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NATIONAL NEWS

The Centre said all the villages in the country will be electrified during the current year

except few villages in naxal affected area

Union Cabinet has approved Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016 to improve road

safety in the country

The Gujarat high court has quashed the state government's notification granting 10

percent reservation for the economically backward classes-EBCs

The Finance Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley will inaugurate the 2nd edition of India

International Footwear Fair (IIFF) - the premier specialised B2B event of the India Trade

Promotion Organisation (ITPO) and Confederation of Indian Footwear Industries (CIFI) at

Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its

approval for signing of new Air Services Agreement (ASA) between India and Lao

People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)

The Rajya Sabha unanimously passed the 122nd Constitution Amendment Bill, 2014 to

facilitate roll out of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the country

The Rajya Sabha passed by voice vote the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill,

2016, and the Dentists (Amendment) Bill, 2016, that provide for putting the NEET in

place for admission to medical and dental courses across the country from next year

Under Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Yojana (PMJAY), the central government will open

3,000 Jan Aushadhi Stores (JAS) pan India by the end of this fiscal to make quality drugs

available at affordable prices

The Odisha government has decided to recruit members of transgender community as

warders in jails of the State

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a programme-'70 Saal Azadi-Zara Yaad Karo

Kurbani'


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Honble Minister of Communications Sh. Manoj Sinha launched “Twitter Sewa" for

addressing the complaints and concerns of common man and other stake-holders in

the telecom and postal sectors

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu laid the foundation stone of the Dhansiri (Dimapur)-

Zubza broad gauge line at the Dimapur railway station

The Andhra Pradesh government inked a MoU with Japan to develop a food value

chain in the state

Anandiben Patel resigns as Gujarat chief minister

Union Minister of Human Resource Development Shri Prakash Javdekar inaugurated

Indian Institute of Technology, Goa

According to Russian official Kudankulam is safest nuclear plant in the world

Tripura Sundari Express ready to leave Agartala on its maiden journey to Anand Vihar

(Delhi)

Telangana signs MoU with ISRO for water resources info system

States issue bonds worth Rs 1.66 lakh cr under UDAY scheme

Maharashtra Govt. to provide as many as 1,200 wi-fi hotspots in Mumbai

Taxies in Dubai to promote Kerala Tourism

Swachh Survekshan of 500 cities launched by Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu

PMO Mobile app launched by PM Modi as a part of MyGov initiative

PM launches 'Mission Bhagiratha' phase-1 in Telangana to provide piped drinking

water to every household in the state

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik launches ‘Baristha Bunakar Sahayata Yojana’ pension

scheme for weavers

Karnataka ranked first for attracting maximum ‘investment intentions’

GIPCL signs pact with SECI for solar projects in Gujarat

Rajya Sabha passes ‘patient-centric’ Mental Health Care Bill 2013

Manipur's Iron Lady Irom Sharmila ends 16-year-long hunger strike


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4497 New Projects Sanctioned for Rural Electrification under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY)

Odisha Crime Branch rescues 1051 children in first phase of Operation Muskan-2

First Solar commissions 130 MW of solar power plants in AP, Telangana

Railways decides to set up separate CSR cell for more involvement of corporate

PM Modi, Russian Prez Vladimir Putin to jointly dedicate Kudankulam Nuclear Plant

Unit-I

Govt. releases commemorative postage stamp on Tourism on 70th I-Day

MSAI and Nirbhaya Jyoti Trust launch ‘I Feel Safe’ safety app for women

First Indian channel on skill development launches in Pune

Badal inaugurates first 'Sewa Kendra' in Punjab

Nagaland govt to grant 33% reservation to women in Urban Local Bodies

Rajasthan signs MoU with India Trade and Exhibition Centre

Relief for diesel luxury car makers as ban goes

Pon Radhakrishnan launches "Colours of Independence" event in Chennai

Rail Budget's 92-year-old journey set to end

Maharashtra launches Crime Criminal Tracking Network system (CCTNS)

Goa hosting BRICS in October this year

NHAI collaborates with PFC under adopt a Green Highway Program

Gujarat govt. to implement 7th Pay Commission recommendations from 1st of January

