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Aug 5, 2016

[CA] What to study in today's Newspaper? [Aug 05, 2016]

Glance on today’s Newspaper 
[Aug 05, 2016]



A Glance on today’s Newspaper [August 05, 2016]


News
Topic
Link
Bengal, Kerala protest against GST amendment
Current Affairs / Economics
GST Rate
Current Affairs / Economics
SAARC Interior Ministers’ conference
Bilateral Relations
Zika Vaccine trial
Science & Tech
Andhra Pradesh: Special Status?
Polity / Current Affairs
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar
Misc
Organic Cotton Saris
Misc
Lt. Governor is Administrative Head for Delhi: High Court
Polity / Current Affairs


Nov 21, 2015

[CA] October 2015 Current Affairs: What to Study?

What to Study in October 2015 Current Affairs?

Economics

Sin Tax
What is Sin Tax?
Doing Business Report 2016
Released by _______
India’s rank; top three
Why India is scoring much low?
Compare India’s rank with other countries in BRICS
TPP
Trans Pacific Partnership
R V Easwar Committee
Anjali Baijal Committee
IDFC Bank
Financial Inclusion Fund
Gold Monetisation Scheme 2015
E – Sahyog
V20 Group
Trade and Development Report 2015
Global Financial Stability Report 2015

Awards

2015 Nobel Prize
2015 Alternative Nobel Prize
Man Booker Prize 2015
2015 Confucius Prize

Defence

APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex
Exercise MALABAR 2015
Exercise SLINEX 2015
Exercise CORPAT 2015
INS Astradharini
Extreme Altitude Research Centre



Days

World Polio Day
Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Prevention Day
World Statistics Day
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
World Food Day
International Day of the Girl Child
World Postal Day
World Egg Day
Air Force Day
National Anti – Drug Addiction Day
International Day of Non – Violence
International Day of Older Persons
World Vegetarian Day


India’s Bilateral Issues

India & Bangladesh: Agartala – Dhaka bus service
India & Germany: 18 MoUs
India & Israel: 10 MoUs; Pranab Mukherjee – first Indian President to visit Israel
India & Jordan: 6 MoUs
Palestine: Road in Ramallah is named after India as Sharia – e – Al – Hind (India Road)
Jordan: Street is named after Mahatma Gandhi
Malaysia: Green City Project at Garhmukhteshwar in Uttar Pradesh
India – Africa Summit 2015; @ New Delhi; next summit in 2020

Schemes

Neeranchal Project
Aim of this project
Which organisation going to assist this project?
States that is going to be benefitted from this



 Sports

First World Indigenous Games
FIFA issues
Chess: Sergey Karjakin won FIDE World Chess Cup 2015
F1 Race: Lewis Hamilton won Russian and US GP 2015
Shweta Rathore: first Indian female body builder to win silver medal in Asian Bodybuilding Championship
World Cup Archery: Abhishek Verma and Deepika Kumari won Silver medals
Badminton: Ajay Jayaram won Dutch Open 2015

India

·        SC strikes down NJAC Bill
·        National Civil Aviation Policy
·        Tarun Khanna Panel
·        Upamanyu Hazarika Commission
·        Indian women facing inequality at all stages of life cycle: UNO
·        Pedana Fabric
·        Central Victim Compensation Fund
·        National Blood Policy, 2002
·        Lighthouse Tourism
·        Mission Indradhanush
·        National Sagarmala Apex Committee
·        National War Memorial and a National War Museum at New Delhi
·        Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Transport Project
·        Article 370 is beyond amendment, repeal or abrogation: J&K High Court

States
·        Amaravti – new Capital of Andhra Pradesh
·        E – Pragati project in Andhra Pradesh
·        Sanskrit University for SCs in Haryana
·        Operation Valsalya in Kerala
·        Mission Abbas in Odisha
·        Amo Doli Programme in Odisha




Tamil Nadu
·        Leads in MSME: ASSOCHAM
·        Rameswaram in AMRUT Scheme
·        Methane Exploration suspended
·        Banned drug Ketoprofen
·        Avvaiyar Award 2015
·        India’s first offshore windmill
·        Trichy Corporation won Skoch Award for effective solid waste management

 World
·        Operation Sophia by European Union
·        Trident Juncture by NATO
·        Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mr. Justin Trudeau; Liberal Party; second youngest PM in Canada
·        China abandoned its ‘One Child Policy’
·        Jimmy Morales is new President of Guatemala
·        Hurricane Patricia in Mexico
·        Iran Parliament approves Vienna Agreement
·        Bidhya Devi Bhandari – first woman President of Nepal
·        UNO: 4 non – permanent members (Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay)


Others
v Portugal – first European country to sign the MoU on establishment of Nalanda University
v ISIS destroys Arch of Triumph in Palmyra
v Pruthvi: a tiny chip; white – space technology
v IBM’s first global cloud data centre in India (at Chennai; it is IBM’s 42nd data centre globally but first in India)
v Keytruda: approved by US; treatment for lung cancer
v Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2015
v 70th anniversary of UNO
v International Religious Freedom Report 2014




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Oct 22, 2015

[CA] September 2015 Current Affairs: What to Study?

