Current Affairs 24th May 2017

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