General Knowledge and Current Affairs Pack 2016-08-06 4

1. Chief Minister Jayalalithaa inaugurated the new Government Arts and Science College affiliated to the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University through video conference mode from the Secretariat in Chennai.Th...
2. Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday announced construction of new buildings for primary agriculture cooperative societies, central cooperative banks and modernisation of cooperative societies. She ...
3. Chief Minister provides over 100 new e-challan-enabled tablet devices
4. Chief technology officer Chris Urmson is leaving Google's self-driving car project after more than seven years.
5. China denounces Japanese defense minister's denial of Nanjing atrocities
6. China expresses “regret” over EU tariff on steel imports, U.K. praises move
7. China finishes sea phase of RIMPAC 2016
8. China has not built any roads in Indian territory: Manohar Parrikar
9. China is encouraging automakers to install its answer to the US’ GPS and advance autonomous driving technology as part of a broader push to upgrade the nation’s transportation sector.
10. China launched a communications satellite on Friday that supposedly will be used for mobile communications. The launch of the first Tiantong-1 satellite took place at 16:22 UTC on…
11. China launches first mobile telecom satellite
12. China leads world in mobile tech: media
13. China opens 2016 campaign with Long March 3B launch of Belintersat-1
14. China Post issues stamps of Rio Olympic Games
15. China says Himalayan railway connecting Tibet with India feasible
16. China's Defense Ministry on Friday denounced new Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada's attempts to deny any "killing contest" in Nanjing during WWII.
17. China seeks India's help on South China Sea
18. China slams Japan minister for ducking Nanjing massacre questions
19. China successfully launches first satellite for mobile telecommunication
20. China, Tajikistan vow to enhance anti-terrorism cooperation
21. China under President Xi Jinping (習近平) appears to be suffering from an acute case of, to coin a term, “national dysmorphic disorder” (NDD).
22. China working on tiered agricultural water pricing
23. Chinese FM to visit India; will hold talks with EAM on Aug 13
24. Chinese FM to visit India; will meet Sushma 
25. Chinese Foreign Minister coming on August 13
26. Chinese Long March 3B launches Tiantong-1 satellite
27. Chinese officials say trans-Himalayan railway connecting Tibet with India and Nepal is economically and technically feasible....
28. Chinese technology major LeEco entered the television market in India with the introduction of its Super 3 series with prices starting from Rs.59,790. The three models -- Super3 X55 priced at Rs.5...
29. Chris Urmson, the face of the Google self-driving car effort, has left the project at a crucial juncture as the company tries to transition its driverless-car technology into a commercial product.
30. Chu said that Taipower must ensure Taiwan’s energy security and supply affordable electricity amid increasing calls for
31. City units of the Communist Party of India and the CPI(Marxist) on Friday staged a dharna demanding Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh and flayed both the Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya J...
32. City youth Naga Sravan Kilaru has received an invitation to attend the United Nations Youth Assembly as an international delegate.
33. Civic body, science centre join hands
34. Clause 10 goes against the decision of the Empowered Committee of 2014 which states the residual amount in the IGST account shall be shared with the states as per Finance Commission Formula, said minister T M Thomas Isaac
35. Clinton backtracks on claim FBI chief called her ‘truthful’
36. Clinton Campaign video raises questions over Donald Trump's Russia connection
37. Clinton Campaign video raises questions over Donald Trump's Russia connection
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39. Clinton is more optimistic than Trump. But optimism doesn"t predict winners anymore.
40. Clinton said she will keep reaching out to Americans of all races and ethnicities and where ever they live, to tell them that she is not going to forget about them after this election
41. Clinton's Trump Strategy: Wonk vs. Scrooge
42. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates whether Rio's hospitals are ready to help sick tourists as well as local residents during the Olympics.
43. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at the differences in medical care for Olympic athletes and locals residents in Rio de Janeiro.
44. Coal India ended up selling most of the linkages offered to captive power producers. Linkages are long term assurance for supplies. According to a company spokesperson, at the end of the eight day...
45. Coal India sells linkages worth 18 mt
46. Coastal erosion has wiped out 4300 acres but revenue officers insist on the cess and register cases for non-payment.
47. Coding information across many short chains of plastic molecules could be a space-saving way to store the mountains of data we produce
48. Coffee plantations have changed the life of Girijans for better, Sarpanch of Sunkarametta village in Araku mandal in Visakha Agency Gowramma told officials of 10 States who are visiting north coastal ...
49. Cognizant cuts full-year guidance for the second straight quarter
50. Cognizant June quarter net profit slumps 40%, revenue up 9.2%
51. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation has reported a 40 per cent decline in net profit to $252.4 million during the second quarter ended June 2016 as against $420 million in the second quarter o...