What to Study in September 2015 Current Affairs

New Schemes
Swavlamban Health Insurance Scheme
Pradhan Mantri Khanji Kshetra Kalyan Yojana
One Rank One Pension
Housing For All (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana)

Culture / Arts / History
Mandirapattinam fishing hamlet in Thanjavur Dt – port town during Sangam Era
Kerala temple (Vadakkumnathan) gets UNESCO honour
Digital version of Mahatma Gandhi’s collected work
World’s first natural heritage centre – WII, Dehradun

Science & Technology
PrEP
Homo Naledi
NXT DIGITAL
SafePay
BOSS
500th manned launch in space history

Days
International Translation Day
World Heart Day
World Tourism Day
World Rhino Day
International Day of Peace
International Day for the preservation of Ozone layer
International Day of Democracy
World Suicide Prevention Day
International Literacy Day

Economics
RBI cuts Repo rate; @ present Repo is 6.75; CRR is 4.00
Global Competitiveness Report: by WEF; top 3 are Switzerland, Singapore and USA; India at 55th position (last year it was @ 71st)
India signed agreement with ADB for developing tourism infrastructure in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh
Ease of doing business report on Indian State: by World Bank; top 3 are Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand; Tamil Nadu at 12th
RBI bring Braille features for new 500 and 1000 rupee bank notes
Forward Markets Commission merged with SEBI
Systemically important banks: SBI and ICICI


Summits
G4 Summit @ New York
Regional PBD @ California (to be held in Nov)
G20 Finance Ministers Meet @ Ankara; G20 launched W20 to enhance women
SAARC Conference on Disaster Mitigation @ New Delhi
10th World Hindi Conference @ Bhopal

Awards
2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Award: Jacob Tsimerman (Canada)
Vyas Samman Award 2014: Dr. Kamal Kishore Goenka (Hindi Writer)
USIBC Global Leadership Award: Indira Nooyi and Shobhana Bharatia
National Tourism Awards: Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan bags top honours
Gandhi Peace Prize 2014: ISRO
UN Champions of the Earth Award: Sheikh Hasina
National Humanities Medal by US to Jhumpa Lahiri

World Affairs
Longest volcanic chain of world is found in Eastern Australia; named as a Cosgrove Hotspot track
Global Waste Management Outlook by UNEP
NASA and USAID launched SEVIR – Mekong: to monitor environment in Southeast Asia
Malcolm Turnbull: New PM of Australia
Alexis Tsipras: PM of Greece
Lee hsien Loong: PM of Singapore
Refugee crisis in European countries
Nepal enacted new Constitution; Cow declared as National Animal;
Palestine flag hoisted for first time in UNO
New Sustainable Development Agenda for 2015 – 2030; 17 goals
UNHCR: Sri Lankan War Crimes



India
Centre notified 56, 825 sq. km across the Western Ghats in 6 States as ecologically sensitive area. K. Kasturirangan Panel and Madhav Gadgil Panel
InSPA: International Agency for Solar Policy and Application
Modi’s visit to USA: Project Nilgiri, Project Loon, Bharat Fund and Startup Konnect
Modi’s visit to Ireland; first Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to visit Ireland
Railway Ministry: PARICHAALAN, Operation Five Minutes
INS Kochi; INS Vajrakosh
ASTROSAT (PSLV – C30); India’s first dedicated satellite for astronomy research
One Year of Mangalyaan (MoM)
MITRA SHAKTI: joint exercise between India and Sri Lanka
AUSINDEX: joint exercise between India and Australia
EKUVERIN: joint exercise between India and Maldives
Shauryanjali: 50th year of Indo – Pak war of 1965; a graphic depicting the Sardar Post in Rann of Kutch was released; RBI to release Rs. 5 coin to commemorate the war; Operation Gibraltar by Pakistan in 1965; ended by Tashkment Agreement
Joint Challenge Coin: India & USA
B S Baswan Committee: to change Civil Service Examination pattern
T Haque Panel: by NITI Aayog on land leasing issue
Mihir Shah Committee: to restructure Central Water Commission
NOTA symbol unveiled
UIDAI shifted from NITI Aayog to Union IT Ministry
Hybrid Vaccum Toilet in Indian Railways at Delhi – Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express
Pattiseema Project: interlinking of Godavari and Krishna Rivers in Andhra Pradesh
Qualification for contesting local body elections in Haryana; second state to do so

Tamil Nadu
Global Investors Meet – 2015; 98 MoUs; 9 Partner Countries; Rs. 2.42 lakh crore investments
Number of taluks increased to 285 (from 269)
Number of revenue divisions increased to 85 (from 80)
Tamil Nadu Fibernet Corporation
Amma Literary Award
Tamil Poet Day
Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Service in Chennai
PMKSY scheme in 3 districts soon (Dindigul, Krishnagiri and Tirunelveli)
Amma Baby Care Kit
20th government medical college

Sports
US Open 2015 (Tennis)
CYG – 2015; Indi @ fifth place
CWG 2022 to be held @ Durban
Asian Games 2022 to be held @ Hangzhou
Kalarippayattu recognised as Sports



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