Uttar Pradesh cabinet approves Metro Rail for Allahabad

New steps to enhance transparency in Power Sector: Shri Piyush Goyal launches

‘TARANG’ ‘e-Trans’ & ‘DEEP’

Tendulkar adopts village in Osmanabad under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna

PM Modi's monogrammed suit enters Guinness Records as 'most expensive suit sold'

Oil minister distributed around 3,000 free LPG stoves under free cooking gas scheme

titled Ujjwala Yojana in Mumbai


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Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti launched projects worth $560 crore under the

Namami Gange programme in Kanpur, UP

India ranks a low 39th in terms of fixed broadband adoption among Asia Pacific

countries

Telangana govt to create 17 new districts in October

Maharashtra becomes first state to draft law for internal security

President launches Kolkata Akashvani Kendra’s Moitree Service in Bangla

Govt launches Accessible E-Library 'Sugamya Pustakalaya'

President of India inaugurates CII-IIEST conference on “Enabling Make in India through

Industry Academia Innovation Platform”

Maharashtra becomes first state to sign an agreement with the Civil Aviation Ministry

to develop 10 non-functional regional airports

Suresh Prabhu commissions new rail line in Andhra Pradesh

Haryana CM announces Sakshi malik as brand ambassador for Beti Bachao, Beti Padao

campaign

Children's film festival being held in Nagaland

Union Minister Maneka Gandhi launches POCSO e-box

The 22nd edition of the Delhi Book Fair began at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi

Maharashtra Government unveils Mumbai-Nagpur Super Communication Expressway

project

Bombay High Court allows entry of women inside Hazi Ali Dargah

Nalanda University has 1st convocation in 800 yrs

Indian Govt to set Rs.1.5k cr fund for solar projects

Tourism Ministers of BRICS nations to meet in Madhya Pradesh

India ranks 77th on 2016 World Risk Index

HRD Minister Javadekar inaugurates IIT-Dharwad

2nd US-India Strategic & Commercial Dialogue to be held in New Delhi

India's first military heritage website launched


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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

World Economic Forum (WEF) India Economic Summit in Delhi on October 6-7

Vietnam assures India support for UNSC high seat

Austria's Chancellor calls on EU to end membership talks with Turkey

Typhoon Nida causes disruptions in China

The seventh meeting of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

Immigration Authorities was held in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Virgin Galactic gets its spaceship license

International Organisation for Migration becomes part of UN

Rare 3,000-year-old tree found in China

India welcomes Morocco's initiative to re-join African Union

Japan marks the 71st anniversary of US atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Russia, Turkey agree to restore ties after diplomatic rift

6.9k km gas pipelines to link B'desh, Myanmar, India

Chinese FM Wang Yi meets PM Modi amid strained ties over NSG bid

US declares state of emergency in Puerto Rico over Zika epidemic

Sri Lanka, China sign tripartite pact to construct mega port city

Obama declares emergency for flooded Louisiana

UN to issue stamp to mark M S Subbulakshmi's birth centenary

Global Innovation Index 2016: Switzerland, Sweden, UK, U.S., Finland, Singapore Lead;

China Joins Top 25

Australia agrees to close controversial Papua New Guinea refugee detention centre

Typhoon Dianmu hits southern China

China set to open world's highest and longest glass bridge

India, China Hold High Level Meeting On Economic Cooperation

US, Ukraine urge end to soaring tensions with Russia

World's highest glass skywalk opens in China


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PM Modi, President Ashraf Ghani jointly inaugurate renovated Stor Palace in Kabul

United States has announced 138 million dollar new aid to South Sudan

India, Germany sign pact on vocational training

Two-day SAARC Finance Ministers’ Conference begins in Islamabad

India is 7th wealthiest country

Dubai set to open world’s largest indoor theme park

U.S. Postal Service to issue Diwali stamp

Turkey Launches Operation Euphrates Shield in Syria

World Risk Index – 2016, India at 77th, Pakistan at 72nd and Bangladesh at 5th

Pakistan to host 19th SAARC Summit on Nov. 9 & 10 this year

World's first self-driving taxis debut in Singapore

6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development begins in Nairobi

