Daily Current Affairs Updates

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy review for year 2016-17 has cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%.

The Union Government has made Aadhaar card mandatory for availing cooking gas (LPG) subsidies after November 2016.

The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has launched the Indian Bridge Management System (IBMS).

India and Singapore have signed three agreements (MoUs) in the fields of skill development and IPR to boost bilateral relations between them.

• Jharkhand becomes first state to implement DBT in Kerosene
• Urban areas of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh declared open defecation free
• Reliance, Dassault Aviation ink deal to set up joint venture

Jharkhand has become the first state in the country to implement Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in Kerosene Scheme.

Anil Ambani led Reliance Group and French aerospace giant Dassault Aviation have signed deal to set up a joint venture called Dassault Reliance Aerospace.

Film-maker and elephant researcher Prajna Chowta (46) has been appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (Knight in the National Order of Merit) by the French government.

Indian-origin South African Kiara Nirghin (16) has won a $50,000 scholarship at the annual Google Science Fair held in United States.

The Union Urban Development Ministry has declared urban areas of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh open defecation free (ODF).

Yoshinori Ohsumi (71) of Japan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on autophagy. With this he becomes the 23rd Japanese national to win a Nobel prize and overall the sixth Japanese medicine Nobel laureate.

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