Daily Current Affairs Updates

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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• Rajasthan becomes first state to adopt LED street lights under all ULBs
• National Mission on Bioeconomy launched in Shillong, Meghalaya
• New species of pika named Ochotona sikimaria discovered in Sikkim

India has ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change on the 147th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Scientists have discovered a new species of Pika, a mammal belonging to the rabbit and hare family in the Himalayas in Sikkim. It has been identified as ‘Ochotona sikimaria’.