1. India gets first US LNG shipment at
Dabhol, Maharashtra
i. India
received its first LNG cargo from the US
under a long-term supply deal when a ship carrying super-cooled natural gas
arrived at Dabhol in Maharashtra.
ii. GAIL India has contracted 3.5 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from US
energy firm Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass liquefaction facility in Louisiana. The first cargo from the
project arrived at Dabhol, the cite of India's biggest gas-fired power plant.
2. Meeting of PIC Between India and Pakistan
Held in New Delhi
i. The two-day
meeting of Permanent Indus Commission
(PIC) between India and Pakistan
began in New Delhi. Representatives from both the sides had discussed Water Treaty dispute and resolution of
outstanding issues.
ii. The PIC is
mandated to establish and maintain cooperative arrangements for the
implementation of the treaty and to promote cooperation between the two sides
in developing the Indus water systems.
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PK Saxena-
India’s Indus Water Commissioner.
The Indus Waters Treaty was
signed in 1960 and involves six
rivers – the Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum.
The PIC had last met in March
2017 in Islamabad, Pakistan.
3. NHAI Awarded Projects Worth Rs 1.22 lakh
crore in FY18
i. National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)
awarded 150 road projects of 7,400 km
worth Rs. 1,22,000 crore in the In
Financial Year 2017-18. In last 5 years, the average length of road projects
awarded by NHAI was 2,860 km with 4,335
Km awarded in the last financial year.
ii. In
comparison, the
length of projects awarded in FY 2017-18 is an all
-time high and a record achievement by NHAI since its inception in 1995.
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Nitin Gadkari is the present
Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources.
4. Madhya Pradesh’s Kadaknath chicken gets
Geographical Indication tag
i. Six years
after it applied for the Geographical
Indications (GI) tag for Kadaknath,
a chicken breed whose black meat is in demand in some quarters, Madhya Pradesh has got the coveted label.
ii.
Chennai-based GI Registry accepted the application of Gramin Vikas Trust, Jhabua, which was filed in 2012.
Banking News
5. Rivigo ties up with IDFC, YES Bank, for
truck loans
i. Rivigo, a homegrown logistics start-up
that owns as well as acts as an aggregator of trucks, is tying up with YES Bank, IDFC, and 10 other financial
institutions to make cheaper funds available to truck owners and operators
on its platform.
ii. The funds will be available
at an interest rate of 1-2 percent per
month, lower than the usual industry standard of 2-3 percent.
Appointments
6. Shekhar Kapur to head the jury for 65th
National Film Awards
i. Veteran
director Shekhar Kapur has been
appointed the chairman of the
central panel of the 65th National Film
Awards. The central panel comprises a chairperson and 10 other members, including five regional chairpersons who head the
respective regional panels.
ii. Film writer
Imtiaz Hussain, known for his works
in films like Astitva (2000) and Parinda (1989) will be the regional
chairperson of South I panel.
Sports News
7. ISSF Junior World Cup: Muskan Bhanwala
Wins Gold
i. Indian shooter Muskan
Bhanwala clinched the gold medal in
women’s 25m pistol event at the ISSF
Junior World Cup in Sydney, Australia. The 16-year-old Muskan beaten China’s Qin Sihang and Thailand’s Kanyakorn Hirunphoem.
ii. India thus
upstaged China with 22 medals, including nine gold. India has also five silver
and eight bronze medals.
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>Australia Capital- Canberra, Currency-
Australian Dollar, Prime Minister- Malcolm
Turnbull.
8. Mithali Raj Adjudged ‘Sportsperson of the
Year’
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i. Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali
Raj was adjudged ‘Sportsperson of
the Year’ while ace shuttlers
Kidambi Srikanth and P V Sindhu bagged the best senior male and female athletes at the Telangana Sports Journalists Association annual awards for 2017 in
Hyderabad.
ii. Former
Indian cricketer VVS Laxman presented ‘best
coach of the year’ award to Pullela Gopichand, who received this award for
the second time in a row. Triple Olympian and former national Hockey player N Mukesh Kumar was
honoured with the Lifetime Achievement
award at the event.
Obituaries
9. Film Director C.V. Rajendran Passes Away
i. Tamil film director C.V. Rajendran, who was part of late C.V. Sridhar’s unit
died aged 81.
ii. His career
as a director began with the film Anubhavam
Pudhumai.
