Current Affairs 16th April 2017
NATIONAL:
- Biggest conventional bomb in India is known as ‘SPICE’
- Centre to issue advisory against service charge on food bills
- Andhra CM lays foundation stone for Rs.100-crore Ambedkar park
- UP govt, Centre sign MoU for ‘Power for All’ scheme
- Govt mulling revival of sea route for Haj pilgrims: Naqvi
- Himachal Pradesh police depends on outdated weapons to tackle crime in the state
- I-T dept to investigate over 60,000 individuals in 2nd phase of Operation Clean Money
INTERNATIONAL:
- North Korea warns US to end military hysteria or face consequences
- Senegal declares 3 days of mourning as fire death toll rises
- More than 2,000 migrants rescued in Mediterranean
- Air China to suspend Beijing-Pyongyang flights
- Fully-airconditioned Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express inaugurated
BANKING NEWS
- BHIM-Aadhaar app to allow payment using fingerprint launched
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY NEWS:
- Women Entrepreneurs have capability to create new business: Jaitley
- Services sector could attract a higher tax rate of 18% from the current 15% under GST
- Forex reserves down USD 956.4 mn to USD 368.998 bn
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
- Solar powered device that can pull water out of dry air made
- Google has launched a new feature for Android called ‘Style Ideas’ that will offer style suggestions to users via images
SPORTS NEWS:
- Singapore Superseries: Srikanth, Sai Praneeth to play semi-final matches
- Pankaj Advani beats Sourav Kothari to win Asian Billiards Championship title