General Knowledge and Current Affairs Pack

1. New Delhi [India], Sept. 14 (ANI): India's leading fully-integrated nationwide telecommunications service provider Reliance Communications and Maxis Communications Berhad, the promoters of Aircel Limited, today announced the signing of definitive documents for the merger of their Indian wireless businesses - the largest-ever consolidation in the Indian telecom sector.
2. New Delhi [India], Sept. 14 (ANI): Maintaining that it is unacceptable to speak about Terrorism in the name of Islam as it doesn't allow terrorism, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday said that terrorism must be condemned, calling on the world to stand together against the evil.
3. New Delhi [India], Sept. 14 (ANI): Maintaining that it is unacceptable to speak about Terrorism in the name of Islam as it doesn't allow terrorism, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday said ...
4. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI): As part of the Prime Minister's 'Digital India' programme, Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar launched the re-designed website of Department of Defence Production (DDP), Ministry of Defence, here today. The website is now fully compliant to the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW).
5. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday informed that two Indians who were held captive in Libya for over a year have been rescued.
6. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): India has pledged an additional one billion dollars as development assistance to Afghanistan for capacity building, strengthening democratic institutions, ...
7. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): India has pledged an additional one billion dollars as development assistance to Afghanistan for capacity building, strengthening democratic institutions, education, health, agriculture and energy.
8. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI): Litigation is a scourge for a tax friendly regime. In order to reduce the pending litigation, the Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 (the Scheme) has come into force from June 1, 2016 and can be availed upto 31st December, 2016.
9. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal will begin a three-day state visit to India from Thursday at the invitation of his Indian counterpart President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
10. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI-Newsvoir): For over 65 years, the Tupperware Brands Corporation has been at the forefront of providing entrepreneurship opportunities for women.
11. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI): ONGC Videsh (and its wholly owned subsidiary ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte. Ltd., Singapore - OVVL) jointly signed definitive agreements with Rosneft, the national oil company of Russia for acquiring additional 11 percent shares in JSC Vankorneft, a company organised under the law of Russian Federation which is the owner of Vankor Field and North Vankor license.
12. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee has congratulated Devendra Jhajharia for winning a Gold Medal at the Rio Paralympics Games-2016.
13. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday received His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan at Rashtrapati ...
14. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday received His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
15. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting to review the preparedness for the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on September 14, 2016. The meeting was attended by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, both the Ministers of State for Finance, senior officers from the Prime Minister's office and the Finance Ministry.
16. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today greeted engineers on the occasion of Engineers Day.
17. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute aids and assistive devices to the disabled at the Samajik Adikarita Shivir organised by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice and & Empowerment in Gujarat's Navsari district on his birthday on September 17.
18. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cause of cancer and the sixth leading cause of cancer death among men worldwide.
19. New Delhi[India], Sept.15 (ANI): The Government of India has taken several initiatives for better administrative reforms and is working towards reform, perform and transform, said C. Viswanath, Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Publ
20. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI): The Government of India has taken several initiatives for better administrative reforms and is working towards reform, perform and transform, said C. Viswanath, Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) after inaugurating a two-day regional conference on the theme 'Path Breaking and High Impact Initiatives in Citizen Centric Services Delivery System' in Guwahati on Thursday.
21. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI): The Income Declaration Scheme, 2016 provides an opportunity to persons who have not paid full taxes in the past to come forward and declare their undisclosed income and assets. The Scheme is open for declarations up to September 30,2016, the government has said.
22. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI):The Patiala House court on Thursday adjourned Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani's fake degree case till October 1.
23. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court has dismissed a PIL seeking to declare as unconstitutional and illegal the alleged release of government funds to Jammu and Kashmir-based separatists.
24. New Delhi [India], Sept.15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Parsvnath Developers to deposit Rs.12 crores with the court's registry in four weeks in a case related to delay in possession of flats in the Parsvnath Exotica project in Ghaziabad.
25. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside death sentence given to convict Govindachamy in Soumya murder case.
26. New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): With more than 10 deaths reported so far in national capital due to Chikungunya, Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Thursday accused the Aam Admi Party (AAP) led-Delhi Government and said they have no intention of help people and wherever they are required, they are never present.
27. New Delhi, Jan.13 (ANI): American market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has said the global personal computer shipments plunged 10.6 percent in the quarter ending in December 2015 compared to the previous year.