Current Affairs

1) For 15 January 2016 PARADE at RAJPATH in CAPITAL OF INDIA “DELHI”, French President HOLLANDE is become the CHIEF GUEST.

2) On the 119th birth anniversary of NETAJI SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE,PM Narendra Modi has released the 100 declassified files in the presence of FAMILY member of SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE.

3) One of the highly polluted place in India “DELHI”, Chief Minister of Arvind Kejriwal decided to start the second round of ODD-EVEN SCHEME will be implemented from the date 15/04/2016 to 30/04/2016.

4) Nepal, ONSARI GHARTI MAGAR was elected as HOUSE SPEAKER.

5) FIFA banned Nepal’s football chief Ganesh Thapa for 10 years for corruption.

1) Sundar Raman is appointed as CEO of Reliance Industries Group SPORT Unit.

2) Brave Indian Army Soldier and HERO who found after 5 days stay under 35 feet snow at SIACHEN, “LANCE NAIK SANUMANTHAPPA” passed away in NEW DELHI on 11/02/2016 Indian time around 11:45 AM due to multiple organ failed.

3) On the date 04/02/2016, Vice president of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister of Thai Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha meet/talk together and during this talk both of them gave very positive and promising future for bilateral ties.

4) Name is not release by the government of Spain, but one pregnant woman who had recently visited Colombia has been diagnosed with ZIKA VIRUS. This is the first such case happen in Europe.

5) One of INDIA’s GRETEST FAST BOWLER ZAHEER KHAN declared his retirement from “INTERNATIONAL CRICKET”.

1) Union Government has list of freedom fighter, and during the state cabinet meeting OF BIHAR, announced to give 2% reservation in government jobs to the grand children of freedom fighters.

2) Good news for the passenger travel through the Plane, New mobile app for android and iphone smart phone user now can use “FLYDEL”. This app is launched by Delhi International Airport Limited. Using this app passenger can get the wise range of facilities available at the airport.

3) Suresh Prabhu is the railway minister of India.

4) NEW Wallet named STATE BANK BUDDY launched/started by State bank of India.

5) To set free wi-fi hotspot in 100 sites in rural area of india, one of the famous social networking site facebook has come forward to support. Facebook will spend Rs 5 Crore per ANNUM for sponsoring 100 wi-fi hotspots in the country. There is join agreement between FB and BSNL, and till now 25+ hotspots already setup in the country. To setup this hotspot BSNL has selected vendor called QUAD zen.

6) Famous Argentina Football player LIONEL MESSI becomes the GLOBAL BRAND AMBASSADOR Of Tata Motors.

1) New tunnel is build by Pakistan and china which take around 3 years time to complete. This tunnel is symbol of friendship between Pakistan and China. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had started/inaugurated this tunnel. Around 275 USD million used to build.

2) Women’s safety is big question now days in all over the world. To prevent domestic violence, Prime minster of Australia had announced around 70 million US dollar package. This amount used on, expanding domestic violence alert training, around 20K+ cell phone will be distributed to stop ongoing abuse, also Australian government set up GPS tracking for monitoring.

3) To reducing and eliminating duplication LPG connection, to sold the LPG Cylinder at market prize, to receive the subsidy direct to the consumers bank account, India Union government launch new scheme called PAHAL.

4) Good news for foodie people in India those are travel from IRCTC, people travel in train can enjoy the food of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken). Around 12 trains pass through the capital of India get this facility. Passenger need to visit the IRCTC website and call on the helpline number mention on the website. Then after KFC will send one secret password to passenger mobile which will be used at the time of delivery.

1) In India Union Government setup new job portal for Job seek and Job Providers named “National Career Counseling Portal”. The purpose of this portal to bring 900000 establishments and companies on the portal. Sources said that around 20 million job seekers already registered in this portal.

2) Father of Nation “Mahatma Gandhi’s”, In India Information and Broadcasting Minister has launched the electronic version of COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI. In This electronic version the details are covered of “MAHATMA GANDHI” from the date 1884 to Jan 30 1948.

3) In coming period of time to promote HINDI language in America, US Based Hindi Sangam Foundation will be planning to organizing the Hindi International Hindi Conferences from March 4 to 6 2016 at New Jersey.

