India's Presidential Election 2017 of India to be held on -
17th July
The Presidential Election of India going to be held on 17th
July 2017. Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi made this announcement on
7th June 2017.
The term of President Pranab Mukherjee who assumed the office in
July 2012 will come to an end on 24th July 2017.
India’s first private railway station going to be -
Habibganj Railway Station
Located in the suburbs of Bhopal, Habibganj Railway
Station will going to become India’s
first railway station to be re-developed in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP)
mode.
The station redevelopment work in the railway station will be launched on
9th June 2017 by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.
The project is aiming at
developing Habibganj Railway Station as a as a world-class transit hub equipped
with all kind of amenities.
MoU for construction of Budhigandaki Hydro-power Project
signed between China and - Nepal
Nepal signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 5th June
2017 with China for construction of 1200-megawatt Budhigandaki Hydro-power
Project.
Nepal Energy Minister Janardan Sharma and Lv Zexiang, President of
China Gezhouba Water & Power (Group) Co Ltd (CGGC) signed this agreement at
Kathmandu in Nepal.
To implement India’s first Rural LED Street Lighting Project
in AP by - Union government
The Union government would be providing 10 lakh conventional
street lights with LED lights in Gram Panchayats of the seven districts in
Andhra Pradesh.
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) under the Ministry of
Power will be undertaking the project.
Sweden, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan elected to Security
Council by - United Nations General Assembly
The 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly
elected Sweden, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan in the last week of May 2017
to serve on the world body’s Security Council for a period of two years,
starting from 1st January 2017.
After rounds of voting at the United Nation
Headquarters in New York, only one non-permanent Council seat is left to be
filled.
World's fastest elevator to be installed in - Skyscraper
complex building in China
The world's fastest elevator that can operate at a record
breaking speed of 1260 meters per minute is set to be installed in a skyscraper
complex building in China.
Elevator test recorded this speed at the CTF Finance
Center that is a 530 meter long skyscraper in the city of Guangzhou, China.
New species of flying squirrel discovered in - North America
Scientists have discovered a new species of flying squirrel
named Glaucomys Oregonensis in North America recently that had been hiding in
plain sight for more than hundreds of years. The study was published in the
Journal of Mammalogy on 30th May 2017.
This new species resides in the Pacific
Coast region of North America and named as Humboldt's flying squirrel.
Hoshiar Singh has been appointed as Registrar of Copyrights Office
Hoshiar Singh, a 1994 batch officer of the Indian Telecom
Services, was appointed as Registrar of Copyrights for a period of five years
on 7th June 2017 by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT)
First Indian state to launch pension for single women -
Telangana
Telangana government launched the single-women pension
scheme across the state on 4th June 2017.
The state government would be giving
a pension of about Rs 1000 per month to single women on humanitarian grounds
under this welfare scheme.
Nepal's first woman Chief Justice Sushila Karki retired on -
8th June 2017
First woman Chief Justice of Nepal Sushila Karki retired on
8th June 2017. She was 65 years old at the time of retirement.
She was appointed
as 25th Chief Justice of Nepal Supreme Court on 11th July 2017.
MoU between India and Korea for export credit of USD 9
billion approved by - The Union Cabinet
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra
Modi approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Export-Import Bank
of India (EXIM Bank) and Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) for export credit
of USD 9 billion on 7th June 2017.
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