The High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) completed the ‘rolling-in’ of the Belle-II experiment in Tsukuba, Japan.

The G20 Digital Ministerial Meeting on Digital Economy was held in Dusseldorf, Germany. Ministers responsible for the digital economy from G20 countries had participated in it.

The Union Ministry of Power has launched URJA MITRA app for empowering citizens by real time information sharing on power supply.

The Union Ministry of Food Processing is going to launch Scheme for Agro-Marine Produce Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters (SAMPADA) for food processing sector.

• Align pay in PSBs to that in CPSEs: BBB
• Government sets up inter-ministerial panel to monitor UDAN
• Survey of India launches web portal Nakshe

The Union Government has set up an ‘Inter- Ministerial Monitoring-cum-Coordination Committee’ to monitor the UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik) scheme.

India and Georgia signed a Joint Statement on the launching of the Joint Feasibility Study on the bilateral Free Trade Agreement.

Parliament has passed the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2017.

The Bank Board Bureau (BBB) has recommended that Government should bring in reforms in the compensation process in public sector banks (PSBs) on the lines of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs).

Colson Whitehead’s celebrated novel The Underground Railroad has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The Survey of India (SOI) has launched new web portal called Nakshe to make open series maps available to Indians for free.

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