General Knowledge pack 20160702.

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2.  AIISH wins award for implementing Hindi
3.  Awarded with Gold rating under IGBC Green Campus Rating System, State Bank St...
4.  Awardees’ list
5.  Blood bank at GH wins award
6.  Charges of favouritism in awarding marks
7.  Chief Judicial Magistrate P. Asokan here on Thursday awarded five-year RI to four persons in a case relating to the attempt to murder S. Baskaran, former State organiser of Hindu Munnani.The convicts ...
8.  Comedy Premiere League (CPL), one of Shemaroo's popular social media campaign was graced by the National Awards for Excellence in Digital and Social Media Marketing for 'Best use of Twitter'.Shemaroo Premiere League's first edition showcased clash ...
9.  Deepika Padukone has finally revealed the reason why she and Priyanka Chopra didn't shake a leg together at the 2016 IIFA awards.In a recent interview with a leading daily DNA, Deepika said, "Priyanka is a fabulous performer and I did not want to ...
10.  Four Indian-Americans to get Great Immigrants Award
11.  Here's a look at the life of Academy Award-winning actress, Olivia de Havilland.<div class
12.  Indian economy is expected to see a consumption recovery of over 1 per cent of GDP in the second half of the year, driven by lower lending rates and 7th Pay Commission award, says a Bank of America-M...
13.  LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Boy band One Direction, singer Lionel Richie and violinist Andre Rieu were among the winners at the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London on Friday, an annual event raising money for a British musical therapy charity.<div class="feedflare">
14. +LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Boy band One Direction, singer Lionel Richie and violinist Andre Rieu were among the winners at the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London on Friday, an annual event raising money for a British musical therapy charity.<div class="feedflare">
15.  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Organizers of the Oscars, facing an outcry over the lack of diversity on its voting board for the film awards, said on Wednesday it has invited nearly 700 new members with a focus on female and minority talent.<div class="feedflare">
16. +LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Organizers of the Oscars, facing an outcry over the lack of diversity on its voting board for the film awards, said on Wednesday it has invited nearly 700 new members with a focus on female and minority talent.<div class="feedflare">
17.  Madras Management Association has announced the 15th MMA Award for Managerial Excellence for 2016.
18.  MMA awards for managerial excellence
19.  NASA Awards Contract for Safety Reporting Systems
20.  NASA Awards Contract to Increase Water Recovery on Space Station
21.  NASA Awards Grants for University Research and Development Programs
22.  NASA Awards Grants to Nine Informal Learning Institutions
23.  NASA has awarded almost $10 million in grants to informal education organizations in seven states to help inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers.
24. +NASA has awarded almost $10 million in grants to informal education organizations in seven states to help inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers.
25.  NASA is awarding approximately $8 million to 11 schools across the country for research and technology development projects in areas critical to the agency’s mission.
26. +NASA is awarding approximately $8 million to 11 schools across the country for research and technology development projects in areas critical to the agency’:      
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     AIISH wins award for implementing Hindi
     Awarded with Gold rating under IGBC Green Campus Rating System, State Bank St...
     Awardees’ list
     Blood bank at GH wins award
     <![CDATA[Academy Award voting tests diversity vow]]
     <![CDATA[Stars on the red carpet at the Tony Awards]]
     Charges of favouritism in awarding marks
     Chief Judicial Magistrate P. Asokan here on Thursday awarded five-year RI to four persons in a case relating to the attempt to murder S. Baskaran, former State organiser of Hindu Munnani.The convicts ...
     Comedy Premiere League (CPL), one of Shemaroo's popular social media campaign was graced by the National Awards for Excellence in Digital and Social Media Marketing for 'Best use of Twitter'.Shemaroo Premiere League's first edition showcased clash ...
     Deepika Padukone has finally revealed the reason why she and Priyanka Chopra didn't shake a leg together at the 2016 IIFA awards.In a recent interview with a leading daily DNA, Deepika said, "Priyanka is a fabulous performer and I did not want to ...
     Four Indian-Americans to get Great Immigrants Award
     Here's a look at the life of Academy Award-winning actress, Olivia de Havilland.&lt;div class
     Indian economy is expected to see a consumption recovery of over 1 per cent of GDP in the second half of the year, driven by lower lending rates and 7th Pay Commission award, says a Bank of America-M...
     LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Boy band One Direction, singer Lionel Richie and violinist Andre Rieu were among the winners at the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London on Friday, an annual event raising money for a British musical therapy charity.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
    +LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Boy band One Direction, singer Lionel Richie and violinist Andre Rieu were among the winners at the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London on Friday, an annual event raising money for a British musical therapy charity.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
     LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Organizers of the Oscars, facing an outcry over the lack of diversity on its voting board for the film awards, said on Wednesday it has invited nearly 700 new members with a focus on female and minority talent.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
    +LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Organizers of the Oscars, facing an outcry over the lack of diversity on its voting board for the film awards, said on Wednesday it has invited nearly 700 new members with a focus on female and minority talent.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
     Madras Management Association has announced the 15th MMA Award for Managerial Excellence for 2016.
     MMA awards for managerial excellence
     NASA Awards Contract for Safety Reporting Systems
     NASA Awards Contract to Increase Water Recovery on Space Station
     NASA Awards Grants for University Research and Development Programs
     NASA Awards Grants to Nine Informal Learning Institutions
     NASA has awarded almost $10 million in grants to informal education organizations in seven states to help inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers.
    +NASA has awarded almost $10 million in grants to informal education organizations in seven states to help inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers.
     NASA is awarding approximately $8 million to 11 schools across the country for research and technology development projects in areas critical to the agency’s mission.
    +NASA is awarding approximately $8 million to 11 schools across the country for research and technology development projects in areas critical to the agency’:
     

