National Broadcasts on FM

• India hosted 4th India-Australia-Japan trilateral meeting

• Sachin Siwach named Asia’s youth boxer of the year

• JK Rowling named a ‘Companion of Honor’

• WTO talks collapse, no agreement on food security

• Telangana develops app to connect citizens, technicians

• Mumbai Metro launches ‘SecuCare’ app for safer commuting

• Disney to acquire 21st Century Fox assets for USD 52.4 Billion in stock

• Narinder Batra New President of Indian Olympic Association

• Michael Jordan, World’s Highest-Paid Athlete of All Time

• Union Cabinet clears bill criminalising Instant Triple Talaq

• Indian Diaspora is Largest in the World: World Migration Report 2018

 

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• 10 ASEAN leaders to be chief guests for Republic Day

• India becomes 1st ever team to register Hundred 300+ ODI totals

• Indian hockey teams end year on 6th and 10th spots

• Official Logo for Allahabad Kumbh Mela 2019 released in Lucknow

• Google to open AI research lab in China, first in Asia

• Piyush & Prasoon Pandey to honour with Cannes Lions’ Lifetime Achievement Award

• Russia and Egypt signed for Egypt’s first nuclear power plant

• South Korea bans its banks from dealing in Bitcoin

• Actor-Director Neeraj Vora passes away

• PM Modi inducts scorpene-class Submarine Kalvari into Indian Navy

• NGT declares Amarnath Cave shrine a ‘Silent Zone’

• 14 December: National Energy Conservation Day

 

 

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• • • Priyanka Chopra receives Mother Teresa Memorial award

    • India ranks 100 in global prosperity index

    • 2nd UNWTO/ UNESCO World Conference on Tourism & Culture held in Oman

    • 14th Inclusive Finance India Summit begins in New Delhi

    • Rajasthan, first in India to offer e-mail IDs in Hindi

    • Dhammapiya elected New Secretary General of Intl Buddhist

    • Shubhankar Sharma wins Joburg Open

    • UN releases World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018 Report

    • Rohit Sharma becomes 1st batsmen to score 3 ODI double centuries

    • Sri Lanka formally hands over Hambantota Port to China for 99-Year Lease

    • Bihar Govt launches Safe City Surveillance scheme for Women Safety

    • India’s first Electronic Manufacturing Cluster to be set up in Andhra Pradesh

    • ‘Feminism’: Merriam-Webster’s Word of the year 2017

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• • ICAN receives 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

  • Sumitra Bhave to get Kalamaharshi Baburao Award

  • Australia wins Gold of Hockey World League final

  • Vice President confers ‘Yerarignar’ Award to Prof. M.S. Swaminathan

  • Ola appoints Viraj Chouhan as its CCO

  • Saudi Arabia to allow movie theaters

  • Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu wins 10-m air pistol Bronze at 10th Asian C’ship

  • Mount Hope named UK’s new highest peak

  • World’s largest automated container terminal opens in Shanghai

  • Govt launches mobile app to ease child deliveries in peripheral areas

  • BCCI lifts ban on RCA

  • Finance Minister holds 5th Pre-Budget Consultation Meeting

  • Indian Economy likely to Grow by 7.2% in 2018, 7.4% in 2019: UN Report

  • India to host 2021 Champions Trophy, 2023 World Cup

  • Saurabh Chaudhary claims Youth Olympics Games spot with Gold

  • UP and Maharashtra tops in highest number of cyber-crimes

  • India bags 21 medals including 6 gold at Asian Airgun Shooting C’ships

  • Lakshmi Puri among six diplomats felicitated with ‘Power of One’

  • Nakul Chopra elected as BARC India Chairman

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• 11 December: International Mountain Day

