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APPOINTMENTS
Pushpa Kamal Dahal elected as new Prime Minister of Nepal
Maoist Chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal was elected Prime Minister of Nepal, the eighth in as many years, making a comeback to the post after a gap of over seven years. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and known by the nom de guerre Prachanda, or Fierce, was the sole candidate offered to replace K.P. Sharma Oli, who resigned 10 days ago to avoid a no-confidence vote.
Quick Link – New PM of Nepal
Kerala cabinet appoints Achuthanandan head of administrative reforms panel
Former Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, who was in contention for the top political post in Kerala after the May 16 assembly elections, was appointed chairman of the Administrative Reforms Committee (ARC) , a post carrying cabinet status. It is the first time that a former Chief Minister has been given the ARC post. Former chief secretaries Neela Gangadharan and CP Nair are other members of the three-member commission.
Quick Link – Head of ARP
Vijay Rupani appoint as the new chief minister of Gujarat.
BJP state chief Vijay Rupani has been named the new Chief Minister of Gujarat after a meeting of the BJP legislators at State Party headquarter Shree Kamalam here on Friday. Vijay Rupani will take over as the new chief minister of Gujarat .Nitin Patel will be the deputy chief minister of Gujarat. The oath taking ceremony will take place on Sunday, 7 August, 2016.
Nita Ambani is first Indian IOC member
Noted sports promoter and founder chairperson of Reliance Foundation, Nita Ambani was elected as an individual member of International Olympic Committee as she becomes the first Indian woman to join the prestigious body which governs Olympic sports in the world. As founder and chairperson of the Reliance Foundation, Nita has been steering initiatives in the area of education, sports, health and art and culture.
Quick Link – IOC
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Anita Gopalan wins 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
Translator and artist Anita Gopalan has been awarded the 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her English translation of Hindi novel “Simsim” by Geet Chaturvedi.
Ms. Gopalan, who is based in Bengaluru, is the second Indian translator to be selected for the grant. PEN America is a renowned literary organisation of the United States.
Quick Link – Pen prize
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Infosys invests $4 million in Israeli firm Cloudyn
IT services major Infosys has invested $4 million in Cloudyn, an Israeli corporation, as it seeks to strengthen its cloud computing service offering, an area in which the majority of Indian export companies struggle. Israeli-based Cloudyn is a start-up that enables corporates to monitorstrong; their cloud computing usage and optimise its usage of these services.
Quick Link – Infosys
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Khandu expands cabinet, inducts 10 ministers
In its first expansion of the cabinet, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu expanded his cabinet by inducting 10 ministers including former Speaker Nabam Rebia. Governor Tathagata Roy administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed ministers at Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan. The newly-inducted ministers are Tanga Byaling, Rajesh Tacho, Nabam Rebia, Honchun Ngandam, Wangki Lowang, Kamlung Mossang, Tapang Taloh, Kumar Waii, Takam Pario and Jomde Kena.
Quick Link – Khandu expands cabinet
BHEL commissions 500 Mw Marwa Thermal Power station in Chhattisgarh
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned the second 500 MW thermal unit at Marwa Thermal Power Station in Chhattisgarh. Located in Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh, Marwa TPS has been set up by Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company Ltd. (CSPGCL). The first unit of Marwa TPS was also commissioned earlier by BHEL.
Quick Link – BHEL
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Neyveli Lignite plans to buy 1200 MW Raghunathpur Thermal Power Project
State-run Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) is planning to acquire Damodar Valley Corporation’s 1200 mw Raghunathpur Thermal Power Project (RTPP) through a joint venture company.
NLC has initiated actions to acquire power assets and in this regard one of the proposals under consideration is the acquisition of 1,200 mw Raghunathpur Thermal Power Project (RTPP) of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) through a joint venture company (JVC) proposed to be formed with the DVC with the equity shareholding of 74:26 by NLC and DVC,” the company said.
Quick Link – Neyveli Lignite
OBITUARY
Egyptian Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail passed away
Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died in the United States who was 70 and a member of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) faculty, was the sole recipient of the Nobel chemistry prize in 1999 for his pioneering work in femto chemistry, the study of chemical reactions in ultra-short time scales.
Quick Link – Ahmed Zewail
