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#Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar
has launched an Anti-Ragging Mobile App of the University
Grants Commission (UGC) to help students register
complaints against the menace of ragging in the country.

#The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has launched a

nation wide campaign titled Darwaza Band to promote toilet use
and freedom from open defecation across the villages of the
country.

#Election contestants will have to declare their own and their

spouses sources of earning in the affidavits filed before contesting
polls.
#The Ministry of Environment and Forests have come up
with new regulations that bans the sale of cattle for slaughter.

#Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Indias longest

river bridge the Dhola-Sadia Bridge in Assam.

#The Union Cabinet Chaired by Prime Minister has given its

approval for a national procurement policy that gives
preference to Make In India in government procurements.

#The Union Cabinet has given its approval for allocating

2.5% of the Central Road Fund (CRF) for the development of
the National Waterways.
#The Minister of State for Communications Manoj Sinha has
launched three new initiatives, namely, BSNLs satellite
phone service; Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Telecom Skill
Excellence Award Scheme & Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Sanchar Kaushal Vikas Pratisthan Scheme.

#External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, HRD Minister

Prakash Javadekar and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has
jointly inaugurated the integration of E-Sanad with CBSEs
digital repository Parinam Manjusha in New Delhi.

E Sanad is an e-service for online verification and attestation

of documents of Indian citizens.
# Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu inaugurated free Wi-Fi
facility at 28 Railway Stations of Konkan Railway from
Kudal Railway Station in Maharashtra.

#The Union Ministry of Water Resources, River Development

and Ganga Rejuvenation had constituted a committee to
prepare guidelines for desiltation of Ganga River last year.
The four member committee is headed by Madhav Chitale

#The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has

approved a collaborative mission between industry and
academia that is aimed at accelerating research for early
development of bio-pharmaceuticals.
# The Union Cabinet has cleared a proposal allowing for the
construction of 10 indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water
Reactors.

#Indian Navy and the Space Application Centre has signed a

Memorandum of Understanding on Data Sharing and
Scientific cooperation in the field of Meteorology and
Oceanology.

#Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Narmada

Seva Mission for the conservation of river Narmada, which is
a lifeline of Madhya Pradesh.

#Kerala and Tamil Nadu have secured first and second

rankings for the second consecutive year in public affairs
index (PAI) released by the Public Affairs Centre (PAC),
Bengaluru.
#India has jumped 73 spots to be ranked 26th in World
Banks electricity accessibility list.

#Minister for Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda has

launched new Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, PCV, for
Pneumonia

#The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided

to share online scores of candidates taking competitive exams
in order to boost hiring by the private sector.

#According to the 2016 Indian Exclusion Report (IXR)

released by the Centre for Equity Studies (CES), in terms of
exclusion from access to public goods, Dalits, Adivasis and
Muslims continue to remain the worst-hit communities.
# Indian Army has planned to re-introduce cordon and search
operations (CASO) as a part of its counter terrorism
operations after a gap of 15 years.

#Kochi Metro will employ 23 members from the transgender

community. This is the first time a government owned
company has formally appointed members of the transgender
community.

#The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved

the appointment Sanjay Mitra as the next defence secretary

#The Indian Railways has planned to acquire the End of Train

Telemetry (EoTT) equipments to run nearly 1,000 trains
without guards in the current fiscal.
# Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Supreme
Courts Integrated Case Management Information System

#The government has set up a task force headed by NITI

Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya to come up with a
methodology to generate timely and reliable employment
data.

#The Ministry of Home Affairs has asked all the state

governments to link prisons with courts through video
conferencing in order to expedite trials and to save costs of
escorting undertrials to courts.

#The strategic anti-Naxal operations command headquarters

of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has been shifted
back from Kolkata to Raipur.
#Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping
Nitin Gadkari has inaugurated Indias First Integrated
Biorefinery for Renewable Fuels & Chemicals for producing
ethanol from a variety of biomass.

#The government has declared the entire Assam as a

disturbed area under the Armed Forces (Special Powers)
Act for another 3 months.

#The South Asia satellite for use by countries of the South

Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region
has been launched
#The government has released draft rules for a no-fly list for
banning unruly passengers.

#The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved

re-structuring the schemes of the Ministry of Food Processing
Industries (MoFPI) under new Central Sector Scheme called
as SAMPADA

#Indore has been adjudged as the cleanest city in India while

Gonda in Uttar Pradesh has been ranked as the dirtiest city
under Swachh Sarvekshan-2017.