• India beat Germany, win Bronze at Hockey World League Final

• Pradeep Singh Kharola takes over as Air India CMD

• Russia-India-China Foreign Ministers meet begins in Delhi

• Pioneer of DNA Fingerprinting Lalji Singh passes away

• US, South Korea, Japan started missile-tracking drill

• China starts World’s Biggest Floating Solar Project

• ASEAN India Connectivity Summit begins in Delhi

• Rahul Gandhi elected Indian National Congress President

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• 10 December: Human Rights Day

• UN Women, Facebook inaugurates ‘We The Women’ event in Mumbai

• Hindi writer Mamta Kalia chosen for Vyas Samman 2017

• Shankar appointed RBI Executive Director

• Indonesia Open Aquatic: Indian Diving Team wins 6 Medals

• Maruti Suzuki replaces SBI as 6th most valuable Indian firm

• Ram Nath Kovind awards Presidents Colours to submarine arm of Navy

• Shooters Ghosh, Mane bag Youth Olympic Games quota places

• Pakistan to depreciate currency

• SBI changes name, IFSC codes of branches

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• Kanchanmala Pande wins Gold at World Para Swimming Championship

• India declared free from Trachoma, a bacterial infection of eye

• Star Screen Awards 2017 held in Mumbai

• Prez inaugurates Naval Maritime Aircraft Museum in RK Beach

• India’s GDP growth to rise to 7.5%

• Dangal named the Best Asian Film at Australian Gala

• Tamil journalist & humourist Ja Ra Sundaresan dies aged 87

• Punjab & Haryana HC bans bursting of crackers on New Year

• International Conference on Groundwater Organized

• Second vice president of Afghanistan arrives in India for 5 day visit

• Suresh Prabhu in Argentina to attend 11th Ministerial Conference of WTO

• Former supermarket worker Dan Middleton named Worlds richest YouTuber

• FIFA Lifts Kuwait Football Ban

• Diddy tops Forbes Highest Paid Musicians of 2017 List

• Mahesh Sharma inaugurates ‘Bodhi Parva’

• Facebook Co founder Saverin becomes richest man in Singapore

• Sarvesh Tiwari appointed as President Para Sports Foundation

• Shah Rukh Khan named top Indian actor of 2017 by IMDb

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• India and Cuba Sign MoU for Enhanced Cooperation in Health Sector

• Lifter Gurdeep creates three national records in IWF C’ships

• Wassenaar Arrangement decides to admit India as its new member

• 2nd best UNESCO world heritage site

• Indian and Italy Sign MoU for Cooperation in Agriculture and Phytosanitary Issues

• London Mayor Names Deepak Parekh as First International Ambassador

• Cristiano Ronaldo Wins Ballon d’Or, Equals Lionel Messi’s Record

• Time Person of the Year for 2017

• First International Conference on Sports Medicine & Sports Sciences SAICON 2017 Inaugurated in Delhi

• Kerala’s Alappuzha in Top 5 UN Clean City List

• Azar A.H.Khan Appointed Next Ambassador of India to Turkmenistan

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• Time readers vote Saudi Crown Prince Person of the Year

• U.P. becomes first State to endorse Centre’s triple talaq draft bill

• King of rock Johnny Hallyday dies

• US to recognise Jerusalem as capital

• Kerala raises minimum liquor drinking age to 23

• PM Modi Most tweeted about world leader after Trump

• After Mary Kom, Sushil Kumar resigns as National Sports Observer

• Akshay Kumar to promote government’s flagship agri-schemes

• Vice President inaugurated 12th Annual Convention

• ISA becomes Treaty-based International Intergovernmental organization

• Swiggy appoints Vishal Bhatia as CEO of New Supply Business

• World smallest Mona Lisa created using DNA origami

• BSF launches test to check personnel’s Psychological health

• PM Modi inaugurated B R Ambedkar International Centre

• Center enhances Monetary Allowances for Gallantry Award Winners

• Australian Govt passes Marriage Equality Law

• 07 December: Armed Forces Flag Day

• Kumbh Mela on UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage

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• Shalabh Seth resigns

• Syrian boy wins Children’s Peace Prize

• India win South Asian badminton title

• New president of NRAI

• Mujeeb Zadran From Afghanistan Becomes First Cricketer Born in 21st Century

• Russia Banned from 2018 Winter Olympics

• UAE and Saudi Arabia form new group, separate from GCC

• Akash Missile Successfully Launched

• Singer Purabi Mukhopadhyay passes away

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• Veteran Actor Shashi Kapoor passes away

