General Knowledge and Current Affairs Pack 2016-08-08 5

While the Olympics took over as the premier spectacle in the latter half of the week, here's a few other engaging pieces of reality that lens were able to capture between 31-7-2016 and 7-8-2016...
Integrated Financial Services to hold board meeting
A coordinated curriculum between early childhood programs and elementary schools is needed to take advantage of that crucial window in a child's development.
A look at the factors driving the automobile sector — and the challenges ahead, given recent developments
Development agenda, reforms will ensure new growth path: Modi
Energy Development Company to hold board meeting
Govt’s efforts on balanced and sound education development
Lawrencedale Agro inks pact with AP for development of horticulture
Members of various government school development and management committees and social organisations on Monday carried out a protest in the city against the process of redeployment of additional teach...
‘New intellectual propertypolicy, a catalyst for development’
PM launches Mission Bhagiratha; lays Foundation Stone of key development projects in Telangana
PM launches series of developmental projects in Telangana
Purchase of a flat by Maharashtra Government's Annabhau Sathe Development Corporation has come under the scanner of the CAG which has found irregularities in the transaction.
Rs.75-lakh facility at Njeliyanparamba comes under the Sustainable Urban Development Project
Rs.75-lakh facility under Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project.
Shares of HDFC and Max Financial jumped as according to a BSE filing Max Financial board will discuss the terms of planned merger with HDFC Life. Housing Development Finance Corp rose as much as 1...
Solution to all problems lies in development: Modi
The draft rules released by the Centre for implementation of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, has failed to protect interests of buyers of ongoing projects. According to Abhay Upadhya...
The local service sector flashed “yellow-blue” in June, signaling sluggish growth for the eighth consecutive month, according to the Commerce Development Research Institute (CDRI, 商業發展研究院).
Tourism Secretary N. Srikanth directed the officials to requisition the services of architects before taking up the development of tourist places in the city.Mr. Srikanth, who was posted as Secretary ...
While returning the compliment, Modi, who was on his maiden visit to the youngest state, said the Telangana CM has always been concerned about the development of his state.
A first-of-its-kind next-generation sequencing test, which can detect HIV drug resistance mutations that conventional tests fail to identify, can be a weapon in the war against AIDS, suggests a new study.Developed by researchers led by Gerd Michel, ...
City sent an email enquiry to game developer Niantic, and got a response, just six hours before the start of the ceremony
Draft rules on regulating real estate will only help developers: Activist
Giving a boost to the State government’s ambitious plans to develop Donakonda industrial city, a delegation from SCP Consultants Pte Ltd Singapore visited on Sunday a non-descript Donakonda village to...
He said that it is very necessary to have a disucssion in the House on an 'urgent developing issue' of building a Ram temple in Ayodhya
Hong Kong’s property developers find themselves increasingly marginalized as their wealthy Chinese counterparts are expanding their land bank to Hong Kong. Beijing appears to endorse this new property game of land being an effective tool to tighten control over Hong Kong since the…
IIT Madras researchers develop instrumentation for cancer treatment
It is to develop a methodology in schools to address issues related to multilingualism
Michael Phelps, U.S. men edge France to win gold in men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay This is a developing story. It will be updated.
s property developers find themselves increasingly marginalized as their wealthy Chinese counterparts are expanding their land bank to Hong Kong. Beijing appears to endorse this new property game of land being an effective tool to tighten control over Hong Kong since the&#8230
The beta version of the Viveport store is to be available initially to developers and to consumers in 30 countries later in autumn, allowing people to explore “crazy-cool, immersive
The New Taipei City Government on Friday auctioned off 37 plots of land in Tucheng District (土城), all with a generous premium, as developers vie to build residential properties on the site of a former ammunition depot despite the current sluggish market, analysts said yesterday.
The rains will have to take a week-long break for the commissioning of the Edappally and Palarivattom flyovers this month.Both the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and the Roads and Bridges Develop...
The steel major had bagged a contract to supply 150,000 tonnes of rail to Iran for developing rail infrastructure
Universal Cable Productions has acquired the rights to develop "Game of Thrones" author George R R Martin'S anthology series "Wild Cards".
