1. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has flagged off maiden broad-gauge train service between Agartala and Delhi, ‘Tripura Sundari Express’. The ‘Tripura Sundari Express’ will run weekly between Agartala and Anand Vihar in Delhi.
2. Railway Minister of India along with Bangladesh Railway Minister Md. Mazibul Hoque laid the foundation stone for Agartala-Akhaura International Rail Project.
3. Andhra Pradesh government has signed an MoU with Japan to develop a food value chain in the state.
4. Mobile payments company MobiKwik and IRCTC have announced an exclusive partnership, wherein MobiKwik will power e-cash payments on IRCTC's e-catering app, Food on Track.
5. Oracle India has announced a corporate citizenship collaboration with SBI and launched the 'D-Change' programme which will support education and learning, women's empowerment and rural skills development in the country.
6. NTPC Ltd has commissioned a 50 MW (1X50 MW) capacity solar photovoltaic power project of NP Kunta Ultra Mega Solar Power Project Stage-I at Anantapuramu in Andhra Pradesh.
7. Country's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has announced a 0.05% reduction in its marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR).
8. The Mohun Bagan FC has conferred club’s highest decoration Mohun Bagan Ratna (jewel) on legendary Indian Footballer Syed Nayeemuddin. With this, he became the 16th recipient of the prestigious award.
9. Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale has sworn-in as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.
10. Dilip Rath took over as the Chairman of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). The post was vacant after T Nandakumar resigned.
11. International Kabaddi Federation announced the selection of India for hosting "The 2016 Kabaddi World Cup".
12. The Patna Pirates have won the fourth edition of STAR Sports-Pro-Kabaddi League by defeating Jaipur Pink Panthers in the finals.
13. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has won the 2016 German Grand Prix title of Formula One.
14. The Parliament has passed Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2016 to conduct of uniform entrance examination for admission to all medical educational institutions. The bill seeks to replace the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Ordinance, 2016 and its provisions will come into force retrospectively from May 24, 2016.
15. A high-level panel of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) has approved various projects worth approximately Rs. 400 crores for development of ghats (river fronts) and crematoria at different places along the river Ganga from Uttarakhand to West Bengal under the Centre’s ambitious Namami Gange programme.
16. The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has launched a performance and credit rating scheme to assess the capabilities and creditworthiness of industries in the sector. This will provide "trusted" third party opinion to create awareness about the strengths and weaknesses of enterprises' existing operations.
17. India will host a crucial global summit in November to eliminate the illicit trade of tobacco products. The summit will be in Noida.
18. Odisha government has decided to recruit members of transgender community persons as warders in jails of the State as per the directive of the Supreme Court.
19. Tamil Nadu Assembly has passed a unanimous resolution that the Madras High Court be renamed as Tamil Nadu High Court and not as High Court of Chennai as proposed by the Centre.
20. ICICI Bank has inked a MoU with Apollo India Credit Opportunity Management LLC and AION Capital Management to set up an asset reconstruction company.
21. Freecharge has paired with PayUbiz, to further strengthen its merchant base and help consumers move from cash to digital payments.
22. India's leading public sector bank, Bank of Baroda has tied up with a fintech start-up Fisdom for personal wealth management services.
23. Confectionery major Mondelez International has appointed former Bharti Axa General Insurance Company CEO and MD Deepak Iyer as Managing Director of its India operation. He succeeds Chandramouli Venkatesan.
24. Translator and artist Anita Gopalan has awarded with the 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants for her English translation of Hindi novel Simsim by Geet Chaturvedi.
25. Bhaskar Khulbe has been appointed as Secretary to PM Narendra Modi.
26. Air Marshal S Neelakantan has assumed charge as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Air Command. Noted Indian-American Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Braj B Kachru has passed away in Urbana. He was 84 years old.
27. The 24-year old Romania's Simona Halep has won the Rogers Cup women's singles title after beating American Madison Keys 7-6, 6-3 in the final Montreal. While in men's title Serbian Novak Djokovic has defeated Kei Nishikori (Japan) to won the title.
28. World Economic Forum (WEF), will host its annual India Economic Summit on October 6-7 in New Delhi. This year's meet will be convened under the theme, 'Fostering an Inclusive India through Digital Transformation'.
29. Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to approve sewage and wastewater policy. Under this policy, all district headquarters, heritage cities, and cities in the state which have more than one lakh population will be included.
30. Kerala cabinet has decided to appoint veteran CPI-M leader V.S Achuthanandan as the chairman of the Kerala Administrative Reforms Commission with cabinet rank.
31. The Parliament has approved the establishment of six new IITs across the country by passing the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in the Rajya Sabha. These IITs will be started in Palakkad (Kerala), Goa, Dharwad (Karnataka), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh), Jammu, and Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh).
32. SBI has launched 2 new schemes of loans named ‘Privilege Home Loan’ for government employees and ‘Shaurya Home Loan’ for Defence Personnel with pensionable service. The interest rates will be 0.05 % less than current interest rates on home loans.
33. AXA, Alibaba, and Ant Financial Services have stated that they have agreed to engage in a global strategic partnership to explore opportunities to distribute AXA's insurance products and services through Alibaba's global e-commerce ecosystem.
