Current Affairs (Daily Dose):
1.Fitch Ratings expects India to be on the top of the global growth ladder and expanding by 7.7 per cent in the current fiscal.
2.IMF in its latest, World Economic Outlook report said, India’s growth is projected to notch up to 7.5 per cent in 2016-17, overtaking China’s GDP by more than 1 per cent.
3.The Department of Post will launch its payments bank by January next year and top management of the new-age venture would be in-place by July, a senior official said today.
4.Former Indian Army Chief General (retd.) JJ Singh was conferred with the highest French civilian distinction, Officer of the Legion of Honour.
5.Dogri Poetess and novelist Padma Sachdev (76) has been chosen for the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2015.
6.India remained the world’s largest remittance recipient in 2015 despite experiencing a one billion US dollar drop from the previous year.
7.PM Narendra Modi today launched Gram Uday Se Bharat UdayAbhiyan on 125th birth anniversary of Dr. BhimRaoAmbedkar at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh.
8.Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has won Time magazine’s readers’ poll of the world’s 100 most influential people, garnering more than three times as many votes as his rival Hillary Clinton.
9.The Republic of Nauru, a tiny South Pacific island nation in Pacific Ocean became the 189th member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
10.India ranked 44th among 50 different countries in the 2016 Global Connectivity Index (GCI) report compiled by Chinese telecom giant Huawei. United States has topped the index, Singapore ranks second and Sweden ranks third in the list.
11.Industry body Internet and Mobile Association of India, has appointed Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, chairman of its the newly formed payments banks group.
12.For the first time, United Nations observed the birth anniversary of Dr. BR Ambedkar.
13.The Maharashtra legislature has unanimously passed the Maharashtra Prohibition of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2016 to end the menace social boycott practiced by extra-judicial institutions like caste and community panchayats.
14.Sushila Karki has become the first female acting Chief Justice of Nepal’s Supreme Court ending the male domination in higher posts in the judiciary. She replaced Kalyan Shrestha.
15.People in Kerala are celebrating the harvest festival, Vishu . Devotees across the state are visiting temples, performing special pujas and exchanging gifts to mark the occasion.
1.Fitch Ratings expects India to be on the top of the global growth ladder and expanding by 7.7 per cent in the current fiscal.
2.IMF in its latest, World Economic Outlook report said, India’s growth is projected to notch up to 7.5 per cent in 2016-17, overtaking China’s GDP by more than 1 per cent.
3.The Department of Post will launch its payments bank by January next year and top management of the new-age venture would be in-place by July, a senior official said today.
4.Former Indian Army Chief General (retd.) JJ Singh was conferred with the highest French civilian distinction, Officer of the Legion of Honour.
5.Dogri Poetess and novelist Padma Sachdev (76) has been chosen for the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2015.
6.India remained the world’s largest remittance recipient in 2015 despite experiencing a one billion US dollar drop from the previous year.
7.PM Narendra Modi today launched Gram Uday Se Bharat UdayAbhiyan on 125th birth anniversary of Dr. BhimRaoAmbedkar at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh.
8.Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has won Time magazine’s readers’ poll of the world’s 100 most influential people, garnering more than three times as many votes as his rival Hillary Clinton.
9.The Republic of Nauru, a tiny South Pacific island nation in Pacific Ocean became the 189th member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
10.India ranked 44th among 50 different countries in the 2016 Global Connectivity Index (GCI) report compiled by Chinese telecom giant Huawei. United States has topped the index, Singapore ranks second and Sweden ranks third in the list.
11.Industry body Internet and Mobile Association of India, has appointed Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, chairman of its the newly formed payments banks group.
12.For the first time, United Nations observed the birth anniversary of Dr. BR Ambedkar.
13.The Maharashtra legislature has unanimously passed the Maharashtra Prohibition of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2016 to end the menace social boycott practiced by extra-judicial institutions like caste and community panchayats.
14.Sushila Karki has become the first female acting Chief Justice of Nepal’s Supreme Court ending the male domination in higher posts in the judiciary. She replaced Kalyan Shrestha.
15.People in Kerala are celebrating the harvest festival, Vishu . Devotees across the state are visiting temples, performing special pujas and exchanging gifts to mark the occasion.
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