General Knowledge and Current Affairs Pack 2016-08-03 08:00

1. How Team USA dominates the Olympics?
2. How the crash in oil prices devastated Angola and Venezuela?
3. How to talk heavy metal: Data scientist analyzes thousands of lyrics to rank words from highest to lowest degree of 'metalness' (and find 'burn' and 'demons' top the list)
4. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar also said the IITs are the centre of excellence and they will continue to remain like that
5. HTC suffers loss for 5th consecutive quarter
6. Huge water-filled sinkhole swallows elderly couple's backyard
7. Hundreds of mourners were gathering Tuesday in the cathedral of Rouen, in western France, for the funeral Mass for the priest who was killed by two Islamic extremists last week in the nearby town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
8. Hundreds of pilgrims from various districts thronged the Sri Sundara Mahalingam Temple on Sathuragiri hills of Western Ghats bordering Madurai and Virudhunagar districts on Tuesday on the occasion of ...
9. Hundreds of thousands of passengers were affected as trains, ferries and planes were cancelled
10. IAS Officers of 2014 batch listening to the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on August 02, 2016.
11. IBM’s technology may help detect cancer early
12. “I don’t know who created Pokemon Go, but I’ve tried to figure out how we get them to have Pokemon Go to the polls," Hillary Clinton said in a campaign address.
13. If America gets its first ever woman president this November whom should it thank first? Tamil Nadu Chief minister Puratchi Thalaivi J Jayalalithaa, according to an AIADMK MLA
14. If Donald Trump wins in November, his most powerful Republican ally in Washington will be House Speaker Paul Ryan -- at least, that's the plan.
15. IF growth is measured in terms of new jobs created, one may conclude that government-proclaimed growth is illusory (Cover Story, August 5). The number of jobs has ac...
16. If the govt accepts a 2013 report on the Krishna-Godavari basin case, it could hit the company
17. ‘If you want to protect your image, protect children,’ Ban tells debate on war-affected children
18. ‘If you want to protect your image, protect children,’ says UN chief, urging action on behalf of war-affected children
19. IGIA falls prey to pigeon coup
20. “I have never told my daughter this, but one of the reasons I pushed her to do well in academics for the past few years is because I knew if she did not score well I would have to spend a lot on her u...
21. IIT-M to offer course on app development
22. Illness, quarantine, robbery, faulty toilets: Australia’s Olympic team can’t catch a break
23. Immigration authorities of Saarc discuss plan for visa exemption
24. Immigration chief vows no letup in campaign vs human trafficking
25. Improved healthcare infrastructure at govt. area hospital
26. In 2012, the FBI conducted a routine investigation relating to Kun Shan Chun's Top Secret security clearance
27. In a bid to promote slow travel The Cochin Royal Heritage Trail takes travellers on a half day exploration of the royal town of Tripunithura
28. In a CAG report, Wipro has been accused of 'undue favours' in the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) project.India's third largest software exporter, had bagged the UIDAI project in May ...
29. In addiction, cues in the environment can form strong associations with the drug of abuse. A new study suggests that alterations in silent synapses, inactive connections between neurons, could be the neural mechanism underlying the formation of these drug-related memories. The alterations were found in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region involved in reward-related learning.
30. In a major haul, officials of the Excise Department seized unaccounted money to the tune of Rs.1.5 crore from two Chennai natives when the car in which they were travelling came under inspection at Ko...
31. In an attempt to address the concerns and complaints of common man towards telecom and postal sectors, the government on Tuesday launched ‘Twitter Sewa’.Communications Minister Manoj Sinha, while lau...
32. In an interview following a rally in Ashburn, Virginia, Donald Trump says he regrets not serving in the military.
33. In an unusual decision, the Madras High Court Bench here has taken upon itself the job of framing licence conditions to be adhered to by a village panchayat and a group of shopkeepers occupying the lo...
34. In April, the army was forced to issue a statement warning locals that force would be used against civilians breaking a cordon
35. In a recent study, combat exposure among Army enlisted women was associated with an increased likelihood of developing behavioral health problems post-deployment, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and at-risk drinking.
