Friday, 28 October 2016

Current affairs Sept 2016 Part 3


  • World Hindi Day is celebrated on 10th Jan 
  • Hindi Divas is celebrated on 14th Sept in India
  • World'S Best developers are China and Russia. 
  • CBDT has launched e-nivaran portal for grievance redressal mechanism
  • Tamil Ratna award in US was received by Subramanian Swamy
  • Best agriculture state 2016 is Orissa
  • US Open women's single tennis 2016 winner is Angelique Kerber (German)
  • US Open men's single tennis 2016 winner is Stan Wawrinka (Swiss)
  • US Open doubles tennis 2016 winners are Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares.
  • Union Finance Minister is the chairman of the GST Council.
  • Head of the Committee to identify people below poverty line is Arvind Panagariya.  He is the Vice chairman of NITI Ayog. 
  • First North East state to open PM Jan Aushadhi Yojana is Arunachal Pradesh
  • Amitabh Kant is the CEO of NITI Ayog. 
  • Arvind Subramanian is the Chief economic advisor.
  •  Ashok Lavasa is the Finance Secretary of India.
  • 1924 is the toll free no. for postal grievances. 
  • Russia started Naval drills in the disputed south china sea.
  • World's longest bullet train network is in China
  • World's highest bridge is Beipanjiang Bridge in China. 
  • Himachal pradesh has signed a MoU with Singapore to build a Township in Jathia Devi (near Shimla)
  • Yudh Abhyas 2016 was conducted in  Uttarakhand between India and US.
  • India-Japan-Malabar exercise is called Malabar exercise
  •  Murugappa Gold Cup is played for Hockey 
  • New PM of Kazakhstan is Bakytzhan Sagintayev 
  • The world's first robotic operation inside the eye was successfully performed in UK
  • 2016 IUCN congress was held in Honolulu, Hawaii 
  • "THE GIRLS" authored by Emma Cline 
  • "6 Machine" book is authored by Chris Gayle
  • The UN charter was recently translated into Sanskrit language. 
  • First Gujarat , second Andhra Pradesh to achieve 100% electrification status. 
  • 3rd BRICS Urbanization Forum was organised in Vishakhapatnam 
  • Anup Kr. Sharma is the CMD of Shipping Corp. of India
  • Lemelson-MIT prize was awarded to Ramesh Raskar 
  • International day of Democracy is observed on 15th September 

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