Current Affairs Points of OCTOBER 2016 (IBPS RRB MAINS)

INDIAN AFFAIRS

• The Haryana state government was launching its e-kharid portal for procurement of paddy in the upcoming procurement season starting this month.

• The Centre has constituted a four-member Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India(IBBI) under the Chairmanship of Madhusudan Sahoo.

• Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani inaugurated a 34-ft long ‘Lamp of Humanity’ in Ahmedabad, as part of the Vibrant Navratri celebrations. The lamp is made up of stainless steel34-feet long and has a diameter of 15.8 feet, with the authorities claiming that the initiative has already entered the Guinness Book of World Records, as the ‘world’s biggest lamp’.

• Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu flagged off an all-women Mt Gorichen expedition.This would be the first all women team attempting to summit the second highest peak of the state, which is considered as a technical peak and only seasoned climbers can make it to the top (6,488 m).

• Abu Dhabi Crowned Prince(Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan) to be

 Chief Guest  on 2017 Republic Day

• The Supreme Court charged a cost of Rs.25,000 on Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jainfor failing to file an affidavit naming the officials allegedly not cooperating in checking the menace of dengue and chikun gunya in the national capital.

• Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated a number of new projects in Ganjam district, Odisha. He opened an OPD centre in Sheragada hospital and a panchyat building.He also inaugurated the new urban water supply project for the Hinjili Notified Area Council(NAC) area readied at an estimated cost of Rs 6.14-crore.

• Centre approves a grant of Rs. 515 Crores for the development of Sagar Port Project in West Bengal

• The government has notified that Aadhaar is mandatory for availing cooking gas (LPG) subsidies but has given two months grace period for citizens to get the unique identification number.

• The Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation has constituted a high-level technical team, headed by Central Water Commission (CWC) Chairman GS Jha, to visit the Cauvery basin area and assess the ground.

• Social networking site Facebook is collaborating with the Election Commission of India in five states going to polls next year to run a voter registration drive aimed at encouraging youth to participate in the democratic exercise. The five states are Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand for the first time in the country to run a voter registration drive.

• The Union government has accepted the recommendation of the 7th Pay Commission on Modified Assured Career Progression (MACP) for Central employees which would ensure one minimum promotion for every 10 years till 30 years of service.

• Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated 100 urban piped drinking water supply projects

• Indian mountaineer Arjun Vajpai scaled world’s sixth highest mountain Cho Oyu. The mountain is located on the China-Nepal border at an altitude of 8188 meters above the sea level.

• The Union Minister of Human Resource and Development, Prakash Javadekar inaugurated the Green building and Shatabdi Krishi Bhawan at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in the wake of holding a review meeting VCs of Central Universities.

• Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu flagging-off the first freight train in New Delhi which featured a newly-developed guard van, which uses solar power to run fans and lights at Delhi Safdarjung Railway Station.

  

• Maharashtra government has allocated 40.68 hectare land in Hingloi to Department of Atomic Energy(DAE) for LIGO India Project. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project that was given the in-principle approval by the Cabinet planned to construct in Hingoli district, Maharshtra. It is third LIGO laboratory in the world and first laboratory outside the United States. The existing laborataries are located in Hanford, Washington, and in Livingston, Louisiana.

• The Centre had approved projects worth Rs.350 crore for developing infrastructure at heritage sites Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Urban Development inaugurated a two day conference on Heritage Cities. The conference was being jointly organised by Ministry of Urban Development and Indian Heritage Cities Network (IHCN).

• Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated first Model Skill Development Centre “Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra” at Panjabari, Guwahati.

• The government would “completely seal” the India-Pakistan border by December 2018, was announced by Union home minister Rajnath Singh as part of an extensive plan to monitor the country’s frontier security.

• The National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) had been reconstituted with P S Raghavan, former Ambassador to Russia, as its head. The NSAB deals with internal and external security, foreign affairs, defence, science and technology and economic affairs and normally meets at least once in a month.

• India would have 100 % electrification for all by May 1, 2017 was the announcement made by the Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal. He has the confident that 100 per cent electrification in rural, Left-Wing Extremism(LWE) districts and dense forests would be achieved by May 1, 2017, a year ahead of the schedule Prime Minister Narendra Modi.






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