1. India ranks 9th in crony-capitalism index
India is ranked at ninth position in crony-capitalism with crony sector wealth accounting for 3.4 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), according to a new study by The Economist. In India, the non-crony sector wealth amounts to 8.3 per cent of the GDP, as per the latest crony-capitalism index. In 2014 ranking also, India stood at the ninth place. Using data from a list of the world's billionaires and their worth published by Forbes, each individual is labelled as crony or not based on the source of their wealth. Germany is cleanest, where just a sliver of the country's billionaires derives their wealth from crony sectors.
2.Shri Kalraj Mishra Inaugurates Khadi Spinning and Weaving Centre in Srinagar
The Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Shri Kalraj Mishra inaugurated the Harmukh Khadi Gram Udyog Sansthan, a spinning and weaving centre and marketing plaza for khadi goods at a function in Srinagar.
3. Simona Halep wins Madrid Open
Romanian tennis player Simona Halep won Madrid Open title by defeating Slovak Dominika Cibulkovan the final match.
4. Gujarat govt accords minority status to Jains
The Gujarat government issued a government resolution (GR) giving minority status to the Jain community. Transport Minister and BJP state unit chief Vijay Rupani made the announcement. The previous UPA government had conferred minority status on the community at the national level in January 2014.
5. India’s single emergency number ‘112’ to be active from Jan 1
The single emergency number ‘112’ will be operational throughout India from January 1 to help people reach immediate services of police, ambulance and fire department.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has approved the provision of a single number for various emergency services that would be similar to the ‘911’ all-in-one emergency service in the US.
The service will also be accessible even through those SIMs and landlines whose outgoing call facility has been stopped or temporarily suspended.
A person in distress will need to call only 112, which will direct the call to concerned departments immediately for help. All existing emergency numbers will be phased out within a year of rolling out 112, depending upon the awareness about this new facility.
6. Tagore Project launched in London
On Rabindranth Tagore's 155th birth anniversary, a new crowd-sourced initiative to make his works accessible worldwide has been launched in the UK.
'The Tagore Project' is a Wikipedia style attempt, aimed at global mobilisation of Tagore fans through a web platform (http://thetagoreproject.Org) and a mobile app.
The brainchild of IndianIT professional Subhanjan Sarkar, the project is designed so that anyone with knowledge of Bengali can choose a portion of his works and submit recordings to the open audio library, including his 2,200 songs.
"The Tagore Project is based in the Wikipedia model; nothing like this exists anywhere for any artiste. We are not collecting any donations but partnering with the Akshay Patra Foundation," Sarkar said at a launch event held at the Nehru Centre in London.
The project is a way to preserve Tagore's works as well as make them available to the world, for free.
In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian and first non- European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His works have been translated in over a dozen languages all over the world.
This year also marks Tagore's 155th birth anniversary.
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