General Knowledge and Current Affairs Pack 20160801 - 5

1. Thrill seekers flock to South Africa to run wild in a game reserve populated by lions, hippos, elephants and wildebeest.
2. Tiger cub found dead in Nagarahole
3. Yuriko Koike, 64, created history on Sunday by becoming the first female to be elected as the governor of Tokyo city. Elections were conducted after two predecessors were forced ...
4. Tokyo’s expectations ride on newly appointed female governor
5. Top cop to enquire 'police excesses' in Navalgund villages
6. To protect indigenous art forms and commercial products restricted to a particular area like the ‘Kangri’ of Kashmir, IIT-Kharagpur will help such communities get Geographical Indication (GI) tags and...
7. To reduce traffic during peak hours, the traffic police have also asked IT companies to stagger work timings. Tech corridors in Whitefield, Sarjapur and Electronics City often witness gridlocks during...
8. Tory MPs accuse David Cameron of 'devaluing the system' by awarding honours to his wife's stylist and his former drivers
9. Trade unions are up in arms against the proposed move of the Centre to privatise the Salem Steel Plant.The CITU-affiliated Steel Plant Employees Union president R. Panneer Selvam said the plant is kno...
10. Traffic offenders could end up paying hefty fines if the State government accepts the Bengaluru Traffic Police’s suggestion of harsher measures to curb violations.Bengaluru recorded 76 lakh traffic vi...
11. Traffic was affected on North Usman Road on Sunday evening after tension prevailed at a multi-storey shopping complex over a crack found on the tile of one of the floors.According to police, around 6....
12. Transportation Poses Ordeal for Rio Games
13. Transport body wants Centre to make compensation claims simple and fast
14. Transport of Saturn V Rocket Stage to Stennis Space Center a Matter of Real History
15. Transport planner to reach city today, meet stakeholders
16. Tribal Welfare Minister A. Chandulal on Sunday said all tribal villages and hamlets will be connected with approach roads in the next three years. He said that the Government had given top priority to...
17. Troubled Rio Games coming together, says IOC
18. Truck bomb strikes foreign guesthouse in Kabul: security
19. Trump, along with Paul Manafort, Reince Priebus, and Jeff Sessions, faced questions Sunday about possible changes to the debate schedule which was set by an independent commission in 2015." data-video-image
20. Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice.
21. Trump Denounced for Response to Slain Soldier's Father
22. Trump hits out at the Khans, faces widespread criticism
23. Trump says 'not thrilled' with dates of presidential debates
24. Trump's tirade against soldier's parents
25. Trump suggests US accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea
26. Trump v. Clinton: Stocks can predict the winner
27. Trump will remain impetuous, Clinton will remain cautious and, brace yourself, the tenor will remain nasty in the final 99 days of the political campaign.
28. TSC Honors 3rd Quarter Top Sailors
29. T S Vijayan: Charting the path
30. TTET Union Corp (大統益), a leading cooking oil supplier, reported a record-high earnings per share (EPS) of NT$1.69 in the second quarter of this year, thanks to the rising prices of soy bean futures.
31. Turkey culls nearly 1,400 from army, overhauls top military council
32. Turkey culls nearly 1400 from army, overhauls top military council
33. Turkey Says FBI and CIA Behind Failed Coup, Gulen 'Only a Pawn'
34. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a new presidential decree Sunday that introduced sweeping changes to Turkey’s military in the wake of a July 15 failed coup, bringing the armed forces further under civilian authority.
35. Twenty -three pilgrims from Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, who were stranded in the temple town of Mukthinath in Nepal, are safe and waiting for the Indian Embassy to arrange for...
36. Twin PKK attacks kill 4 Turkish soldiers
37. Twitter Fails to Harness Its Importance
38. Twitter is so bad at surfacing its most valuable content that a whole ecosystem of other players has arisen to do it for Twitter, from apps and data-mining services to the news media itself, writes Christopher Mims.
39. Two-day chess contests conclude
40. Two persons died and three others sustained serious injuries when the jeep in which they were travelling was hit by a speeding lorry near Durshed village of Karimnagar mandal on Sunday.Police sources ...
41. Two soldiers killed in Kargil mine blast
42. Two soldiers killed in mine blast in Kargil
43. Two soldiers were killed near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kargil sector when they stepped on a mine during patrolling, an Udhampur-based Army spokesman said in Udhampur.Subedar Basappa Patil, fr...
