General Knowledge and Current Affairs Pack 2016-08-27 14:00

2. India's bane is our easy embrace of mediocrity - from academia and science to business and military power. Sport is an apt metaphor
3. India's deadly floods raise risk of women, children being sold into slavery
4. India’s diversity of religious observances is unique, but in the name of religion, many others are being inconvenienced (“SC directive on dahi handi violated”, Aug.26). Centres of worship spring up ...
5. India's fast-growing Non-Banking FinancialCompanies (NBFC) Home Credit India Finance Pvt. Ltd. has announced its association with Intex Technologies, one of the largest smartphone and consumer durables companies in India.The association aims to ...
6. India's first textile university to come up at Surat
7. India's forex reserves increase to $367 billion
8. India's gymnastics heroine Dipa Karmakar has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of setting up a task force to prepare an action plan for the next three Olympic Games, and expressed hope that it would yield positive results and the ...
9. India's largest subscription-led video entertainment app nexGTv has announced acquiring of the digital telecast rights to UK-based Daehan Drama's popular French-Chinese webseries, Ex-Model.Showcasing the story of a Chinese girl, XinXin, struggling ...
10. India’s most popular mobile app for transportation, Ola, announced that it has deployed boats to help people in affected areas across the two cities in Uttar Pradesh in an endeavour to help thousands of citizens affected by the floods and waterlogging in Varanasi and Allahabad.]]
11. India’s Pawan Hans receives Airbus Helicopters’ Excellence Award
12. India's pioneering online automobile transactional marketplace Droom recently organized the second annual edition of its Sellers Summit to celebrate its recent successes.The event was chiefly aimed at fostering community building and facilitating ...
13. India’s restrictive employment and land acquisition laws, its school education system, which is marred by a high dropout rate, and the lack of formal employment opportunities for the youth, are respo...
14. India's Scorpene submarine data leak becomes murkier
15. India's tablet market declines 5.6 per cent in April-June: IDC
16. India stands with Brussels to combat terrorism says PM Modi: MEA
17. India's total healthcare expenditure come to 4 per cent of GDP
18. India's virtual rejection of its proposal for talks on Kashmir even as it briefed the ambassadors of the P-5 and European Union
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21. India to help reconstruct hydro power plant in Nepal"s Chandannath municipality
22. India to lock horns with the West Indies in first t-20 international match in United States this evening; Mahendra Singh Dhoni to lead the side in the two-match series.
23. India to Procure Simulator for Upgraded An-32 Aircraft
24. India to take on West Indies in 1st T-20
25. India-US Howitzer Deal Likely to Be Delayed Once Again
26. India-US look to narrow differences on BIT next week
27. India, US rush to ink logistics pact
28. India-US strategic, commercial meet to review progress report
29. India, WI keen on striking winning note in Florida
30. Indigenisation of insurgency in Indian Kashmir likely to lead to more frequent unrest and greater local support
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34. Indo Borax & Chemicals to resume production at Pithampur plant
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37. Industrial profit declines in July
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42. In Duterte, superpowers confront a new kind of leader
43. IND, WI set for battle in cricket's new land - USA
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45. Inflation will slow in the coming months: Rajan
46. Infographic: Floods wreak havoc in India
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48. Information Commissioner to scrutinise WhatsApp over Facebook data sharing
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51. Infosys said that its second quarter revenues will be better than the first but continued to maintain a cautionary stance, citing pullback in tech spending as a result of Brexit.Addressing an analyst...
