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current affairs:
- NITI Aayog and Flipkart, have come together to launch the revamped Women Entrepreneurship Platform. The Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is a unified access portal which brings together women from different parts of India to realise their entrepreneurial aspirations. The idea of the platform was first mooted by Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog who announced the setting-up of a Women Entrepreneurship Platform in NITI Aayog at the conclusion of the 8th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) held in Hyderabad in 2017, with an overarching theme of ‘Women first, prosperity for all’.
- RBI forms six-member working group to regulate digital lending frauds The six-member panel comprises of following four RBI internal and two external members:
- Jayant Kumar Dash, Executive Director, RBI (Chairman)
- Ajay Kumar Choudhary, Chief General Manager-in-Charge, Department of Supervision (Member)
- P Vasudevan, Chief General Manager, Department of Payment and Settlement Systems, RBI (Member)
- Manoranjan Mishra, Chief General Manager, Department of Regulation (Member Secretary)
- Vikram Mehta, Co-founder, Monexo Fintech (External Member)
- Rahul Sasi, Cyber Security Expert & Founder of CloudSEK (External Member)
- The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhubaneswar has proved its mettle once again for promoting cleanliness, hygiene and creating sustainable practices in public health facilities by winning the Kayakalp Award Scheme. AIIMS Bhubaneswar will get an award of Rs 2 crore for the performance. The institute has been adjudged as the best central government hospital under B category for cleanliness for a third consecutive year
- Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla has registered a fully-owned subsidiary in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Tesla, the world’s most valued carmaker has incorporated a fully owned subsidiary ahead as a first step to set up an R&D unit and a manufacturing plant for its electric vehicles in the country
History on this day
(1761) Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the century, the mostly Muslim Afghani Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in Northern India. An estimated 60,000–70,000 were killed in the fighting and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners massacred afterwards
(1898) Australian cricketer Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground