- China’s Xi Jinping unveils new ‘four comprehensives’ slogans
- Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unveiled his new political theory, distilled into four slogans known as the “four comprehensives”.
- The People’s Daily summed up the Four Comprehensives as:
- Comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society
- Comprehensively deepen reform
- Comprehensively govern the nation according to law
- Comprehensively strictly govern the Party.
- A person can be treated as scheduled caste even after re-conversion: SC
- The Supreme Court on Thursday held that a person can be accorded Scheduled Caste (SC) status on his re-conversion to Hinduism.
- If he is accepted by fellow caste men and proves that either he or his forefathers previously belonged to that caste before embracing another religion.
- Ratan Tata honoured with Doctorate of Automotive Engineering at South Carolina Auto Summit
- Ratan Tata has been honoured with an honorary Doctorate of Automotive Engineering by the Clemson University at the South Carolina Automotive Summit.
- Tata joined the Tata Group in 1962. In 1981, he was named chairman of Tata Industries where he was responsible for transforming it into a group strategy think tank and a promoter of new ventures in high technology businesses.
- AB De Villiers hits fastest ODI 150
- AB de Villiers hit the fastest ever 150 in one-day internationals as South Africa condemned West Indies to a crushing 257-run defeat in Sydney.
- De Villiers took 64 deliveries to reach 150, beating the previous best, set by Australia’s Shane Watson, by 19 balls.
- He finished 162 not out from 66 balls as South Africa made 408-5, the second-highest total in World Cups.
- West Indies were 151 all out to equal the heaviest World Cup defeat by runs.
- Economic Survey 2014-15 released
- The survey prepared by the finance ministry’s chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian on the state of Indian economy was released.
- Centre forecast GDP growth of over 8 per cent (y/y) in the 2015/16 fiscal year.
- India must meet its medium-term fiscal deficit target of 3 percent of GDP.
- Government will adhere to fiscal deficit target of 4.1 percent of GDP in 2014/15.
- Kshatrapati Shivaji takes over as new CMD of SIDBI
- Kshatrapati Shivaji, a 1986 batch IAS officer, has taken over as the Chairman and Managing Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
- Shivaji has been appointed on deputation basis for a period of three years from the date of his taking over the charge, a Finance Ministry release said.
- Gopinath Pillai named as special envoy to AP
- The Singapore Government has appointed Gopinath Pillai as the special envoy by to Andhra Pradesh to speed up the development of the new capital city.
- The 79-year-old Gopinath Pillai, who is the chairman of the think tank Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) and an ambassador-at-large for Singapore, was introduced by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Singapore Minister Shanmugham, at Secretariat.
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