- “Political barriers” for private investment will be removed to offer a fair playing field and encourage non-state companies to take part in 165 projects outlined
- Poll bugle sounds: If Mayawati wants to be the next CM of UP, striking the right alliance will be crucial
- Pope Francis’ active engagement in political questions has stirred particular controversy in his native country, where he has faced criticism for what some see as a series of papal snubs of President Mauricio Macri.
- Pope Seen as Critical of Argentine Leader
- Popular Tamil actor Vijay's father S.A. Chandrasekhar slipped and fell at a resort in Kumarakom on Wednesday and had to immediatelly undergo a surgery at a hospital here.
- Popular TV actor Karan Kundra says romance on the small screen is conservative and a bit more like the period of 1970s.
- Porous borders make A.P., particularly Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada, a hub for sale of the contraband
- Porto, Monaco, Glasgow Celtic, Legia Warszawa and Ludogorets Razgrad all qualified for the UEFA Champions League group stage football competition with the results of second-leg contests.
- Portugal star striker Cristiano Ronaldo, who is the frontrunner to clinch UEFA Best Player in Europe award, has labelled the 2015-16 season as one of the finest of his professional football career.The 31-year-old believes the arrival of new French ...
- Powerful earthquake rocks Italy, killing at least 38
- Powerful quake hits Italy… At least 18 dead
- Power Grid Corporation of India to hold AGM
- Power Ministry making changes in tech standards for grid connectivity
- Power, steel and cement to see minor rise in prices, while railways may benefit
- Pranab Mukherjee launches Bengali language 'Akashvani Maitree' radio channel
- Premier Li eyes popularity of local brand
- Premier Li hails China-Canada relations
- Premier Li hails creative industrial park in Jiangxi
- Premier Li hails future of new economy
- Premier Li Keqiang called on high-tech manufacturers to establish their own branding and find new models of production.
- Premier Li Keqiang stressed on Aug 23 that relocation in impoverished regions is the key to relieving poverty.
- Premier Li Keqiang vowed on Aug 22 to further improve infrastructure in rural regions of southern Jiangxi province.
- Premier Li vows to improve infrastructure in rural Jiangxi
- Premier pays tribute to Red Army martyrs
- Premier pays tribute to Red Army martyrs
- Premier’s inspection tour to Jiangxi
- Premier’s campaign for upgrading ‘Made in China’
- Premier’s inspection tour to Jiangxi
- Premier stresses quality in urban flood control projects
- Premier tours in baking sun
- Premier urges faster development of new economy
- Premier vows more aid for rural Jiangxi
- President Barack Obama said the nation is "heartbroken" during his first visit to flood-ravaged southern Louisiana as he attempted to assure the many thousands who have suffered damage that his administration has made their recovery a priority
- President Barack Obama will touch down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Tuesday to tour the flood-ravaged city that quickly became a political football.
- 'Presidential choices unpopular'
- President lauds Look East, Act East policies, GST
- President Mukherjee to inaugurate mega food park in Murshidabad
- President Obama promises aid to help Louisiana fully recover from flooding
- President Obama speaks in Baton Rouge about the devastating flooding that hit Louisiana, killing 13 people and damaging more than 60,000 homes.
- President of Indias Message on The Eve of National Day of Uruguay
- President Pranab Mukherjee has emphasized on improving the quality of higher educational institutions and called for deeper interface between industry and academia to achieve ...
- President Pranab Mukherjee has greeted people on Janmashtami, conveying his "warm greetings and good wishes" here on Wednesday.
- President Pranab Mukherjee today greeted the people on the eve of Janmashtami and hoped that people commit themselves to following the path of virtue and righteousness in thought, word and deed.
- President Pranab Mukherjee will today inaugurate a mega food park at Murshidabad and also grace the convocation of Management Development Institute in Murshidabad at Jangipur before returning to New Delhi after a three-day visit to West ...
- Presidents greetings on the eve of Janmashtami
- President Tsai condoles death of Singapore's ex-president
- President will be chief guest
- Press Review of August 23, 2016 [The Morning Call]
- Pressure on IndiGo's yields to continue
- ‘Pressure’ on Palestinian households to move raises risk of forcible transfers – UN official
- Preview - Rejuvenated Hamilton has 50th win in his sights
- Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that Moscow has no money available to raise pensions further in line with last year’s high inflation rate, news that is likely to be unwelcome ahead of parliamentary elections in September.
- Prime Minister lauded India's capability of resilience and said when world economy is slowing down, India is emerging as a ray of hope
- Prime Minister Modi, in his Independence Day speech, had said that he was thanked by the people of Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, including Gilgit-Baltistan, for flagging their problems.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised full support to these flood-hit states in the conduct of rescue and relief operations.]]
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reached out to the people in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi and said all assistance is being provided to tackle the flood situation."Deeply concerned by the flood situation in Varanasi. PMO is ...