4) Now a day’s everything digitized and to help the people of our state CM “Naveen Patnaik” of Odisha started new Portal. Using this portal the state people can fill up the complaints online to the state police. This portal contain the facility like take/seek permission for Processions, rallies, Protest , Strikes , Ask the permission for hold various event and performance and many more. People can also track the status of their registered on the portal.

1) New bank named IDFC is inaugurated by PM NARENDRA MODI, IDFC bank will soon start its function from the date 1 October 2015 And IDFC bank headquarter located in MUMBAI.

2) Ministry of Finance reported that the new rise of custom duty on wheat from 10 percentages to 25 percentages valid till 31st march 2016. The reason of raising the custom duty on wheat is just because of continuously fall in international prices of wheat.

3) One of the famous E-commerce sites named SNAPDEAL selected the new Chief Financial Officer Mr. Anup Vikal. He has around 23 years of experience and he had resigned from AIRTEL.

4) One of the Social networking/Micro blogging site named TWITTER, selected his PERMANENT CEO named JACK DORSEY.JACK DORSEY will manage two company parallel that means as CEO in twitter and also work as a CEO in one of the mobile payment company SQUARE.

5) Economic And Trade Cooperation Conference between China-India was held in Ahmedabad 2015.

1) In the category belongs to Maintenance, Repair , Overhaul , The Reliance Defense Limited signed a pact with UAE Emirate Defense Industries Company.

2) To upgrade the tourism infrastructure and services in Punjab, uttarakhand and himachal paredesh, India has signed a loan agreement RS 123.51 Million US dollar. This agreement was sign by M Teresa Kho And Raj Kumar Join Secretary “Department of Economic Affairs”.

3) One new scheme came into the picture and that is “DESIGN YOUR OWN LOAN”, where customer can apply for loan against shares online using his/her demat account. This scheme started by HDFC bank.

4) China’s HYDROPOWER PLANT, the creation of this plant on the river of YARLUNG ZANGBO successfully completed. This plant is located at TIBET. For the creation of this plant around 9.6 to 9.7 billion yuan spent.

5) Marzieh Afkham From IRAN, She is selected ad the first foreign ministry spokenwomen.

1) A 1982 batch IPS Officer Suresh Arora is selected as DGP of Punjab.

2) Good News for SC Cast Students

• In Mundri Village open Sanskrit University for SC student.

• Also 10% marks relaxation for getting the scholarship under Dr Ambedkar Medhavi Chhattar Yojana.

3) Gas Pipeline

• Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Minister for petroleum and natural resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi signed agreement to setup the gas pipeline cover the area around 1,100 km from Pakistan’s area Karachi to Lahore.

4) Flight from India to US’ West Coast

• Travelling from one country to other takes more time for filling the fuel for example or etc works...Which takes to much time to reach to specific space. But the new flight which is started by the Air India saves around 6 hours time approximately to reach to the US West Coast.

• India has launched the new flight which directly connected to the US’s West Coast. This flight takes off from India’s capital NEW DELHI TO SAN FRANCISCO.

5) Smile

• Campaign to rescue/find/rehabilitate the missing children. The operation smile was started in 1 Jan to 31 Jan 2016.During this operation helped the rescuing around 9146 missing children.

1) India’s largest transport Indian Railway will be soon launching the new DOUBLE-DECKER SHATABDI.

• This train Double –Decker train cover the area of Mumbai and Goa.

• This SHATABDI Train is contain the AC COACH.

2) Nation BRAND

• At top position US with the valuation $19.7 billion

• 2nd position CHINA

• 7th position INDIA

• India has increase its brand value of 32 percent ($2.1 billion).

3) India tested/fire its developed supersonic interceptor missile.

• This missile is capable to destroy any incoming ballistic missile from a testing rang of ODISHA.

4) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited built new second Anti-Submarine warfare corvetter Kadmatt.

• GRSE had formally handed this submarine to Indian navy at Kolkata.

• The main purpose of this submarine to protect our nation from possible submarine attack.

5) E-pathshala Portal

• This portal contains the study related material for student and teachers.

• Also contain the e books in 3 different language English, Hindi and Urdu.

