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- CCI slaps Rs 6700 crore fine on 10 cement companies
- CCI slaps Rs 6,700-crore fine on 11 cement firms
- A court order compelled The Australian newspaper to cease publishing classified data on the Indian Navy's (IN's) Scorpene-class submarine programme from 30 August.
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- Boeing has further expanded its presence in South Korea through the delivery of a training system to support on-order AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters.
- China and Ukraine have signed an agreement to recommence production of the Antonov An-225 'Cossack' strategic airlifter, media from both countries have reported.
- Four commanders of the Taliban-linked Haqqani Network were killed in an Afghan Air Force strike in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia on 29 August, according to provincial officials.
- France took over command of the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission during a ceremony at Siauliai Airbase in Lithuania on 31 August.
- North Korea is constructing a mobile launching system that will permit long-range ballistic missiles to be fired from the nation's railway network, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on 31 August.
- Promote your business or service free of charge through the official Africa Aerospace and Defence news channel
- Quanergy has acquired OTUS People Tracker software from a subsidiary of Raytheon, the company announced on 29 August. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- The Algerian Ministry of National Defence (MDN) confirmed on 30 August that it has received its first Mil Mi-28NE Night Hunter attack helicopters when it released coverage of Chief-of-Staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaïd Salah inspecting Ain Oussera Air Base, 135 km south of Algiers.
- The Belgian government has approved a plan "to replace and modernise the [country's] stock of armed forces weapons'with the purchase of 242 Minimi 7.62 Mk3 light machine guns manufactured by FN Herstal, the Belgian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 26 August.
- The Brazilian Army hopes to buy 1,464 Iveco Defence Vehicles Light Multirole Vehicles (LMVs) for its VBMT-LR lightweight wheeled multirole armoured vehicle project, a source told IHS Jane's .
- The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence (MND) was to formally sign an agreement on 22 August to acquire ARTEC Boxer 8x8 infantry fighting vehicles, it was announced on 17 August.
- The Myanmar Air Defence Force (Tatmadaw Lay) formally inducted two Chinese-built Y-8F-200W transport aircraft and 10 Grob G 120TP trainer aircraft in a commissioning ceremony at Meiktila Air Base on 22 August, according to Myanmar's Ministry of Defence.
- The Paraguayan People's Army (Ejercito del Pueblo Paraguayo: EPP) guerrilla group attacked and killed eight Paraguayan Army soldiers during a routine patrol on 26 August.
- The Pentagon has set up a panel designed to help the agency improve acquisition regulations, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced on 30 August. The creation of the panel was mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (2016 NDAA).
- Top soldiers from North Korea's military have reportedly been selected to serve on units that would carry nuclear devices in backpacks and detonate them behind enemy lines in the event of a war.
- CDC and NIH officials: Congress is showing how not to fight the Zika virus
- CDU-CSU bloc says Germany needs new laws on 'child marriage'
- Cell lines are cultured cells that are commonly used in medical research. New results show that such cells are not always what they are assumed to be. Using genetic analyses, the researchers showed that a commonly used cell line that was established almost 50 years ago does not originate from the patient it is claimed to stem from.
- Cement production grew 1.4% year-on-year in July, slower than a 10.3% rise a month ago
- Cement shares fall as CCI slaps Rs 6,700 crore fine on 11 firms
- Cement shares were among the top losers after CCI imposed a penalty on select companies
- Central Java entices investment with an ambitious industrial park
- Centre signs pact with Amar Chitra Katha to publish special edition
- Centre tells Nafed, FCI to buy moong in Karnataka at MSP
- Centre woos foreign investors with Permanent Residency Status
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- Chaitanya Public School, Ukkunagaram, hosted the School Games Federation of India - District netball tournament cum selections.The event was inaugurated by director the CPS P. Suseela Rani and vice pr...
- Chandrajit Banerjee's column: Here's what India needs to do to get the biggest bang from GST rules
- Chennai [India], Sept.1 (ANI): Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre has said that no progress has been made in locating the Indian Air Force (IAF) plane that went missing in July, but search operations will continue.
- Chennai lesson: industry needs back-up for back-up
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- Chennai (TN) [India], Sept.1 (ANI): Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu will today inaugurate 'Regional News Editors' Conference here.
- Chhattisgarh is focused on 'Make in India', says Raman Singh
- Chief Minister felicitates legislators who have pleted 25 years in the House
- Chief Minister flags off cycle campaign of Mr. Heera Lal Yadav and his team
- Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday announced the setting up of a Biotechnology Incubation Centre at Taramani and a research and technology centre for the aerospace park at Sriperumbudur.
- Chief Minister meets team of young cyclists who pedalled from Leh to Kanyakumari
- Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the district organic farm produce and products fair organised by the CPI(M)-led Janakeeya Jaiva Pachakkari Krishi campaign at Rajendra Maidan on Septemb...
- Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday inaugurated two special courts set up exclusively to try land encroachment cases, at Kandaya Bhavan here. These courts will have State-wide jurisdiction.Accord...
