Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Pakistan and Iran aim to increase annual trade volumes between the two countries to $5 billion by 2021.
2. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was appointed as adviser for state oil firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), replacing another former premier Mahathir Mohamad who was fired from the post two weeks ago.
3. The likely collapse of SunEdison Inc's solar project in India, the first of 32 planned "ultra mega" complexes, could delay Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal to increase renewable energy .
4. National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC)
5. "Swachhta Udyami Yojana" - objective of the Scheme is to provide concessional loan for viable community toilet projects and sanitation related vehicles to collect the garbage, to consolidate the ongoing efforts for realising the objectives of the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' launched by Prime Minister on 2nd October, 2014.
6. Nepal's ruling Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) welcomed cooperation deals inked with China during the ongoing visit of Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli.
7. On March 31, 2016, the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) controversially acquitted Serbian nationalist Vojislav Seselj of war crimes. The verdict prompted immediate condemnations from Croatian Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic.
8. Cyclone Winston, a grade five tropical cyclone, hit the Fiji Islands.
9. Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama
10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked for integration of all land records with Aadhaar at the earliest, emphasising at his monthly PRAGATI meeting.