National News:
- A high-level committee chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh approved a total of Rs 716.59 crore’s worth of central assistance to UP, Rajasthan and Manipur
- Microsoft has so far equipped more than 7.7 lakh government school teachers with IT skills across 12 states in India under its Project Shikshaprogramme launched in 2003, the tech giant.
- The first woman chief of aviation regulator DGCA M Sathiyavathy was today named as new Union Labour Secretary
- Parliament passes CAMPA Bill
- Centre forms ‘Disha’ for timely implementation of Central Schemes
International News:
- Home Minister Rajnath Singh and his Bangladesh counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan Thursday agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation on anti-terror efforts
New Appointments :
- Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari was on Monday sworn in as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court by Bihar Governor RamnathKovind at a function herein Raj Bhawan
- In a move that has taken the rail bureaucracy by surprise, the NDA government gave a two-year extension to Railway Board Chairman A K Mital, a first for the national transporter
- T Nanda Kumar, chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) that controls Mother Dairy, has resigned with three more years left for his tenure to end
- C.K. Mishra, a 1983 batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre, has been appointed the new Health Secretary, an official statement said
- BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) MP from Himachal Pradesh and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Anurag Thakur
Banking :
- State Bank of India and tech giant Oracle have come together for corporate India’s largest volunteering programme to bring ‘digital fluency’ among underprivileged school students
- India’s largest insurer Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has signed an agreement with private sector lender Axis Bank as its bancassurance partner wherein the bank will distribute LIC’s products to its customers
Business & Economy:
- E-commerce marketplace eBay India today said shoppers can access over 100 million live product listings on eBay.in and its global easy buy platform geb.ebay.in across electronics, lifestyle, media and other categories
- The company establishes a cloud business unit that will complement the application delivery controller and security services appliances
- OKI (TOKYO: 6703) today announced the installations of 600 sets of cash recycling ATMs, ATM-Recycler G7, in June 2016, to the State Bank of India (hereinafter referred to as SBI), the largest bank in India
Science & Technology :
- About two million people are logging on to free Wi-Fi deployed by Google and RailTel at major railway stations across India every month, chief of the global search giant Sundar Pichai said
Sports:
- Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger on Friday announced his retirement from international duty with immediate effect
Obituary :
- Tabla maestro Pandit Lacchu Maharaj passed away in Varanasi on Thursday
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson died July 27, 2016, in a hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, according to multiple news sources
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