1. PM NARENDRA MODI ON A THREE DAY VISIT TO UK
i. PM Narendra Modi is a three-day visit to UK to boost investment
opportunities and hold talks on various bilateral issues mainly relating to security concern.
ii. It is PM Narendra modi’s first visit to Britain as Prime Minister.
PM of United
Kingdom: David
Cameron
2. INDIA CAN BE A CHINA-LIKE GLOBAL GROWTH POWERHOUSE OF THE
2020: THE ECONOMIST
i. The
international Magazine ‘THE ECONOMIST’ has stated India can be a China-like
global growth powerhouse of the 2020s, provided it addresses several
challenges.
ii.The magazine has stated
India is the only country that has the potential to change the world in the
2020s, in the way that China changed it in the 2000s.
3.’BIS’
ELECTS ‘RAGHURAM RAJAN AS ITS VICE-CHAIRMAN’
i. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India, has been elected as vice-chairman of the Bank of International Settlement.
i. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India, has been elected as vice-chairman of the Bank of International Settlement.
ii.He will have a
three-year term as vice-chairman of the BIS.
iii.Raghuram Rajan is the
first Indian central bank Governor to become the vice-chairman of BIS.
iv.The Bank for International Settlements is
the world’s oldest international financial organizationestablished in May 1930.
4. INDIA’S GSAT-15 COMMUNICATION SATELLITE
LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY
I.GSAT-15 is India’s latest
communications satellite which was recently successfully launched
ii.GSAT-15 was launched
from Kourou in French Guiana in South America.
iii.GSAT 15 will replace
two older spacecraft-INSAT 3A and 4B- that will likely expire in the coming
months.
iv.GSAT-15 will deliver
telecommunications services that will provide more bandwidth for Direct-to-Home
television services.
