Wednesday, September 14, 2016

2016 Current Affairs


Stuart Blackburn has won the MM Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016 in United Kingdom for his novel “Into the Hidden Valley”. The book tells the story of the Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh during British India. The award is named in memory of writer-historian Bennetts who was a specialist in early 19th century British history and the Napoleonic wars.




Om Prakash Kohli, the senior Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) leader, has been sworn-in as the 26th governor of Madhya Pradesh. Kohli, who is also the Governor of Gujarat, succeeded Ram Naresh Yadav.




The United Nations charter, the seminal treaty of the UN, has been translated into Sanskrit by Dr Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, the secretary of the Lucknow-based Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad (ABSP). Currently, the UN Charter is available in all six official languages viz. Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. The United Nations Charter was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, and came into force on 24 October 1945.




Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, has recently released report of “Swachh Survekshan” for rural areas. Excerpts of the report are Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) was judged as the cleanest district in “Hills” category and Sindhudurg (Maharashtra) as the cleanest in the “Plains” category. Besides, the districts of Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Nadia (West Bengal) and Satara (Maharashtra) feature at the top of the index.




ICICI Bank has successfully deployed ‘Software Robotics’ for power banking operations. With this, ICICI has become the first Indian bank to deploy software robotics that emulates human actions to automate and perform repetitive, high volume and time consuming business tasks cutting across multiple applications.

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