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AWARDS AND HONORS
Panama Papers wins Investigation of the Year
The Panama Papers probe, a collaborative work of more than 100 media organisations including The Indian Express, has won the Data Journalism Awards 2016 for Investigation of the Year. The award was presented at the Global Editors Network (GEN) summit in Vienna.
The Panama Papers investigation was based on 2.6 terabyte of data — primarily on offshore entities set up for clients of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca — obtained by German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared through the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
Quick Link – Investigation of the Year
‘Thithi’ wins two awards at Shanghai Film Fest
Filmmaker Raam Reddy’s acclaimed Kannada film Thithi has bagged the top awards at the ongoing 19th Shanghai International Film Festival and the filmmaker says the response from the Chinese audience for the film has been overwhelming.
Thithi won the Best Film and Best Script Writers in the Asia New Talent Awards at the festival in Shanghai. Other films nominated in the Best Film Category were One Night Only, Hana’s Miso Soup, Land of the Little People and Detective Chinatown.
Quick Link – Shanghai Film Fest
BANKING AND FINANCE
Raghuram Rajan not to continue as RBI Governor
In a surprise move that sent ripples across the financial sector, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan announced that he would not continue to head the central bank after his term expires on September 4. Mr. Rajan announced his decision to RBI employees via an email which was published on the central bank’s website for ‘wider dissemination’. This is the first time during Dr Rajan’s tenure that his communication to staffers has been made public.
Quick Link – Wider dissemination
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Haryana to have India’s first AYUSH university
Haryana to have India’s first of its kind AYUSH university as the state cabinet approved a proposal to upgrade Shri Krishna Government Ayurvedic College, Kurukshetra as a university. The Shri Krishna AYUSH University would have courses of all the systems of AYUSH. Health Minister Anil Vij, said an ordinance would soon be introduced for the university following which it would become functional.
Quick Link – AYUSH university
Punjab first to provide free Hepatitis C treatment
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has launched a special fund called ‘Mukh Mantri Punjab Hepatitis C Relief Fund’ to provide free treatment for patients affected by Hepatitis C. With this initiative, Punjab has become the first state in the country to provide free treatment to confirmed cases of Hepatitis C. Punjab government has created a special fund with an initial contribution of Rs 20 crore called the ‘Mukh Mantri Punjab Hepatitis C Relief Fund’ for this purpose.
Quick Link – Hepatitis C
Maharaja Express to be introduced in south India
The world’s most expensive luxury train ‘Maharaja Express’ will be introduced in southern India en-route Goa, Maharashtra and Kerala from the monsoon season next year. Railway Minister said the plans are to make sure that by next year, ‘Maharaja Express’ which has won several awards for four consecutive years as the world’s best luxury train should make trips in Goa during the monsoon season. The travel by this train is very expensive and hence will attract high-end tourist and generate revenue for railway as well as (the) state.
Quick Link – Maharaja Express
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
California becomes world’s sixth-largest economy
California has overtaken France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, fueled by strong growth and the U.S. dollar’s gains against foreign currencies. The most-populous U.S. state, with a gross domestic product of $2.5 trillion, has also eclipsed recession-plagued Brazil.
Governor Jerry Brown, 78, is running the state during an economic turnaround driven by technology companies including Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc., along with agricultural and manufacturing industries that lead the U.S. Since taking office in 2011, Brown steered the state away from fiscal turmoil and persistent deficits to budget surpluses.
Quick Link – Sixth-largest economy
Rio declares financial emergency before Olympics
The Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has declared a financial emergency less than 50 days before the Olympics. Interim Governor Francisco Dornelles says the “serious economic crisis” threatens to stop the state from honouring commitments for the Games. Most public funding for the Olympics has come from Rio’s city government, but the state is responsible for areas such as transport and policing. Interim President Michel Temer has promised significant financial help.