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- Children play on pontoons as clouds gather over the banks of the river Ganga in Allahabad...
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- China's big three airlines hit by weak yuan, slowing economy
- China's new Tibet party chief urges stronger criticism of Dalai Lama
- China and Ukraine agree to restart An-225 production
- China and Ukraine have signed an agreement to recommence production of the Antonov An-225 'Cossack' strategic airlifter, media from both countries have reported.
- China, ASEAN countries to enhance co-op in fighting terror
- China, Britain face rare opportunity of economic co-op
- China capable of blockading, taking Taiwan’s outlying islands: MND
- China factory activity unexpectedly expands in August: Official PMI
- China is expected to extend a long term loan to Pakistan at a low interest rate to cover the cost of the project
- China may open share markets to Saudi Aramco, says Saudi Minister
- China official manufacturing activity unexpectedly expands in August-PMI
- China official services PMI expands at slightly slower pace in August
- China readies Hangzhou city ahead of G20 Summit
- China said it will work with Kyrgyzstan to discover as soon as possible the organization and people that carried out a suicide car bomb attack on China’s embassy in Bishkek on Aug 30.
- China says 21 of its nationals in Singapore infected with Zika
- China says it will assist Kyrgyzstan in an investigation into a recent attack on the Chinese Embassy in Bishkek. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on August 31 that Beijing ...
- China’s economic growth has slowed in recent years, but its contribution to the world economy remains significantly more than that of other countries.
- China should deepen criticism of Dalai Lama: New Tibet Communist Party chief
- China should not fear the deepening ties between US, India, says State Department
- China's new Tibet party chief urges stronger criticism of Dalai Lama
- China, UK can write new chapter together
- China Will Try to Deflect G-20 Complaints at Summit
- Chinese authorities have charged an American woman with espionage, after holding her since March last year. The news comes just days before U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in China for the G-20 summit
- Chinese internet company Sina Corp. will distribute some Weibo Corp. shares to shareholders, reducing its stake in the social-media unit to 51%.
- Chinese peacekeeping medical detachment to Mali received a seriously wounded person who suffered from a landmine attack at 6:40 a.m. on August 29, local time.
- Chinese peacekeeping medical detachment to Mali saves landmine attack victim
- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang promised on Wednesday that a Canadian man held in China for two years on suspicion of spying would be treated humanely and lawfully, but the man’
- Chinese tourist arrivals likely to drop by 600,000 this year: minister
- Chip testing equipment supplier Advantest Corp yesterday said growth in the global semiconductor industry would slow to a single-digit percentage this year from a double-digit expansion in past years because of a lack of new application processors for mobile phones.
- CIMB chief calls on the private sector to move integration forward
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- Citing Chinese and North Korean threats, the Japanese Defense Ministry has requested 5.1 trillion yen for fiscal year 2017.
- CIWTC was incorporated in February 1967 as Public Sector Undertaking under the Companies Act 1956 by the Central Government. It was under the administrative control of Ministry of Shipping (MOS).
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- CLOSED CIRCLE: How PM Modi should approach India's ties with Egypt
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- CM Akhilesh Yadav honours 10 senior most legislators in UP assembly
- CM announces pesticide-free vegetable, fruit scheme
- ‘CM has nothing to fear about’
- CM Manohar Lal Khattar and party MLAs used bicycles as their ride to Assembly
- CNN's Rene Marsh was on board JetBlue Flight 387, the first direct commercial flight between the US and Cuba in over a half-century.
- Coal dust and ash pond of power plant causing severe health problems to residents.
- Coal India announces change in directorate
- Coimbatore Corporation on Wednesday selected three presentations from among 63 as the best proposals submitted for the Make Your City Smart competition, organised as part of the Smart Cities project.T...
- Coimbatore Corporation will soon extend its services through mobile phone as well.According to officials, the civic body is preparing a mobile application to help members of the public report grievanc...
- Collector Sajjansingh R. Chavan offered floral tributes to the portrait of Sathavathani Sheik Thampi Paavalar to mark his 143rd birth anniversary at Kumari Matriculation School at Kottar here on Wedn...
- Colleges give thrust to experiential learning system
- Colonel (retd) Sukhpritsingh Arjunsingh Randhawa (59), who is alleged to be the mastermind of the bogus Army recruitment racket, was arrested yesterday from Noida by a team of the city's Upnagar police station.
- Columnist Li Yuan writes that national outrage in China over reports of a phone swindle is focusing new attention on lax privacy protections.
- Comfort foods, gourmet selections, and lots of strange textures -- here are our picks of the most delicious and iconic food items of this foodie's paradise
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- Commercial flights from the US to Cuba are resuming after half a century. Watch the first one touch down on the island on Aug 31.
- Commission to investigate KMT assets launched
- Commodore René Luyckx, commanding officer of the EU CTF-465 visited the 23rd Chinese naval escort taskforce on the morning of August 28.