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has been most powerful woman in tech for 5 yrs

British PM to trigger EU pull-out ‘without parliament vote’

World's largest marine reserve created off Hawaii

China launches state-owned aircraft engine maker

North Korea warns US over 'deliberate provocations’

China starts cargo train service to Russia

Russia lifts ban on charter flights to Turkey

India-US sign military logistic agreement


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NEW APPOINTMENTS

Yuriko Koike elected Tokyo's first female governor

Vijay Rupani becomes Gujarat chief minister; Nitin Patel to be his deputy CM

Youssef Chahed named Tunisia`s new prime minister

Nita Ambani first woman elected as member of IOC

D K Gayen assumed charge of new GM of East Central Railway

Former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Vinod Rai has stepped down

from private sector lender IDFC Bank’s board from August 1

Darren Lehmann will continue as head coach of Australia until October 2019, after

receiving a two-year contract extension

Justice DB Bhosale sworn-in as Chief Justice of Allahabad High

Bhaskar Khulbe appointed Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Air Marshal Neelakantan takes charge of Southern Air command

Dilip Rath takes over as Chairman NDDB

Mondelez names Deepak Iyer MD of India business

Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has been elected as Nepal Prime Minister

Nimesh Kampani steps down as MD of JM Financial

Sudhanshu Mani has been appointed as General Manager, Integral Coach Factory

The Board of Directors of Credit Analysis and Research Ltd (CARE Ratings) has

appointed Rajesh Mokashi as the Managing Director & CEO of the company

Anand Sinha to replace Vinod Rai on IDFC Bank board

The board of Asian Development Bank has re-elected Takehiko Nakao as the

multilateral funding agency's president for a five-year term beginning November

CSS Corp Appoints Manish Tandon as its New CEO, to be Based in the US

KK Khurana, General Manager in-charge, has taken over as Head of BHEL Corporate

R&D


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Vijay Rupani sworn in as Gujarat CM

Sitaraman Shankar appointed Network18 Managing Editor

Ashok Kumar Garg and Raj Kamal Verma have been appointed as ED of Bank of Baroda

and Union Bank of India respectively

Gopal Murli Bhagat and Himanshu Joshi have been appointed as ED of Corporation

Bank and Oriental Bank of Commerce respectively

Max Hypermarkets India appoints Rajeev Krishnan as MD

State Bank of India appoints Dinesh Kumar Khara as MD

Manjula Chellur named new Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court

Google Ventures CEO Bill Maris quits

ITC's Savlon engages Saina Nehwal as its brand ambassador

Microsoft appoints Sri ram Rajamani as MD of its India lab

Pratap Bhanu Mehta resigns from NMML body

Najma A. Heptulla who resigned last month from the Union Cabinet, has been

appointed as the Governor of Manipur.

Banwarilal Purohit has been made the Governor of Assam

Jagdish Mukhi has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and

Nicobar Islands

VP Singh Badnore takes oath as new Punjab Governor

Shri Yogeshwar Sangwan appointed as India’s new Ambassador to Georgia

Amul Managing Director R S Sodhi has been appointed as independent director on the

board of India Post Payment Banks (IPPB)

Deepika Padukone is now the face of Vistara

Ashok Chawla to take over as YES Bank non-executive chairman

P D Gupta appointed VC of Homi Bhabha National Institute

Tata Sons appoints Bain Capital's MD, Amit Chandra on its board

Usain Bolt was appointed as 'Chief Speed Officer' by Digicel


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ECONOMIC & BUSINESS

Amazon launches fulfilment centre for prime deliveries in Chennai

Freecharge inks partnership with PayUbiz

ICICI Bank ties up with Apollo India to form ARC

Alphabet arm Verily to collaborate with GSK for bioelectronic medicines

Novopay aims to disrupt payments in rural India with its assisted wallet

Wipro Infrastructure to acquire Israel’s H R Givon

BHEL commissions 500MW Marwa Thermal Power station in Chhattisgarh

Carnival Cinemas partners with Zicom to provide electronic security to moviegoers

MobiKwik to power e-cash payments on 'Food on Track' app

CBDT signs Bilateral Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) with Japanese trading company

