Ganga Kumari – first transgender in Rajasthan Police. The Rajasthan
High Court has directed the police department to appoint her as a
constable.
2. Saudi Arabian government approved the practice
of yoga as a sports activity, claimed a social media post of Nouf
Marwaai, founder of the Arab Yoga Foundation in the Saudi kingdom.
3.
Power Ministry launched a National Power Portal (NPP)
“http://npp.gov.in.” , a centralized platform for collation and
dissemination of Indian power sector information.
• The NPP is a
centralised system for the power sector which facilitates online data
capture/input (daily, monthly, annually) from generation, transmission
and distribution utilities.
4. 4 Agreements were signed by
India’s PM Modi and the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in areas
including Defence Cooperation and Logistics, agriculture, Micro, Medium
and Small Enterprises-MSME and forging closer relations between the
Indian Council of World Affairs and the Philippines Foreign Service
Institute.
