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1.Raja Shah became the first Indian American to address reporters during the Air Force Air Tour :-
Raj Shah, who holds an important position in the US White House, became the first Indian American to address reporters during a visit to the Presidential Air Force Air Force One.
Shah talked to reporters in the plane. U.S. President Donald Trump had appointed him the principal deputy press secretary in September. Trump has gone to the middle class to give an important lecture on relief and business tax relief, and Shah also accompanied him on the plane.
Shah, the first person of Indian origin to get top rank in the White House Press Office, talks with journalists traveling with him on the way to St. Louis. He informally briefed reporters on briefing
2.Prime Minister will inaugurate the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit :-
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi.
Former US President Barack Obama, Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah, Union Minister Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Dr. Raman Singh will also address different sessions during the two-day event.
3.Bombay Stock Exchange :-
The BSE Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange fell by nearly 300 points in the afternoon trade and was shortly thereafter 33 thousand 319. It was open at 33 thousand 417 with a fall of 185 points in the morning. The Nifty also dropped 87 points to 10 thousand 274.
In the foreign exchange market, the rupee fell 13 paise against the dollar. A dollar 64 rupee was spoken 44 paise.
4.Need to make India its infrastructure in the coming two decades to become a developed economy – Finance Minister :-
Addressing the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has said that achieving the figure of 10 per cent growth rate is challenging and apart from domestic factors, it will depend on what direction the global economy is going in.
Shri Jaitley said that there are measures to improve systematic in India and each improvement has a special significance. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India needs to upgrade its infrastructure in the coming two decades to become a developed economy.
At the Defense Estates Festival in New Delhi, Shri Jaitley said that the infrastructure can not be prepared all night – the need for funds for better structure. He said that tax evasion is obstructing the development of the country and the government is constantly making efforts to improve the tax system.
5.The stock market has broken 9-day fast :-
The stock market has broken 9-day fast. The Sensex fell 180 points to 33420 and the Nifty was trading 5800 after breaking 58 points. In today’s early business, banking stocks are under tremendous pressure.
The Bank Nifty is trading 0.61 per cent down and trading around 25635. On the other hand, pressure is also seen in Asian markets.
Meanwhile, the ECB has warned on the ups and downs in the euro area. Meanwhile, the good figures of growth are under pressure to see the pressure on gold. Crude oil prices have weakened more than 1%. There is pressure on crude oil from not being able to agree on production cut in OPEC.
6.President Barack Obama congratulated Meerabai Chanu for winning gold medal :-
President Ramnath Kovind congratulated Meerabai Chanu for winning the gold medal.
In a tweet message Mr. Kovind said that India is proud of Chanu. He also congratulated Manipur for giving the country many champion women players.
7.BWF has decided to launch an experimental service rule with the All England Open Championships next year :-
To deal with the suspicious decisions of the service judges, the World Badminton Federation (BWF) has decided to launch an experimental service rule from the All England Open Championships next year.
After criticism by the players and coaches of controversial decisions of service judges, BWF will now start this experiment in prestigious tournaments, which includes BWF Thomas and Uber Cup finals to be held in Bangkok next year and BWF World Championships in Nanjing.
The BWF Council recently made several decisions in the meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, which included the implementation of this rule. In order to implement this rule, the proposed changes in badminton rules will be kept in the BWF annual general meeting in May.
According to this rule, the entire shuttle at the time of colliding with the racket of the service holder Must be below 15 meters height At the moment, this experiment is expected to last till the end of the year.
8.Finance Minister: The trend of decline in the overall growth rate from the first quarter of the last financial year has now changed completely, increasing the growth rate in the quarter has helped with faster growth in manufacturing, compared to 1.2 percent in the first quarter. 7 percent during the second quarter :-
Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has said that the trend of decline in the overall growth rate from the first quarter of the last financial year has now changed completely.
The Finance Minister was reacting to the actual GDP growth figures for the second quarter of fiscal year 2017-18 which was released today by the CSO. According to the statistics, actual GDP growth estimates have been estimated at 6.3 percent, which reflects significant increase compared to 5.7 percent in the first quarter.
A good increase in real GVA growth has also increased, which has increased to 6.1 percent from 5.6 percent in the first quarter. This increase has been registered despite the decline in the second quarter from 1.7 per cent to 2.3 per cent in the first quarter of the agricultural growth.