VKJ Infradevelopers to hold board meeting
10cr children are fed through midday meal scheme everyday
Debt emerges as better money maker than equity schemes
Delhi govt had launched a loan scheme for higher education last year
Max Financial Services and HDFC rose 0.91% to 1.05% at 12:16 IST on BSE after Max Financial Services said its board will consider a proposed scheme of arrangement amongst the company, Max Life Insurance Company and HDFC Life Insurance Company.
Needed simplifying in EOU schemes
Odisha: CM Naveen Patnaik launches pension scheme for weavers
Phison Electronics Corp (群聯) is not ruling out the possibility of a shares buyback scheme if investors react irrationally in the stock market this week or if it feels it needs to prevent a possible hostile takeover, chairman Pua Khein-seng (潘健成) said yesterday.
The EOU scheme was launched on December 31, 1980, when the domestic operating environment was highly restrictive
The scheme allows you to invest variable sums every month
Accusing a housing project promoter of leaving them in the lurch and abandoning the project mid-way, a group of investors staged a protest at Polivakkam in Tiruvallur district on Sunday morning.The in...
A genome project for newborn babies was launched in Shanghai on Aug 7, to aid the early identification and treatment of hereditary diseases.
Asean, trade partners projecting 3.1% global economic growth
Authority has plans to raise at least Rs 50,000 crore in 2016-17 to meet its requirement of funds for highway projects
Bhumi, Qualcomm inaugurate housing project for flood-hit people
Bypassing Suez Canal: Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan Plan to Boost Trade Via Major Transport Project
China has published information on military equipment research projects on an official weapon procurement website for the first time, to encourage compitition in the formerly closed sector, the PLA Daily reported.
China releases weaponry research project information
Data indicate the number of stalled projects has climbed in the recent past but there has been some progress in road building
Delay dogs Thotapalli project
Friends spearhead project to light up remote valley
Greenearth Resources & Projects to hold board meeting
Hazoor Multi Projects standalone net profit declines 85.71% in the June 2016 quarter
Housing project investors protest against promoter
Implementation of the project in Pakistan will open up a new market for Russian companies
Indo Pacific Projects to hold board meeting
KCR, Suresh Prabhu discuss projects
Manipal varsity bags EU project in higher education
Marg Projects & Infrastructure to hold board meeting
Mindy Kaling, whose series "The Mindy Project" has made the switch from Fox to Hulu and actress says the transitions has set her free.
MMRDA overlooked green clearances in Metro project: CAG
PM launches 'Mission Bhagiratha', other projects in Telangana
Regulatory issues, land acquisition delay 112 NHAI projects
Rohit Shetty and Ranveer Singh's film to be a Indo-Chinese project
Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan Plan to Boost Trade Via Major Transport Project
Sancia Global Infraprojects to hold board meeting
The project ...
The project, which takes off after a four-year delay, will invite better care for the mentally ill
Thousands protest possible China-France nuclear project
Tribunal rejects plea for 7.56 tmc ft for drinking water project
Wind energy slows down thermal power production
A close look at Ningde nuclear power station in Fujian
A powerful bomb went off on the grounds of a government-run hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday, killing at least 53 people and wounding dozens, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast
At least 53 people were killed on Monday when a powerful blast hit a hospital in Quetta in Pakistan when dozens of lawyers were entering it with the body of lawyer killed earlier, officials said.
At least 55 people, mostly lawyers, were today killed and over 100 others injured when a powerful bomb ripped through a government-run hospital in Quetta in Pakistan's restive southwestern Balochistan province, in a suspected suicide attack followed ...
At Rs 17,990 it might lose out to other powerful and feature-rich smartphones
Authorities have declared a crisis in parts of Macedonia after powerful storms and floods collapsed homes and left at least 21 people dead, state-run media said Sunday.
CARE Ratings has revised its rating for Adani Power’s long-term bank facilities to CARE BBB, which corresponds to investment grade.Instruments with this grade are considered to have a moderate degre...
CARE Ratings revises rating for Adani Power's bank facilities
CARE revises Adani Power’s rating
Corridors of Power
Dakshina Kannada administration to harness solar power
In 'DMM.Planets Art' in Tokyo, visitors can walk through art installations powered by millions of LED lights that respond in real time to their movements.
In Thailand, voters approve a new draft constitution giving extra powers to military
Islamabad, Aug 8 (IANS) At least 53 people were killed on Monday when a powerful blast hit a hospital in Quetta in Pakistan when dozens of lawyers were entering it with the body of lawyer killed ...
