Current Affairs 4th August 2017
NATIONAL
- Union Cabinet approved the scrapping of the no-detention policy in schools till Class 8th
- World Bank allowed India to construct hydroelectric power facilities on tributaries of the Jhelum and Chenab rivers
- Union Government has launched a portal, e-RashtriyaKisanAgriMandi(e-RaKAM)
INTERNATIONAL
- The 7th Meeting of BRICS Trade Ministers held in Shanghai, China
- US Senate confirms Christopher Wray to lead FBI
- Facebook acquires AI startup to make Messenger smarter
- US urges Americans to leave N Korea before ban kicks in on September 1
BANKING & ECONOMY
- SBI, Samsung collaborate to advance Digital India initiative
AGREEMENT
- India and Somalia signed a bilateral agreement for the transfer of sentenced persons
- Union Cabinet signed MoU with BRICS countries to set up BRICS Agriculture Research Platform (BRICS-ARP)
APPOINTMENT
- Dhirendra Swarup has been appointed as the chairman of the board of directors of the BSE
- MeitYhas appointed Justice B.N Srikrishna to head committee to study issues related to data protection
- SEBI has set up a committee on ‘fair market conduct’ headed by T K Viswanathan
- SanjayaBaru has appointed as the Secretary General of FICCI
- Peter O’Neill : Re-Elected Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
AWARD
- Dhanraj Pillay was honoured with the ‘Bharat Gaurav’ by East Bengal Football Club
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- The Indian Army has developed a mobile application named ‘Humraaz’
OBITUARY
- Former union minister Santosh Mohan Dev passes away
- Sam Shepard, Actor and Pulitzer-Winning Playwright, is Dead at 73
