Current Affairs 24th May 2017
NATIONAL
- Maharashtra Assembly passes State GST Bill
- Radha Mohan Singh assigned additional charge of Food & consumer affairs
- India & Africa: Partners in Growth exhibition inaugurated
- Assam CM launches pilot project for traffic police
- Rajasthan government would renovate 180 ancient temples
INTERNATIONAL
- US, six Gulf countries sign MoU to curb financing terror organizations
- Italy signs deal with Libya to cut off routes of illegal migrants
- Two day “Start up India Summit” Begun in UAE
- Smallest nation “Nauru” joins solar alliance
- India becomes No. 2 in stainless steel maker
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
- Paytm launches payments bank
- CBDT signs 2 more advance pricing pacts
- Panasonic, TCS collaborate for innovation centre
BANKING NEWS
- RBI to Reconstitute Oversight Committee to Tackle Bad Loans
AWARDS & HONORS
- ISRO receives 2014 Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
- Deveshwar, Soumitra Chatterjee conferred Bengal’s highest civilian award
- India’s Rohan Chakravarty wins WWF International President’s Award
- Major Gogoi awarded by Army for counter-insurgency ops
APPOINTMENTS
- Harsh Vardhan takes additional charge of Environment Ministry
- Ford appoints James Hackett as CEO
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
- NASA Names New Species After Abdul Kalam
SPORTS
- Squash: India’s Harinder Pal Sandhu bags another PSA title
- Divij-Raja wins first title of 2017 season in Bordeaux
- Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina wins Italian Open tennis title
- R Vaishali won Gold at Asian Continental Blitz Chess Championship
- Nitin Tomar sets new record in Pro Kabaddi League
- Abhay Gupta and Sanjay Kumar has won gold
