Saturday 20 August 2016

Daily Current Affairs - August - 2016

1st August:

  • Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off ‘Tripura Sundari Express’
  • IRCTC's tie-up with Mobikwik for e-cash payments


2nd August:

  • Parliament today passes Indian Medical Council (Amendment Bill), 2016
  • Central body approves Rs 400 crore for Ganga rejuvenation projects


3rd August:

  • Pushpa Kamal Dahal elected as Prime Minister of Nepal


4th August:

  • Rajya Sabha passes The Constitution (122nd Amendment) (GST) Bill


5th August:

  • Vijay Rupani will be new Chief Minister of Gujarat


6th August:

  • China launches 'Tiantong-01'its first mobile telecom satellite


7th August:

  • Vijay Rupani takes oath as Gujarat Chief Minister
  • Prime Minister Modi Launches PMO App At MyGov Anniversary Event
  • Telangana signs MoU with ISRO for water resources info system


8th August:

  • First-ever 'Pizza ATM' opens in the US


9th August:

  • RBI keeps key policy rate unchanged


10th August:

  • PM Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin jointly dedicated Kudankulam Nuclear Plant Unit-I to the nation


11th August:

  • Bill Gates tops Forbes richest tech tycoons list
  • Extension of maternity leaves increases from 12 weeks to 26 weeks
  • Intel buys AI startup Nervana Systems


12th August:
  • Assam becomes the first state to ratify GST
  • Phelps third to win Gold in the same event at four Olympics

13th August:
  • China’s Ma Long becomes fifth male Grand Slam winner at Rio Olympics

14th August:
  • 6,900 km gas pipelines to connect India, Bangladesh, Myanmar
  • Railway Budget set to be merged with Union Budget from next fiscal
  • Nawazuddin won best actor award at IFF Melbourne

15th August:
  • Microsoft acquires gaming startup Beam

16th August:
  • China successfully launches world’s first quantum satellite

17th August:
  • A R Rahman honoured with Tamil Ratna Award
  • Gurdial Singh, an eminent Punjabi writer, passes away

18th August:
  • Sakshi Malik becomes first female Indian wrestler to win Olympic medal
  • Airlander 10: World’s largest aircraft embarks maiden flight

19th August:
  • SBI board approves merger of 5 associate banks, BMB with itself



Thursday 30 June 2016

Daily Current Affairs - 1st July


  • India became 35th full member of Missile Technology Control Regime
  • Cabinet clears 23.5% hike in pay for Central govt. staff
  • 4 Indian-Americans honoured with 2016 Great Immigrants Award in US

Sunday 12 June 2016

Daily Current Affairs updates -1

13-20/6/2016:

  • India won Silver medal at Archery World Cup in Antalya 
  • Australia won Hero Hockey Champions Trophy 2016 
  • Peter Thomson elected as President of 71st session of United Nations General Assembly
  • PM Modi outlines RAPID, a five-point charter for tax administrators at the Rajasva Gyan 
  • Sunil Mittal elected Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce
  • China to operationalise the exascale supercomputer Tianhe -3 by 2020
  • India, Namibia sign two MoUs: (a) capacity building for civil servants (b) centre of excellence in ICT

12/6/2016:

  • Satya Pal Jain has been appointed as Part time member of the Law Commission of India.

  • Sikkim becomes first State of India to launch Open Government Data Platform.

  • India rank 141 out of 163 countries in Global Peace Index with 2566 GPI score.