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- India has entered into a loan agreement with Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for financing of $329 million for Gujarat Rural Roads Project.
- Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu has been elected as 13th Vice President of India. With this, BJP now holds the top 3 positions in India- President, Vice President and Prime Minister.
- The Indian Railways has signed its first EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contract with Larsen and Turbo (L&T) for electrification of railway lines.
- Rajiv Kumar has been appointed as the new vice-chairman of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog.He will be succeeding Arvind Panagariya.
- The Union Government is going to launch AGRI-UDAAN Food and Agribusiness Accelerator 2.0 programme in an attempt to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture. It will train startups and help them connect with potential investors.
- The ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) and CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have signed MoU to make indigenous regional positioning system- NavIC independent from the US clock system.
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