India re-elected as member of ITU council till 2022

  • India has been elected as a member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council.
  • India will hold membership for another four years from 2019 to 2022.
  • India secured 165 votes at the elections and ranked third among the 13 countries elected to the council from the Asia-Australasia region.
  • The ITU has 193 member states.

Nuclear-capable INS Arihant completes first deterrence patrol

  • The INS Arihant, India’s first nuclear ballistic missile submarine, has completed its first deterrence patrol.
  • The 6,000-tonne indigenously developed submarine is a fully functional underwater ballistic missile vessel.
  • It was under development for three decades under a highly classified programme.
  • It comes under the direct control of the Nuclear Command Authority which is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

After Allahabad, UP CM Yogi Adityanath renames Faizabad Ayodhya

  • Close on the heels of renaming Allahabad ‘Prayagraj’, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced that the Faizabad district will be known as ‘Ayodhya’.
  • Adityanath said that Ayodhya is a symbol of our ‘aan, baan aur shaan’ (honour, pride and prestige).

Govt approves operationalisation strategy for Operation Greens

  • The government has approved the operationalisation strategy for Operation Greens.
  • The aim of the operation is to ensure availability of tomato, onion and potato throughout the country throughout the year without affecting prices.
  • The large scale goal is to stabilize the supply of tomato, onion and potato crops.

Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy, wife make history, enter Assembly together

  • Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and his wife Anitha Kumaraswamy will make history when they enter the state Assembly together as lawmakers.
  • This is a rare occasion when a chief minister will be entering the Vidhana Soudha (seat of state legislature) with his wife.
  • Never before in India has it happened that a chief minister and his wife have become MLAs together.
  • Kumaraswamy and his wife had earlier been members of the House together.

Rohit Sharma surpasses Virat Kohli, becomes India’s highest run-scorer in T20Is

  • Rohit Sharma has surpassed captain Virat Kohli to become India’s highest run-scorer in Twenty20 Internationals.
  • He achieved this during the second game against the West Indies at the newly-built Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
  • Kohli previously was the top-rated Indian batsman in T20Is with 2,101 runs from 62 T20I matches at an average of 48.88.
  • Sharma has 2,203 runs from 86 matches.
  • Sharma also became the first batsman in the world to score four T20I hundreds.
  • Rohit is now the second highest run-scorer in the T20 batting charts and needs just 68 more to equal all-time top scorer, New Zealand’s Martin Guptill.

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