1. Atal Bihari Vajpayee passes away at 93 Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died on 16th August, 2018. Three-time Prime Minister, Vajpayee was the first and the only non-Congress Prime Minister to serve a full five-year term from 1999 to 2004;
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1. SEBI cuts listing time for public issue of debt securities Markets regulator SEBI drastically cut the timeline for listing of debt securities to six days from 12 days at present, in order to make the existing process of issuance of such securities simpler and cost effective.
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1. Haryana gets First Civil Airport At Hisar As Independence Day Gift Haryana’s first civilian airport at Hisar was inaugurated on Independence Day (15 August). The airport was built in record time with support from the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
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1. Justice Manjula Chellur takes oath as APTEL Chairperson Justice Manjula Chellur took oath as the Chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity under the Ministry of Power in New Delhi.
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1. Harivansh Narayan Singh appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Harivansh, belonging to the Janata Dal (United), was elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha He was the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate for the post. While Mr. Harivansh secured 125 votes in his favour, 105 members voted against him.
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1. Lok Sabha passes the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill 2018 to help India become arbitration hub Lok Sabha passed a Bill that will help India become a hub for domestic and global arbitration for settling commercial disputes. It was passed through a voice vote.
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1. SC approves colour coding stickers for vehicles in Delhi, NCR The Supreme Court approved the central government’s proposal to use color-coded stickers on vehicles running only in New Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR) for classifying vehicles on the type of fuel used in an effort to help control air pollution.
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Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has released official notification for Probationary Officer/ Management Trainee recruitment for 2019-2020. Online registration will begin on August 14, 2018.
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1. Government nominates Swaminathan Gurumurthy to RBI Central Board The government has nominated r Swaminathan Gurumurthy to the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India. The name of Gurumurthy, who had termed the demonetisation exercise a “success” and an “investment”, was approved by Prime Minister
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1. Internet in India: Gaping gender gap India has the highest gender gap in mobile phone ownership amongst 18 comparable countries and ranks among the lowest in women’s access to the Internet, a new study released by LIRNEAsia, an information and communications technology (ICT) policy think tank that is involved in “pro-poor, pro-market” research in Asia-Pacific since 2005. According to the
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