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. > India's “no first strike policy” with Pakistan.
2. Martial arts exponent, Syeda Falak,felicitated on the occasion of Telangana State Formation Day
3. > World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Roberto Azevedo has welcomed India’s proposal for a Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) in Services
4. > India, world's fourth-biggest oil consumer, recently offered Saudi Aramco a stake in refineries and petrochemical projects.
5. > PARIS (Reuters) - After being previously tipped as a future French Open champion by claycourt master Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem has been branded the "leader of a new generation" by world number one Novak Djokovic.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
6. World Environment Day
7. > The Global Slavery Index: The Global Slavery Index 2013 measures the size of the modern slavery problem, country by country. The Index provides a quantitative ranking of 162 countries around the world according to the estimated prevalence of modern slavery (that is, the estimated percentage of enslaved people in the national population at a point in time). The Index is constructed from three quantitative indicators on prevalence, one of which was generated internally (estimated prevalence of slavery), and two of which are based on an analysis of pre-existing data from UNICEF and the US Trafficking in Persons report. The second section, on the risk of modern slavery, analyses risk based on an assessment of 31 qualitative and quantitative indicators that reflect five key dimensions: a country's anti-slavery policies; a country's respect for human rights; a country’s level of human and economic development; the stability of the government and the institutions of the country.
8. > Short note on "human genome": The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is stored on 23 chromosome pairs. Twenty-two of these are autosomal chromosome pairs, while the remaining pair is sex-determining. The haploid human genome occupies a total of just over 3 billion DNA base pairs. The haploid human genome contains ca. 23,000 protein-coding genes, far fewer than had been expected before its sequencing. In fact, only about 1.5% of the genome codes for proteins, while the rest consists of non-coding RNA genes, regulatory sequences, introns, and (controversially named) "junk" DNA The Human Genome Project (HGP) produced a reference sequence of the euchromatic human genome, which is used worldwide in biomedical sciences.

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Maj. David Huff was awarded the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor
2. Sports Hub, the stadium complex in Karyavattom, has been adjudged the winner of the prestigious David Vickers Award under the category of New Venue of the Year
3. THE Selection Committee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
4. Ahead of embarking on a five-nation tour on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that he is looking forward to his visit to Afghanistan where he, along with Afghan President Ashraf  Ghani, will inaugurate the India-Afghan Friendship ...
5. > Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said the country's parliament is studying the decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia and will form committees that will decide whether to ratify the move.
6. > French President Francois Hollande promised today to enforce tough sanctions on North Korea, which faced UN condemnation this week for its latest attempted missile launch.
7. > Vice President Hamid Ansari five-day visit to Morocco and Tunisia.
8. National Skill Development Mission.
9. > Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a five-nation tour which will take him to Afghanistan, Qatar, Switzerland, the US and Mexico.
10. > The National Civil Aviation Policy.