36. In a significant development, former Apple public relations executive Natalie Kerris who joined micro-blogging website Twitter in February as Vice President (communications) this year, is leaving - at a time when Twitter is struggling to find new grounds to overcome stalled user growth and stagnated revenues.
37. In a world obsessed with political correctness, sit back and enjoy the raunchiest views on politics, sex, recreation and much more. Leave your worries and listen to comics Andy Reghu, Reza Noorani, Pu...
38. In child rape cases, police must be vigilant enough to conduct the investigation without any flaw and bring home the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt since any shortcoming on the part of t...
39. Include NoRKs too in democratic process: expert
40. In contrast, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) announced the arrival of monsoon 21 days before the actual event. File photo
41. Increase in kerosene prices is likely to save Rs 2,000 cr for the govt in subsidy during the current financial year, while the savings on LPG subsidy may be just about Rs 25 cr
42. Increasingly, big imports of stainless steel flat products, particularly from China, have left much of the domestic industry capacity idle
43. Inderjeet fails B sample test, Rio hopes virtually over
44. India's quest for next ‘one in a billion’
45. India 6 wickets away from win after rain-hit day
46. India and West Indies to play T20 games in United States
47. India asks Pakistan to refrain from interfering in its internal affairs
48. India beat Spain 2-1 in practice match ahead of Games
49. India bound to enforce UK tribunal’s decision on Tata: DoCoMo
50. India close on victory as Windies collapse again
51. India flooding kills 96, forces 1 million into relief camps
52. India has several sets of guidelines governing the conduct of clinical trials and stem cell research that are updated from time to time.
53. India Inc garners Rs 2,737 cr via NCDs
54. India in command despite rain-marred day
55. India is expected to impose an anti-dumping duty of up to $ 557 per tonne on imports of certain steel products from six countries, including China, Japan and Korea. In its preliminary findings, the Di...
56. India is Progressing But Are The Benefits Reaching The Last Person in Queue?
57. ‘India is short of around 5 million tonnes of pulses’
58. India may be having its best monsoon in 25 years but the skies have also been pouring misery in large parts of the country with rivers in spate, flooding and landslides.
59. Indian-American named New York's Chief Digital Officer
60. 'Indian Americans sleeping giants in election'
61. Indian Bank net profit jumps 43%
62. Indian Bank Q1 net profit zooms 43% to Rs 307 crore
63. Indian Bank surges over 10% post June quarter results
64. Indian Bank today reported a 42.77 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 307.36 crore for the first quarter ended June 30.The bank had a standalone net profit of Rs 215.28 crore in the April-June qua...
65. Indian charged with sexually touching sleeping Virgin America passenger
66. INDIAN CRICKET
67. Indian dating apps tread warily in nation of arranged marriages
68. India Needs to Fast-Track Securing Andaman & Nicobar...
69. Indian Embassy in Riyadh convenes meeting of community social workers and volunteers
70. Indian mission collecting details of 7,700 stranded workers in Saudi
71. Indian Oil Corporation has been on a strong surge since late June. The stock has skyrocketed 25 per cent since June. This rally came to a pause in the last week of July at a high of ₹549.7. After con...
72. Indian politicians should take a lesson from former British Prime Minister David Cameron who vacated 10 Downing Street quietly and removed his household effects himself. His exemplary political mora...
73. Indians get 2 gold, 2 silver medals at Olympiad
74. Indians Have Higher Workplace Satisfaction: Survey
75. Indian's shop vandalised in 'hate' attack in US
76. Indians stranded in Saudi Arabia: All you need to know about the issue
77. Indian students continued their winning streak at Olympiads, with four chemistry students bagging two gold medals and two silver medals at the 48th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO 2016) held in...
78. Indian woman arrested before joining militants in Afghanistan
79. India raises snooping issue with United States
80. India's biggest tax reform looms, many companies unprepared
81. India's exports have been on a downhill drive for the last one-and-a-half years largely reflecting the global slowdown across the world
82. India’s GDP is expected to expand at 7.7 per cent this financial year despite the fact that the pace of growth of activity indicators slackened in April-June, says a Citigroup report.According to the...
83. India's index slips six points on inflation and monsoon worries