Dipa Karmakar first Indian to
qualify for the finals of artistic Gymnastics
Dipa Karmakar becomes the first Indian to qualify for final
of artistic Gymnastics at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
§ She
qualifies vault apparatus with average score of 14.850 and grabbed the 8th
position to enter into the finals.
§ The
finals of the artistic Gymnastics will be held on August 14, 2016.
Tarun Ramadorai Committee to look at
household finances in India
§ The
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had set up a Tarun Ramadorai committee to look at
the various facets of household finance in India.
§ The
committee will also set a benchmark for India’s position vis-à-vis both the
peer countries and advanced countries.
§ Dr.
Tarun Ramadorai is a Professor of Financial Economics at University of Oxford.
Project “Swachh Survekshan-2017” launched
in New Delhi
§ Union
Minister of Urban Development M.Venkaiah Naidu launched a project “Swachh
Survekshan-2017” in New Delhi.
§ The
objective of this project is to assess and rank 500 cities based on levels of
sanitation and efforts made by respective urban local bodies.
Bernard Farrelly, Australian surfing
champion passed away
§ Bernard
Farrelly an Australian surfing champion passed away at the age of 71. He was
known as Midget for his slight size.
§ In
1964, he won the first official surfing World Championship at Sydney’s Manly
Beach.
§ He was
inducted into the Australia Hall of Fame in 1985.
Uttarakhand leads chart in industry,
service sectors growth: Assocham
§ According
to the Assocham reports, Uttarakhand state leads the chart of the states in the
country in terms of growth in the industry and service sectors in the last ten
years. The report covers data of ten years from 2004-05 to 2014-15.
§ Uttarakhand
has ranked at the first position by attaining the highest compounded annual
growth rate (CAGR) of 16.5 per cent and 12.3 per cent in industry and services
sectors during the period among states across India.
Union Minister Prakash
Javadekar inaugurates Chhattisgarh’s first IIT
§ Union
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has inaugurated the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Raipur at the Government Engineering
College campus.
§ The
IIT will have its own campus by the time its first batch of students pass out.
IRCTC signs MoU with Manipur govt to
provide hospitality & tourism services
§ Indian
Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) and the Manipur government
have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which seeks to provide
improved hospitality and tourism services to their customers by making 'joint
use of their capabilities and facilities'.
§ The
MoU entails upon both the parties to identify areas of cooperation and draw up
detailed plans for the development of joint tourism products and opening and
managing various catering and hospitality outlets, budget hotels and
handicrafts shops at railway as well as non-railway locations.
Over 1000 Dancing Robots Set Guinness
Record In China
§ A new
Guinness World Record for the most robots dancing simultaneously has been set
in China where 1,007 robots shimmied in unison, nearly double the previous
record.
§ The
attempt was organised by Qingdao-based Ever Win Company which almost doubled
the previous record of 540 dancing robots which was achieved earlier this year
by Chinese company UBTECH Robotics Corp.
First-ever 'Pizza ATM' opens in the US
§ The
first-ever 'Pizza ATM' has been installed at a university campus of US by
French- based company Paline, which developed the ATM.
§ The
pizza vending machine on the campus of Xavier University (XU) in Ohio can hold
seventy 12-inch pizzas and dispense them fresh and hot in just three minutes.
The cost of each pizza is around $10, with the ATM accepting credit and debit
cards, as well as a student card.
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