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"The Turbulent Year " Second Volume of Memoir of President of India released
The second volume of the President’s Memoir, titled “The Turbulent Years” was released recently by the Vice President Mr. Ansari. The first volume titled “The Dramatic Years” was released on 25th January 2014. This volume is an account of major events from his perspective. He has the habit of writing a page in his diary every day. The basic material in this book is from his diaries. He has, however, adopted a conservative approach. He has held many sensitive posts over his long career in public service and was bound by oath not to divulge any information he may have come to know as minister. It is his conviction that some facts are never to be revealed.
Following the imposition of President's rule in Arunachal Pradesh, Former Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal and retired IAS officer G S Patnaik have been appointed as advisors to the state Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa. President’s Rule wa applied on the state under article 356 of the constitution on the grounds of political instability created when the Supreme Court ordered the state government to cease Legislative Council’s session. 
India has inked an $80 million loan agreement with Asian Development Bank to improve infrastructure in two Northeastern state capital cities. The loan is the third tranche of a $200 million financing facility under the North Eastern Region Capital cities Development Investment Programme and will be used for investments in water supply, solid waste management and sanitation in Agartala and Aizwal. 
Standalone health insurance company Apollo Munich today announced its partnership with Axis Bank for offering bank customers customised insurance policies. Apollo Hospitals Group firm Apollo Energy company announced selling of its 23.3 per cent stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance company to its German partner Munich Re for Rs. 163.5 crore.Post the transaction, Munich Re’s stake in the insurance joint venture would increase to 48.7 per cent. Apollo Munich Health Insurance has distribution partnership with Canara Bank, Indian Overseas Bank and Citi.
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has signed cyber security agreement with its counterparts in Malaysia, Singapore and Japan. In this regard, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has apprised the Memorandum of Understandings 
David Warner, vice captain of the Australian Cricket team, was awarded the Allan Border medal. The Allan Border Medal is considered to be the most prestigious individual prize in Australian cricket. First awarded in 2000, the medal is named after former Australian captain Allan Border and recognises the most outstanding Australian cricketer of the past season as voted by his peers, the media and umpires.
14-year old Ishika Shah won the 12th Sub-Junior National Snooker championship title in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. To win the title, she defeated Anushi Seth by 50-2, 50-33 in the final match. To reach the finals, she defeated the defending champion Doyel Dey in the semi-final. Incidentally, Ishika lost the title to Doyel in the summit clash held in Kolkata in 2015. However, Doyel retained the sub-junior billiards title. The title was awarded to her when the original winner, Lahiri Sinapara, was found two months over-aged than the prescribed 18 years age limit.
Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky died from a cerebral hemorrhage, closing a noteworthy career in artificial intelligence that spanned more than five decades. He was 88. Minsky, a native New Yorker, cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) at MIT in 1959, a year after he joined the faculty at university's electrical engineering and computer science department, according to a statement from the laboratory. That laboratory emerged long before supercomputers came on the scene in 1972. Minsky's book The Society of Mind, which was published in 1985, was considered groundbreaking work regarding the various mechanisms that interacted in intelligence and thought. His last book, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind, was published in 2006.
India and France have singed 14 pacts for enhancing the bilateral cooperation various fields including defence, space, railways, education, Food safety, Public Administration, Cultural exchange, Science & Technology, etc.These agreements were signed between the two countries after extensive talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande. 
Alice G Vaidyan has been appointed as the CMD of General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re), becoming the first woman to head the reinsurer. In the financial sector, banking is dominated by women CEOs with the largest banks in each sector headed by a woman. In the public sector, Arundhati Bhattacharya heads the SBI. Among private banks, Chanda Kochhar heads ICICI Bank and Zarin Daruwala heads Standard Chartered Bank. 