Apple, IBM launch 'development hub' called Mobile First in Bengaluru, India

Natco Pharma gets final approval for Tamiflu capsules in the US

S & P Global affirms ‘BBB-’ long-term rating on ICICI

Apple buys machine learning startup Turi

IRDA caps CEOs salary at Rs 1.5 cr from policyholders fund

TRAI issues consultation paper on cloud computing

IRCTC signs MoU with Manipur govt. to provide hospitality & tourism services

Japan records biggest current account surplus in first half of this year since 2007

Germany’s ZF Friedrichshafen to set up technology centre in Hyderabad

Minimum pension of retired central govt. staff goes up by 157%

Government's divestment kitty to higher by Rs 16,000 crore

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has signed Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) with IIT-Kharagpur for research project on Laboratory and Field

investigations on Paneled Cement Concrete Pavements for Highways

Govt identifies 1.36 crore non-filers under NMS

Vodafone renews IT deal with IBM for 5 years


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On-tap bank licencing 'credit positive' for NBFCs: Moody's

Aurobindo Pharma receives final approval from US FDA for anti-infective drug

Deskera claims 1st GST compliant cloud-based enterprise software in India

FDI in petroleum sector permitted across the Hydrocarbon value chain

Reliance General enters 'bancassurance' deal with co-operative bank

Aditya Birla Health Insurance business receives final approval from IRDAI

ONGC launches Rs 100-cr start-up fund

Centre may get Rs 23,944 crore from clean environment cess in FY17

1st BIO-CNG project in India inaugurated in Pune

Manipal Tech acquires fraud detection solution from Bengaluru company

Cipla names Umang Vohra as MD & Global CEO

Flipkart Now On Kotak Mahindra Bank’s Mobile Banking App

Maharashtra govt picks L&T to convert Nagpur into smart city

Huawei to start mobile manufacturing in India

AskMe shuts down, 4,000 jobs lost

India jumps 15 spots to become 2nd most innovative middle income economy in world

Ride-hailing service Uber has rolled out two new features for its apps – ‘Dial an Uber’

and ‘Request a Ride for Others’

BSNL, Microsoft sign MoU to offer IT solutions

Indian Railways partners with Google to showcase heritage assets

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust to sign agreement with bankers for External Commercial

Borrowing

India’s GDP to expand by 7.9% this fiscal: Goldman

Big Bazaar's e-commerce platform to shut down

Bharti Airtel cuts 3G and 4G prices by up to 80%

Amazon launches online Telugu book store

RBI Forecasts 7.6 percent GDP growth for this fiscal

Toyota is world's most valuable automobile brand


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BANKING

RBI launches 'Sachet' portal to rein in illegal money deposits

SBI to offer overdrafts, loans to 7 lakh Jan Dhan account-holders

Reserve Bank imposed penalty on two cooperative banks in Chhattisgarh under the

Banking Regulation Act, 1949

Canara HSBC OBC Life launches iNVESTSHIELD plan

RBI Releases Guidelines for 'On-Tap' Bank Licence

Bank of Baroda has tied up with a fintech start-up Fisdom for personal wealth

management services

ICICI Bank reduces MCLR by 0.05%

SBI starts certification for officers who sanction loans

World Bank gives $100 million for Sri Lanka's economic reforms

Bank of England cuts interest rates for first time since 2009

RBI constitutes a Committee on Household Finance

SEBI proposes new framework for algo trading, co-location

IDBI Bank to raise Rs 4,000 cr via tier II, infra bonds

Syndicate Bank has launched new products to ease customer transactions

ICICI Bank aims facilitating 3 million transactions through e-toll plazas by March 2017

HDFC Life, Max Life merger to create entity with Rs 65K cr valuation

Raghuram Rajan keeps interest rate unchanged at 6.5% in his last policy review

RBI to inject Rs 10,000 cr through OMO for liquidity crunch on FCNR payout

NABARD sanctions Rs 26.06 crore to Punjab

South Indian Bank, SBI Card to launch co-branded credit card

Syndicate Bank launches Project Ananya aimed at digital banking

Banks to start ITR e-verification without netbanking

ICICI Bank unveils new ‘smart keys’ mobile app

India Post Payments Bank set for 2017 start


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Federal Bank, MMTC tie up for distribution of Indian gold coins

