- Patanjali Ayurved Limited has
been ranked as India’s most
trusted Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brand
in the TRA’s Brand Trust Report 2018.
- MSDE and MoRD has launched
Ajeevika and Kaushal Vikas Mela in Bhubaneswar. It aims in promoting
social harmony and awareness around the pro-poor initiatives of the government.
Vision: “SabkaSaath, Sabka
Vikas”.
- Third Edition of UNPCAP(United
Nations Peacekeeping course for Africans Partners) inaugurated in New Delhi.
- 15th Finance
Commission Constitutes an advisory
council. The role and functions of the Advisory Council will be to advise
the Commission on any issue or subject related to the Terms of Reference (ToR) of the Commission.
- Ravi Shankar Prasad launches
website of ‘Digital India
Internship Scheme’ which
will offer Rs.10,000 Per month as stipend to interns. Its aims to provide
an opportunity to secure first hand and practical work experience under
the guidance of a mentor.
- BSCDCL(Bhopal Smart City
Development Corp. Ltd.) launches India’s first Integrated Control and
Command Centre in Madhya Pradesh.
- India hosted the 15th Asia
Media Summit at New Delhi. Theme:‘Telling
Our Stories Asia and More’
- Union Minister for Civil
Aviation Suresh Prabhu inaugurates 6th US-India Aviation Summit in Mumbai.
- AP CM Pema Khandu inaugurated
the state’s biggest
solar power plant at
Energy Awareness Park at Itanagar. The
plant, with a capacity of 1 MW, was commissioned on April 1 at an
estimated investment of Rs 8.50 crore by the Arunachal Pradesh Energy
Development Agency (APEDA).
- India and Sri
Lanka has agreed on cooperation
on exchange of information and other aspects to tackle smuggling of drugs
in both countries.
- China Successfully launched a Gaofen-5 hyperspectral imaging
satelite for comprehensive observation of the atmosphere, including air
pollution.
- The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced a climate summit set to take place in
September 2019 in New York to
review the Paris Agreement commitments.
- National
Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) expects to launch its payment bank’s operations within
a month as it is awaiting Reserve Bank’s nod. It will be a digital bank
focussed on making digital payments.
- India and Panama have signed two agreements on exemption of Visas
for holders of Diplomatic and Official Passports and in the field of
Agriculture.
- Google has officially launched
the stable version of its embedded operating system platform Android Things 1.0. To be used for building commercial Internet of Things products.
- Indian tea industry records
highest ever production, export in FY18. The
total tea production was 1325.05 million kgs. In percentage terms the increase is around 6%.
- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said
it had purchased leading Pakistani online retailer Daraz,
continuing its overseas expansion by gaining a foothold in the growing
South Asian consumer market.
- The Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed a Rs 945-crore deal with the Harris Corporation of the US for development of its Futuristic Telecommunications
Infrastructure (FTI) programme.
- Yes Bank to launch Water-security Programme. This initiative
is aimed at improving
farmers’ access to finance,
ensuring effective use of digital banking resources, and imparting good
agricultural practices.
