Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Current Affairs on August 29th 2018

Today's Headlines from www:

*Economic Times*

📝 Jet Airways gets $300 million as lease incentives & debt from banks

📝 Chandrayaan-2 to be launched in Jan 2019: ISRO chief

📝 LIC to buy 14.9% stake in IDBI Bank

📝 Rural LPG delivery to get IT legup

📝 Government to vet GST, income tax and transfer pricing filings to find leakage

📝 India to be one of world's blockchain leaders by 2023: Survey

📝 Coal imports may rise to 62 mt in FY19 to meet power demand

📝 RBI employees' 2-day mass leave to paralyse banking operations

*Business Standard*

📝 Toyota Motor to invest $500 million in Uber's self-driving technology

📝 FMCG grows at 10.9% in June quarter, lower than 14% in 2017: Nielsen

📝 Tiger Global-backed robotics start-up GreyOrange enters US market

📝 Nestle seals a $7.15-billion deal to market products of Starbucks

📝 Irdai allows inclusion of 10 more insurers for medical treatments

📝 SAIL closing in on NMDC's iron ore capacity

📝 Railways to convert diesel locomotives to electric, says Piyush Goyal

*Financial Express*

📝 Narvar raises $30 million in Series C funding led by Accel

📝 Total losses of 21 PSBs in Q1 stand at Rs 16,615 crore

📝 Indian firms lead IT transformation in Asia: Dell EMC

📝 United India Insurance gets Rs 350-crore claims from Kerala

📝 Bharti Airtel gets FDI clearance to offload 20% stake in DTH unit to Warburg Pincus

📝 RBI cancels licence of Tech Mahindra for issuing pre-paid cards

📝 Food grain output to be record 284.83 million tonnes

📝 SpiceJet set to venture into cargo operations

*Mint*

📝 Amazon Pay said to acquire Tapzo in digital payments push

📝 EESL to get $220 mn from IBRD for green projects

📝 Instamojo targets $1 billion in transactions by 2019

📝 Vedanta bags 41 oil, gas blocks in maiden open acreage auction

📝 SBI plans to sell 3.89% stake in NSE

📝 Gadkari comes to rescue of ₹8,500 crore rail corridor project

📝 Google teams with HDFC Bank, ICICI, others for instant loans.

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