Current Affairs One liner, 17 May 2017

• The amount by which the International Cricket Council raised the total prize money for Champions Trophy is - USD 500000

• The theme of the 2017 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is - Big Data for Big Impact

• He was recently appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University - Tariq Mansoor

• The renowned wildlife biologist who was recently nominated for the Whitley Awards, also known as Green Oscars, is - Purnima Devi Barman

• This country recently unveiled a dinosaur had been preserved in stone for over 110 million years - Canada

• This Indian mountaineer has set a new record by scaling the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest for the fourth time - Anshu Jamsenpa

• The National Green Tribunal has announced an environment compensation of Rs 5000 for vehicles found over-speeding inside this national park- Kaziranga National Park

• The Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) has successfully created the country's first -Smart Grid Project

• Country that agreed with China to minimize South China Sea disputes - Vietnam

• Orange alert was issued by Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) recently for - Odisha

• Country that upheld the ban on Sikhs carrying ceremonial knives - Italy

• Indian Railways will install 19000 high definition CCTV cameras at 983 stations across the country under - Nirbhaya Fund

• This country in recent past a country which was a participant of China’s One Belt One Road conference in Beijing has backed India's concern over the Kashmir issue – Sri Lanka

• Minister for I&B Venkaiah Naidu in May 2017 announced a separate 24x7 DD channel for this state - Jharkhand

• A report 'Financial security for India's elderly - The imperatives’ that says India will transform gradually from young to a 'greying' country and by 2050 every 5th Indian will be in 60s as against every 12th at present was released by - PFRDA-CRISIL

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