Sports
Anjum
Moudgil won silver medal in shooting
India’s Anjum
Moudgil won silver medal in the women’s 10m air rifle event at
the ongoing ISSF Shooting World Championships in Changwon, South
Korea on September 3, 2018.
Apurvi
Chandela finished fourth in the women’s 10m Air Rifle
event of the ISSF World Championship.
Anjum
and Apurvi became the first Indian shooters to win a quota
for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Indian men’s hockey team won bronze
The Indian men’s hockey team beat Pakistan by 2-1 to clinch a bronze medal on the 14th day of Asian Games 2018.
Akashdeep Singh (3rd minute) and Harmanpreet Singh (50th minute) scored two goals for India in the match.
It was India’s 69th medal at the Asian Games 2018.
Ikee Rikako named as MVP of Asian Games
Japanese swimmer Ikee Rikako has been named as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 18th edition of Asian Games.
She became the first female athlete to win the MVP title.
Rikako bagged six gold and two silver medals in the tournament. She received $50,000 as prize money.
India
ITI
inked pacts with start-ups
ITI
Ltd signed agreements with start-ups and original equipment
manufacturers for manufacturing of a wide range of ICT-IOT based
solutions.
ITI
Ltd has also entered into an agreement with Telecommunication
Engineering Center, New Delhi, for the establishment of telecom
testing labs at its Bengaluru plant.
The
agreements signed will help ITI diversify its manufacturing
capabilities.
‘Digital
Village’ inaugurated in Amethi
Union
textiles minister Smriti Irani on September 1, 2018 inaugurated
a ‘digital village‘ in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh.
Under
the digital village project, there would be 206 programmes available
for the people.
This
includes a Wi-Fi Chaupal, LED bulb manufacturing, a unit to make
sanitary pads and PM digital literacy initiative.
Science
ISRO
to make history by launching 19 missions
Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to carry out 19
missions in a span of just seven months.
The
19 missions include 10 satellite and nine launch vehicles scheduled
to take off between September 2018 and March 2019.
ISRO
will begin its series of launches from September 15 with the PSLV
C42 mission which will have the Novasar and S1-4- UK satellites
as the main payload.
Appointments
HAL
gets a new chairman
Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited (HAL) appointed R Madhavan as its Chairman and
Managing Director for five years.
Madhavan
was heading the Accessories Division of HAL at Lucknow as an
Executive Director.
Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is an Indian state-owned aerospace and
defence company headquartered in Bangalore, India.
World
6th
East Asia Summit held in Singapore
Commerce
& Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu attended the 6th East Asia
Summit- Economic Ministers’ Meeting (EAS-EMM) and 15th
India-ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting (AEM) in Singapore.
Singapore
is currently holding the Chair of ASEAN.
It
was also announced in the Singapore meeting that the 2019 ASEAN-India
Business Summit will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Business & Economy
‘Mauritius
tops India’s FDI charts again’
According
to RBI data, Mauritius remained the top source of Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI) into India in 2017-18 followed by Singapore.
While
FDI from Mauritius totalled $13.41 billion as against $13.38 billion
in 2017, inflows from Singapore rose to $9.27 billion from $6.52
billion.
FDI
from the Netherlands declined marginally to $2.67 billion as against
$3.23 billion.
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