♨1. *Venkaiah Naidu is going to succeed Hamid Ansari as the new Vice-President of India*.
��Naidu’s victory was a foregone conclusion, the NDA candidate having the support of a majority of MPs who ally with the BJP.
♨2. *As a part of Government of India’s initiative to develop green airports, two airports in Andhra Pradesh- Tirupati and Vijayawada are going to go completely green.*
��AAI has commenced installation of 1MWp solar power plant at Tirupathi and Vijaywada Airports.
��The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) in Kerala is the first airport in the world to be completely powered by solar energy.
♨3. *Mobile wallet major MobiKwik has entered into a strategic partnership with Bajaj Finance to transform itself into a financial services app from a payments app at present.*
��Chairman and MD of Airtel is Sunil Bharti Mittal.
♨4. *Air Marshal Hemant Narayan Bhagwat took over as Air Officer-in-Charge Administration (AOA) of Indian Air Force at Air Headquarters in New Delhi.*
��The current CAS is Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa who took office on 31 December 2016.
♨5. *India signed a loan agreement with Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for financing of USD 329 million for Gujarat Rural Roads Project.*
��Headquarters of AIIB is located in Beijing, China.
��Jin Liqun is the current President of AIIB.
♨6. *Veteran actress and national award winner Sharada has been selected for this year's Prem Nazir Award.*
��Prem Nazir’ Award was instituted by people of Chirayankeezhu, in memory of Kerala’s evergreen actor Prem Nazir.
��The award carries a purse of Rs 75,000, a statuette and a citation.
♨7. *Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has been named the world's most highly-paid author with earnings of £72.2m ($95m).*
♨8. *India’s first private sector missile sub-systems manufacturing facility, a joint venture between the $2.5 billion Kalyani Group and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd., was inaugurated near Hyderabad.*
��Chief Minister of Telangana is K Chandrasekhar Rao.
♨9. *Shri Prabhat Kumar, (IFS 1991), presently Ambassador of India to Colombia has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Kazakhstan.*
��Capital of Kazakhstan is Astana.
♨10. *The AIFF has appointed senior advocate Ushanath Banerjee as the chairman of a special committee*.
��It will deal with the players’ transfer disputes’.
��President of All India Football Federation,also ( AIFF) is Praful Patel.
♨11. *Maharashtra Government has launched two online portals MahaDBT and MahaVASTU to streamline the process of direct benefit transfer (DBT) and to bring in more transparency in construction sector.*
��Current Chief Minister of Maharashtra is Devendra Fadnavis.
♨12. *The Centre recently approved the Adityanath-led UP government’s proposal to rename the Mughalsarai railway station after the Jan Sangh leader as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) station.*
��Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is Yogi Adityanath.
��The Mughalsarai station was established near Varanasi in 1862 when the East India Company linked Howrah to Delhi by rail.
♨13. *Passengers can now access the Delhi Police's women safety mobile application 'Himmat' via cab aggregator Uber's application while travelling in taxis.*
��Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American businessman and founder of UBER.
♨14. *Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today announced the appointment of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar as the brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat Mission in the state.*
��The chief minister also announced to make the film tax-free in the state. ��The chief minister also released the film’s toilet anthem, ‘Karle Toilet Ka Jugar’, which has been sung by the actor himself.
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