Lightning caused fire at transfer power station causes power outage
London Grants UK Police New Powers to Fight Modern Slavery at Sea
Matter, energy… knowledge: How to harness physics’ demonic power
Modern Family" star Ty Burrell brought his star power to good use when he helped raise funds for foster children.
Owner, wife & family of 6 living as tenants among deceased; illegal building was to be demolished on Aug 9; civic body had snapped water, power connections.
Pedal power: cycling contest sees good turnout
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Power stocks gain
RupeePower founder buys back share from Snapdeal
See photos of the Solar Impulse 2's attempt to circumnavigate the globe using only solar power.
S & S Power Switchgear reports consolidated net loss of Rs 0.80 crore in the June 2016 quarter
S & S Power Switchgear reports standalone net loss of Rs 0.08 crore in the June 2016 quarter
Striving to empower differently abled girls
Taipower outlines trial run for new generator in Linkou
Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) said it hopes to have the No. 2 power generator of an ultra-supercritical power plant in New Taipei City’s Linkou District (林口) operational by April next year.
Talking about women powe rLok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan seemed to be in the mood for some plain speak earlier this week during the release of a research document at the Constitution Club when she sp...
Targets for bringing an end to the use of coal-powered fire stations are on the agenda
The PMO has taken cognisance of a written complaint lodged by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleging corruption in Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL), the AAP said here today.
The Rajya Sabha has no power to amend a money Bill and the ruling coalition does not have a majority in there
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has turned down a petition from the Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL) to provide concessional power tariff retrospectively.However, considering tha...
This is second building crash in a week in the powerloom town of Bhiwandi, which is around 35 km north of Mumbai.
Will source power directly from the latter to cut costs, improve operations
Extol Commercials to hold board meeting
Nick Dunn is one of 6 British solders sentenced to 5-year jail by a Tamil Nadu court for carrying arms on a commercial ship in 2013.
Real Growth Commercial Entrps. to hold board meeting
Introduction of goods and services tax (GST) will help attract new investments in coastal state of Goa, the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) today said.
Last week, Nilekani invested Rs 25-30 crore in 10i Commerce Services, the company behind ShopX, for a minority stake
The sector is likely to grow at 9-11% every year, driven by e-commerce and organised retail
Wal-Mart Stores Inc and e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc are trying to close a US$3 billion acquisition as soon as today that would require Jet founder Marc Lore to head the retailer’s online division for several years, according to people familiar with the matter.
Australian extreme runner Dion Leonard says he is planning to bring a stray dog who followed him for 125km during a race across China, back to his home in...
In addition, the company is planning to augment the capacity of synthetic resins and emulsions at its Ankaleshwar (Gujarat) manufacturing facility by 35,000 MT
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), which is planning to expand market for polypropylene, is targeting to sell around 0.44 million tonnes (mt) of polypropylene a year. The 28th annua...
Singer Ronan Keating and wife Storm, who will be celebrating their first wedding anniversary this month, are planning to start a family together soon.
For a craft that was launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope continues to provide us with awe-inspiring firsts. This time, researchers pointed its venerable lens in the direction of Earth-size planets beyond our solar system to give us the first glimpse into their atmospheres, according to a new study.
Christoph Sedlmayr, a spokesman for Daimler, declined to comment on the number and model type of electric cars planned, while adding there will be more than one.
Pramod Tiwari charged the Rajasthan government with 'killing cows in a well planned conspiracy' and sought action against it
The company has already invested Rs 400 crore during a 28-day planned shutdown of the refinery in September-October last year
After unveiling many innovative plans for welfare of prisoners, Telangana Prisons Department has come out with the concept of Jail Tourism for people.Under its new programme of ‘Feel the jail’, a citi...
Amazon Unveils Cargo Plane As It Expands Delivery Network
Anti-social media: Online chats foil Singapore rocket attack plan
An Uzbekistan Airways passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Saint Petersburg airport in northwest Russia today after suffering an engine failure, airport authorities said.
Asian Paints to raise capacity of Sriperumbudur plant by 60,000 KL
Board of Tamil Nadu Petroproducts approves Rs 100 crore for modernisation of HCD Plant
Britannia plans to set up new plant in Bengal
Britannia plans to set up new plant in W. Bengal
Cargo shorts are awful. Amazon's cargo plane is cool.