- Prince Harry Challenges Olympic Champion Usain Bolt to a Race for Fun
- Private-public partnerships, film certification board on PAC’s radar
- Privatise Air India for better management
- Priyanka Chopra stunned in a little black dress (LBD) as she arrived at the premiere of Hands Of Stone in New York City on Monday.
- Probe by central agency into Amnesty's activities sought
- Probe by Central Agency into Amnesty's Activities Sought
- Probe ordered into Jaisha's claims of official apathy
- Probe ordered into Jaisha's claims of official apathy at Rio
- Progress in malaria control was among the reasons the WHO African region experienced the greatest increase in life expectancy since 2000 – by 9.4 years to 60 years.
- Pro-peace Kashmiris will defeat unruly powers: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
- Protection for steel industry must be temporary: CII President
- Protections acceptable as a short-term measure: CII president
- Protections are acceptable if they are for a short-term or are temporary in nature, Naushad Forbes, President, Confederation of Indian Industry, said here on Tuesday.However, he did pointed out that p...
- Protests against Amnesty continues in Mandya
- Protests continue to rock various mandals of Siddipet and Husnabad regions against the bifurcation of Karimnagar district on Tuesday.People living in the Sircilla division have come on to the roads to...
- Providing HIV medication to both members of a couple may substantially reduce the risk of transmission within that couple, according to a new study.
- PTC India to cross 50 bn units of electricity sale by 2017-18, says top executive
- pThe Chinese have aggressively involved themselves in Myanmar yet they are unsure of their future relationship and their investments due to the oncoming democratically elected government. Chinese...
- Public sector giant BSNL is planning to unveil its fourth generation (4G) services in the Kolkata circle by 2017.
- Puducherry spends major portion of its financial resources to the committed expenditure and only a limited portion was available for developmental activities.]]
- Puducherry to tackle financial issues using various policy tools: Kiren Bedi
- Punjab Police today launched a search operation in Dinanagar area here after an 11-year-old boy spotted two suspicious men.
- Putin: Russia Ready to Assist Italy After Deadly Earthquake
- P V Sindhu, Sakshi Malik to be honoured at KTM 2016
- Pyrotechnics erupt during the closing ceremony in the Maracana stadium at the 2016 Summer...
- Quake brings down buildings in central Italy, 10 killed
- Quake devastates mountain towns in central Italy, at least 20 believed killed
- Quality awardfor ReMS
- Question hour of Uttar Pradesh Assembly was today washed out as BJP members trooped into the well, creating an uproar to raise law and order and other issues.
- Quikr acquires ZapLuk to scale up beauty, wellness biz
- QuikrServices acquires on-demand beauty & wellness service ZapLuk
- Quiz | How well do you know our RBI Governors?
- Rachel Sanderson of the Financial Times describes how the earthquake in Italy happened, as daylight reveals the extent of the damage from the overnight tremors.
- Radcliffe, Grace Moretz to be honoured at Deauville Festival
- Rafael Nadal to make Brisbane International debut in 2017
- Rahul Gandhi told the Supreme Court that he had never blamed RSS as an institution that killed Mahatma Gandhi....
- Rahul Gandhi told the Supreme Court that he had never blamed RSS as an institution that killed Mahatma Gandhi....
- Rahul only referred to people who are linked with the killing of Mahatma not any particular organisation, said senior counsel Kapil Sibal
- Rahul Vaidya makes a special appearance in his single
- Railway Minister and Chief Minister flag off Nandyal-Kadapa passenger train
- Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu here on Monday inaugurated a free high-speed wi-fi internet facility for railway commuters at eight stations in Mumbai and Thane.
- Railway passengers to get free Wi-Fi at 8 stations
- Railways raises short distance coal freight
- Railways rationalises coal freight rates
- Rajiv Kumar: RBI’s next thousand days: What Urjit Patel can do to help improve India’s investment climate
- Rajnath in Kashmir, reviews security situation
- Rajnath offers dialogue as youth dies in fresh violence
- Rajnath Singh Begins his 2-Day Visit to Kashmir Today
- Rajnath Singh earlier on Wednesday arrived in Srinagar on a two-day visit to Kashmir during which he will review the situation there
- Rajnath Singh to undertake 2-day visit to Kashmir
- Rajnath to undertake 2-day visit to Kashmir
- Ramco Ind, Sequent Scientific, BF Investment, J B Chem, Kalyani Investment and Tata Investment rallied over 10% each on Wednesday.
- Ramya won’t apologise, says she’s entitled to her view
- Ranking every FBS team, Part 3: The ones with good defenses but bad offenses, or vice versa
- Rapper booked for 'insulting Islam'
- Rashtrapati Bhavan battles mosquitoes
- Rashtriya e-Market Services (ReMS), which operates the electronic trading platform at the regulated agricultural markets of Karnataka, has bagged the Quality Council of India’s DL Shah Award-Platinum ...
- Raytheon Awarded Contract for US Army Long Range Precision Fires Risk Mitigation
- RBI finalises norms for local area banks
- RBI governor-designate's experience will ensure he 'rises to the occasion'
- Reacting to allegations that the leak may have been from India, the Defence Ministry issued a statement saying the source of leak appears to be from overseas and not from India.
