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1. Over 6.26 lakh people win prizes worth Rs.97.07 crore under Lucky Grahak Yojana, Digi dhan Vyapar Yojana
2. Mahila Shakti Kendra will be set up at village level Allocation
3. India to get $201.50 million loan from World Bank for engineering education
4. India to construct multi-ethnic tri-lingual school in Lanka
5. NITI Aayog launches 'India Innovation Index .
INTERNATIONAL
6. China tests missile with 10 nuclear warheads
BUSINESS
7. India's GDP growth likely at 7.1% in 2017-18: HSBC
NATIONAL
1. Over 6.26 lakh people win prizes worth Rs.97.07 crore under Lucky Grahak Yojana, Digi dhan Vyapar Yojana
• Over 6.26 lakh people won prizes worth over 97 crore rupees under Lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi dhan Vyapar Yojana till 30th of last month.• The two schemes are part of NITI Aayog’s digital payment promotion schemes and ongoing efforts of the Government to provide incentives for digital transactions.
• Under the Lucky Grahak Yojana- Daily scheme 5.55 lakh consumers have won the prize while over 26 thousand consumers won under the Lucky Grahak Yojana- Weekly scheme.
• over 35 thousand merchants have been declared winners under the Digi dhan Vyapar Yojana-weekly scheme.
• 40 such Melas have been held across the country since 25th of December last year till date. Over 100 Digi-Dhan Melas are planned across the country to inculcate digital payment among the people.
• The exercise has so far covered cities from 21 States and four Union Territories.
2. Mahila Shakti Kendra will be set up at village level Allocation
• Mahila Shakti Kendra will be set-up at village level• Allocation for the welfare for Women and Children has been increased from Rs. 1,56,528 Crores to Rs. 1,84,632 Crores
• Mahila Shakti Kendra will be set-up at village level with an allocation of Rs. 500 crores in 14 lakh ICDS Anganwadi Centres.
3. India to get $201.50 million loan from World Bank for engineering education
• The loan agreement is part of the Technical Education Quality Improvement Project (TEQIP III)
• the third phase of a 15-20 year programme that started in 2002.
• It has made a considerable impact on the quality of education by implementing institutional and policy reforms
• “The focus of the project is to strengthen engineering education in India’s low-income, hill states and states of the North East.”
4. India to construct multi-ethnic tri-lingual school in Lanka
• India and Sri Lanka today signed an agreement to construct a multi-ethnic tri-lingual school in a north central district of the island nation
• That would provide opportunities to Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim students to learn in a multi-cultural environment.
• The MoU was signed by India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu and Secretary to the Ministry of Education Sunil Hettiarachchi.
• Secondary school located in President Maithripala Sirisena's home district Polonnaruwa will be constructed using a grant of SLR 300 million from the Indian Government.
5. NITI Aayog launches 'India Innovation Index'
• NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Thursday launched "India Innovation Index", the nation's first online innovation index portal which will rank states based on their innovations.
• It will be a "first-of-its-kind online platform" where Global Innovation Index (GII) indicators and India-centric data from various states will be updated periodically.
• This will be a one-stop data warehouse and will track progress on each indicator at the National level and the State level on real-time basis,
INTERNATIONAL
6. China tests missile with 10 nuclear warheads
• The flight test of the DF-5C missile was carried out.• DF-5C missile is a new variant of the DF-5, an ICBM.
• The test was monitored closely by US intelligence agencies.
BUSINESS
7. India's GDP growth likely at 7.1% in 2017-18: HSBC
• India is expected to clock a GDP growth of 7.1 per cent in 2017-18 as the country gets sufficiently remonetised and the schemes in the Budget play a supportive role, says an HSBC report.
