Current Affairs 5th October 2016

Current Affairs 5th October 2016

National News:

• Jharkhand becomes first state to implement Direct Benefit Transfer in Kerosene
• Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari formally launched the Indian Bridge Management System (IBMS) in New Delhi
• Urban areas of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh declared open defecation free
• Yesudas to be brand ambassador of ‘Haritha Keralam’ project

International News:

• The fourth meeting of the JWG held at Brno (Czech) on October 3-6, 2016
• Beijing Issues Yellow Air Pollution Alert

New Appointments :

• Jojneshhwar Sharma joined as Director General of Defence Estates
• Ashish Vohra appointed as CEO of Reliance Nippon Life Insurance Ltd
• Jawhar Sircar resigns as CEO of Prasar Bharati Corporation
• Indian-American Vinaya Manchaiah named Future Leader of Audiology
• Kersti Kaljulaid elected as first female President of Estonia

Banking:

• RBI’s 24th Governor Urjit Patel, who has been recently appointed, has announced his first and country’s 4th Bi-monthly Policy Statement for the year 2016-17
• India’s GDP growth to remain 7.6% in 2016: World Bank
• Economy to grow 7.4% in FY17, will touch 8% in FY19
• Startups Allowed Raising $3m via ECBs

Business & Economy :

• Ratan Tata has invested in GOQii, a virtual fitness coaching platform

Sports:

• Project Energia by INTERPOL and World Andi-Doping Agency (WADA)
• Tendulkar felicitates India’s Paralympic medalists

Awards:

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter –  David J. Thouless (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) from UK F. Duncan M. Haldane (Princeton University, NJ, USA) from UK, J. Michael Kosterlitz (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) from UK
• Wildlife film-maker Prajna Chowta conferred knighthood by France
• Ramesh Won Lemelson-MIT Prize