34. Neyveli Lignite (NLC) is planning to acquire a 1200 MW Raghunathpur Thermal Power Project (RTPP) of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC).
35. State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has commissioned the second 500 Mw (megawatt) thermal unit at Marwa Thermal Power Station in Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh.
36. Maoist Party Chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, has been elected as the new PM of Nepal.
37. BCCI has appointed former SC judge Markandey Katju as the head of a 4-member legal panel to help the implications of the Justice Lodha Committee reforms.
38. American ice hockey Olympic champion Angela Ruggiero has been elected as the new chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Athletes’ Commission. He replaced Claudia Bokel.
39. Microsoft has named Anant Maheshwari as the next President of Microsoft India. He will succeed Bhaskar Pramanik.
40. Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail passed away in the United States. He was 70 years old.
41. Former Ferrari driver Chris Amon passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 73 years old.
42. A six-year-old boy, Om Swaroop Gowda from Karnataka has set the world record for covering longest distance by limbo skating under cars.
43. The Union Cabinet has given its approval for the terms and conditions for transfer of 12 acres of National Textile Corporation Ltd. (NTCL), Indu-6 Mill land to Government of Maharashtra for the construction of a memorial of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
44. The Union Cabinet has given approval for Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016 to improve road safety in the country.
45. The Cabinet also approved for the signing of new Air Services Agreement (ASA) between India and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR).
46. The Cabinet has given approval for making suitable amendments in the Central List of OBCs by way of inclusion/correction/deletion of castes/communities applicable to the State of Andhra Pradesh and the newly formed State of Telangana as per the advice received from the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC).
47. RBI (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has launched ’Sachet- www.sachet.rbi.org.in’, a web portal to curb illegal collection of deposits. Sachet is an SLCC (State Level Coordination Committees) website from which the members of the public would be able to obtain information regarding entities which are allowed to accept deposits, lodge complaints and also share information regarding illegal acceptance of deposits by unscrupulous entities.
48. RBI (RBI) has set up a committee to look at the various facets of household finance in India and to benchmark India’s position vis-à-vis both the peer countries and advanced countries. This will be chaired by Dr. Tarun Ramadorai.
49. The three-day Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) exhibition held in the Parliament premises in New Delhi.
50. Rajasthan's CM Vasundhara Raje has laid the foundation of 14 projects worth Rs 2,229 Crore and stated that the city of Jaipur will be a 'wonder city' in next two years. The projects include converting Amanishah Nala into its original form of Dravyawati river.
51. D K Gayen has assumed charge of new General Manager of East Central Railway (ECR) with headquarters at Hajipur in Bihar.
52. Sudhanshu Mani has been appointed as General Manager, Integral Coach Factory.
53. ‘Grassroots Innovation’ authored by Prof. Anil K. Gupta of IIM Ahmedabad, also the Vice Chairman of National Innovation Foundation at Rashtrapati Bhavan has been released.
54. Four Indian-origin persons have been named among America's top wealth advisors by Forbes on a list of 200 members who collectively manage USD 675 billion. The persons are: Raj Sharma, Ash Chopra, Sonny Kothari & Raju Pathak.
55. Nimesh Kampani has resigned as the Managing Director of JM Financial Ltd. He will be succeeded by his son Vishal Kampani.
56. The advisory committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award has decided that the 23rd Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award will be given to Shubha Mudgal.
57. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has agreed to add Baseball-Softball, Karate, Skateboard, Climbing Sports and surfing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
58. BJP state chief Vijay Rupani has been named as the new CM of Gujarat while Nitin Patel as Deputy CM.
59. The first technology two-day meet under the Hydrocarbon Vision 2030 for Northeast India held in Guwahati, Assam.
60. Goa CM Laxmikant Parsekar has stated that the 7th Pay Commission recommendations would be implemented in the state from November 1st.
61. CM Naveen Patnaik has dedicated 100 multi-purpose shelter houses to the people of Odisha for use during floods and cyclones with an aim to ensure zero casualty during calamities.
62. RBI has imposed the penalty on two cooperative banks of Chhattisgarh under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. Zila Sahakari Kendriya Bank Maryadit, Raipur, and Raipur Urban Mercantile Cooperative Bank Limited are banks on which the penalty of five lakh rupees each are imposed.
63. Corporation Bank has launched ‘group credit life insurance scheme’ of LIC of India in Mangaluru. The scheme covers various term loans, including retail loans and loans to MSME and agriculture.
64. Noted sports promoter and founder chairperson of Reliance Foundation, Nita Ambani has been elected as an individual member of International Olympic Committee. With this, she became the first Indian woman to join the prestigious body.
65. Former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Vinod Rai has stepped down from private sector lender IDFC Bank’s board.
66. Noted Assamese litterateur Mahim Bora has passed away due to old age problems. He was 92 years old.
67. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the Government has set the ambitious target to roll out of the Goods and Services Tax, (GST) from 1st April 2017.
68. Union Government has set an inflation target of 4 % for the next five years with a range of plus/minus 2 % for the next five years under the monetary policy framework agreement with the Reserve Bank.
69. ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar has inaugurated a 'C Band Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar' at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.
70. Centre has launched a nation-wide breastfeeding programme "MAA - Mother's Absolute Affection" with an aim to enhance optimal breastfeeding practices in New Delhi. It is an intensified programme of the Health Ministry for creating an enabling environment to ensure that mothers, husbands, and families receive adequate information and support for the promotion of breastfeeding.
71. The three day long India's International Footwear Fair (IIFF) which was launched by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, held in New Delhi.
72. The Ministry of Railways has signed an agreement with the Chhattisgarh government for the formation of a joint venture (JV) company for focused resource mobilisation, implementation and monitoring of critical rail projects.
73. Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu has launched Swachh Survekshan-2017 for 500 cities in the country with an idea to make competitive environment make the cities clean in New Delhi.
74. CM of Maharastra Mr. Devendra Fadnavis has stated that Maharashtra government will provide as many as 1,200 wi-fi hotspots in the megapolis as a part of transforming Mumbai into a Smart City.
75. Union Minister for Human Resource and Development Prakash Javadekar has inaugurated the transit campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at village Jagti, Tehsil Nagrota in Jammu.
76. The Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC), an autonomous organization under Government of India's Ministry of Culture, has organized a 64-day-long theatre festival in Kolkata.
77. China has successfully launched the first Tiantong satellite for mobile telecommunication at southwestern China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center, with the Long March-3B carrier rocket.
78. IBM in partnership with Apple has launched a new global development hub at Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru.
79. German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz India Limited (MBIL) has announced the appointment of Michael Jopp as vice-president (sales & marketing). He will succeed Boris Fitz.
80. The 31st Summer Olympic Games has opened in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, with a vibrant opening ceremony at the Maracana Stadium. The theme of Rio De Janerio Olympic is world peace and environment.
81. Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has announced a cash award of 50 lakh rupees for the gold medal winning athlete in the Rio Olympics. While 30 lakh rupees for silver and 20 lakh rupees for bronze.
82. The second National Handloom Day has been celebrated all over the country on 7th August. The main function was held in Varanasi in which Sant Kabir Awards and National Handloom Awards has been presented.
83. Telangana Irrigation Department has signed a MoU with the Indian Space Research Organisation for setting up a Telangana Water Resources Information System (TWRIS) on the ‘Bhuvan’ web portal.
84. Kerala Tourism has rolled out a promotional campaign in Dubai targeting Arab travellers and showcasing the state's backwaters and waterfalls on taxis plying in the bustling metropolis, with the onset of the outbound tourism season in the Middle East.
85. Five sportspersons from Tamil Nadu including Jenitha Anto of Tiruchirappalli has presented with a cheque for Rs 25 lakh for winning an international chess tournament for the differently abled held in Serbia. The other receivers are: C Ajith Kumar, R Naveen, L Samayasri, and S Priyadarshini.
86. A nine-member Kathakali dance troupe has performed first time in Egypt. It was a part the 14th Summer Festival organized by Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
87. CSS Corp has appointed Manish Tandon as its new Chief Executive Officer of the company.
88. Veteran South Indian film director and scriptwriter “Vietnam Veedu’ Sundaram has passed away in Chennai. He was 76 years old.
89. KK Khurana, General Manager in-charge, has taken over as Head of BHEL Corporate R&D.
90. PM Narendra Modi has launched the Telangana government's ambitious Mission Bhagiratha at Komatibanda Village, Gajwel, in Medak District of Telangana. The objective is to provide safe drinking water to all.
91. Odisha government launched a special assistance scheme named ‘Baristha Bunakar Sahayata Yojana’ for elderly weavers to mark the National Handlooms Day. The aim is to improve the financial condition of over 8,000 weavers, who have been working in this field for the last 20 years. This is for all senior weavers who are above the age of 60 years. Under this scheme all weavers who are above 60 years they will get a monthly pension of 500 rupees, and those above 80 years would get 700 rupees.
92. Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has inaugurated the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Raipur at the Government Engineering College campus.
93. IRCTC and the Manipur government have signed an MoU, which seeks to provide improved hospitality and tourism services to their customers by making 'joint use of their capabilities and facilities'.
94. A new Guinness World Record for the most robots dancing simultaneously has been set in China where 1,007 robots shimmied in unison, nearly double the previous record.
95. The first-ever 'Pizza ATM' has been installed at a university campus of US by French- based company Paline, which developed the ATM.
96. IDFC Bank has appointed former RBI (RBI) deputy governor Anand Sinha to the bank's board.
97. Arun Shrivastava, MD & CEO of Syndicate Bank has launched new products which includes, fund transfer based on ‘Aadhaar Number through NUUP’, using an ordinary mobile phone without internet connection & the other was ‘Fund Transfer through IMPS’ at any branch for instantaneous credit to any bank account.
98. Ahmedabad-headquartered Zydus Group has acquired Melgain brand from Hyderabad based Issar Pharma.
99. Network18 has appointed Sitaraman Shankar as Managing Editor - Special Projects.
100. Australian surfing champion Bernard Farrelly, best known as Midget for his slight size, has passed away. He was 71 years old.
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