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Uber Cup badminton championship  Kunshan in China
2. Centre ends sugar export subsidy
3. India’s seafood exports seem to have missed the $ 6 billion target in FY16 ,why?
4. Monsanto's GM cotton seeds
5. Chabahar port
6. PM Modi releases Transforming India anthem
7. The Ministry of Women and Child Development , Government of India, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to provide technical support at the National and State level for strengthening the delivery of nutrition goals.
8. The Project Management Institute (PMI) India and Indian Academy of Highway Engineers (IAHE) signed a MoU in the capital today, to enhance project management skills of IAHE trainees.
9. The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)
10. Timothy Donald Cook, the first CEO of Apple to visit India

28 May 2016

1. China's stand on India’s membership of the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) 
2. Dutee Chand led an Indian medal sweep in the women’s 200m at the Taiwan Athletics Open
3. Ford India recalls 48,700 EcoSport SUVs 
4. 
   Four Indian Peacekeepers Honoured Posthumously With UN Medal 
5. 
   French hospitality major Accor targets 80 hotels in India by 2020 
6. 
   Red Line Campaign on antibiotics
7. 
   Google India, along with Tata Trusts, also said it is now expanding the "internet Saathi programme" to four more states -- West Bengal, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura.
8. 
   India and Slovenia have signed a Protocol to amend an existing double taxation avoidance treaty between the two countries. 
9. 
   Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR)
10. 
    India has sent two naval ships Naval offshore patrol vessel INS Sunayna and survey vessel INS Sutlej and a C-17 aircraft with relief materials like medicines and tents along with teams of rescue experts to Sri Lanka which has been severely battered by tropical cyclone.

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. North Eastern Council (NEC) meeting : Shillong
2. Carbon sequestration
3. Amendments to the India-Mauritius tax treaty
4. India’s membership of the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
5. Varuni Jaiswal helped India qualify for the main draw of the girls’ team event in the 2016 Slovak Junior Open table tennis tournament.
6. Uber Cup
7. Indian-American Kevin Negandhi to host Spelling Bee
8. Non-Proliferation Treaty.
9. Digital India Week
10. Driven by the success of its first premium retail store launched in Pune in November 2015, Piaggio Group has opened its second Motoplex in India at Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad.

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. World's most prestigious clay tennis court made?
2. Pedersen Glacier in Alaska
3. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Myrdalsjökull in Iceland
4. World Hypertension Day
5. World's largest single rooftop solar power plant of 11.5 Mw capacity has been inaugurated in Beas near Amritsar in Punjab.
6. Rapidly growing oil industry in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale region
7. SS Mundra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
8. Photoluminescence
9. Internal structure of nucleolus
10. Totten Glacier in the Antarctic

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s campaign, Food Revolution, kicks off in 10 countries across the world.
2. G7 summit to be held in Ise-Shima, central Japan.
3. AgustaWestland scam
4. Health Minister launches ‘Kayakalp Fortnight’ to be observed across the country in Central Government hospitals
5. Bayer is offering to buy agricultural giant Monsanto in a deal that could create the world's biggest supplier of seeds and pesticides.
6. Hugo Swire minister of state in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in charge of India.
7. Competition Commission of India (CCI)
8. World Bank Executive Directors, currently on a visit to India
9. Amanda Davies
10. Harmony of the Seas: The world's biggest cruise ship

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Russian world champion swimmer Yulia Efimova, who tested positive for meldonium, has had a temporary suspension lifted pending a final ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
2. Mount Chimborazo claims Mount Everest's title as world's highest mountain. When measuring from the equator, Chimborazo rises the highest at about 3,967 miles, according to researchers who have taken GPS measurements from the summit. Everest by comparison does not even make the cut for the Earth's top 20 highest mountains, at 3,965 miles from the planet's centre.
3. Pooja Rani advances to last-16 of Womens World Boxing C&#39;ships
4. Samsung Electronics agreed with Alibaba&#8217;s financial-services affiliate to cooperate on mobile payments
5. [Discuss]Emerging solutions to the water challenges of an urbanizing world.
6. The Deesan Textile Park.
7. NASA’s Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) program.
8. Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs)
9. Total Gastrectomy (removal of the stomach)
10. Role of human ATP4a gene in the gastric acid secretion regulation.

