Daily Current Affairs Updates

The Lok Sabha has passed the Payment of Wages (Amendment) Bill, 2017 to enable employers to pay wages to workers through cheque or directly crediting to their accounts.

• CBDT signs four unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements
• Nepal to host 4th BIMSTEC Summit 2017
• 181 Irrawaddy dolphins counted in Odisha census

The fourth edition of BIMSTEC Summit-2017 will be held in Nepal. It was announced in the 17th session of BIMSTEC Senior Officials� Meeting (SOM) held in Kathmandu, capital Nepal.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) under the Department of Revenue, Union Ministry of Finance has entered into four more unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs).

According to new census carried out by the Odisha State Forest and Environment department in 2016, as many as 181 Irrawaddy dolphins have been sighted in the state.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched Measles Rubella (MR) vaccination campaign in the country at Bengaluru, Karnataka.

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• Government constitutes six-member committee to improve Haj policy, look into subsidy issue
• Assam Government launches Chief Minister Samagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana
• Indian Navy launches underwater harbour defence and surveillance system

Assam Government has launched Chief Minister Samagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana (CMSGUY) to bring about paradigm shift towards holistic development of villages in the state.

The Union government has formed a six-member committee to study the ways to improve India�s Haj policy and look into the issue of subsidy to the pilgrimage in light of a 2012 Supreme Court order on gradually reducing and abolishing it by 2022.

Scientists for the first time have successfully implanted world�s smallest pacemaker dubbed as Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) in a patient in United States.