ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1961 Formation of Federal Republic of Cameroon
• 1957 Thalidomide, an anti-nausea drug, and sleep-aid was launched.
• 1949 People's Republic of China is established

ECONOMY

• A DIN will be mandatory for every type of communication with the income tax department and if you don't have it,  the document and communication will be invalid.
• Indirect tax officials suspect that organizations may have claimed an input tax credit on expenses incurred before the switchover to the GST regime in July 2017, said people aware of the matter.

DEFENSE

• Border Security Force personnel sighted a drone four times on the Pakistani side, while once it was seen almost a kilometer inside the Indian territory.
• The rifles factory in Amethi is set to get an order to manufacture a record 6.7 lakh Kalashnikovs.
• India plans to upgrade its fleet of Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jets with advanced avionics, radars, and weapons to further sort their combat capabilities.

ENVIRONMENTAL

• More than a quarter of the world's population has vision impairment, WHO says.
• Milky Way’s black hole exploded 3.5 million years ago: Study says

WORLD

• Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare signed agreements with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing in the first official visit since the two countries established diplomatic relations.
• House Democrats subpoena U.S. diplomat Sondland in Trump impeachment probe.
• Iraq’s government made the second package of social reforms in an attempt to meet the demands of protesters who have demonstrated nationwide for 8 days, with the loss of 110 lives and 6,000 wounded.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

• Arun Asaf ali is known as the ‘heroine of 1942 Quit India Movement’.
• Muslim league first demanded partition of india in 1940
• Brahma Samaj mainly insisted upon Monotheism