Quick Link – Financial emergency
FOREIGN RELATIONS
India-UAE to form joint parliamentary panel
Seeking to boost the growing bilateral strategic ties, India and the UAE will set up a joint parliamentary panel to enhance relations and facilitate their visits to promote cooperation to tackle security issues and challenges facing the region. A decision was taken in this regard during a meeting between first woman speaker of UAEs Federal National Council (FNC) Amal Abdullah Al-Qubaisi and the Indian ambassador TP Seetharam.
Quick Link – India-UAE
India, South Korea launch platform to up investment
India and South Korea have launched a platform to promote and facilitate investments from the east Asian country. The platform ‘Korea Plus‘ was launched by Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her South Korean counterpart Joo Hyunghwan.
Korea Plus comprises a representative each from the South Korean Ministry of Industry, Trade and Energy and Korea Trade Investment and Promotion Agency (KOTRA). Besides, it includes three officials from Invest India. The mandate of Korea Plus covers the entire investment spectrum including supporting Korean enterprises entering the Indian market for the first time, looking into issues faced by Korean companies doing business in India and policy advocacy to the Indian Government on their behalf.
Quick Link – Korea Plus
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ISS astronauts return to Earth after six months
A soyuz capsule bringing back three astronauts from the International Space Station, including the first to represent the British government, made a safe parachute landing on the steppe near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan. The crew, which included a Russian and an American as well as Britain’s Tim Peake, left the space station about three hours earlier after spending half a year in Earth’s orbit.
Quick Link – ISS astronauts
Scientists develop sperm sorting device
Scientists are developing new low cost sperm sorting devices that can select the best sperm cells for assisted reproductive technologies such as in-vitro fertilisation, increasing the chances of a successful pregnancy. The competition is fierce and only the strongest survive the obstacle course within the female reproductive tract. Of the millions of sperm that enter the vagina, only about 10 or so make it to the oocyte or egg, demonstrating how rigorous the natural sperm selection process really is.
Quick Link – Sperm sorting device
IRCTC launches mobile app to book air tickets
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a subsidiary of the Railways, has developed a mobile app that will make booking of flight tickets simpler, speedier and with lowest fare too. To avail this service, flyers will have to download the IRCTC mobile app — IRCTC Air — from Google Playstore, and they have to just Swipe and Shuffle, Select and Book.
Besides, a passenger’s existing IRCTC login credentials are applicable on this app too, and there is no need to create a separate user name and password. The new app has been developed in-house, which enables booking of air tickets for travel within India and abroad at lowest prices. A maximum of nine passengers can be booked on one PNR through net banking, for only Rs 10 per PNR.
Quick Link – IRCTC Air
New asteroid found to be orbiting Earth
Scientists have identified a second, mini-moon orbiting earth that has probably only been around for about 100 years. The small asteroid has a slightly tilted orbit, bouncing up and down through Earth’s orbital plane once a year. Over decades, as it scuttles along its path around the solar system, it twists back and forth. The asteroid has been declared a “quasi-satellite”, too distant to qualify as an actual satellite but cinched by gravity into a relatively close orbit around the sun.
Quick Link – Asteroid
SPORTS
106-yr-old becomes oldest Olympic torchbearer
Three years after becoming the world’s oldest skydiver, Aida Gemanque became the oldest Olympic torch bearer when she carried the flame in the Amazonian city of Macapa, aged 106. Gemanque broke the record formerly held by Alexander Kaptarenko, who was 101 when he took part in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics relay.
Quick Link – Oldest Olympic torchbearer
Nico Rosberg wins European Grand Prix
Nico Rosberg increased his lead in the drivers’ championship when he returned to winning ways with a smoothly comfortable lights-to-flag victory for Mercedes in European Grand Prix. The 30-year-old German, who had seen his advantage cut to nine points after three poor races, came home comfortably clear of second-placed compatriot Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari. His Mercedes team-mate and defending champion Lewis Hamilton came home a frustrated fifth after a race dogged by technical problems on the tricky new Baku street circuit as Azerbaijan hosted its maiden Formula One race.
Quick Link – European Grand Prix
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