1. World Blood Donors Day (14 June 2017) observed with theme Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often.
2. Centre approves interest subsidy of 2% on farm loans, additional 3% for timely repayments.
3. UP: CM Yogi, Jayanth Sinha inaugurate Mahayogi Gorakhnath Civil Terminal.
4. Tata Motors appoints Girish Wagh as Commercial Vehicle Business Head.
5. Indian warships (Jyoti, Shivalik and Kamorta) arrive in Australia for bilateral maritime exercise AUSINDEX-17.
6. IIT-Kharagpur team develops wearable technology from silk.
7. NASA confers Exceptional Public Service Medal to Michael A'Hearn posthumously.
8. RBI issues new batch of Rs 500 notes with inset letter A.
Key features of the new batch of the note:-
• The new batch of banknotes will have inset letter "A" in both the number panels.
• It will bear the signature of Urjit R Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India.
• The year of printing will be '2017' on the reverse.
• It will also have Swachh Bharat logo printed on the backside of the banknote.
• In addition, some of the notes would carry an additional character in between the prefix and the number of the banknote.
9. Yes Bank partners with TerraPay for faster international remittance.