#The Registrar of Geographical Indications Registry,

Chennai, has accorded GI Tag for the much famed
Banganapalle Mango of Andhra Pradesh
#The Union Cabinet has given its approval for National Steel
Policy (NSP) 2017 to give impetus to the steel sector.

#Worlds highest railway bridge which will be 35 metres

taller than the Eiffel Tower is to come up over the Chenab
River in Jammu and Kashmir

#The Minister for Human Resource and Development,

Prakash Javadekar has launched Students for soldiers- a
nationwide Vidya Veerta Abhiyan to encourage Universities
and educational institutions across the country to display
portraits of Param Veer Chakra-decorated soldiers.
#The Department of Telecommunications has launched a web
portal called the Tarang Sanchar web portal that will allow
tracking of radiation emitted from mobile towers within their
locality and check for their compliance with the
Electromagnetic field (EMF) emission norms defined by the
government.

#Indian Railways launched a new 20 coach premier train

called the Tejas Express connecting Mumbai and Goa.
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#The Reserve Bank of India has announced that new one
rupee note has been printed by the government and will be
soon put into circulation.

#Paytm has rolled out its Payments Bank operations by launching

its first physical branch in Noida.

#The Reserve Bank of India is set to reconstitute Oversight

Committee to operationalise the banking ordinance, for the
sake of giving more powers to Reserve Bank of India for
effectively dealing with non-performing assets (NPAs) in the
banking sector.
#In a major restructuring in the banking sector, Appointments
Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), headed by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi appointed heads of seven public sector banks
besides shifting managing directors of PNB and Bank of
India.

PNB Managing Director Usha Ananthasubramanian has been

appointed as the head of Allahabad Bank.

Melwyn Rego will head the Syndicate Bank.

Rajkiran Rai G, will head Union Bank of India as its MD and

CEO for a period of three years.

Sunil Mehta, will head the PNB

#The executive director of Canara Bank Dinabandhu
Mohapatra will be the MD and CEO of Bank of India.

R A Sankara Narayanan, will be the MD and CEO of Vijaya

Bank.

#The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tightened the rules

around making the Joint Lenders Forum (JLF) more
effective, directing banks not to break any rules and to meet
all deadlines.

#The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked all the existing
asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) to have a minimum
net owned fund (NOF) of Rs100 crore by March 2019
#The Home Ministry has instructed 5,845 NGOs to open their
accounts in banks having core banking facilities.
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#Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) which
markets its product under the brand name Amul has signed an
MoU with ISRO for fodder acreage assessment using satellite
observation and space technology.

#India Mobile Congress 2017 (IMC 2017) is scheduled to be held

as a three day event from 27th to 29th September 2017 in New
Delhi.

#The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has

been given back the power to grant licenses for defence
manufacturing.
#The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP),
which is the nodal body for Start-up India, has amended the
definition of a start-up. As per the new definition, an entity will be
considered as a Start-Up if its turn over is less than Rs 25 crore and
has not completed seven years from the date of its
incorporation/registration.

#The Union Cabinet has approved the abolition of 25 year old

FIPB.

#The GST Council headed by finance Minister Arun Jaitley has

finalised a 4-slab service tax structure at the rates of 5, 12, 18 and
28 per cent as against the single rate of 15% levied on all taxable
services.
#Brand finance in its 2017 report that lists Indias 100 most
valuable brands has named Tata Group as the most valuable
brand in India at an estimated brand value of $13.1 billion.

#BSNL has inked agreements with Facebook and MobiKwik in

order to popularize the internet and its value added services among
its customers.

#The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has

approved a new coal linkage policy to ensure adequate supply of
the fuel to power plants through reverse auction.

#Income Tax Department (ITD) has initiated Operation Clean

Money to investigate tax evaders.
#In the report titled, World Economic Situation and Prospects,
the UN has projected a 7.3% growth for India in 2017.

#The government has released new-look index of industrial

production (IIP) and the wholesale price index (WPI) , which have
been built on the new series of data.

#The International Monetary Fund in its regional economic

outlook has predicted the growth rate of India as 7.2% in the
2017-18 fiscal and 7.7% in 2018-19 fiscal.

