Economy
- RSA Security (Dell Technologies company) and this firm have announced their strategic partnership for fraud and risk intelligence solutions and services across India - SDG Corporation.
International
- According to the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), India is expected to overtake the US as world’s largest application developers population centre by - 2024.
- Present Secretary-General of United Nations - Antonio Guterres.
National
- The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana and the National Pension Scheme for the traders and the self-employed aims at providing a minimum assured pension of - Rs 3000 per month (after attaining age of 60 years).
Persons in News
- Veteran Indian Army officer who has been appointed as the head of the United Nations Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) in the strife-torn Yemen's port city of Hodeidah - Lieutenant General (retired) Abhijit Guha.
- Five Indian women police officers who were conferred the UN medal for their commendable services in UN mission in South Sudan - Reena Yadav, Gopika Jahagirdar, Bharati Samantray, Ragini Kumari, and Kamal Shekhawat.
General Knowledge
- United Nations (UN) – Established in: 1945; Headquarters: New York City, USA.
- The Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries (BAPA) adopted in - 1978.
- Four most common blood groups - A, B, AB and O.
- The rare, Bombay blood group was first discovered in Mumbai in 1952 by - Dr Y M Bhende.
- The Bombay blood group also called – hh (deficient in expressing antigen H).