SBI merger with associates, BMB exempt from CCI approval

Anand Krishnamurthy, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Kerala-based Catholic

Syrian Bank, has submitted his resignation

United Bank of India raises Rs 1,000 crore from bonds

According to NPCI, 21 banks to go live with Unified Payments Interface

RBI asks banks to provide loans to women self-help groups in rural areas at 7% per

annum

Karnataka Bank launches UPI app

'RBI, SEBI should intervene to stop SBI merger'

Doha Bank, one of the prominent banks in Qatar, is formally inaugurating its first

branch in Kerala


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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ISRO all set to launch IIT-B's satellite ‘Pratham’ from Sriharikota space centre in

September

China successfully launches first satellite for mobile telecommunication

Over 1,000 dancing robots set Guinness world record

Orkut co-founder Büyükkökten has launched a new social network called Hello, which

is available on mobile only

China launches satellite to get accurate images of earth

Moon Express cleared for lunar mission

Iran executes nuclear scientist who returned to country from US

SpaceX successfully completes 4th sea-landing

NASA Picks 6 Companies to Design Deep-Space Habitats

New sensor developed to detect heart attacks in just a minute

China to launch first quantum hack-proof satellite

ALMA Images the Planetesimal Belt around HR8799 Hubble Discovers Two Dwarf Galaxies Moving into the Milky Way China Launches Pioneering 'Hack-Proof' Quantum-Communications Satellite BARC develops portable kit for detection of Chromium contamination of water MEA launches app integrating various social media handles Chinese scientists discover molecule to repair organs Scientists develop new laser from jellyfish proteins For the first time scientists predict brain activity patterns New species of eel found in Bay of Bengal North Korea test fires new ballistic missile Astronaut Jeffrey Williams has a new record for NASA under his space belt

CTTC-Bhubaneswar signs agreement with ISRO

NASA ends year long Mars simulation on Hawaii


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Indian startup to launch smartphone at Rs.501

NASA's Kepler discovers first Earth-size Planet in the 'Habitable Zone' of another star

Rare Deep-Earth Tremor Detected for First Time by Japanese Scientists

ISRO successfully test launches Scramjet engine

Juno probe makes close pass of Jupiter

China's unmanned submersible sets new national record

China has launched its first Tibetan-language search engine 'Yongzin'

FSS launches new authentication platform ‘FSS Access Control Server’ for online

transactions


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SPORTS

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed to add baseball/softball, karate,

skateboard, sports climbing and surfing to the sports programme for the Olympic

games Tokyo 2020

‘Wall of Wishes’ inaugurated to celebrate Olympic mood

Novak Djokovic beats Kei Nishikori to win Rogers Cup in Toronto

Dominating Patna Pirates retain Pro Kabaddi crown by thrashing Jaipur, Storm Queens

win women's challenge

India will host the Kabaddi World Cup this year, featuring 12 countries, in October

Halep beats Keys in Rogers Cup Women's singles final

India Bullion and Jewellers Association (IBJA) announced 500 gms Sovereign Gold

Bonds and silver to the Indian medal winners at the Rio 2016 Olympics

IOC approves 271 Russian athletes to compete in Rio Games

A six-year-old boy from Bengaluru has set a new record in limbo skating

Rafaela Silva earns Brazil's first gold medal by winning judo division

Abhijeet Gupta wins Commonwealth Chess Championship

American swimmer Ledecky wins gold creating a new world record

Dipa Karmakar vaults into history, becomes first Indian to enter apparatus finals at an

Olympics

Lodha panel rejects BCCI request of deferring key meeting

Michael Phelps clinches 19th Olympic gold medal in Rio Olympics

American teenager Thrasher wins first gold of Games

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister gives cash awards to five sports persons

Perera bags six as SL clinch historic series win

France will not host European Road Cycling Championships

IOA announces cash award of 50 lakh rupees for gold medal winning athlete in Rio

Olympics


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Olympics 2016 opens with a glittering ceremony in Rio De Janerio, with the theme

