Daily Current Affairs Updates

State-run power producer NTPC has signed a joint venture agreement (JVA) with state-run miner Coal India Limited (CIL) to revive plants of the Fertilizer Corporation of India Limited (FCIL).

The World Bank̢۪s Board has approved 625 million dollars loan to support India̢۪s grid connected rooftop solar programme to generate clean energy.

Nandini Bhandaru, a PhD student at IIT-Kharagpur has won the Young Scientist Award of the European Materials Research Society̢۪s (E-MRS) for contribution to materials science.

The Union Government has launched three IT and ITES initiatives for best practices in road transport sector.

South Korean author, Han Kang, has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian.

• Max Verstappen becomes youngest Formula 1 winner
• Andy Murray wins 2016 Italian Open title
• Justice Mukul Mudgal appointed as deputy chairman of FIFA Governance Committee

Indian artist Anjali Chandrashekar (22) has won the third prize in UN Poster for Peace contest presented by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) to raise awareness of the need for nuclear disarmament.

Former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Mukul Mudgal has been appointed as Deputy Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee.

The Income Declaration Scheme 2016 or four month window for declaration of domestic black money shall come into effect from 1st June 2016.

Red Bull F1 driver Max Verstappen (18) from Netherlands created history by becoming Formula One̢۪s youngest race winner.

Andy Murray (World No.3) from Britain has won the 2016 Italian Open title of Tennis in the men̢۪s singles category.

Former ISRO Chairman and space scientist Prof Udupi Ramachandra Rao became the first Indian to be given Hall of Fame Award by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF).