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- The Punjab Chief Minister Amrendra Singh launched a scheme to provide free sanitary pads to high school and college girls.
- Also, he launched the Basera program to give property rights to slum dwellers.
- After Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh states, Telangana has become the third state to successfully undertaken the urban local body reforms stipulated by the Ministry of Finance.
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs recently chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the scheme to boost the industrial development of Jammu and Kashmir.
- It has allocated 28,400 crores of Rupees for that scheme.
- In a first of its kind initiative to promote education of the girl child, the Assam State Government has said every school-going girl student will get Rs 100 per day for attending classes.
- According to a new German law, the Listed companies with four executives or more must appoint at least one woman to their boards.
- It was proposed after voluntary efforts failed to close a gender gap at Germany.
- India’s head coach Ravi Shastri launched a book ‘India’s 71-year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia’.
- The book reflects on India’s first 12 tours to Australia – from 1947/48.
- Shivalik Mercantile Co-operative Bank (SMCB) becomes first urban co-operative bank to transition to Small Finance Bank.
- It currently operates in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, and Uttarakhand.
- The Tripura state cabinet has decided to provide government jobs to the next of kin of those who lost their lives in political violence till March 2018.
- The Defence Ministry of India has launched the Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO).
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