Peace and Environment

Murray 1st to retain Olympic tennis singles gold

Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins 100 meters Final, retains title of "Fastest Man Alive"

Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis split due to poor results

Dipika Pallikal wins PSA Australian Open

United States wins 1,000th Olympic gold medal

Denmark wins 1st Olympic swimming gold in 68 yrs

Great Britain women's hockey team won its first ever Olympic gold

Sakshi Malik to be Indian flag bearer at closing ceremony at Rio

Sania Mirza moves alone at top of WTA doubles rankings

Gujarat to host 2016 Kabaddi World Cup

Vikash Anand wins premier title in National Racing

BCCI submits 1st Compliance Report to Lodha Panel panel

Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan retires from ODIs

Indian Super League season 3 to begin from October 1

Nico Rosberg wins Belgian Grand Prix’16

Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt’s London Olympics bronze medal upgraded to silver

Western Railway wins all India railway athletic championship

Arhan Bagati, a 16-year-old from Gurgaon, has developed a mobile app to assist the

Indian contingent of 18 athletes in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, to

be held from September 7-18


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AWARDS & HONOURS

Shubha Mudgal to get Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award

Translator and artist Anita Gopalan has been awarded the 2016 PEN/Heim Translation

Fund Grant for her English translation of Hindi novel “Simsim” by Geet Chaturvedi

Sonam, Nawazuddin win top awards at IFF Melbourne

Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar in 'Forbes' list of 100 richest tech tycoons

Nayeemuddin conferred Mohun Bagan Ratna

CLRI scientist bags A P J Abdul Kalam award A R Rahman honoured with Tamil Ratna Award U.P. to confer Rani Laxmi Bai award on Sakshi Malik Hindi author Sunita Jain conferred Vyas Samman award Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma to get lifetime achievement award Renu Khator, Indian-American woman academic, will be inducted into the Texas

Women's Hall of Fame for making significant contribution for the benefit of the US'

second largest state

Steve Jobs enters Int'l Photography Hall of Fame

Kamal Haasan to get prestigious French honour

Olympic Medalists P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik will get Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

Awards.

Olympic Order for IOA chief Ramachandran

Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi from California and physician Tina R Shah from Chicago

are among the 16 White House Fellows appointed from across the nation for the year

2016-17

Satheesh Reddy conferred first IEI-IEEE award

Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award will be conferred with the Jharkhand

Dungdung

Cristiano Ronaldo crowned UEFA Best Player in Europe

Padma Sachdev gets Saraswati Samman for year 2015


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OBITUARIES

The Egyptian-born Nobel-winning scientist Ahmed Zewail has died in the United States

Indian American linguist, Professor Braj B. Kachru passes away

Eminent Assamese litterateur Mahim Bora died due to old age problems

Yoga guru TKV Desikachar passes away

Former Arunachal CM KalikhoPul found dead

‘Vietnam Veedu' Sundaram passes away

'Star Wars' actor Kenny Baker passes away

Spiritual guru,Akshardham founder Pramukh Swami passes away

Lyricist Na Muthu kumar passes away

Former Odisha chief secretary Sudhanshu Bhusan Mishra passed away

Eminent Punjabi writer, Jnanpith awardee Gurdial Singh passes away

Former FIFA President Joao Havelange dies

Actor-director Gobind Tej passes away

Veteran painter Dinanath Pathy passes away

Anti-Putin journalist Alexander Shchetinin found dead on his birthday

A.R. Kidwai passes away

Former Singaporean President S R Nathan died

Former umpire Subrata Banerjee passes away


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IMPORTANT DAYS

August 3 - International Friendship Day

August 6 - Anti Nuclear Day

August 6 - Hiroshima Day

August 8 - World Senior Citizen's Day

August 9 - Quit India Day

August 9 - Nagasaki Day

August 12 - International Youth Day

August 14 - Pakistan's Independence Day

August 15 - Indian Independence Day

August 18 - International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

August 19 - World Humanitarian Day

August 19 - World Photography Day

August 20 - Sadbhavna Divas

August 29 - National Sports Day

August 30 - Small Industry Day

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