1. India has rejected, through foreign ministry, China's
repeated invitation to join One Belt One Road project.
Source ; Naiduniya (read full)
2. Myanmar's Consul General
Pyi Soe died in a road accident in Galagi area of Jharkhand. He was returning
Kolkata from Gaya, Bihar. His wife, Nyo and two others were also seriously
injured in this accident.
Source ; NDTV.com
3. Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met her French counterpart Florence Parly in her first visit to India ;
Main key points of meeting were ;
a. strengthening co-operation in fighting terrorism,
b. strengthening defence, security and economic ties,
c. transfer of critical defence technology to boost Make in
India programme.
Source ; HindustanTimes.com
4. Now only RO water can be offered to shivlinga in Ujjain's
Mahakal Temple ( One of the 12 Jyotirlingas ) to test erosion of shivling stone
as the size of continuously decreasing due to erosion ; Supreme Court.
Source ; IndianExpress.com
5. All four main railway stations in
Delhi, New Delhi Railway Station, Old Delhi Railway Station, Anand Vihar
Railway Station and Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station, are installed with Solar
panels. This will not only reduce electricity expenses of railway but also help
preventing green house gases emmission.
Solar Panels' Capacities are ;
New Delhi Railway Station - 2.05
MW
Old Delhi Railway Station - 1.5
MW
Anand Vihar Railway Station - 0.8
MW
Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station
- 0.7 MW
This project completed under
Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model. Rail Minister Sh. Piyush Goyal
inaugurated Solar Panel equipment.
Source ; jagran.com
6. Australia's High Court
disqualified the Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce in the awake of
his dual citizen after New Zealand confirming his citizenship. Mr. Joyce father
was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia in 1947. As per New Zealand law,
a child born to New Zealand national is automatically given citizenship. Under
Australian constitution, dual citizens are not allowed to run for public
office.
7. PV Sindhu beat Chen Yufei (World
No. 10) of China in straight games 21-14, 21-14 in quarter finals of French
Open Superseries in Paris.
Source ; hindustantimes.com
8. Sangram Dahiya won Silver in
men's double trap and Amanpreet Singh won bronze in 50 meter free pistol in the
ISSF World Cup Shooting Final at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range.
Source ; hindustantimes.com
9. Pakistan won second T-20 match of
three matches series by 2 wickets.
Sri Lanka Innings
MD Gunathilaka 51 (48)
S Samaravikrama 32 (31)
Faheem Ashram took 3 wickets.
Hasan Ali took 2 wickets.
Pakistan Innings
Sarfaraz Ahmed 28(26)
Ahmed Shehzad 27(24)
NLTC Parera took 3 wickets.
10. Javed Akhtar (veteran writer
lyricist) honoured with Hridayanath Mangeshkar Award at an event marking the 28th
anniversary of of Hridayesh Arts and 80th birthday of veteran music composer
Hridaynath Mangeshkar.
Source ; thehindu.com
