Saturday, 7 May 2016

Current Affairs (Daily Dose):

1.Union Railways Ministry Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has launched an e-enabled application Project Management & Information System (PMIS) at Rail Bhawan in New Delhi.

2.The Ethics Committee of Rajya Sabha (RS) has unanimously recommended the expulsion of beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya with immediate effect.

3.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has selected Mexican diplomat Patricia Espinosa as the executive secretary of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). She will replace Christiana Figueres.

4.Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal will introduce a new portal for Contract Labour Payment Management System.

5.The Lok Sabha passed the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015 for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of Centre and each State towards compensatory afforestation.

6.A group of researchers from University of Cambridge researchers have built the world’s smallest working engine.

7.Scientists have developed world’s ‘Smallest Thermometer‘ using DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) structures that can fold and unfold at specifically defined temperature functions.

8.Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from Japan, China, South Korea and the Association of South east Asian Nations have agreed on the need to address downside risks to global economic development.

9.England’s world number one snooker player Mark Selby (32-years) beat China’s Ding Junhui 18-14 to win his World Championship title of Snooker.

10.Seven Indian shuttlers have booked their berth for the upcoming Rio Olympics, scheduled in August.

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