May 02, 2017 Leander Paes Wins Tallahassee Challenger Title The top-seeded Indo-American pair of Leander Paes and Scott Lipsky defeated Argentine third seeds Leonardo Mayer and Maximo Gonzalez to win the Tallahassee Challenger title of the men’s double.
May 02, 2017 Maharashtra becomes First State to Use Automated Weather Stations (AWS) for Farmers Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has inaugurated the state’s first automatic weather station at Dongargaon in Nagpur.
May 02, 2017 Indian Railways to Track Wagons and Coaches with RFID tags Leveraging information technology in a big way, the Indian Railways is set to make use of the radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) for tracking of wagons, coaches and locomotives to ensure the effective and transparent functioning of the system.
May 01, 2017 Current Affairs 1st May, 2017 India successfully carries out fresh user trial of Agni-III ballistic missile Ganga Swachhta Sankalp Divas to be celebrated on May 02, 2017 India to give Rs 35 cr to children of freedom fighters in Bangladesh
May 01, 2017 Aizawl FC become First Northeastern Club to Win I-League Aizawl FC has won its maiden I-League title against Shillong Lajong in their final game of the league season to become the first ever club from the northeast to win the I-League title.
May 01, 2017 Real Estate Act comes into effect The Real Estate Act which aims to protect the interests of homebuyers by ensuring transparency has come into effect. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) has asked all the states and Union Territories to implement the Act with letter and spirit.
May 01, 2017 Scientists at IIT Create Low Cost Solar Cells using Jamun Scientists at IIT Roorkee have used Indian summer fruit, Jamun, to create low cost and more efficient solar cells.
May 01, 2017 India to launch South-Asia satellite on May 5 The “South Asia satellite” for use by countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region will be launched on May 5.
May 01, 2017 RBI asks ARCs to have a minimum net corpus of Rs100 crore by 2019 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked all the existing asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) to have a minimum net owned fund (NOF) of Rs100 crore by March 2019.
May 01, 2017 India to give Rs 35 cr to children of freedom fighters in Bangladesh India will give Rs. 35 crore rupees to children of freedom fighters in Bangladesh under the new ‘Muktijodha scholarship’ scheme in the next five years.
May 01, 2017 Ganga Swachhta Sankalp Divas to be celebrated on May 02, 2017 May 2, 2017 will be observed as the Ganga Swachhta Sankalp Divas by National Mission on Clean Ganga (NMCG) at 12 locations, namely, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Bhagalpur, Sahibganj, Kolkata, Raj Ghat (Hardoi), Bithoor, Srinagar ( Uttarakhand), Vidhur Kuti (Bijnor) and Devprayag.