Saaransh Portal

• Using this portal authority of schools can identify the improvement of student and other works.

• And Shaala Siddhi portal, all this portal was launched by Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani.

1) A R REHMAN Chosen for 2015 HRIDAYANATH MAGESHKAR AWARD. 2) Koraput District of Odisha, Lalita Srisai, won the award at 5th GOOGLE SCIENCE FAIR HELD IN CALIFORNIA.

• She won this award just because of to developing a low cost Bio –Absorbent based water purifier.

3) 95 years old Irish-American Actress MAUREEN O HARA passed away.

4) 85 years old MAHIP SINGH, Hindi writer, Journalist , columnist passed away in Gurgaon.

5) 70 years old SYED AHMED, 16th Governor of MANIPUR passed away. He was suffering from the major disease of cancer.

6) In November 16 Australian PM TONY had visited INDIA, and during this visit PM MODI AND PM TONY signed the civilian nuclear cooperation agreement at delhi.

7) Malaysia’s CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT BOARD, decided to invest 30 billion US. This investment amount used for the development and housing projects in india.

8) New research Center setup in delhi for the person disabilities under the societies registration Act 1860.

9) To satisfied the customer for the mobile services one of the mobile company named AIRTEL set up the 13000 network for 2G, 3G,4G. All this network in located all over the india and this network was setup by DECEMBER 2015.

10) India;s largest transport Indian Railways come up with the new plan for WARNING SYSTEM. This System Send the two blinkers and one siren to alert people when the train is within one km radius nearer to the crossing. This system work with the solar panel and due to some reason the alert was not work then one SMS will send to the PRE-PROGRAMMED mobile number.

1) Swati Dandekar appointed as Executive Director to Asian Development Bank.

2) Marlon james, won 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

3) Kuldeep Nayar , awarded with Ramnath Goenka Lifetime Achievement Award.

4) Arvind Panagariya is appointed as the Sherpa of G20 Summit.

5) Veteran leader Ashok Singhal passed away at the age of 89.

6) Music Director and lyricist Ravindra Jain Passed away.

7) Nitish Kumar Sworn is as Bihar Chief Minister for the 5th time.

8) Malcolm Turnbull Sworn in as 29th Prime Minister of Austrilia.

9) Dilip Kumar gets PADMA VIBHUSHAN award.

10) Aditi Chauhan becomes FIRST ASIAN Women footballer of the year.

1) WESTERN DIGITAL corporation acquired SANDISK corporation for 19 Billion UDS.

2) India signed a 123.51 million US dollar loan agreement with ASIAN Development Bank.

3) Infosys software firm appointed RANGANATH D MAVINAKERE AS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.

4) RBI granted in principal approval to 10 entities to set up small finance banks.

5) RBI giving nod to 11 entities for launching payments bank.

6) BANK OF BARODA conferred its MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO BHASHA SAMMAN TO POET AND LYRICIST PRASOON JOSHI.

7) Utkal Alumina International Limited launched saksham project for welfare of communities in ODISHA.

8) In partnership with FACEBOOK , TATA housing launched SOCIAL SELL Campaign.

9) NASA’s new horizon spacecraft images revealed blue skies and numerous small exposed regions of water ice on PLUTO.

10) A K JHA is appointed as interim Chairman And MD of NATIONAL THERMAL POWER Corporation.

1) KERALA GRAMEEN BANK won the banking technology excellence award.

2) Central Board of excise and customs increased limits for making any tax evader liable for arrest and persecution to 1 CRORE from existing 25 lakh “CENTRAL EXCISE”, 10 LAKH “SERVICE TAX AND CUSTOMER DUTY”.

3) NABARD sanctioned a loan of RS 134.64 CRORE to the HARYANA GOVT under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund for 15-16.

4) First National Tribal Carnival will be held in DELHI from FEB 12 to 17, 2016.

5) WHO removed all limitations on eligibility for Antiretroviral Therapy among people living with HIV.

6) Recently the defense Minister Manohar Parrikar renamed DRDO Missile Complex in HYDERABAD as (DR A P J ABDUL KALAM MISSILE COMPLEX)

7) G L KHANNA, is appointed as the president of the Asian council of exercise and sport science .