52. In her inaugural address Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani said that Vidyanjali is a step forward in creating an ecosystem, wherein education will be attached with imbibing knowledge and improving learning output. The Union Minister added that there is an ingrained sense of participation and willingness within the people of this country to contribute towards nation building. We are hoping to leverage the same through this programme. Numerous researches have reflected that community engagement with schools has led to improvement in the quality of learning and education. This programme will instil fresh enthusiasm in school children to take up reading and will re-energise the teaching-learning process at schools. She also emphasised upon the significance of providing timely remedial support to improve the learning outcomes of school children, thereby reducing the number of school drop outs
53. In his interaction with officers and troops, the Chief commended their operational preparedness and commitment to the cause of national security. He exhorted everyone to ensure strict vigil along the Line of Control. Appreciating the synergy being shown amongst all security agencies that has resulted in successful counter terrorist operations, he also complimented the troops on ground for showing maximum restraint even in the face of grave provocation. He expressed his grief and concern over the casualties of civilians and security forces during the protests while making an earnest appeal to the Awaam to maintain peace and help the security forces serve them better.
54. In Israel, the incidence of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is among the highest in the world and has risen sharply over the past 45 years. Researchers found an association between being born in Israel and occurrence of HL, and an elevated risk of HL within one generation of moving to Israel. This could point to environmental causes such as exposures, diet, climate, social environment, and stress related to chronic regional conflict.
55. Initial peace agreement between RENAMO and Mozambican government likely to reduce fighting, unlikely to lead to disarmament
56. In Ladakh, traditional healers are often the panacea for high-altitude arthritis
57. In marathon anti-tax evasion drive, India signs info-sharing pacts with over 100 countries
58. innocent children were slaughtered. Hindustan, the Parliament had tears in it's eyes
59. innovations under the umbrella of KMWNEXTER Defense
60. In our country, even before forming of our government, we had the power production. But to reach the power, you need transmission lines and the good transmission infrastructure. Two years preceding the formation of our government,30-35 thousand kilometres of transmission lines were being laid annually. Today I wish to submit this with satisfaction that we have raised this to 50,000 Kilometres. So we have increased the pace here. If we take the commissioning of railway lines in previous 10 years, where commissioning means capacity to ply the trains and to finish all the trials, so earlier it was at the rate of 1500 kilometre in 10 years . But we have made it up to 3500 kilometre in last 2 years. We are to increase this pace even further.
61. In process of overturning 'illegal decisions' of AAP Govt: Jung
62. In Redskins’ third preseason game, defensive battles might have been settled
63. In search of an ideas revolution in India
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67. In Spain, Soldiers from nine countries take on Desert Sniper Course
68. Inspired from Honourable Prime Minister’s vision to inculcate reading habits among children and create a reading culture at school and community level, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani dedicated ‘
69. Installation access changes on the horizon for U.S. Army Europe
70. Installing CCTV Cameras at Railway Stations
71. Instead of asking regulators to relax norms, govt should provide direct subsidy to infrastructure, said outgoing RBI governor
72. Instead of asking regulators to relax norms, the govt should provide direct subsidy to infrastructure, said the outgoing RBI governor
73. Insults, name calling and character assassination are no match for conservation causes backed by solid evidence, says naturalist
74. In Surajya there must be efficiency in governance and therefore, earlier, if a company had to set up a factory or desiring to do business in our country, applications were submitted. There was a task of registration only, one wanted to do something for the country, but almost 6 months passed in normal course. Brothers and Sisters, if efficiency is brought, then the same government, same rules, same officials have got geared up to perform the same task of company registration within 24 hours and they are virtually doing it. In the last July itself, they performed the task of more than 900 such registrations.
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76. In Syria"s Northeast, a Microcosm of the Civil War
77. Integra Engineering India appoints CFO
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98. Internal friction resurfaces over China"s economic policy
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101. International arbitration process ad hoc, unpredictable: Ravi Shankar Prasad
102. International arbitration process is ad hoc and unpredictable: Prasad
103. International arbitration skewed in favour of developed world: Ravi Shankar Prasad
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106. International dragon boat championships kick off in Changhua
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113. International rights group slams killing of 5-year-old girl
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116. Internship program provides cross-cultural experience for college students
117. Inter-State gang arrested, gold biscuits seized
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119. Interview by OPEC's Director of Research Division
120. Interview with Founder & CEO, Directi Group
121. Interview with Managing Director, Rio Tinto India
122. Interview with Yuval Miller, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd
123. In the 1st phase, the company will set up a 4 mt steel mill and later, the capacity would be ramped up to 10 mt
124. In the backdrop of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Saturday to discuss ways to end the unrest in her state, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) hoped that their meeting will yield ...
