Sunday 27 September 2015

India This Week: 25 May-31 May 2015

25 May 2015 
• ICICI Bank launched Voice Recognition Service for Biometric Authentication
• Union Government approved 21 FDI proposals worth 281 crore rupees
• CS Santosh presented with 2014 FMSCI Motorsport Man of the Year Award
• Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise written by Pradeep Baijal

26 May 2015
• Manabi Bandopadhyay became first transgender principal of Krishnagar Women's College
• High Court allowed Greenpeace India to operate two of its domestic accounts
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Doordarshan's farmer-centric Kisan TV Channel
• Himachal Pradesh set up satellite tracking system to check forest fire
• 48 tigers in non-protected Chandrapur forest areas of Maharashtra: WCT Survey
• Delhi Government approved mandatory GPS in public transport from June 2015
• Union Ministry of Finance constituted Committee on Revisiting & Revitalizing PPP Model
• Nirbhay Sharma sworn in as Governor of Mizoram

27 May 2015
• Tripura withdrew AFSPA from state
• RBI notified FIIs to invest up to 49 percent in Gammon Infrastructure Projects Limited
• NCDEX launched Gold Now platform for forward contracts in gold
• Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs notified the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2014
• Five women suspended for anti-doping rule violations named for TOP Scheme
• Union Sports Ministry gave nod for creation of RSFs by recognising federations of indigenous sports
• Ajanmi Beti Ke liye Daud organised for the cause of saving girl child in Himachal Pradesh
• Microsoft announced to open India's first Digital Experience Centre in Gujarat

28 May 2015
• RBI released Draft Guidelines on Net Stable Funding Ratio for Banks
• RBI proposed to introduce PPI for Mass Transit Systems
• Abhinav Bindra became 4th Indian shooter to qualify for 2016 Rio Olympics
• Maharashtra CM sets up a high powered task force to develop IFSC
• Increasing number of hamlets responsible for decline of Tigers in Buxa Tiger Reseve: West Bengal
• Book titled Ahmedabad: A City in the World by Amrita Shah released
• Book titled Super Economies by Raghav Bahl released
• S Christopher appointed as Director General of DRDO 
• Yaduveer of Wodeyar dynasty crowned as 27th Maharaja of Mysuru
• VA Prasanth appointed as the CFO of Indian Bank

29 May 2015 
• State Bank of India launched Online Customer Acquisition Solution
• CSO released Provisional Estimates of National Income for FY 2014-15
• Andhra Pradesh brought 16 Sectors under Swiss Challenge method to develop Infrastructure
• Anand Kumar, Founder of Super 30, honoured in Canada
• Veena Jain appointed as Director General of Doordarshan News
• Pradeep Kumar Sinha appointed as Cabinet Secretary to Union Government
• G Satheesh Reddy appointed as Scientific Advisor to Union Defence Minister

30 May 2015
• Finance Minister inaugurated new Bank Note Paper Line unit in Hoshangabad, MP
• Former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo appointed as Chancellor of Nalanda University
• Union Government notified Undisclosed Foreign Income as Assets and imposition of Tax Act, 2015

31 May 2015
• Gurpreet Singh became 5th Indian to get quota place in shooting for 2016 Rio Olympics
• Fourth North East Youth Festival concluded in Jorhat district of Assam
• Mohun Bagan won I-League title of football after 13 years
• Gurpreet Singh became 5th Indian to get quota place in shooting for 2016 Rio Olympics

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