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Awards and Honours
Ujjivan Financial
Services Ltd, bags award
Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd, a
microfinance institution, has won the Platinum Award for Inclusive Insurance at
the SKOCH Insurance Awards 2016.
The platinum award is the highest
independent honour given for inclusive insurance and was presented to Ujjivan
for the company’s exemplary work on financial inclusion initiatives,
exceptional customer service, insurance penetration and for covering the
highest number of lives through insurance.
Ajinkya Rahane,
Rohit Sharma conferred with Arjuna Award
The Minister of State
(Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs & Sports, Shri Vijay Goel here today
conferred Arjuna Awards to cricketers Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane in a
function held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Rohit Sharma was conferred Arjuna
Award for the year 2015 and Ajinkya Rahane for the year 2016. Sharma and Rahane
could not earlier receive the Arjuna Awards from the President of India, as
they were participating in international tournaments.
International News:
India (112th)
slips 10 notches in World Economic Freedom Index 2016
India has slipped 10 positions to
112 and ranks behind Bhutan (78), Nepal (108) and Sri Lanka (111) but stood
higher than China (113), Bangladesh (121) and Pakistan (133) in the World
Economic Freedom Index 2016. Hong Kong topped the index, followed by Singapore
and New Zealand among 159 countries.
India and Nepal
pledge not to allow their territory to be used against each other
India and Nepal have pledged that
they will not allow their territory to be used against each other.
A joint statement issued after
delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepalese
counterpart Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda said this in New Delhi Friday.
National News
PM Modi launches
irrigation and drinking water supply projects in tribal areas of Gujarat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
dedicated the water supply and irrigation projects worth of 4800 crore rupees in
Gujarat at Limkheda in tribal district of Dahod.
AIR correspondent reports that
six water supply projects worth 1757 crore rupees and four lift irrigation
projects worth another 2,000 crore rupees are under the Gujarat Vanbandhu
Kalyan Yojna.
The six water supply projects
will provide drinking water to about 21-lakh people residing in 960 villages
including 23 settlements in Dahod, Mahisagar, Narmada and Chhota Udepur
districts.
Union Water
Resources Ministry signs MoU with Agriculture Ministry to take up organic
farming
The Union Water Resources
Ministry has signed an MoU with the Agriculture Ministry to encourage farmers
of over 5,000 villages along the Ganga to take up organic farming, which will
help curb pollution caused by chemical fertiliser-laden runoff in the river.
Union Water Resources Minister
Uma Bharti and Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh attended the MoU signing
event in New Delhi Friday.
Obituary
Carlo Azeglio
Ciampi, Former Italian Prime Minister, Dies at 95
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, a former
prime minister and president of Italy and a highly respected economist who, as
treasury minister, helped usher in the euro, died on Friday. He was 95.
US playwright
Edward Albee dies aged 88
US playwright Edward Albee, the
author of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” has died aged 88.
Albee's assistant said he died on
Friday at his home on Long Island near New York. No cause of death was given.
A three-time Pulitzer Prize
winner, he was arguably America's greatest living playwright after the deaths
of Arthur Miller and August Wilson in 2005.
Sports News
India finishes 2nd
in Track Asia Cup
India ended their campaign in the
Track Asia Cup at second position at the Cycling Velodrome in IG Stadium in New
Delhi today. India got eight medals, including two gold, on the final day of
the competition today.
With this, India's medals tally
comprises 16 with five gold, four Silver and seven bronze. Hong Kong topped the
table with 18 medals which comprise 11 Gold, four Silver and three bronze.
