Thursday, 20 October 2016

August 2016 Current affairs (Part 4)

SBI + Korea Development bank (South Korea ) signed MoU to develop Business Synergies in the domains of Corporate Finance , Project Finance and Asset Finance. 

MD of SBI -- Dinesh Kumar `

SBI Life ----- registered the largest new business premium last year. 


Kerala will hold the first Feel and touch garden for the visually impaired people in the country 

Most expensive Indian City -MUMBAI 

Kotak Mahindra Bank tie up with Flipkart . 

GAUTAM EKNATH THAKUR ----- Chairman of Sraswat Bank 

Manjulla chellur --- Chief Justice of Bombay HC. 

Mihir Shah Commottee ----- to restructure the CWC ( Central Water Commission ) and Central Ground Water Board .

The daughter's Day --- August 11th 

Union Government approved the Pension and Post retirement Medical Schemes of FCI .

Lok Sabha passed the  taxation laws bill in TEXTILE SECTOR. acc. to it,if the employers or owners provide more employment,, they will get income tax benefit. 


Union Gov. increased the Maternity leave from 12 weeks to ---- 26 weeks

Union min. of Science and Technology lauched a mobile app for women safety in Delhi --- I FEEL SAFE.

Birender Singh Yadv --Indian High Commissioner to Ghana. 

Which District of Gujarat is declared as Open Defecation-free ?  Narmada 

Machine - learning startup "Turi " is accuired by APPLE. 

Randstad accuired Monster worldwide. 


Kundan kulam plant (TN) has been inaugurated by PM of India and Russian President.  

UTTARAKHAND tops the list of nations with highest growth in Industry and Service Sectors in the last 10 years. by ASSOCHAM. 

HDFC + MAX group merged . 

RGIC ( Reliance General Insurance Company )  + SVCB( Shyam Rao Vitthal Cooperative Bank) -->>  to foster the spread of Insurance policies on PAN India basis.  
(( PAN stands for "Presence Across Nation" - therefore, operating totally across  India.)) 

India imposed anti- dumping duty on 6 nations -- China, Japan, South korea, Russia, Brazil and Indonesia 

20th Commonwealth Chess Chamionship, Sri Lanka winner 2016 -- Abhijit Gupta 

Repository on Tigers will be established in Dehardun 

Union gov. first portal for online selling of goods and servises --- e-marketplace. 

74th Quit India movement on 8th August 2016. 

Australian Bernard Farelly, the first surfing champion passsed away..

IRCTC +Manipur state gov. signed mou to provide improved hospitality and tourism servises.

JAPAN recorded the largest current account surplus in the first half of 2016 (10 trillion yen or 104 billion dollars) 

Happiest country -- THAILAND 

Varishtha Bunkar Sahayata Yojna for senior citizens --- Odhisha. 

Himachal Pradesh initiated planting over 1 crore trees this year  to earn carbon credit. 

External affair min. Sushma Swaraj addressed the 71st session of UN General Assembly.

China will launch world's first Quantum Communication Satellite. 



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