DLF plans to raise up to Rs 2,500 crore via NCDs
Donald Trump adviser David Malpass backs off the nominee's plan to wipe out U.S. debt in eight years.
Essar Oil’s refinery upgrade plan to add to margin
Feel the jail — tourism plan of Telangana
FMCG major Britannia Industries is looking to set up a plant in West Bengal and make the existing one more productive, its Chairman Nusli Wadia said today.
Government plans to hold programmes on the birth and death anniversary of poet Sant Kabir Das and is mulling the release of a coin in his memory, Lok Sabha was informed today.
Hatsun Agro plans Rs 450 cr expansion of ice cream, dairy capacity
Himachal Pradesh government has set a target of planting over one crore saplings this year to increase the depleting green cover in the state.
Himachal to plant 1 Cr saplings to increase green cover
Hollywood is my next plan: Esha Gupta
IFCI defers plans to sell SHCIL stake
Iran Plans to Seal Long-Term Oil Deals With European Clients
Italy’s troubled lenders are offering lucrative opportunities for investment banks, with Monte dei Paschi di Siena set to pay some of the highest fees in Europe this year to arrange its high stakes rescue plan.
Linkou plant general manager Chu Chi-min (朱記民) told an on-site news conference on Friday
Meghmani Organics intimates of fire accident at Beta Blue plant in Dahej
Met department plans hyper local forecast to fight city floods
Militant’s online chats helped cops to foil Singapore attack plan
Njeliyanparamba sewage plant ready to take off
No plan to set up Welfare Board for salt workers: Government
Online Chats Disclose Plans For Rocket Attack On Singapore
Pennsylvania Girl With Heart Transplant Among Five Dead in Murder-Suicide
Planters Polysack to hold board meeting
Sewage treatment plant ready to take off
Shocked, when the civic authorities turned up at their doors branding them encroachers, residents have been brandishing ‘A’ khata and building plan approvals by the civic authorities to claim legitima...
Social media chatter prevents execution of rocket attack plan on Singapore
Students of Visva-Bharati University carry saplings in a decorated palanquin for plantation...
Telcos plan to move court on interconnect charge review
The dominant player in the cruiser segment has few peers; Honda, while noting the vacuum, says no immediate plan to get in there
'The Trust plans to expand its operations to cover at least 5,000 students in an academic year by 2020'.
The vehicles will go out on the roads across the UK next month to ensure people using the BBC's online catch-up service also have a TV license. Critics fear the plans threaten people's privacy.
Top economic planner said the country has made progress in reducing excess coal capacity by advancing structural reform.
Trump adviser backs off plan to wipe out U.S. debt in 8 years
Two persons were killed in a road accident at Ukkunagaram here on Sunday.G. Ananda Rao, an Assistant Manager in the Telecom wing of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, performed the marriage of his younger son...
US Army, RAND Corporation Plan for War Against Beijing Over S. China Sea
Uzbek Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Russia
Wild plants are no more worthless!
Willow Short survived a heart transplant when she was 6 days old, only to be killed by one of her parents in a murder-suicide.
Wockhardt shares slumped 14 percent intraday on Monday after its third plant got US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) import alert.The US regulator has issued import alert on Ankleshwar plant for violating good manufacturing practices.The ...
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Wockhardt tanks over 10% on import alert from US FDA for Ankleshwar plant
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BJP UP Chief Keshav Prasad Maurya claimed his party would rid the state of both SP and BSP
BSP chief auctions tickets, says expelled BJP leader
Case will be heard by a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale and Justice Yashwant Varma
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's condition improves, Ghulam Nabi Azad pays visit
Department of Forest and Wildlife on Sunday seized 11 kg of Chital or spotted deer meat near Srimushnam in Cuddalore.G. Kumar, Chief Wildlife Warden, Department of Forest and Wildlife, said that they ...
Former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Swamy Prasad Maurya is expected to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday.Maurya, the leader of opposition in Uttar Pradesh state Assembly, had left BSP on June 22 accusing the party chief Mayawati of ...
Former cricketer Kirti Azad has criticised former apex court judge Justice Markandey Katju for calling the Lodha Panel recommendations "unconstitutional", saying that the former chief justice is either being "coaxed" by the Board of Control for ...
