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- Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is on a two-day visit to Egypt.
National Affairs
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Birth Centenary Celebrations of the legendary woman freedom fighter from the North-east, Rani Gaidinliu, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi today.
- The Prime Minister also issued a commemorative coin of hundred rupees and circulation coin of five rupees on Rani Gaidinliu.
Business & Economy
- Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is on a three-day visit to Khatmandu (Nepal).
- During this visit he met Nepalese Minister of Commerce and Supplies Sunil Bahadur Thapa.
- India and Nepal signed an agreement to lay an oil pipeline from Raxaul in Bihar to Amlekhgunj in Nepal to supply petrol, diesel and ATF to the land-locked Himalayan Kingdom.
- The 41 kilometre pipeline - 2 km in India and 39 km in Nepal - will initially supply petrol, diesel and kerosene.
- It will be built by IOC (Indian Oil Corporation) at a cost of Rs 200 crore.
- Note : This will be the first trans-national petroleum pipeline in South Asia.
Awards & Honors
- Zaina Erhaim, a Syria-based journalist who has trained citizen reporters in the war-ravaged country has won 2015 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.
Sports
- India win against Sri Lanka by 278 runs in Colombo cricket test.
- Sri Lankan cricketer Kumara Sangakkara bids farewell to International cricket.
- Note : He was immediately offered the post of Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to the UK after his farewell Test match.
- Swiss professional tennis player Roger Federer beat world number one Novak Djokovic to win his seventh Cincinnati Masters title.
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