#Facebook has launched its Express Wi-Fi commercially in

India and the service is now available via 700 hotspots across
four states of Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Rajasthan and
Meghalaya.
#US-based think tank Global Financial Integrity (GFI) in its
report titled Illicit Financial Flows to and from Developing
Countries: 2005-2014, has estimated that $770 billion worth
of black money entered India during 2005-2014.

#Fitch, in its latest rating review, has affirmed Indias

sovereign rating at BBB-, which is the lowest investment
grade rating.

#The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked all the existing
asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) to have a minimum
net owned fund (NOF) of Rs100 crore by March 2019.
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#United States for the first time has successfully tested its
defence system against an intercontinental ballistic missile

#India and Spain have signed seven agreements following talks

between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish
counterpart Mariano Rajoy at the Moncloa Palace in the Spanish
capital.

#India and Germany has inked 12 agreements on a range of issues

like trade, skill development, cyber security and terrorism.

#India and Fiji has signed an MoU on defence

cooperation.The MoU envisaged cooperation on defence
industry, military training, humanitarian assistance & disaster
management.
#India and Mauritius have signed four agreements. India has
extended a 500 million dollar line of credit to Mauritius.

#Apple has opened its first store in Southeast Asia at

Singapores upmarket shopping district.

#India and Palestine has signed five agreements during the 4

day visit of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to India.

#Belt and Road Forum (BRF) is a gathering of world leaders

from across the globe, organized by China to showcase its
plans to build a network of trade routes under the One Belt,
One Road (OBOR) initiative.
#The United States will be selling high-tech Joint Service
Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology (JSLIST) protective
clothing worth $75 million to India.

#Defying calls to halt its weapons programme, North Korea

has yet again test fired a ballistic missile. The missile has
invited calls for implementation of stronger sanctions against
North Korea.

#A global cyberattack has crippled nearly hundred countries,

including India. The cyberattack is considered as the biggest
ransomware attack of its kind.
#Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Sri Lanka to
attend the Buddhist festival Vesak Day (Buddha Jayanti)
that commemorates birth, enlighten and death of Buddha.

#India and Japan has decided to strengthen their military

cooperation and hopes to pursue a strategic partnership for
ensuring regional peace and stability.

# India has been unanimously elected as the President of the

UN-Habitat.

#As per the Times Rich List 2017, three India-born citizens
are among top 5 richest people in Britain. They are Hinduja
Brothers, Lakshmi Mittal, David and Simon Reuben.
#Emmanuel Macron has been elected as the president of
France.

#Chinas home-grown C919 passenger jet has completed its

maiden flight. Chinas C919 is a symbol of Chinas
ambitions to take market share from Boeing and Airbus

#Russia and Iran which are allies of the Syrian regime as

well as the rebel supporter Turkey signed a Russia-backed
plan for creating safe zones in Syria

#Apple has reported over $256 billion in cash and marketable

securities.According to the rating agencies, the cash reserve
possessed by the company is more than Google, Microsoft
and Amazons total cash.
#China plans to launch its own online encyclopaedia next
year rivalling Wikipedia and Britains Encyclopaedia
Britannica.

#India and Turkey have signed three agreements following

delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

#India will give Rs. 35 crore rupees to children of freedom

fighters in Bangladesh under the new Muktijodha
scholarship scheme in the next five years.

# North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile defying global

pressure and warnings from the United States and its main
ally, China.
#Airlander 10, the worlds largest aircraft has successfully
completed a test flight by flying for a total of 180 minutes in
Cardington, UK.

#The tiny island of Nauru which is the worlds smallest republic

has become the sixth country to ratify the International Solar
Alliance (ISA) Framework pact.

## The 52nd Annual General Meeting of African Development

Bank (AfDB) is being held at Gandhinagar in Gujarat

#Hassan Rouhani has been re-elected as the President of Iran.

#China and the 10 member of the ASEAN grouping have agreed to

a framework of a legally binding code of conduct aimed at
preventing disputes in the strategic South China Sea.
#Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped the
Forbes list of Global Game Changers. Mukesh Ambani has been
ranked at the top for his efforts to bring the internet to Indias
masses.
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#Scientists at IIT Kharagpur has come up with a new technology
known as soil-to-soil manufacturing technology for
manufacturing cheaper, quicker and pollution-free.

#Construction works for building Extremely Large Telescope

(ELT) has commenced in Chile.