52. College inaugurated
53. Colombo-based Senaka Senanayake's latest body of work is a journey through the disappearing rainforests of the world
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55. Commerce Ministry proposal included allowing foreign varsities to repatriate profit
56. Commerce ministry proposal included repatriation of profits
57. Committee to deal with the issueof out-of-school children likely
58. Companies like Micromax, Lava and Karbonn are already using Sony's imaging technology in their camera phones
59. Company had reported a net loss of Rs 4.8 crore in the corresponding quarter of the last financial year
60. Company to adopt energy-efficient technology, ramping up metal output through brownfield expansion
61. Compensation for death due to war or war like situations enhanced to Rs. 45 lakh
62. Con burla, Martinoli y García presumen presencia en Río
63. Congratulating Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit chief Vijay Rupani on being appointed as the next Gujarat Chief Minister, the Congress said that his decision to take on a 'sinking ship' was quite courageous."Congratulate Shri Vijay Rupani on ...
64. Congress practices 'opportunism' on Andhra's special status: Venkaiah Naidu
65. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who earlier this week underwent surgery to repair a shoulder dislocation, has been shifted out of the ICU on Friday and is making steady progress in the hospital. Thi...
66. Congress today latched onto reports from BJP-ruled Rajasthan that 100 cows have died in a government-run cowshed in Jaipur to expose the ruling party’s professed love for the animal. “While they are ...
67. Conservation group Coast and Country argued that the state government's approval to the Indian mining giant's project was not made lawfully and should be overturned.
68. Cook, Hales lead Eng fightback against Pak
69. Cook, Hales put England in position of strength
70. Cotton prices moved up on the back of limited supply and uptrend in foreign markets. Kapas or raw cotton too increased. Traders said that at a time when domestic supply is tight, uptrend in cotton pri...
71. Could the Presidential Election Be Stolen?
72. Council agrees to take up second phase of underground drainage project
73. Councillors express concern over erratic water supply
74. Counselling for admission to various post-graduate courses of Mangalore University for 2016-17 will begin on August 8 and end on August 16.The consolidated list of candidates and the lists of selecte...
75. Country’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $ 2.81 billion to reach a all time high of $ 365.49 billion in the week to July 29, helped by rise in foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank has said.
76. Couple robbed at knife-point
77. CPI (ML-ND) leader’s statement baseless: official
78. CPI rises on food costs after typhoon
79. CREO announces Independence Day offer, Mark1 to be available for Rs 13,999
80. Creo Mark 1 gets limited period price cut
81. Cricket: Cook and Hales defy Pakistan
82. Crucial KC(M) conclave begins on Saturday
83. Cruelty on egg-laying hens: SC asks Centre to hold discussion with stakeholders
84. Cuadrillas de bacheo buscan mejorar vialidades en Zapopan. - Meganoticias (Comunicado de prensa)
85. Curiosity could be an effective tool to entice people into making smarter and sometimes healthier decisions.
86. Curiosity has the power to change behavior for the better
87. Currently, e-tailers only pay a federal service tax. With GST, they will practically become government-appointed tax collectors.
88. Curtains come down on The Hindu In School chess contest
89. Cybersecurity firm LookingGlass has been called on by eight Florida companies to exterminate Pokemon from their property.
90. Cybersecurity researchers took advantage of the lag time on a chip card to steal its information and route it to a hacked ATM, making the machine pour out cash.
91. Cypriot, Greek competitors test positive for drugs - teams
92. Dame Lowell Goddard in line for £90k pay-off and £2k-a-week taxpayer-funded home despite shock resignation from child sex abuse inquiry
93. Das is the lone male member in the Indian archery team and compete only in the individual section as the men’s team had failed to qualify.
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95. Days before they begin their quest for Olympic gold in Rio, America's top gymnasts expressed concern and frustration over a new report that the agency overseeing organized gymnastics in the U.S. mishandled numerous cases of sexual abuse
96. D.C. United preview: Chris Pontius, Union visit RFK Stadium
97. Dear Donald Trump: This Is Why Nuclear Weapons Are Bad
98. Decades of Discovery: NASA’s Exploration of Jupiter
99. Decision after steel minister met stakeholders from the industry on July 28
100. 'Decision to convert Telugu Medium schools into English Medium ones was unfortunate'.
101. Declare Shivamogga drought-affected: zilla panchayat
102. Deepika is all praise for Aishwarya
103. Deepika Kumari once again faltered under pressure to miss a target as India's medal hope in the women's team event received a big blow by finishing a lowly seventh in the archery qualification round of the Olympic Games here today.
104. Deep inside of a black hole lies a region known as the gravitational singularity, where space-time curves toward infinity, and no matter passing through can survive - or so it's been thought. In a new study, researchers suggest there may instead be a way out through a wormhole at the centre of the black hole, which acts as a 'back door.' By this theory, anything traveling through the black hole would be 'spaghettified,' or stretched to the extreme, but returned back to its normal size when it emerges in a different region of the universe.
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