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. 125th birth anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
2. Living Planet Symposium held in Prague, Czech Republic
3. Esa's Climate Change Initiative Land Cover project.
4. The West Indies has triumphed in the ICC World Twenty20 and Under-19 World Cup.
5. The world's largest blue diamond, an extremely rare gem known as "The Oppenheimer Blue", sold for $57.5 million at Christie's Geneva , making it the most expensive diamond ever to be sold at auction.
6. The yellow fever outbreak in Angola
7. The C. elegans metabolic network
8. Rochester Cloak, uses four lenses in a line at specific distances from each other to make objects appear invisible.
9. Semiconducting nanoparticles 
10. How ULK1 and ULK2, two enzymes involved in autophagy, regulate the trafficking of proteins between select cellular compartments?

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) is designed to provide continuous power supply to the entire rural India. The scheme was launched under leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in November 2014 announcing that "the government had decided to electrify 18,452 unelectrified villages within 1000 days, by May 1, 2018. It is one of the key initiatives of Government of India and a flagship programmes of the Ministry of Power. The DDUGJY can benefit rural households significantly as electricity is extremely vital for growth and development of the country. The scheme will replace the existing Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) but features of RGGVY have been subsumed in the new scheme of DDUGJY and the unspent amount of RGGVY will be carried forward to DDUGJY. The scheme is one of the flagship programmes of the Power Ministry (MoP) and will facilitate 24x7 supply of electricity.
2. Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Ya-alon resigned from what is widely considered Israel&#8217;s second-most powerful position, amid maneuvering by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shore up his coalition.  
3. India, Iran and Afghanistan sign an agreement on developing Chabahar port during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran 
4. Joint Secretary in External Affairs Ministry Gopal Baglay
5. Rear Admiral (Retd.) Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama
6. Prime Minister of Fiji meets PM
7. Gujarati folk singer Diwaliben Bhil passes away.
8. Joint issue of UN Women HeForShe.
9. Total knee replacement (TKR). 
10. 'Roanu' cyclone in the East Godavari district.

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Raghu Karnad's book shortlisted for Hessell-Tiltman Prize
2. The Ivor Novello Awards.
3. The government had awarded three rail port connectivity projects worth Rs.38 crore under its Sagarmala programme
4. Beijing Issues Warning To Taiwan's New President
5. Douglas Vakoch, president of the San Francisco-based non-profit group, 'Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence International'
6. President Pranab Mukherjee launched a mobile application "Monitor" aimed at turning the President's Estate into a smart township.
7. [Book:] Aadhunik Bharat Me Police Vyavastha - Dr.RLS Yadav
8. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China.
9. Binali Yildirim set to be Turkey's new prime minister
10. China used a refreshing method to propagate its 13th Five-Year Plan, Shi San Wu: with a catchy tune and animated video.

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Ghanshyam Binani Childrens Bravery Award for 2016
2. Yatra Award for Translators.
3. The Helheim Experience
4. NASA - Operation IceBridge mission
5. Desmond Elliott Prize for first time novelists
6. Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation (DFCC)
7. Randstand Award
8. 67th International Astronautical Congress to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico in September 2016.
9. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
10. European Materials Research Society award

