- CRY Launches ‘Project Unlearn‘ on Children’s Day in India. It is nationwide campaign which aims to get children in labour across India back to school.
- Radio Kashmir Jammu has won the prestigious `Gandhian Philosophy and Public Service Broadcasting’ award for its programme `Jeevan Rekha’.
- Tata Group chairman emeritus Ratan Tata has invested in online furniture company Urban Ladder.
- Union government has launched Maulana Azad National Skills Academy (MANAS).
- Public broadcaster Doordarshan is relaunching its national channel as “ Desh ka Apna channel” with a slew of new programming.
- The fourth India-China joint training exercise Hand-in-Hand 2014, which aims to acquaint both armies with each other’s operating procedures in the backdrop of counter terrorism environment organised in Pune.
- Government re-launched Kisan Vikas Patra Scheme
- It was discontinued in 2011.
- The KVP will be available to the investors in the denomination of 1000, 5000, 10000 and 50000 rupees with no upper ceiling on investment.
- The investment made in the certificate will double in 100 months.
- State-owned Coal India Ltd will move its headquarters from heart of Kolkata to its outskirts, some 25 km away at Rajarhat, West Bengal
- Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar has been selected for Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award.
- The award comprises a citation, trophy and cheque for Rs 25 lakhs.
- Vengsarkar is the 19th recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Indian American Neha Gupta, 18 has been awarded with the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize 2014.
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