Queen Elizabeth II gave her Royal Assent to the Brexit trigger bill, empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke Article 50 at any time to begin Britain's exit talks from the European Union.
The monarch's signature means May will be able to keep to her declared March-end timetable of informing the EU that Britain has invoked Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which relates to leaving the 28-member economic bloc.
Turkey Expected to Implement Migrant Accord
The EU expects Turkey to honour a key migrant return accord which Ankara has threatened to ditch amid a bitter dispute with the bloc.
Turkish Foreign Minister threatened to scrap the March 2016 agreement as Ankara blasted Germany and the Netherlands with vicious Nazi jibes for preventing Turkish ministers attending rallies and criticising its rights record.
EU relations with Turkey have long been strained over its human rights record but the situation has deteriorated badly since a failed July coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
State-owned telecom firm BSNL has placed purchase orders for 156 additional towers under a scheme to strengthen mobile network facility in areas affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE).
The orders are worth Rs. 275 crore, including capital expenditure and operational expenditure for a period of five years.
The additional towers will be installed by July 2017.
ICICI Bank Raises Rs. 3,425 crore
Largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has raised Rs. 3,425 crore crore by selling perpetual bonds, a move that will help shore up its capital base.
Institutional investors including mutual funds, insurers and wealth managers have invested in those securities that offered 9.20% annually.
Under the Basel-III requirement, an international capital standard, perpetual bonds or AT1 securities (as known in market parlance) are more of a quasi-equity obligation.
India's most successful doubles specialist Jwala Gutta has been appointed a member of the governing body of Sports Authority of India (SAI).
The 14-time national champion is looking forward to play her role in the development of sports in the country.
Jwala who won the bronze medal at the 2011 World Championship, is a 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games champion and a silver medallist at the 2014 Glasgow Games in women's doubles.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar won the critical trust vote in the legislature, with 22 MLAs backing his government and the Congress getting the support of 16 legislators.
On the other hand, the Congress suffered a jolt as its legislator Viswajit Rane resigned the membership of the Assembly, after refusing to vote against the trust motion defying the party whip.
India Fast-tracks Kashmir Hydro Projects
India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15 billion in Kashmir in recent months.
The schemes, the largest of which is the 1,856 MW Sawalkote plant, will take years to complete.
As per Pakistan, some of the projects violate a World Bank-mediated treaty on the sharing of the Indus River and its tributaries.
But according to India, the projects are "run-of-the-river" schemes that use the river's flow and elevation to generate electricity rather than large reservoirs.
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