#NASAs Juno spacecraft has discovered Earth-sized cyclones at

the poles of the Jupiter.

#An Earth Like Planet called Proxima B orbiting the closest

neighboring Star, Proxima Centauri, which is about 4.2 light
years away is expected to have liquid water and the potential
to support alien life.
#NASA has named a new bacteria discovered on the filters of
the International Space Station, ISS, as Solibacillus kalamii
to honour the late president Dr A P J Abdul Kalam.

#A team of scientists from the United States have discovered

a possible cure for Ebola viruses. They have discovered the
first natural human antibodies that are capable of neutralizing
and protecting animals against all three major disease-
causing ebola viruses.

#Scientists at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have developed

the device Nasofilters which is capable of restricting up to 95%
of dust and air pollutants.
#China has set up a 160-square-meter (1,720-square-foot)
laboratory dubbed as Yuegong-1, or Lunar Palace for
simulating a lunar-like environment.

#Scientists have detected a strong water signature in the

atmosphere of a distant Neptune-sized planet called HAT-P-
26b.

#The Science Express is 16 coach AC mobile train science

exhibition of Department of Science & Technology (DST).
The objective of the Express is to arouse interest of the
young people in the field of science and technology.

#Scientists at IIT Roorkee have used Indian summer fruit,

Jamun, to create low cost and more efficient solar cells.
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#Scientists have discovered a new glass frog species with
transparent skin through which its beating heart is visible in
the Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador.

#The rare cobra lilies scientifically known as Arisaema

translucens has been rediscovered in the western Nilgiris by
nature enthusiasts K.M. Prabhu Kumar and Tarun Chhabra
after a gap of 84 years.

#The State Government of Madhya Pradesh has put an indefinite

ban on the sand excavation in the Narmada River.

#According to a new study conducted by a team of scientists

from the University of Exeter in the UK, plant life on
Antarctica is growing rapidly due to climate change.
#A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter
Kumar has banned open defecation and waste dumping on
the floodplains of the Yamuna.
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#George Kurian has recently been appointedas Vice-
Chairman of National Commission for Minorities.

#KPS Gill, an IPS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya who is

often credited with rooting out militancy in Punjab has
passed away at the age of 82.

#United States senate has confirmed Amul Thapar as a

judge to the Cincinnati-based Sixth Circuit Court of
Appeals. With this appointment he has become only the
second Indian-American judge of an appeals court.

#The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has

appointed Anurag Tripathy, as the new secretary of the
Central Board of Secondary Education
#British actor Roger Moore, who played the much famed
secret agent James Bond, has passed away at the age of 89.

#Union environment minister Anil Madhav Dave has passed

away.

#Anshu Jamsenpa, a native of Bomdila in Arunachal

Pradesh has scripted history by becoming the first Indian
woman to scale Mount Everest for the fourth time.

#Ovais Sarmad who is an Indian national has been appointed by

the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the post of
Deputy Executive Secretary, which is a key post in the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
#Edouard Philippe has became the new prime minister of
France.

#World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed Amitabh

Bachchan as its Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis in
South-East Asia Region.

#Justice Mukul Mudgal has been elected as the Chairman of

FIFA Governance committee at the FIFAs 67th Congress
held in Bahrains capital city of Manama.

#Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been appointed as Indias next

ambassador to France.

# Twitter has elevated Taranjeet Singh as its Country

Director for India.
# Moon Jae-in has been declared winner in South Koreas
presidential election by that countrys National Election
Commission.

#US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-

American Neil Chatterjee as a Member of Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission

#Justice Leila Seth who became the first woman Chief Justice of
a State High Court has passed away

#The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved

the appointments of Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah and M S
Boje Gowda as chairmen of the Tea Board and the Coffee
Board, respectively.
# Googles vice-president for South East Asia and India, Rajan
Anandan has been appointed as the new chairman of Internet and
Mobile Association of India

#Former Ethiopian Health Minister Dr Tedros Adhanom

Ghebreyesus has been elected as the new Director-General of the
World Health Organisation.
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# Indian scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni has won the prestigious
Dan David prize as a recognition for his contributions made
in the field of astronomy.

#Hollywood actor Emma Watson has received the first-ever

Genderless Acting Award for the Best Actor category at the
MTV Movie and TV Awards.