8) LEWIS HAMILON won the formula 1 UNITED states Grand Pix title.

9) TRAI made it mandatory for telecome operators to compensate consumers by one rupee for call drops with effect from 1 JAN 2016.

10) YES BANK received RBI approval to setup a mutual fund asset management company and a trustee company.

1) Border guarding FORCE UTBP, decided to deploy women personnel in combat duties at its high attitude posts along the Indo-China Border. 500 WOMEN are expected to take the position at the border soon.

2) India offered concessional Credit 10 Billion USD to AFRICA over the next five year. During the speech PM MODI said that the heart beat of 1.25 billion Indians and 1.25 billion African is in rhythm and partnership was BEYOND STRATEGIC CONCERNS AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS.

3) Japan offered to finance India’s First bullet train estimated to cost $15 billion at an interest rate of less than 1 %. Tokyo was picked to assess the feasibility of building the 505 KM corridor linking MUBAI with AHMEDABAD the commercial capital of PM Modi home state.

4) AMRUT, Union Misitry of Urban development declared that former president Dr A P J Abdul KALAM’s birth place RAMESWARAM included in ATAL MISSION FOR REJUVENATION AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION (AMRUT).

AMRUT ,mission is to providing the basic infrastructure facilities in 500 cities with outlay of 50000 crore Rs over the next 5 year .

5) Union Environment and forest and climate change ministry declared post – doctoral fellowships for young scientists in the name of India’s former president Dr A P J ABDUL KALAM. This fellowship will be meant for the scientists of below 35 years age who have either completed their PHD or to complete in it area related to environment and ecology.

Kundhavi Kadiresan

was appointed as the assistant director of the United Nations food and agriculture organization (FAO) and Regional Representative for Asia and pacific. Kadiresan was appointed at the post by FAO General Jose Graziano da Silva. She succeeded Hiroyuki Konuma who retired from FAO earlier in 2015.

TS THAKUR

the senior most judge after supreme court Justice H L Dattu will become the next chief justice of India. He would be having tenure of one year and one month, will be sworn in as the CJI on December 3 2015.
Former Cabinet secretary

ALOK RAWAT

is appointed as the first male member of the national commission for women filling the fourth seat in the five member body. He was the cadre IAS OFFICER SIKKIM BATCH 1977.

Sharad Kumar

is selected as Chief of National Investigating Agency for a periods of one year after he retires. Mr Kumar is a IPS OFFICER 1979 batch of HARYANA CADRE, was appointed as CHIEF of NIA on JULY 31 2013.

Samiran Chakraborty

is selected as CHIEF ECONOMIST of GLOBAL BANKING MAJOR CITIBANK FOR INDIA. Before that he was MD and head at standard Chartered bank for MACRO RESEARCH IN SOUTH ASIA.

KARAMBIR SINGH

taken charge as the DEPUTY CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF. He relieves Vice admiral RK Pattanaik who retired after 38 years of services. He is also the GREY EAGLE OF INDIAN NAVY.

Vijay Kumar

is selected as the president of the all india council of sport by the union government. The council also include former sports persons,PT USHA and etc...

1) Central Board of Trustees enhanced Insurance benefits under Employees Deposit Linked Insurance scheme for EPF Member from 3,60,000 to 6,00,000 Rs. During 208th meeting of central board of trustees in Hyderabad.
2) The government received 638 declarations of black money and assets abroad worth RS 3770 CRORE.
3) Punjab government won highest capacity addition in grid connected solar rooftop power in the country during the financial year 14-15
4) US and INDIA signed a MOU on energy security climate change and clean energy.
5) Yudhvir Singh Malik has appointed as Additional secretary in NITI AAYOG.
6) INDIA AND PAKISTAN Agreed to maintain PEACE ALONG borders and minimize ceasefire violations during visit of UMAR FAROOQ BURK TO INDIA.
7) Madhya Pradesh is imposed the DROUGTH TAX.
8) Abdul Bari Siddiqui has elected as president of bihar cricket association.
9) CHINA AND MALAYSIA , perform the first joint military exercise “PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP 2015”.
10) CHINA , launched its newly developed smaller version of carrier rocket long MARCH 6.

