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Davis Cup: Leander Paes Becomes Most Successful Doubles Player as 43rd Win Keeps India Alive |
- India were trailing 0-2 after Ramkumar Ramanathan and Sumit Nagal suffered surprise tame defeats on Friday and needed a win in the doubles to stay alive in the tie.
- The Indian youngsters will now have to win both the reverse singles to advance to the World Group Play-offs.
- Paes, India's Davis Cup hero for years, was tied on 42 wins with Italian great Nicola Pietrangeli for long but finally surpassed him, albeit, in a foreign land.
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GoI, Government of Maharashtra and the World Bank sign New Project to benefit over 25 Million Small and Marginal Farmers in Maharashtra |
- The Government of India, Government of Maharashtra and the World Bank signed here today a US$ 420 million project to help Small and Marginal farmers in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra.
- The project will help in increasing climate resilient practices in agriculture and ensuring that farming continues to remain a financially viable activity for them.
- The aforesaid project is expected to benefit over 7 million people spread over an area of 3.0 million ha and cover 5,142 villages across 15 most climate vulnerable districts of the region.
- The $420 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), has a 6-year grace period, and a maturity of 24 years.
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India at CWG, Day 2: Sanjita Chanu wins weightlifting gold, Deepak Lather bronze |
- Weightlifter Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu won gold in the women’s 53kg event
- 18-year-old Deepak Lather claimed bronze in the men’s 69kg weightlifting event
- Young boxer Naman Tanwar defeated Tanzania’s Haruna Mhando to progress into the men’s 91kg quarter-finals
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Trai moots public Wi-Fi grid that will cut internet access cost by 90% |
- The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) mooted on Thursday an ambitious model of a public Wi-Fi grid that aims to slash internet access cost by 90%, and push broadband proliferation in India.
- Ruing that India significantly trails other nations in providing access to broadband, especially in rural areas, Trai has underscored the need for ushering a new set of small players for Wi-Fi service provisioning.
- The grid or the mesh conceptualized by Trai (and forwarded to Department of Telecom for further consideration) entails multiple providers coming together on one platform to address aspects such as access, services, payment, and authentication.
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RBI to set up Data Sciences Lab to improve surveillance, early warning detection abilities |
- Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its release on Thursday said that it has decided to set up Data Sciences Lab to improve its forecasting, surveillance and early warning detection abilities which will aid policy formulation. In a statement, the central bank has decided to gainfully harness the power of Big Data analytics by setting up a Data Sciences Lab in-house. The lab will constitute of experts and budding analysts, internal as well as lateral, who are trained inter alia in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Econometrics and/or Finance.
- The release says policy making not only benefits from data collected through regulatory returns and surveys but also from large volumes of structured and unstructured real-time information. RBI said the lab will comprise experts and budding analysts, who are trained in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Econometrics and Finance. The unit is likely to become operational by December 2018.
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Japanese animation director Isao Takahata dies |
- Mr Takahata was nominated for an Oscar in 2015 for The Tale of the Princess Kaguya but is best known for his film Grave of the Fireflies.
- He founded Studio Ghibli with iconic director Hayao Miyazaki in 1985.
- It became a world-renowned animation studio, producing blockbusters such as Castle in the Sky, and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
- Mr Takahata started his career in animation in 1959 at Japan's Toei studio, where he met Mr Miyazaki, who is usually seen as the face of Studio Ghibli.
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Commonwealth Games 2018: Mirabai Chanu Clinches Weightlifting Gold In Record-Breaking Show |
- World champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu rose to the occasion on Day 1 of the 2018 Commonwealth Games to win a gold in the women's 48kg.
- Mirabai Chanu went on a record-smashing spree, claiming three of them in a power-packed performance, to secure India's first gold. In a remarkable performance,
- Chanu smashed the Commonwealth and the Games record in snatch, pulling off clean lifts in all her three attempts (80kg, 84kg and 86kg).
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05-Apr-2018 |
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SBI Life appoints Sanjeev Nautiyal as MD, CEO |
- Private life insurer SBI Life Insurance has appointed Sanjeev Nautiyal as its new managing director and chief executive, replacing Arijit Basu who moves back to parent SBI Group to take up a key role.
- Nautiyal began his career with State Bank in 1985 as a probationary officer in the Lucknow circle and has since then held various roles in fields like credit, HR, and international banking.
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05-Apr-2018 |
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Union Cabinet approves amendments to Protection of Human Rights Bill |
- The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the human rights protection bill for "better protection and promotion of human rights in the country", a statement said.
- The Protection of Human Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018, was cleared in a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe wins no-confidence motion in Parliament |
- Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday comfortably won the no-confidence motion against him in Parliament.
- In the 225 member Parliament, 122 members voted against the motion while 76 voted in favour of it.
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