Current Affairs 2016

• Binny Bansal becomes new CEO of Flipkart.
• Youth Day India: 12 January 2016.
• 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Reliance Group, led by billionaire Anil Ambani, will set up a naval ship-building facility near Visakhapatnam at a cost of Rs. 5,000 crore. It is the single biggest investment in Andhra Pradesh after its bifurcation.

In a top management rejig, e-commerce firm Flipkart appointed Binny Bansal as the Chief Executive Officer and Sachin Bansal as the Executive Chairman.

Former Gujarat cadre IAS officer Devender Kumar Sikri has taken oath as the Chairman of Competition Commission of India.

The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has approved major changes in the new Defence Procurement Procedure (DDP) 2016.

Music Legend David Bowie passed away on 10 January 2015 in New York, United States following a battle with liver cancer. He was 69.

The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony was organized at Beverly Hills, California, United States (US).

The first female F1 (Formula One) driver Maria Teresa de Filippis passed away on 8 January 2016 in Italy. She was 89.

This agreement will enable people of both nations to avail retirement benefits in each other̢۪s country and will boost bilateral business linkages.

Telangana has become the first State in the country to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level. In this regard, state government has introduced bilingual textbook titled ‘Towards a World of Equals’ on a pilot basis in engineering colleges.

Scientists at the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB) in Hisar, Haryana have successfully produced a cloned buffalo offspring named Cirb Gaurav.

• Current Affairs weekly bullets is the collections of weekly current affairs in the form of bullet points so you can grab it in easily. Here, we have brought the bullet points of current affairs from 1st to 9th January, 2016.