1) Navtej Sarna has appointed as India’s new high commissioner to the United kingdom.
2) BCCIS Former president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away.
3) E. Sreedharan the METRO MAN OF INDIA.
4) Belgium created history by the entering the final of the prestigious DAVIS CUP OF THE FIRST TIME IN LAST 111 YEAR.
5) Bazmi Husain Indian has appointed as GLOBAL CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER BY THE SWISS ENGINEERING COMPANY ABB.
6) MUMBAI won BUCHIBABU MEMORIAL Trophy by defeating TAMIL NADU Cricket Association Districts XI.
7) AHMEDABAD will host 13th WORLD SPICE CONGRESS.
8) NGT passed slew of directions to prevent pollution in RIVER YAMUNA.
9) HDFC BANK, has launched DESIGN YOUR OWN LOAN SCHEME.
10) According to WORLD BANK GUJARAT state emerged as number 1 state in terms of ease of doing business in india.

1) Syndicate bank has organized MUDRA credit camp in KARNATAKA’s Dakshina Kannada District for those setting up small business units.
2) Meena Hemachandra is the Executive Director of RBI.
3) With BETTER THAN CASH ALLIANCE UN BASED ORGANIZATION for digitization of payments and to promote financial inclusion programme pradhan mantra jan-dhan yojana.
4) ANAKARA is a city of TURKEY. G-20 Finance Minister and Central bank Government held in Anakra.
5) ZAYA KHAN has been elected as the president of the federation of motor sports clubs of india.
6) Kalamandalam Sathayabhama passed away, popular for MOHINIYATTAM DANCE.
7) WIPRO LIMITED company was selected as member of the global DOW JONES sustainability INDEX 2015.
8) RBI inked an agreement with NEPAL RASTRA BANK On exchange of supervisory information.
9) Sharif Ismail sworn in as Prime minister of EGYPT.
10) HINDI POET Viren Dangwal passed away.

1) SEEMA MALHOTRA THE INDIAN-ORGIN PERSON HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE SHADOW CHIEF SECRETARY FOR TRASURY IN LONDON.
2) MP state government has launched M SHIKSHA MITRA MOBILE app for teachers.
3) Aqeela Asifi was awarded with the 2015 Nansen Regugee award. She is a AFGHAN Refugee.
4) Delhi state government approved victim compensation scheme.
5) India Cements team has won the MOIN UD DOWLAH GOLD CUP Tournament 2015-16.
6) Disaster Mitigation Conference of member countries of south Asian Association on Regional Cooperation (SAARC) held in NEW DELHI.
7) CHENG LONG won KOREA OPEN BANDMINTON TOURNAMENT 2015.
8) (ONGC) OIL And Natural Gas Corporation bought RUSSIA 15% stake in second largest oil firm ROSNEFT for about 1.35 billion USD.
9) RBI will issue coins of 5 RUPPES denomination to commemorate ( 5oth) golden jubilee year INDO-PAK WAR 1965.
10) INDIA will organize SOUTH ASIAN ANNUAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT EXERCISE (SAADMEX-2015) in NOVEMBER 2015.

1) Malcolm Turnbull has become the new prime minister of Australia.
2) Chanda Kochhat has topped the list of most powerful women in Asia Pacific prepared by the global magazine fortune.
3) Ekuverin 2015 is a military exercise between INDIA AND MALDIVES.
4) President of India awarded the RAJBHASHA KIRTi award 2014-15 to the ministry of RAILWAY.
5) LAS VEGAS CITY of America has declared 10 SEPTEMBER as “ANUPAM KHER DAY”.
6) ASHOK SRIDHARAN has become the first person of INDIAN-origin to become mayor of GERMANY’s Major City BONN.
7) HANGZHOU places 2022 ASIAN GAMES WILL BE ORGANISED.
8) ADITI ASHOK is associated with the GOLF.
9) BANGLADESH Prime minister has been conferred with the United Nationals Champions of the Earth Award.
10) CHINA’s MOST sophisticated observation satellite launched by GAOFEN-9.
11) KOLKATA is the venus of the 55th NATIONAL OPEN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP.
12) AMOGHA-1 the second generation anti-tank missile, indigenously developed by BHARAT DYNAMICS LIMITED.