1.Narayana declares Nellore district 100% ODF :-
The residents of this sleepy Viruvuru village located near Sangam area in the district on Sunday had the rare honour of seeing their village used as the platform for declaring the entire Nellore district as 100% ODF (open defecation free).
2.ESI mobile clinics launched in India for the first time: Dattatreya :-
Workers in small industries covered by the ESI facility but unable to access the medical services due to locational problems will have something to look forward with the Government launhing Mobile Clinics.
3.Airfares set to rise as Centre hikes airport charges :-
Airfares are set to go up as the government has decided to raise airport charges across all non-major airports operated by Airports Authority of India (AAI) by 5% every year beginning April 1.
4.In tit-for-tat, Iran imposes curbs on 15 U.S. firms :-
Iran said on Sunday that it has imposed sanctions on 15 American companies over their alleged support for Israel, terrorism and repression in the region.
5.HAL finalises major plan to speed up aircraft production :-
State-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has finalised a major plan to manufacture nearly 1,000 military helicopters and over a hundred planes, in tune with government’s focus on speeding up defence indigenisation.
6.Kandi road project: Uttarakhand to ensure safety of Corbett park wildlife :-
The Uttarakhand government will ensure that the wildlife at Corbett National Park is not harmed with the construction of the Kandi road which passes through it.
7.Kerala Transport Minister Saseendran quits after TV exposé :-
Kerala Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran resigned on Sunday, just hours after a newly launched Malayalam news channel aired an audio clip in which he was alleged to have engaged in a lewd phone conversation with a woman.
8.Hong Kong chooses first woman head :-
A Beijing-backed civil servant, Carrie Lam, was chosen to be Hong Kong’s next leader on Sunday amid accusations that Beijing is meddling and denying the financial hub a more populist leader perhaps better able to defuse the political tension.
9.CS XI scores an emphatic seven-wicket win over DGP XI :-
Amid bonhomie and camaraderie, the Chief Secretary’s XI and the Director General of Police’s XI played the traditional cricket match organised during the Budget session, in which the L.V. Subrahmanyam–led CS XI scored an emphatic seven-wicket win over the DGP XI at the Mulapadu cricket stadium near here on Sunday.
10.Google to bring artificial intelligence into daily life :-
Artificial intelligence has been the secret sauce for some of the biggest technology companies. But technology giant Alphabet Inc.’s Google is betting big on ‘democratising’ artificial intelligence and machine learning and making them available to everyone — users, developers and enterprises.
