1.West Indies batsman Chris Gayle smashed fifty from 12 balls for the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League on Monday to match India's Yuvraj Singh's record for the fastest half-century in Twenty20 cricket.
2. International Monetary Fund retains India's economic growth forecast for current fiscal at 7.3% ; Projects 7.5% growth in next 2 years. Global growth forecast revised down to 3.4% in 2016 and 3.6% in 2017.
3.India’s GDP growth for the next fiscal (FY17) is likely to be steady but sluggish according to India Ratings and Research, a Fitch group company.
4. The credit rating agency (CRA) has forecast a growth rate of 7.9 per cent in FY17 as against the 7.4 per cent in FY16.
5.Tamilnadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today launched a round-the-clock call centre for ensuring fast response to grievances. The 'Amma Call Centre', which will work all through the year, was launched by the Chief Minister here through video- conferencing.
6.Anil Ambani led RelianceCommercial Finance (RCF) has tied up with e-tailer Snapdeal to offer financing to over 80,000 Snapdeal vendors across India.
7.Union Government sanctioned 33000 crore rupees for Infrastructure Projects in Tamilnadu .
8.Bihar CM Nitish Kumar approved 35% reservation for women in state government jobs in all categories.
9.Reflecting an acute shortage of skilled labour force and difficult business conditions, India has slipped 11 places to rank 89th on a global index of talent competitiveness , a list which has been topped by Switzerland.
10.The wealth of the world’s 62 richest individuals is half of the rest of the world. Among those affluent 62 are four Indian names: Industrialist Mukesh Ambani, IT titan Azim Premji, pharma boss Dilip Shanghvi and business magnates, Hinduja Brothers.
11.Microsoft announced the acquisition of a modified third party version of the building block game Minecraft, called MinecraftEdu, which is designed for classrooms.
12.Online Marketplace Amazon India will reportedly foray into the grocery delivery service market before April this year.
13. Ratan Tata, the chairman Emeritus of Tata sons, has invested an undisclosed sum in Gurgaon based cashback and coupons website CashKaro.com.
14.NASSCOM, in partnership with the Telengana government, inaugurated the ‘ T-Hub NASSCOM startup Warehouse’ in Hyderabad.
15.Sahara Force India Academy racer Jehan Daruvala on won one of New Zealand's most prestigious events, the Lady Wigram Trophy.
16. Senior Journalist and scholar Aroon Tikekar passed away in Mumbai.
17.ICICI Bank has appointed Vishakha Mulye as Executive Director on its board effective.
18. PSLV-C31 successfully launched IRNSS-1E, the fifth satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), SHAR, Sriharikota .
19.Maharashtra Government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tata Trust for a skill training programme for the youth in the state.
20.Country’s own fighter aircraft light combat aircraft (LCA), Tejas, will take part in the three-day Bahrain International Airshow.
21.Mamta Binani has been elected President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for 2016.
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