- Compensation to stay, judges disagree over govt’s ‘public purpose’ criteria.
- Complete probe into irregularities at AFT within a month: Speaker
- ‘Completing outer ring road will obviate girivalam path expansion’
- Computer-generated imagery (CGI) of the Chinese J-16 Long Range Strike Fighter Jet Dropping Precision Guided Munition
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- Conflict and Cooperation in the South China Sea
- Cong rejects Dhingra panel report, alleges 'witch-hunt' by Haryana Govt.
- Congress party to relaunch National Herald
- Congress plans mega loan-waiver to pocket votes of UP farmers
- Congress terms Dhingra Commission report as part of witch-hunt; BJP rejects allegetion
- Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will today hold a public meeting in Jagdishpur in his parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.Gandhi will be staying at the Munshigunj Guest House in Amethi and is scheduled to attend several political ...
- Cong tosses panel report on Haryana land deals
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- Conservative media heavyweights at war over Donald Trump
- Consumer is king, can't stop discounts by Ola, Uber: Delhi HC to taxi operators
- Container living becomes chic
- Continuing its tradition of pursuing adventure activities, the Army recently conducted a trekking expedition to commemorate the golden jubilee of Indian Army’s Bison Division based out of Secunderabad...
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
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- Co-optex weavers bag national awards
- Core sector clocks 3.2% growth in July
- Corning announces new Gorilla Glass for your next smartwatch
- Corporation to develop app for basic services
- Could this be attributed to the less defined OS structure of Linux in comparison to Windows? Dabbling in Linux, my experience has been that the terminal is a very powerful tool and could be leveraged to perform nearly any...
- Could this be the end of Alzheimer's? Revolutionary drug 'may stop the disease from ever developing'
- Could you be living inside a simulation created by a more advanced intelligence? Where does your unerring belief that you are not come from?
- Councillors seek patchwork to fill potholes on roads in Udupi
- Councilman proposes ordinance ending ‘puppy mill’ practices in Aurora
- Country's economic growth recorded 7.1 percent in first quarter of current fiscal
- Country's infrastructure sector grows 3.2 per cent in July
- Country's economic growth recorded 7.1 percent in first quarter of current fiscal
- Couple kidnapped by Taliban beg for life in latest video clip
- Coursera for Business was designed to let companies, for a price, tap into courses created by universities to address training needs in a fast-changing world
- Court expels Pak national from Romania over promoting "extremist Islamism"
- Courting Republicans, Hillary Clinton to tout 'American exceptionalism'
- CPI-M rules out apology for Singur land acquisition
- Craig Sager undergoes rare third bone marrow transplant with trademark smile
- Creeping threat to mangrove forests in Nellore
- Cricket can throw up fascinating tales. M. K. Sivakumar last played for Tamil Nadu six years ago before sinking into oblivion. Nearing 35, this spinner-turned journeyman paceman appeared drifting tow...
- Criminal Minds'has brought back one of the show's all-time best characters, Paget Brewster, following the dismissal of its leading man Thomas Gibson for an on-set spat with a writer.
- Cross-border rocket attack damages power station in Saudi Arabia's Najran
- Cube26 launches super utility apps under new brand ‘Reos’
- Cybersecurity Self-Esteem: 4 Things Confident Teams Are Doing
- Cyclonic circulations over Haryana and Coastal Andhra Pradesh became hyperactive overnight, delivering heavy to very heavy rainfall into Wednesday morning. Both persisted into the evening, an update ...
- Czech gymnast Vera Caslavska, her country's most celebrated Olympian and on
- Data shows increasing political polarization on climate change
- Data tariffs too high in India, says Analysys Mason report
- David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn made more people vote Leave at EU referendum, major report finds
- David Daniel previews the thriller about a "synthetic human,'starring Kate Mara & Anya Taylor-Joy and directed by Luke Scott (son of Ridley).
- Dawood sends his new photos to Indian media
- Days after a pharmacy college here allowed Muslim girls to wear headscarf (hijab) following a protest, some students of a government degree college in Bellare have started wearing saffron shawls to c...
- Days after the spread of fever in various parts of Tiruvallur district that claimed a few lives, the DMK raised the issue in the Assembly and urged the State government to announce a compensation of R...
- DDoS attacks are increasingly coming at the hands of Linux botnets
- Deadpool'star Ryan Reynolds paid out from his own pocket to keep the screenwriters of the film on sets.
- Deal gets final approval from Chinese authorities; the merged entity to be named Dell Technologies
- Deals Stoke Criticism Over U.S.'s Plan to End Internet Oversight
- Death of Isil propaganda chief 'could see decline in attacks on West'
- Death sentence to Bangladeshi national in Shramjeevi blast case
- Declare undisclosed income, doctors told
- Dee Dowis, whose mastery of Air Force's option offense made him a Heisman Trophy finalist, died Monday in a traffic accident.
- Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter. PTI file photo
Thursday, September 1, 2016
General Knowledge and Current Affairs Pack 2016-09-01 03:00
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