Current Affairs 28th & 29th August 2016

Current Affairs 28th & 29th August 2016

National News:

• The 22nd edition of the Delhi Book Fair began at PragatiMaidan in New Delhi
• Odisha attracts Rs 90,490 Cr investment at Bangalore investors’ meet
• Nagaland Assembly ratifies GST bill
• Life-size statue of Mother Teresa unveiled
• Maharashtra Government unveils Mumbai-Nagpur Super Communication Expressway project
• Maharashtra to tie up with corporates to transform 1,000 villages
• Bombay High Court allows entry of women inside Hazi Ali Dargah
• Himachal Health Minister launches ambulance mobile app
• Nalanda University has 1st convocation in 800 yrs
• Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti presented a “three-pronged action plan” during her meeting with PM Narendra Modi
• Drones used to monitor traffic on Mumbai-Pune Expressway
• Indian government to electrify 1,000 km of rail tracks on pilot basis
• Water tanker scam: ACB questions to ex-Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit
• Education programme for disabled in Delhi govt schools
• Former cricketer and BMW ambassador Sachin Tendulkar presented India’s Rio Olympics medallists PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, gymnast Dipa Karmakar and Sindhu’s coach Pullela Gopichand, BMW cars for their achievements
• Delhi Police officers to undergo stress courses
• Ramdev plans world class university in India

International News:

• World Risk Index – 2016, India at 77th, Pakistan at 72nd and Bangladesh at 5th
• Pakistan to host 19th SAARC Summit on Nov. 9 & 10 this year
• World’s first self-driving taxis debut in Singapore
• 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development begins in Nairobi
• FB COO Sheryl Sandberg has been most powerful woman in tech for 5 yrs
• Obama presses Congress for Zika funding as worries grow
• British PM to trigger EU pull-out ‘without parliament vote’
• Tunisia’s new govt wins parliamentary approval
• World’s largest marine reserve created off Hawaii

New Appointments:

• The Central government has appointed Gopal Murli Bhagat as Executive Director of Corporation Bank for a period of three years
• Tata Sons appoints Bain Capital’s MD, Amit Chandra on its board

Banking:

• HDFC Ltd will issue bonds worth Rs. 500 crore to meet its long-term capital requirements
• Karnataka Bank launches UPI app – ‘KBL-SMARTz’
• RBI asks banks to provide loans to women self-help groups in rural areas at 7% per annum
• Banks raise concern over RBI norms for big borrowers
• The Oriental Bank of Commerce to raise Rs.1k cr via Tier-1 bonds

Business & Economy:

• Centre sets up panel to suggest steps to promote card payments
• FPIs invested Rs.8k cr in equities in Aug so far
• EPFO investments in ETFs to be raised beyond 5%: Dattatreya
• 7 of top 10 companies lose Rs. 29,907 cr in market capitalisation (m-cap)
• India-US bilateral trade up at $109 bn in 2015
• Goldman revises up CPI forecast to 5.5% for FY17
• Toyota is world’s most valuable automobile brand
• Airtel launches one-stop-shop connectivity solution

Awards & Honours:

• Cristiano Ronaldo crowned UEFA Best Player in Europe

Science and Technology:

• Rare Deep-Earth Tremor Detected for First Time by Japanese Scientists
• ISRO successfully test launches Scramjet engine
• Juno probe makes close pass of Jupiter
• Indian-origin boy devises breast cancer treatment

Sports:

• Indian Super League season 3 to begin from October 1
• England take 2-0 lead in 5-ODI series against Pak
• Sania Mirza wins her 7th title of the year
• Western Railway wins all India railway athletic championship
• 16-yr-old boy develops app for Indian Paralympians
• India lose 1st T20I against West Indies by 1 run