1)ATP Stuttgart Open
:
Rafael Nadal won
the singles final of the ATP’s Stuttgart Open 2015 .
Nadal defeated Viktor Troicki 7-6, 6-3 to win the title.
2)Prime Minister
Narendra Modi launched a book titled Education
of Muslims: An Islamic Perspective of Knowledge and Education written by
Professor JS Rajput.
3)A book named Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is
changing the World's Largest Democracy written by Hindol Sengupta launched.
4) Sunil Chhetri became first Indian
footballer to score 50 international goals.
5) The Union
Cabinet gave its approval for Housing
for All by 2022 Mission aimed at providing housing facilities to all
eligible people in urban areas by 2022.
Some Important
highlights of Housing for All by 2022 Mission are:
- It will be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and
the States and Union Territories (UTs) are given greater autonomy in execution
of the mission.
- It has four
components viz., slum rehabilitation, credit linked interest subsidy,
affordable housing and beneficiary-led individual house construction or
enhancement.
- It will be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme
except the credit linked subsidy component, which will be implemented as a
Central Sector Scheme.
- Houses constructed under the mission would be allotted in
the name of the female head of the households or in the joint name of the male
head of the household and his wife.
6)Union
Government launched weather alert service NOWCAST
:
NOWCAST will be used to send SMS alerts on extreme weather
data like hailstorm, thunderstorm and squall originated by India Meteorological
Department (IMD) to over one crore farmers whose mobile numbers are registered
on government’s mKisan portal.
7)Exercise Ajeya
Warrior -2015: Joint exercise between the armies of India and UK.
8)The Chinese
Version of the sacred ancient Indian scripture Bhagavad Gita was launched in
China during an international yoga conference.
The book was translated by Chinese Professor Wang Zhu Cheng and Ling Hai of the Zhejiang University in Shanghai.
