Current Affairs 4th August 2017

Current Affairs 4th August 2017

NATIONAL

• Union Cabinet approved the scrapping of the no-detention policy in schools till Class 8^th
• 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