In a crackdown on pseudo cow vigilantes, the Patiala Police on Monday lodged an FIR against 'Gau Raksha Dal' chief Satish Kumar in connection with a social media video showing organisation members "brutally" thrashing people in the name of cow ...
Interview with Chief executive officer, Maybank Kim Eng Securities
IRA chief 'protected after being exposed as informer'
Islamabad, Aug. 7 (ANI): The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has dismissed media reports claiming that Army Chief General Raheel Sharif's son-in-law is among the seven crew members taken ...
No relative of Pak Army Chief taken hostage in Afghanistan ISPR
NRI named New York's chief digital officer
Partha S Banerjee has joined Sportskeeda as chief operating officer (COO)
Taking suo motu cognisance of the recent gang rape of a woman and her minor daughter in Bulandshahr, the Allahabad High Court has decided to hear the matter today.The case will be heard by a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Dilip Babasaheb ...
The Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC is proceeding on an official tour
Trai chief R S Sharma, who completes one year in office on Wednesday, has taken a few consumer-friendly initiatives, but his relationship with industry has suffered
Two foreigners were abducted in the western part of Kabul on Sunday evening local time, the city's police chief told CNN.
UN chief welcomes South Sudan's acceptance of African-led regional protection force
UN chief welcomes South Sudan&#39s acceptance of African-led regional protection force
Express WiFi is a Mark Zuckerberg-headed Internet giant’s initiative aimed at taking affordable broadband to the rural areas of the country.
It was not just 'serious' contributors to the MyGov portal - a government initiative for citizen-government interaction - who had been invited to its second anniversary celebration on Saturday. Worried that they would not be able to fill the seats ...
Latvia Considering Russian Initiative on Baltic Region Security Talks
The Car-Free Sundays (CFS), an initiative of The Hindu Tamil with the Coimbatore Corporation and Coimbatore City Traffic Police as partners, turned out to be a place for celebrating special occasi...
Heritage ‘Chatram’ to get renovated
Safeguarding a rich and precious heritage, one that is a timeless beauty, is a blessing for future generations.......
Board reiterates its directive to General Managers to set up a system for monitoring progress of work periodically
Teachers should be free of non-academic works like uploading details of students’ monthly attendance and monthly progress reports on government website so that they can concentrate more on academic wo...
Total Rewards: A must for progressive organisations
Accountability for war crimes must be established before government formulates a new constitution: C.V.Wigneswaran
A constable with the Government Railway Police shot himself dead in a moving Churchgate-bound local train, early on Sunday morning. The 38-year-old constable, identified as Amar Mahadev Gaikwad, commi...
Although a change in name of the terrorist group Jabbat al Nusra to Jabbat Fatah al Sham signifies nothing, Beltway pundits are pushing for arming and legitimizing various al-Qaeda groups under such nicknames to overthrow the Syrian government. Since 2015, Idlib and parts of Aleppo…
Amid continued uproar in Lok Sabha over the issue of granting special status to Andhra Pradesh, government...
Amid continued uproar in Lok Sabha over the issue of granting special status to Andhra Pradesh, government said it is at a "fairly advanced stage" of discussions with the state government and would arrive at a solution shortly.]]
Amid speculation about holding talks, separatists have hardened their position and called for a public blockade of all government administrative units on Monday as continued curfew and shutdown marre...
Applications are open for the Chevening Scholarship and Fellowship programmes for 2017-18. Get set to apply for these prestigious and fully funded programmes offered by the UK Government.They offer a unique opportunity for future leaders, ...
Bidar government hospital to hire temporary staff
By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan said on Monday it would respond firmly after Chinese government vessels had intruded into what Tokyo considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea 14 times at the weekend,…
Cabinet meeting of Gujarat's new government to be held today
Ensure safetyKrishna Pushkarams are just days away and the government should take all steps to ensure that ordinary devotees have a safe and comfortable experience. The administration should take a le...
Ethiopia: Several killed, dozens arrested as anti-government protests continue
For persons with disabilities, it has been a matter of making multiple trips to various departments to have their grievances heard in the last few weeks, as the State government is yet to appoint a S...
Government focusses on religious tourism
Government in advanced stages of talks on special status to AP: Jaitley
Government is seized of the concerns of Andhra Pradesh regarding special status for the state: Arun Jaitley
Government probing foreign funds of Zakir Naik's NGOs

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