1.Andhra Pradesh Tourism Authority has partnered with United Nations World Tourism Organisation to promote sustainable tourism across the state.United Nations has declared 2017 as the International year of Tourism and Development.This is the first time in India that a state government ties up with world body.
2.The centre is likely to increase the Dearness allowance by 2% to 4% for its about 50 lakh employees and 58 lakh pensioners.
3.INS viraat,India's oldest aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy gets a ceremonial farewell in Mumbai.INS viraat,weighing 27,800 tonnes is considered to be the world's oldest aircraft.It was commissioned in the year 1953.
4.American Sam Querrey wins ATP Mexico Open by defeating spain's Rafeal Nadal in the final held in Agapulco
5.GST council has scrapped the proposed Tax collected at Source (TCS) on e-commerce companies.The GST council has decided that the proposed TCS would be capped at 1%.The GST council has approved the Central GST and Interstate GST laws on Saturday thus paving the way for smooth roll out of GST from July 1st.
6.HDFC bank announced the launch of Electronic Virtual Assistant(EVA) an artificial intelligence driven chat bot for its customer services.EVA is India's first AI based banking chat bot and can answer millions of customer queries across multiple channels instantly.with in few days of its launch the chat bot has offered 1 lakh queries from thousands of customers from 17 countries across the world.
7.Dena bank announced the launch of Corporate Agency Agreement with India's leading health insurance provider Apollo Munich Health insurance for distribution of the latter's Health insurance products.
8.Lakshmi Vilas bank has roped in Centrum group, a leading financial services company,which will now manage the bank's wealthy clients.
