Sunday 27 September 2015

India This Week: 22 June-28 June 2015

22 June 2015 
• Union Ministry of Home Affairs designated Agatti and Minicoy Islands as Immigration Check Posts
• Task Force report on enabling the Private Sector to grow pharmaceutical sector released
• Union Ministry of Finance issued Draft Proposals for Facilitating Electronic Transactions
• FBIL overnight Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate (MIBOR) to become effective from July 22
• EPFO made UAN mandatory for all employers under Employee Provident Fund Act, 1952
• Kerala’s Trinity College of Engineering launched student satellite TASSAT project
• Sister Nirmala Joshi, former head of Missionaries of Charity, died

23 June 2015
• SEBI relaxed the IPO norms for technological start-ups to raise funds from capital market
• Inderjeet Singh, Jinson Johnson won gold at Asian Athletics Grand Prix
• Indian Railway Team won World Railway Championship 2015 in Tennis and Volleyball
• Taygan Lions Park, Skazka Zoo, Thiruvananthapuram Zoo inked animal exchange agreement
• Bhuvan Ganga Mobile Application launched to aid National Mission for Clean Ganga
• Maharashtra government decided to amend MPDA Act, 1981
• Lucknow zoo renamed after last Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
• Maharashtra declared Blue Mormon as State butterfly
• Veteran Journalist Praful Bidwai passed away
• Red Tape to Red Carpet... and then some written by Gina Rinehart released

24 June 2015
• Union Cabinet approved setting up of six Indian Institutes of Management (IIM)
• Union Government launched India’s first Modernised Anganwadi Centre at Hasanpur village in Sonepat
• Union Cabinet approved to set up a National Memorial at birth place of Lok Nayak JP Narayan in Bihar
• UNCTAD released World Investment Report 2015
• Union Cabinet approved renaming of SECI as Renewable Energy Corporation of India
• Union Cabinet approved signing of MoC between India and Japan on Industrial Property
• Leander Paes became 47th player to join 100 partners club on ATP Circuit
• Steffi Graf appointed as Kerala’s Ayurveda brand ambassador
• APMDC signed MoU with NSL Mining Resources India Pvt Ltd for iron ore mining projects
• BHEL commissioned first 250-MW unit of NTPC’s Bongaigaon Thermal Power Project
• Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee appointed as acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court
• 42-footlong blue whale washed ashore at Revdanda coast in Maharashtra died
• Sahitya Akademi announced Bhasha Samman
• Sahitya Akademi announced Bal Sahitya Puraskar for the year 2015

25 June 2015
• Union Government approved a proposal for setting up second airport at Jewar in NCR
• Union Government asked Bihar, TN, Rajasthan to introduce milk in mid day meal scheme
• PM launched AMRUT, Smart Cities Mission and Housing for All (Urban)
• RBI extended deadline for exchanging pre-2005 currency notes by 6 months
• RBI allowed AD Category-I Banks to borrow from International Financial Institutions
• RBI released Financial Stability Report June 2015
• Delhi Budget 2015-16 presented 
• Anshula Kant appointed as CFO and Deputy Managing Director of SBI

26 June 2015
• Assam entrepreneurs signed pact on waste management
• Famous Writer Vishwanath Tripathi chosen for 28th Moorti Devi Award
• Nadia district won the UN Public Service Award 2015 for eliminating open defecation
• President conferred Punyabhushan Award on Prataprao Pawar
• Two-day long annual Hemis festival of Ladakh
• Assam's Ambubachi Mela concluded

27 June 2015 
• Haryana government revised the Dearness Relief from 212 per cent to 223 per cent

28 June 2015

• Gutta-Ponappa won women's doubles of Canada Open Badminton tournament 2015

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