- Citizenship bill passed by Lok Sabha
- A Bill to amend the Citizenship Act, one of the six items on which government had issued ordinances is passed by the Lok Sabha.
- The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2015 seeks to remove disparity between Persons of Indian Origin cardholders and Overseas Citizens of India cardholders.
- The people who apply for Indian citizenship will now be allowed a 30-day break if they have to leave India for some time and their absence from the country will not affect their application for citizenship.
- Baldev Sharma appointed as chairman of National Book Trust
- The government has appointed former Panchajanya editor Baldev Sharma as the new chairman of the National Book Trust.
- The government has cut short the term of incumbent A. Sethumadhavan — better known by his pen name `Sethu’ — by six months.
- Nadal wins first title of 2015 at Argentina Open
- Spanish top seed Rafael Nadal defeated local player Juan Monaco to win the Argentina Open, lifting his first title in 2015.
- Mr. Nadal defeated Monaco in a match that lasted one hour and 27 minutes on Sunday with a score of 6-4, 6-1.
- Ola acquires TaxiForSure in $200-mn deal
- Ola Cabs has acquired its smaller rival in the taxi aggregator space, TaxiForSure, in a $200-million (Rs 1,200 crore) cash and equity arrangement.
- Ola, already a leader in the personal transportation market with a valuation exceeding $1 billion (Rs 6,000 crore) and over 100,000 vehicles on its platform, will become a stronger entity through TaxiForSure’s operator-led model.
- The TaxiForSure operates in 47 cities, with at least 15,000 vehicles on its platform.
- Kewal Sharma to be Delhi chief secretary
- Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Monday approved the appointment of 1983 batch IAS officer Kewal K Sharma as Delhi chief secretary.
- Sharma has done civil engineering from Regional Engineering College, University of Kashmir. Before becoming the Goa chief secretary.
- Mo Ibrahim prize: Namibia President Pohamba gets $5m award
- The outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has won the world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership.
- The $5m (£3.2m) award is given each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office.
- Mr Pohamba, a former rebel who fought for his country’s independence, has served two terms as Namibian president.
- He was first elected in 2004, and again in 2009. He is due to be succeeded by President-elect, Hage Geingob.
- Railways launches India’s first customer complaint mobile app
- Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Monday launched an Android-based customer complaint mobile app besides providing the facility online by launching a complaint management system (Coms).
- The Coms comprises the mobile app, an online portal backed by a centralised grievance redressal monitoring system and a mobile network messaging facility.
- With the launch, Indian Railways became the first company in the country to provide customer complaint services on a mobile app.
- Passengers can also SMS their complaints on the mobile number.
- Complaints will be provided with a unique complaint ID number (and) complainants can use the unique ID number to track progress of complaints.
- Government Inks Monetary Policy Deal with RBI on Inflation Control
- The Reserve Bank of India will aim to bring retail inflation below 6% by January 2016 and to around 4% by fiscal 2016-17, said the government’s monetary policy framework agreement with the RBI.
- The target of financial year 2016-17 and all subsequent years shall be four per cent with a band of (+/-) 2 per cent.
- The agreement also requires the RBI to give the government a report in case the target is missed for a specified period.
- The RBI is also required to make public every six months a document explaining the sources of inflation and the inflation forecast for the period between six and eight months.
- The new monetary policy committee, which will set the inflation target, will have eight members, including a finance ministry nominee and external members.
- The RBI governor will head the panel and, as such, will have the veto power in the new monetary policy framework.

- Election Commission launches National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP)
- The Election Commission of India has launched National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) throughout the country from today with the prime objective of bringing a totally error free and authenticated electoral roll.
- During the programme, EPIC data of electors will be linked with Aadhar data of UIDAI for the purpose of authentication.
- Electors have been provided the facility to feed their respective Aadhar number through sms, email, mobile application and National Voters Service Portal (NVSP) using web services through election commission website.
- Electors can also feed Aadhar number by making a call at 1950 to state call centres or by submitting the details of Aadhar number and EPIC number in a hard copy of duly filled up Form along with photocopy of both the documents, namely EPIC and Aadhar card.
- INCOIS launches app for fishermen
- A clutch of products developed by the Hyderabad-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), including an Android app for ocean information services, was launched on Tuesday.
- The app, developed in-house by the INCOIS’ Marine Fishery Advisory Services team is for the benefit of fishermen.
- Bill Gates named world’s richest person for 16th time
- Bill Gates has retained his title as the world’s richest person.
- The fortune of the Microsoft co-founder grew $3.2 billion since last year to $79.2 billion, according to Forbes’ list of 2015’s richest people.
- Gates has held the title for 16 of the past 21 years.

- Insurance Bill introduced in Lok Sabha
- The long-pending Insurance Bill – that seeks to increase the Foreign Direct Investment cap in the sector to 49 per cent — was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, despite Opposition objecting to its introduction on the ground that the Rajya Sabha had not allowed its withdrawal.
- The Congress did not join these Opposition parties in objecting the introduction of the Bill but the party did vote against the motion to introduce it.
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