• Prithvi Shaw named India’s captain for U-19 World Cup

• National Awards for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities presented

• Getachew Besha wins full Pune International Marathon

• India’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant opens in Kerala

• 5 December: World Soil Day

• First Meeting of the Fifteenth Finance Commission held

• India and Germany sign Govt to Govt Umbrella Agreement

• Indian-American Senator Harris tops Global Thinkers List

• Amitabh Bachchan launches Book on Indian Cinema

• US Supreme Court allows full enforcement of President Trump’s travel ban

• UAE, UK, US and French Armies hold Joint Exercises in Abu Dhabi

• ILO releases World Social Protection Report 2017-2019

• UPs Shamli District included in NCR

• The 6th International Tourism Mart 2017 inaugurated in Assam

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• Venezuela to launch new virtual currency

• 4 December: Indian Navy Day

• Deepika Kumari wins bronze medal at Indoor Archery World Cup

• Aditya Puri only Indian on Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year Top 20 List

• First Sikh Woman elected as Mayor in the US

• South Korea, US launches largest Air Exercise

• International Conference on Climate Change begins in Nepal

• PM Modi inaugurated Unique World-Class Hospital in Ahmedabad

• Virat Kohli surpasses Brian Lara for Most Double Centuries as Captain

• US pulls out of UN’s migrant and refugee pact

• 1st International Exhibition and Conference AROGYA 2017 begun

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• Kohli becomes 4th fastest Indian to 5,000 Test runs

• Infosys appoints Salil S Parekh as MD & CEO

• Telangana announces WE-Hub for women

• World’s largest propeller plane lands at UK airport

• Kenyatta sworn in as President of Kenya

• Raj Shah becomes First Indian-American to hold Press Gaggle

• Madame Tussauds debuts in Delhi with Indian celebrities

• 3 December: International Day of Persons with Disabilities

• A Surya Prakash re-appointed Prasar Bharati Chief

• Iranian President inaugurates First Phase of Chabahar Port

• Nation remembers India’s First President on his Birthday

• Andhra Pradesh assembly unanimously passes Kapu Reservation Bill

• British singer Ellie appointed as UN environment global goodwill ambassador

 

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• India awarded for its effort to combat illegal wildlife trade

• Miss Korea Jenny Kim Crowned Miss Supranational 2017

• ‘Populism’ Named Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year

• Manushi Chhillar awarded Indian of the year special achievement award

• Lipstick Under My Burkha wins tves Global Sustainability Film award in London

• India re-elected to International Maritime Organisation Council

• Shiva Keshavan wins Gold in Asian Luge Championships

• Mary Kom resigns as National observer for Indian Boxing

• Sushma Swaraj attends Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit

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• 1 December: World AIDS Day

• 7th edition of Kathakar: International Storytellers Festival held in New Delhi

• India, UK combined military exercise ‘Ajeya Warrior-2017′ begins in Rajasthan

• Dia Mirza appointed as UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador for India

• Sibi George appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Holy See

• Chhattisgarh bans use of fire crackers in six cities

• Nagaland celebrates 54th Statehood Day, 18th Hornbill festival

• 1 December: BSF Raising Day

• CCI imposes Rs. 52.24 crore penalty on BCCI

• Russia to create ‘Independent Internet’ for BRICS Countries

• Pakistan’s Law Minister Zahid Hamid resigns

• India and Singapore ink Bilateral Agreement for Navy Cooperation

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