44. Type 052D Guided Missile Destroyer
45. Ukip leadership race confusion as front-runner Woolfe misses deadline
46. Uncertain liberalising in a changing world
47. Under Indradhanush roadmap announced by the ministry last year, the government will infuse Rs 70,000 crore in PSBs over 4 years
48. UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, visits Nepal
49. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday expressed confidence that the long-pending Goods and Services Tax (GST) ...
50. Unique scheme to motivate customer attendants of IOC outlets
51. United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed held talks with both delegations on Saturday and proposed a framework for a comprehensive settlement
52. United Republic of Tanzania
53. United States of America Department of the Navy Seal
54. UP high on roads & power, but economic logic remains a question
55. Up to 4,500 urine tests and at least 1,000 blood tests will be conducted in the Rio Olympic Games anti-doping programme, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Thomas Bach, said on Sunday.
56. Urging the Indian government to react quickly following cases of atrocities against Africans in the country, students from the continent rued discrimination faced by them.“Even if there is no fault of...
57. Usage of crop protection measures may go up with the launch of new products, says Rallis India MD Shankar
58. U.S. Army
59. U.S.-Backed Forces Pushing ISIS From Syrian City
60. Using a novel system to encode, spot errors, decode, and correct errors in a quantum bit, researchers at Yale University have developed a device that lengthens the life of quantum information. For the first time, researchers at Yale have crossed the “break even” point in preserving a bit of quantum information for longer than the […]
61. Using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, astronomers show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water. This new evidence will allow researchers to further narrow theories about how Martian gullies form, and reveal more details about Mars’ recent geologic processes. Scientists use the term “gully” for features on […]
62. Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, astronomers reveal that the Milky Way’s central bulge of stars forms an “X” shape. The unconventional collaboration started in May 2015 when Dustin Lang, an astronomer at the Dunlap Institute of the University of Toronto, posted galaxy maps to Twitter, using data from WISE’s two […]
63. Using gravitational lensing, the Hubble Space Telescope unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the TV series “Star Trek” has captured the public’s imagination with the signature phrase, “To boldly go where no one has gone before.” NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope doesn’t “boldly go” deep […]
64. US-Japan Mine Countermeasures Assets Set Complete Annual Exercise
65. U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa Fleet Master Chief Steven Giordano and two Sailors reenlisted, July 28, at Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy.
66. US News & World Report
67. US police officers' heartwarming prank after pulling motorists over
68. US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was left embarrassed after making three spelling mistakes in one 21-word tweet attacking Hillary Clinton, the media reported on Sunday.
69. USS Boxer Visits Singapore
70. USS Carney Aids in Rescue of 97 Migrants in Mediterranean Sea
71. USS Frank Cable Arrives in Goa, India
72. UT spared of Rs. 1,700 cr compensation sought by private firm for scrapping contract
73. UT Tower anniversary
74. Vaishanvite minstrel Nammazhwar in his hymn,
75. Valeriy: Even some astronomers who do not work in the star ...
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79. VDCA annual awards given away
80.     Vice-premier meets Cambodian deputy PM
81. Vice President Joe Biden appears on stage at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa., on the third day of the Democratic National Convention, July 27, 2016.
82.     Vice President Joe Biden is not ruling out running for office again. He said he will remain committed to fighting for issues he still cares “deeply” about, including curing cancer, combating domestic violence and reforming the tax system
83. Vietnamese Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Tran Hong
84. View President Barack Obama's Fast Facts on CNN and learn more about the 44th president of the United States.
85. View the 2016 Presidential Candidates Fast Facts on CNN and get more information about the key dates in their campaigns.
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87. Vijay Mallya's assets to go under hammer for Rs 700 cr
88. ‘Vitamin D deficiency causes serious health problems’
89. Vivel soap: Scrubbing off with soft power
90. Vladimir Angelov, Director of projects for ASE group of companies in India, part of Rosatom of Russia spoke on the safety aspects and progress of setting up Russian nuclear plants in an exclusive int...
91. Vodafone Group Plc named Vivek Badrinath, deputy chief executive of French hospitality group AccorHotels, as the head of its business in Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific
92. Vodafone picks Vivek Badrinath as Africa, MidEast, Asia chief