Nicos Anastasiades has won a second five-year term as president of the Republic of Cyprus. Anastasiades, 71, is now expected to pick up the pieces of a suspended peace process on the ethnically split island, as well as oversee the economic recovery of a country still bouncing back from a crippling financial crisis. 

Dubai Airport handled 83.6 million travellers in 2017, new figures have shown, making it – still – the busiest in the world in terms of international passengers.

Istanbul’s biggest airport, and the main hub for Turkish Airlines, has grown even more rapidly than Dubai. Turkish Airlines, the world’s largest carrier in terms of number of countries served, is its biggest customer. 

The National Green Tribunal has imposed an environment compensation of Rs 10 lakh on the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to take action on disposing e- waste from the banks of the Ramganga river in Moradabad. 

A bench, headed by Acting NGT Chairperson Justice U D Salvi, took exception over the state government’s inaction in the matter and observed that nothing has been done till date.

Current acting chairmen of NGT is justice Umesh Dattatraya Salvi.

National Green Tribunal:

National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 (NGT) is an Act of the Parliament of India which enables creation of a special tribunal to handle the expeditious disposal of the cases pertaining to environmental issues.

It draws inspiration from the India’s constitutional provision of Article 21, which assures the citizens of India the right to a healthy environment.

Jharkhand state government would organise Global Agriculture Summit this year on the pattern of Momentum Jharkhand Investors Summit. The Global Agriculture Summit would involve scientists, processing experts, innovators and agro-entrepreneur. 

Taxi aggregator Ola has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Assam to pilot a one-of-its-kind app-based river taxi service in Guwahati.

Assam has a very unique transportation landscape where water transport plays an important role in cities such as Guwahati. Ola has played a key role in streamlining road transport over the last few years in the state. 

Indian cricketers Jasprit Bumrah and Harmanpreet Kaur as well India women’s hockey team goalkeeper Savita Punia and shooter Heena Sidhu are among Forbes India 30 Under 30, a list that celebrates ‘twenty-somethings who are shaping the new India’. 

Researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new algorithms for robots to learn to perform tasks effectively by interacting with a human instructor. The findings of the study were presented at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park is situated in Wandoor at a distance of about 29 kilometers from Port Blair in Andaman. It was placed under the protection of the Chief Wildlife Warden of the forest department of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. 

Veteran Shiromani Akali Dal leader and party’s sitting legislator from Shahkot in Jalandhar district, Ajit Singh Kohar, passed away following a cardiac arrest. He was 78.

The chief minister described Kohar as a leader committed to the development and prosperity of his constituency, besides ensuring the welfare of all sections of the society. 

India Gas Solutions Pvt Ltd – the 50:50 joint venture of UK’s BP plc and Reliance Industries, named a new chief executive in Vinod Tahiliani as the firm looks to step up natural gas marketing in the country. IGS was formed in 2011 when BP bought 30 per cent stake in RIL’s gas producing KG-D6 and 20 other blocks for USD 7.2 billion.