1. China has launched the world’s largest floating solar farm. The 40-MW power plant has
1,60,000 panels resting on a lake that emerged after the collapse of a coal
mine in central Anhui province.
2. Government has launched 'Tele Law' service to provide legal aid for the people living in
rural areas through video conferencing.
3. Congress President Sonia
Gandhi releases the book “Indira
Gandhi: A Life in Nature” written by former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh at Indira Gandhi Memorial
Museum in New Delhi.
4. India's Mohun
Bagan striker Jeje Lalpekhlua
received the All India Football Federation's inaugural player of the year 2016
award.
5. Aiming to reduce emissions and promote sustainability to
help India’s smart city programme,
France and the European Union extended a grant of 3.5 million euros under the ‘Moblise Your City’ (MYC) initiative.
6. Noted poet and writer Cingireddi Narayana Reddy, recipient of the Jnanpith Award in 1988,
passed away.
7. India and Mauritius signed a pact to institutionalize
cooperation between Parliaments of the two countries.
8. State Bank of India’s Rs. 15,000 crore capital raise via qualified institutional
placement is credit positive for the bank as it strengthens its capitalisation
and supports credit growth, particularly given the increasing requirements for
equity under Basel III.
9. Spain's Rafael
Nadal has lifted his 10th French Open Men's Singles Title.
10. Hashikant Kutwal,
a railway employee with Pune Division, has won the gold medal at the 17th World
Individual Chess Championship for differently-abled, held in Slovakia from May
27 to June 6, 2017.
11. Jelena Ostapenko
of Latvia beat Simona Halep 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 at Roland Garros to win the 2017
French Open Women’s Singles crown and her first ever Grand Slam title.
12. Dhanya Shah
and Sanmay Gandhi clinched the
Under-14 doubles title of the Asian Junior Tennis Championships at the Balewadi
Stadium.
13. The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for
Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr Jitendra
Singh announced the launch of “Hill Area Development Programme”
(HADP) for Northeast in Imphal, Manipur.
14. Kolkata, the ‘City of Joy’ is about to
experience a wonder in the form of an underwater Metro train which will run
beneath the Hooghly river. It’s one of the path-breaking projects
in India as never before a tunnel has been dug beneath a flowing river.
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