- Read more about China: Army Day Themes Laud Party Leadership, Highlights Discord
- Read more about China, Pakistan conduct joint border patrol
- Read more about Increasing Military Aid to Afghanistan
- Read more about Is China deploying its own missile defense system?
- Read more about Myanmar and India: A New Future
- Read more about The PLA’s Latest Strategic Thinking on the Three Warfares
- Ready to give 'all help': India to Myanmar
- Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice has received backlash from social media users after posting "inappropriate" photos of her underage daughters in bikni.
- Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has credited Zinedine Zidane's appointment as Real Madrid head coach as the catalyst for "one of the best seasons" of his illustrious football career.
- Recalling that eliminating weapons of mass destruction was one of the founding principles of the United Nations and was in fact the subject of the first resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need to seriously refocus attention on nuclear disarmament.
- Recommending a specific limit on added sugar for children, a recent research has pointed out that children between the age group of 2 to 18 years should eat or drink less than six tea-spoons of added sugar daily.As per the research, six tea-spoons ...
- Red and Orange industries will be relocate outside the city to make Hyderabad free from Industrial Pollution
- Redskins mailbag: On practice-squad poaching, and unearthing special-teams standouts
- Redskins rookie quarterback Nate Sudfeld learning from his third-down mistakes
- Regretting that people were indiscriminately throwing the carcasses of dogs and pigs into drains causing choking of sewage water, she said if the garbage is not removed, there will be flooding of streets during rains. ]]
- Reimbursement is allowed to only the two eldest surviving children of the government employees
- Rejecting any such apprehensions, a senior DGCA official on Tuesday said there is "no political issue" in the matter, as reflected in some reports.]]
- Rejuvenation of water bodies and construction of vented dams across the rivers will be given thrust in the district irrigation plan of Dakshina Kannada under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojan...
- Releasing a collection of articles written by members of a journalist ...
- Reliance Cement Company Private Ltd. (RCCPL) has become a subsidiary of the city-based Birla Corporation Ltd., the company said in a stock exchange filing. “The company has acquired 100 per cent of t...
- Reliance Communications (RCom) and its subsidiary Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) have announced the deployment of Fast Edge, a content delivery network (CDN), with an aim to provide better Internet conne...
- Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani’s elder son Anmol Ambani has joined the board of Reliance Capital as an additional director.
- Reliance Industries asks over 40,000 staff to stop using Airtel, Vodafone connections
- Reliance Jio 4G preview offer is now on Samsung, LG, and Panasonic smartphones. Here's a full list.
- Reliance Jio evading revenue share payment to government: COAI to PMO
- Reliance Jio had earlier partnered with Samsung, HP and other device makers to make available its preview offer to the users of the partner brands.
- Reliance Jio has written to Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), warning it of legal action for sending a mail to the government against its interests. COAI, of which Reliance Jio is a mem...
- Reliance Jio preview offer now available on all LG 4G smartphones
- Reliance Jio Preview offer now extended to Panasonic 4G smartphones
- Reliance Jio Preview offer: Samsung, LG and Panasonic phones now eligible
- Reliance Jio warns COAI of legal action
- Relocation key to poverty alleviation
- Renault Kwid SCe With 1.0-Litre Engine Launched at Rs 3.82 Lakhs
- Renegotiation underway for India-Singapore tax treaty; need to guide foreign investors on tax laws to facilitate ease of doing biz
- Renewables and microgrid tech key to drive India's eco-efficient data center growth
- Replacing Steve Jobs: How Apple CEO Tim Cook Has FaredFive Years Later
- Replicas of a large piece of debris from missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 will be set adrift and tracked by satellite in the hope of helping find the plane's crash site, Australian officials said today.
- Reporters from Asian and African nations visit Peacekeeping Center in Beijing
- Report ranks India 7th wealthiest country
- Reports on the Animal Welfare Board of India Chairman planning action against the government’s decision to cull ferocious dogs caused furore
- Reproducing spots and stripes of a furry animal: Understanding nature's patterns with plasmas
- Republican developer Carlos Beruff often criticizes Rubio for not enthusiastically supporting Trump, and Murphy and Grayson are calling him out for his hypocrisy.
- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump fiercely criticised the links between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department on Tuesday night, saying Hillary Clinton "is desperate to cover up her crimes and she has been unsuccessful."]]
- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has postponed his immigration policy speech indefinitely, and questions have arisen as to how Trump will &ldquo
- Republican presidential nominee Mike Pence got his hair cut at Jones Barber Shop in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Since we're less than 80 days away from the election, it was prime photo op and a chance for the Indiana governor to remind America he's just like us.
- Rescuers extracted a man from the rubble in Amatrice, Italy, early Wednesday after a powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake.
- Rescue teams and volunteers from around Italy are making their way to the quake-hit areas to help.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
General Knowledge and Current Affairs Pack 2016-08-24 07:00
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