• PM Modi said India and Indonesia have agreed to upgrade their ties to comprehensive strategic partnership.

• He also said that India and Indonesia will double their efforts to take bilateral trade to $50 billion by 2025.

Awards: CEAT International Cricketer of the Year Virat Kohli

CEAT International Batsman of the Year Shikhar Dhawan

CEAT International Bowler of the Year Trent Boult 

CEAT T20 Bowler of the Year - Rashid Khan

CEAT T20 Batsman of the Year - Colin Munro

CEAT Outstanding Innings of the Year - Harmanpreet Kaur

CEAT Domestic Player of The Year - Mayank Agarwal

CEAT U 19 Player of The Year - Shubhman Gill

CEAT Popular Choice Award - Chris Gayle

CEAT Lifetime Achievement Award - Farokh Engineer.

New Delhi: Banking activities in public sector banks across the country have been interrupted as employees go on two-day nation-wide strike against the meagre two percent salary hike offered by the management - Indian Banks Association.

However, operations in the new-generation private banks like ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank were almost normal, barring few activities including cheque clearance.

A Web portal and an App namely PRAAPTI (Payment Ratification And Analysis in Power procurement for bringing Transparency in Invoicing of generators), www.praapti.in, has beenofficially launched today by Hon’ble Minister of State (I/C) for Power in the presence of Secretary, Shri A.K. Bhallaand other senior officials of Ministry of Power, Chairman & Managing Director, PFC, CMDs of other Power Sector PSUs and various officials of Power Sector.

PRAAPTI App and web portal has been developedto bring transparency in power purchase transactions between Generators and Discoms.

The App and Web Portal will capture the Invoicing and payment datafor various long term PPAs from the Generators. This will help the stakeholders in getting month-wise and legacy data on outstanding amounts of Discomsagainst power purchase.

Pakistan on Monday appointed former chief justice Nasir Ul Mulk as interim prime minister until general elections are held on July 25, premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said.

"No Pakistani can lift a finger (against) such a name," Abbasi told reporters, seated next to opposition leader Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah.

The announcement ends weeks of wrangling between Abbasi's ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Shah's Pakistan People's Party.

Mulk, who also served as the interim chief of the Election Commission of Pakistan, will head a technocratic government until elections as the current government and parliament will be dissolved on Thursday.

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia on Tuesday will end a second search attempt to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after an area of more than 80,000 squared kilometres was scouted without finding any traces of the aircraft.

However, the Malaysian government has stated that they will review the investigations and left open the possibility of a third search, Efe reported.

The ship Seabed Constructor, hired by the US company Ocean Infinity, is still conducting a search on Tuesday.

In January, former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak had signed a contract with Ocean Infinity to track the area of the Indian Ocean where experts believe the plane had crashed.

According to the agreement, Malaysia would pay up to a maximum of $70 million if the company found the plane's fuselage and the two black boxes.

Daniel Ricciardo drove a masterful race to fend off Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari and win the Monaco Grand Prix in a stricken Red Bull.

The Australian dominated the weekend and led from pole but shortly after his only pit stop suffered a power loss at one-third distance.

Ricciardo managed to hold off Vettel for the remaining 50 laps, as Lewis Hamilton took third in his Mercedes.

The result means Hamilton leads Vettel by 14 points in the championship.

Ricciardo moves into third place, 38 points adrift.

Sangeeta Bahl, a 53-year-old former model and entrepreneur from Jammu and Kashmir, has become the oldest Indian woman to conquer Mount Everest.

Bahl, who currently resides in Gurugram, was felicitated on Sunday at the Indian embassy in Kathmandu. She scaled the peak on May 19 with the help of two Sherpas. Her husband Ankur Bahl, who climbed Mt Everest in 2016, was also welcomed at the Indian embassy in Kathmandu.

Sangeeta Bahl has already conquered six out of the seven highest peaks of the world. She broke the record of Premlata Agarwal, 48, who scaled Everest on May 20, 2011. The couple had pledged to scale seven summits in seven continents, which they clinched, some of them together.

NEW DELHI: India launched its second "information technology corridor" in China on Sunday to cash in on the burgeoning Chinese software market, which remained elusive despite the presence of top Indian tech firms in the large Asian nation. India's first IT corridor in China was launched in the Chinese port city of Dalian last December, with a focus on Internet of Things or IOT.

The National Association of Software and Services Companies or NASSCOM has now set up one more digital collaborative opportunities plaza, also known as the SIDCOP platform, in China's Guiyang to give market access to Indian IT firms in the huge Chinese market, the NASSCOM said in a statement.