125. In the blog post, the company said that it will explore ways for businesses to send messages using its platform over the next several months.
126. In the criminal world, the ethics of the pirate ship will always prevail, but it's a lot easier to punish those who betray you if you know who they are and where to find them.
127. In the days ahead the technical teams, which include United States and Russian military and intelligence experts, will try to figure out ways to separate the opposition groups from the jihadis.
128. In the first full, completed, cross-line delivery via road in August, inter-agency convoys have reached some 75,000 people in al-Waer in Syria’s Homs province with life-saving humanitarian assistance, the United Nations humanitarian arm has reported.
129. In the first full, completed, cross-line delivery via road in August, inter-agency convoys have reached some 75,000 people in al-Waer in Syria’s Homs province with life-saving humanitarian assistance, the United Nations humanitarian arm has reported.
130. In the last few weeks the two presidential nominees have received their initial intelligence briefings. Although the experience must have been different for each -- it was Donald Trump's first, whereas Hillary Clinton is an experienced intelligence consumer -- they were both recipients of a product authorized by President Barack Obama, the intelligence community's most important customer and the official who more than anyone else controls how intelligence is shared inside and outside the US government.
131. In ‘the most significant discovery’ from Ocearch research team to date, fishermen and scientists have found the first known great white shark birthing site on the North Atlantic Coast.
132. In theory, at least, this means that issues aired in the legislature would be made completely open and transparent, and that members of the public would be able to monitor what happens in the chamber in
133. In the study, the researchers provided mice with a running wheel from 12 months old (equivalent to middle aged in humans) and assessed their brains at 18 months (equivalent to 60 years old in humans, when the risk of Alzheimer's disease is greatly increased). Young and old mice alike ran about two miles per night, and this physical activity improved the ability and motivation of the old mice to engage in the typical spontaneous behaviors that seem to be affected by aging.
134. In the three months to 30 June the company generated revenues of]]
135. In the wake of Sucha Singh Chhotepur's removal from his post, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday took a dig at AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal and said that he is ridden with a lust for power and anybody who fails to serve his purpose is ousted ...
136. In this new role, Woodall will be responsible for further developing London as a global hub for The Wall Street Journal’s custom content, leading all on and off-platform sales across EMEA.
137. Introducing the revolutionary PowerEgg camera drone!
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139. In two of the largest territories under its control, ar-Raqqah in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, the Islamic State (IS) held celebratory events for Eid al-Fitr, and released videos showing children enjoying them.
140. in uniform we have a definite role in contributing to the society and help in Nation building.
141. Investment by South Africa’s Net1 also gives the start-up access to its virtual card technology
142. Investment firm KKR acquires `Epicor Software Corporation`
143. Investors lapped up shares of rating agencies on Friday's trade
144. In view of speculative press reports regarding NATO's stance regarding the failed coup in Turkey and Turkey’s NATO membership, let me stress NATO's very clear position.
145. in vogue Handbags are now coming in exotic avatars.
146. In what by now is standard fashion at these Olympics,
147. In what could be a slap on the face of the civil society, a case of shocking apathy has come to fore, wherein a pregnant woman in Madhya Pradesh was forced to walk six kilometres through a waterlogged area to reach the hospital to deliver her ...
148. In what turned out to be a conscience-shaking story, two sisters were rescued from a house in North-west Delhi's Samaypur Badli area. They were abandoned by their pa....
149. Iran Exceeds Crude Production to 320 thousand bpd from South Azadegan Oil Field in Two Years
150. Iran executes nuclear scientist who claimed he was kidnapped by CIA
151. Iran-focused Persis relies on former Blair people
152. Iran: Forces Will Warn Any Vessel after US Warship Incident
153. "Iran, Gazprom Discussing Gas Project ";
154. Iran, Gazprom Discussing Gas Project
155. Iran has a mysterious new mega-tank