Latest and Top Ten National and International News – June 26 2018

FIFA WC 2018: Iran & Portugal 1-1, Morocco & Spain 2-2, Saudi bt Egypt 2-1, Uruguay bt Russia 3-0

Delhi tree cover losing battle to shoddy report on Environ, poor compliance of afforestation norms

Mumbai Rains: IMD predicts heavy showers for 48 hrs; western/central line trains slightly delayed

Study among women 20-60yrs reveal low Vit-D linked with High BP in women with pre-diabetes

Apple to bring high-end model wireless earphones use them in noisy environments/on rainy days

Govt to complete 11MN homes under PM Awas Yojna by mid-2019 ahead of 2022 deadline

India rank 19th among 73 nations with $2.6BN cross-border capital inflow in realty, inflows $2.6BN

Swajal: With water ATMs, get purified water Rs 5/L at 100 Indian Railways stations

SEBI out with 1,690 defaulters, penalty 15K to a few lakhs and even crores of rupees

Mumbai needs $220BN for city infra over 20yrs, ranked below Mexico/Cape Town in Smartness

ISA plans global solar bank to finance $150BN power project, approach AIIB create Spl Purpose Vehicle

RBI: draft guidelines on setting board of Mgmt for Co-op Banks –Credit/Risk/Liquidity responsible

Govt: 460cr support for development of pharma sector to reduce bulk drug cost/medical device

Mumbai CSIA AirPort, the only to achieve 3yr extension of Accreditation Level 3+ Neutrality’ certification

Sreedharan to submit report on metro rail system standardization in 3months for indigenous need

Private power players seek level playing field on coal – Preferential treatment led to pile huge bad assets

India Inc seeks approval to raise 56,000Cr crore through NCDs in 2018-2019 on Pvt placement basis

Indian Railways is set to put largest tender for 22000 wagons at the cost of at least 7,000Cr

Tata re-entry into white goods market with 1,000Cr push, through Voltas/Turkey’s Arcelik AS’s JV

Top official of 11 PSBbanks to appear before Parl committee to apprise bad loan issue/rising fraud cases

Govt extend mandatory telecom equipment testing to March 2019, relief to Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei

RBI widens ICICI Bank probe after whistleblower complaints, look alleged delays in NPAs provisioning

Risk of too much concentration EPFO may widen investments beyond Nifty& Sensex to maximize returns

IDBI Bank’s bailout glass/ocean named LIC- dumping toxic into Ocean will kill the fish in the Ocean

Closing bell: Sensex dive 219points, Nifty ends 10762, ICICI Bank/Tata Motors top losers, Oil less by 2%

Adnoc ties up with Aramco for refinery in Ratnagiri & 50:50 JV between 2 firms & Indian consortium

Grey list’: Pak scrambling to put in place measures to comply anti-terror funding rules – time running out

9yr old English Bulldog won title of 2018 World’s Ugliest Dog & Zsa Zsa become an overnight star

Russian scientist prove eco-toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles, high level compared to Silver Ions

Philippines Duterte spark row calling God stupid in televised speech, Catholic Arch Bishop says he is mad

US will soon present timeline to N Korea with "specific asks" to make its clear level of commitment

Pentagon to build tent camps at US military bases to house people, who cross southern border illegally

EU sanctions on 11 Top Venezuelan Official after Maduro’s Re-Election, blames Ex VP for right violations

Today’s Word – *Tabific* – Wasting; consumptive; producing tapes.