#Sanjay Pratihar, a scientist at Assams Tezpur University, has

been selected for the prestigious Indian National Science
Academy (INSA) medal for the Young Scientist Award, 2017,
for his contribution to multi-metal complexes, theoretical
understanding, selective sensing of Hq2+ions and important
applications in agriculture
#The US-India Business Council (USIBC) has selected
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu for the
Transformative Chief Minister Award for his role in
advancing the US-India partnership at the state level.

#Prashant Ranganathan has emerged winner in the worlds

largest pre-college science competition in the environment
engineering category for his work on biodegradation of
pesticides.

#Kashmir based freelance photographer Saqib Majeed has

bagged prestigious 2016 Wisden-MCC Cricket Photograph
of the Year
#Sanjay Gubbi of Karnataka and Purnima Barman of Assam
have won the prestigious Whitley Award for their
contributions in wildlife conservation. Whitley awards are
popularly known as Green Oscars.
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#Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli has become the only cricketer
to get featured in the top 10 of the ICC Players Rankings for
ODIs as he managed to stick to the third spot in the ODI
batsmans chart.

#C.A Bhavani Devi has become the first Indian to win a Gold
Medal in an international fencing tournament.She has won
the gold medal in the sabre event of the Turnoi Satellite
Fencing Championship held at Reykjavik in Iceland.

#Ravichandran Ashwin has won the international cricketer of

the Year Award at the CEAT Cricket Rating (CCR)
International awards 2017.
#A seven-member High-Level Committee chaired by Harsh
Malhotra on Scouts and Guides has submitted its Final
Report to Minister for State (Independent Charge) for Youth
Affairs and Sports, Vijay Goel with various
recommendations.

#The Bengaluru FC defeated Mohun Bagan 2-0 to win the

Federation Cup

#The South Asian Junior Table Tennis championship was

held in Mount Lavinia, near Colombia in Sri Lanka. In a
stunning performance, the paddlers from India have won all
the 10 Gold Medals on offer in this tournament
#The Indian Mens compound archery team has won gold
after defeating Columbia 226-221 in the archery World Cup
stage 1 championships held in Shanghai, China.

#Indian cricket team has retained its top position in the latest
ICC Test rankings with 123 points. Indian team is six points
ahead of second placed South Africa.

#The partnership of Deepti Sharma and Poonam Raut scored

320 in 45.3 overs to become the worlds first pair, either
male or female, to forge a 300-run opening-wicket
partnership in One-Day Internationals (ODIs).

#Rafael Nadal beat Dominic Thiem to clinch his fifth Madrid

Open title
#Lewis Hamilton has won the Spanish Grand Prix from pole
position in the Formula One championship.

#Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat & Divya Kakran have bagged

silver medals at the Asian Wrestling Championship held at
the KD Jadhav Stadium in New Delhi.

#Harpreet Singh has bagged bronze medal in Greco-Roman

weight divisions in the Asian Wrestling Championship held
at the K.D. Jadhav arena in the Indira Gandhi Stadium
Complex in New Delhi.

#Jhulan Goswami has become the highest wicket-taker in

one-day internationals. She has so far taken 181 wickets in
153 matches.
#As per the updated FIFA world football rankings, the Indian
national football has managed to secure a 100th spot and
entered into the top 100 of FIFA rankings

#In the ICC T20 International team rankings, India has been
placed at the 4th position behind second placed England and
third placed Pakistan.

#The Indo-American pair of Leander Paes and Scott Lipsky

defeated Argentine third seeds Leonardo Mayer and Maximo
Gonzalez to win the Tallahassee Challenger title of the mens
doubles.

#Aizawl FC has won its maiden I-League title against

Shillong Lajong in their final game of the league season to
become the first ever club from the northeast to win the I-
League title.
#Arjun Maini, who drives for Jenzer Motorsport, has become
the first Indian to win a GP3 Series (a feeder series to GP2)
race at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.
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# Confessions Of a Dying Mind: The blind Faith of Atheism -
Haulianlal Guite The book is touted as the worlds first
philosophical novel for God

#India 2017 Year Book Rajiv Mehrishi

#Winning like Virat: Think and Succeed like Kohli Abhirup

Bhattacharya

#Mann Ki Baat A social revolution on Radio Uday

Mahurkar

#Metaphysics Moral and Politics : Amal Kumar

Mukhopadhyay

#M S Swaminathan: The Quest for world without Hunger

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May 21st World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and
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