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang 
2. 
   Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced the setting up of a Kosli dialect and literature research centre in Bargarh district which will be named after Padma Shri recipient Haldhar Nag.
3. 
   Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal approved the launch of 'Dr B R Ambedkar Scholarship Scheme' for meritorious students of Class X and XII of government schools.
4. 
   Railways forming a joint venture (JV) company with the Maharashtra government.
5. 
   COP-21 Global Climate Agreement
6. 
   Kerala Land Reforms Act
7. 
   The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has subscribed to Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL) bonds of 250 crore, to enable some of its key projects.
8. 
   The Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) and Health & Family Welfare, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik released the Yoga Protocol for the International Yoga Day – 2016
9. 
   National Fair on AYUSH, at Bambolim, in Goa.
10. 
    Oxford professor wins Abel Prize for Fermat's Last Theorem proof
    

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. 3rd SAARC Agriculture Ministers meeting at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2. Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani launched a portal for registration and allotment of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) in New Delhi.
3. India's Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) 
4. India aims to become 100% e-vehicle nation by 2030: Power minister
5. Brazil, South Africa, India and China(BASIC) group
6. Jamaican Sports Minister Olivia Grange has called for restraint in the ongoing impasse between the West Indies Cricket Board and the players,reason? 
7. Inauguration of the much awaited Garga bridge in Bokaro 
8. Lt Governor of Puducherry Lt General (retired) A K Singh and Chief Minister N Rangasamy 
9. Manipur Commerce and Industries Minister Govindas Konthoujam 
10. Minister of Urban Development Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu received the 80 year old Shri Balwant Singh Grewal (Bobby) at the India Gate in the national capital on the conclusion of the latter's walk from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu to Delhi in support of the blind.
    
    

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Kumar Das, will be conferred with the Pandit Puttaraj Award 2016
2. Gaanayogi Panchakshar Gawai Award 2016 will be presented to Siddappa Master.
3. The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards
4. PESA Act
5. Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS)
6. Drive.ai
7. Civil Services Day
8. Constable Gautam Koch of Assam Armed Branch who made supreme sacrifice fighting UPLA insurgents in Assam's Difu was awarded Kirti Chakra posthumously.
9. Panchayati Raj Day.
10. Prof U R Rao, former Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space has been honoured by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) with the 2016 "IAF Hall of Fame" award .
11. FICCI Smart Policing Awards

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. Proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with Australia
2. Jacob Lew
3. Annual India-US Economic and Financial Partnership (EFP) Dialogue
4. Former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher passes away.
5. Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh
6. 3rd SAARC Agriculture Ministers’ meeting at Dhaka, Bangladesh
7. Haryana Government has launched a new scheme 'Adapting Homes for the Differently-abled'

Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. GSAT-11 spacecraft
2. National Hydrology Project.
3. US $ 1,500 million project of World Bank Support to Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) 
4. What is an "ex-post facto approval" in terms of Union Cabinet's decision makning process?
5. The Vietnamese parliament elected former deputy prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc as the country's new premier.
6. Tripura to transmit of 100 megawatts of power to Bangladesh from the Palatana power project
7. Utkal Divas
8. UK Business Minister Sajid Javid met Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry over the future of its British steel unit.
9. Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Uri Ariel, Israel's visit to National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) headquarters in Mumbai.
10. Chief Justice A M Khanwilkar
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1. NSS2016,Washington DC
2. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister has given its approval to vest the oil PSUs with the power to evolve their own policies.
3. Approval to Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Sweden on Technical Cooperation in the Railway Sector.
4. The Union Cabinet has approved release of an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to Pensioners w.e.f. 01.01.2016.
5. The Union Cabinet has given its approval for extending the tenure of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) beyond 31.3.2016 for three years.
6. Ashgabat Agreement : an international transport and transit corridor facilitating transportation of goods between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.
7. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Anatomy Regulation, 2016.
   
   

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1. PM Narendra Modi's visit to Belgium.
2. Prime Minister of Belgium, Mr. Charles Michel
3. 13th EU-INDIA Summit
4. Lucknow Metro loan agreement with European Investment Bank
5. 'Stand up India' programme
6. Crown Prince and the Minister of Interior of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Naif
7. PRAGATI - the ICT-based, multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation
8. Second cross border transmission interconnection system between India and Bangladesh
9. 'Kaushal Kendra' (Skilling Center) under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojna
10. Minister of Health , Chairman of Board of Saudi Armaco, HE Eng. Khalid Bin Abdulaziz Al-Faleh