Current Affairs 16th July 2016

National News:

• President to inaugurate India Skills Competition
• DRDO test-fires India-made artillery gun system
• Puducherry to get Rs.2k cr for infra development
• Government to give interest-free loans to IIT students
• Government extends black money tax payment date
• Mizoram launches new state economic policy
• Delhi gets first 3D Zebra crossing
• India, ADB sign 100 Million US dollar loan agreement for Cauvery Delta project in Tamil Nadu
• WHO declares India as Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus free
• Justice Shah headed SIT on black money recommends ban on cash transactions above 3 lakh rupees

International News:

• 11th ASEM summit begins in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• China’s GDP grows by 6.7% in April-June quarter
• Emergency in France extended by 3 more months
• Mud City in Mali added to UNESCO endangered list
• US to offer Russia military coordination on Syria

New Appointments:

• Rakesh Kumar Chaturvedi new CBSE chairman
• Russian named traitor for Olympics participation
• India-born Kinshuk appointed as Dean of University of North Texas College of Information
• Sheila Dikshit is Congress’ CM candidate for Uttar Pradesh polls

Banking:

• RBI sets up Sudarshan Sen-headed Inter-regulatory Working Group on Fin Tech and Digital Banking
• Banks can exchange 20 soiled notes for free: RBI
• Bank of England leaves interest rates unchanged

Books & Authors:

• Who Moved My Interest Rate? authored by Duvvuri Subbarao

Awards & Honours :

• The oldest to climb Everest is an 80-yr-old man
• Dwayne world’s highest paid actor: Forbes
• Misbah-ul-Haq becomes oldest captain to score Test hundred

Business & Economy :

• 3.1 tonnes gold mobilised under monetisation scheme
• Mastercard changes logo for 1st time in 20 years
• Tata, US-based Bell ink pact to make helicopters
• ShopClues acquires mobile payments startup Momoe
• TRAI releases paper on public WiFi networks

Science & Technology :

• Researchers build robot with human-like muscles
• Microsoft wins overseas data protection case

Sports :

• GM Harika Dronavalli wins Fide Women’s Grand Prix trophy in China
• India jumps 11 places to 152nd in football rankings

Obituaries :

• India’s Olympic Silver Medalist Joe Antic passed away
• Amar, Bose of sound, is dead at 83