Current Affairs 16th April 2017

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• Himachal Pradesh police depends on outdated weapons to tackle crime in the state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