1. The Centre has constituted the following Committee known as the Expert Committee to study the various alternatives regarding the new Capital for the successor State of Andhra Pradesh.
2. US President Barack Obama has announced his intent to appoint three Indian-Americans to his 14-member advisory commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs).
3. Social activist Anna Hazare, musician Zakir Hussain, veteran actor Rishi Kapoor and other prominent personalities receives the 72nd
Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Awards by Bharat Ratna recipient Lata Mangeshkar at a function.
4. Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra made the cut, but London Games bronze winner Gagan Narang failed to qualify for the 10m air rifle event for the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
5. Ace Paralympic swimmer Sharath Gayakwad finished third in the 100m Butterfly, S8 category, at IDM Berlin 2014.
6. To fasten the process of identifying tax evaders, the Income Tax department has decided to set up a major data centre of such classified information.
7. Private steel firm, JSW Steel has commissioned Cold Roll Mill 2 (CRM-2) facility of 2.3 million tonne capacity at Vijaynagar in Karnataka, which will produce high end steel for the auto sector.
8. Japanese telecom firm NTT DoCoMo Inc said it will exit its loss-making mobile phone joint venture with Tata Group by selling its 26 per cent stake.
9. Vivek Gundotra, chief of Google’s social networking venture Google+, is leaving the Internet company after nearly eight years.
10. As part of their shared objectives of promoting peace and economic prosperity in the Asia-Pacific, the US and Japan said they have decided to strengthen trilateral cooperation with countries like India, Australia and South Korea.
