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Current Affairs 24th May 2016

Current Affairs 24th May 2016

National News:

  • Mizoram’s fresh initiative to take back tribal refugees from Tripura
  • Gujarat Government launches Smart Village program
  • Only 1% water remains in Marathwada dams
  • Global warming to impact milk production: National Dairy Development Board
  • An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit the Bhaderwah town of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
  • French firm to help Railways for safety measures
  • Govt electrifies 108 villages across the country
  • Amid Amma chants, Jayalalithaa sworn-in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for the sixth time
  • More than two crore LPG consumers join PAHAL scheme: Assam
  • IndiGo plane flew close to road; DGCA suspends license of two pilots
  • Himachal Pradesh begins artificial propagation programme of Golden Mahseer fish for conservation

International News:

  • New poll shows Trump beating Clinton in general election
  • Seoul calls for Pyongyang’s denuclearisation stance before talks
  • India, Thailand, Myanmar to be linked by highway
  • Barack Obama announces full lifting of Vietnam arms embargo

Awards & honours:

  • British director Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival
  • Billboard Music Awards were presented at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas
  • Romanian CristianMungiu& France’s Olivier Assayas share best director prize at Cannes
  • Sikkim CM PawanChamling conferred with Nepal’s literary award

Banking & Business:

  • India Post Payments Bank To Be Functional By March
  • Axis Bank ends 1%; to raise US$ 500 mn via green bonds
  • AXA plans to stop investment in tobacco sector
  • 3D CAD firm Onshape launches its operations in India
  • P2P lending website Faircent launches eSign facility with eMudhra

Science & Technology:

  • Nano-carrier can deliver drug to kill deadly brain tumour
  • New findings to boost space weather forecast
  • India Successfully Launches Its Own Space Shuttle

Sports:

  • Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam to lead Indian women’s hockey team in 4-nation event in Darwin
  • Kohli fifty books No. 2 spot for RCB
  • Boxer Pooja fails to qualify for Olympics
  • PankajAdvani Wins Asian 6-Red Snooker

Obituaries:

  • CPM leader K Anirudhan dies
  • Oldest Olympic champion SandorTarics dies

 

 

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