Current Affairs 3rd January 2017
NATIONAL:
- Chhattisgarh hosts Digi-Dhan Mela in Raipur
- India’s Petronet Signs MoU to Set Up $950 Mn LNG Project in Bangladesh
- Supreme Court sacks Anurag Thakur, Ajay Shirke from BCCI
- 26 crore accounts open under Jan Dhan Yojana across country till date
- India’s 1st transgender school opens in Kerala
- Madhya Pradesh plans to develop 1,100 ‘climate-smart’ villages
- Sikkim became India’s first fully organic state in 2016
INTERNATIONAL:
- British govt to launch new one-pound coin at end of March
- Indo-Bangladesh border to get laser walls, smart sensors
- China to Ban Ivory Trade and Processing Activities by the end of 2017
BANKING NEWS:
- Govt permits 12 PSU banks to raise Rs 3,000 cr from market
- IDBI Slashes Lending Rates
- State-run Bank of Baroda has launched an agricultural investment credit for the farmers of Rajasthan.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY NEWS:
- NRIs can exchange Old Notes till June 30
- Mother Dairy unveils Aadhar-enabled payment
APPOINTMENTS:
- Archana Nigam is new Controller General of Accounts
- General Bipin Rawat takes over as next Chief of Army Staff
- Air Marshal Anil Khosla takes over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Air Command
- Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa takes charge as new Air Force chief
- British-Indian Shankar Balasubramanian knighted for his work on DNA sequencing
AWARDS AND HONORS:
- Bharatiya Jananpith announces Navlekhan award 2016
- NHPC CMD K M Singh honoured at 10th ENERTIA Awards 2016
- Shraddha, Ghyansham Kumar Devansh chosen for 2016 Bharatiya Jananpith Navlekhan award
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
- India successfully test-fires intercontinental ballistic missile Agni-IV
- Gujarat CM dedicates India’s first laser technology-based check-post
SPORTS NEWS:
- Karjakin pips Magnus Carlsen to win World Blitz Chess C’ship
- Rafael Nadal wins Mubadala Tennis Championships 2016 in Abu Dhabi
OBITUARY:
- Pak’s oldest living Test player Imtiaz Ahmed passes away