1.Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Col Rathore (Retd) launched the National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 to provide a chance to the youth to brainstorm about new India and to find ways and chalk out plans to realize our resolves before 2022.National Youth day is on 12 January every year.
2.The GST Council raised the annual turnover limit under which companies would be exempt from GST to ₹40 lakh for most States and ₹20 lakh for the North Eastern and hill states, from the earlier limit of ₹20 lakh and ₹10 lakh, respectively.Chairman of GST council is Finance Minister.
3.Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the appointment of Brahm Dutt as part-time, non-executive chairman of Yes Bank. Mr. Dutt has been on the Board of the bank since July 2013.Yes Bank is headquartered at Mumbai.
4.E-Choupal, initiative from ITC aimed to web-enable farmers to overcome challenges related to information access and procurement, plans to launch a mobile version of the programme by middle of 2019.ITC is a FMCG giant based in Kolkata.
5.Gujarat Government has announced that the benefits of 10% quota for Economically Weaker sections of the general category in educational institutions. The new quota will be applicable only for which the announcement for jobs.Om Prakash Kohli is the governor of Gujarat.
6.External Affairs Minister met Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rasit Meredow on the sidelines of the India-Central Asia Dialogue which focussed on a plethora of regional issues and they discussed enhancing bilateral cooperation across sectors.Turkmenistan: Capital – Ashgabat, Currency – Manat.
7.UAE & Saudi Arabia have shown interest in investing in India’s agricultural sector as both the countries want to make India a base for ensuring their food security. Government is working on bilateral trade to push export trade and make WTO more efficient.Suresh Prabhu is the union minister of Commerce & Industry.
8.10-year old Abhinav Shaw became the youngest gold medallist in the shooting. He teamed up with Mehuli Ghosh to help West Bengal win the 10m air rifle mixed team event. Delhi's Devanshi Rana bagged gold in Under-21 girls 25m pistol event.Maharashtra completed its half-century of gold medals.
9.Sikkim CM Chamling launched the 'One Family One Job' scheme which entitles one govt job for every family in the state. The appointment letters were awarded only to members of those families which do not have a government job at present in a Rojgar Mela.Sikkim is India's first fully organic state.
10.Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of ₹ 3 crore on Citibank India for not complying with directions regarding the 'fit-and-proper criteria' for directors of the bank. the action is based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance.Pramit Jhaveri is the CEO of Citibank India.
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