Daily Current Affairs Updates

The Union Government has launched National LED programme – Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA). It was launched by Union Minister for State (IC) for Power, Coal and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

• China develops world’s first Graphene electronic paper
• India, Papua New Guinea sign four agreements
• Swat activist Tabassum Adnan wins 2016 Nelson Mandela Award

Senior IPS officer Surender Kumar Bhagat was appointed as the Director General (DG) of Railways Protection Force (RPF).

Pakistani women’s rights activist from Swat valley Tabassum Adnan has won prestigious 2016 Nelson Mandela Graça Machel Innovation Award.

India and Papua New Guinea have signed four Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) in various sectors to boost bilateral cooperation.

Former bureaucrat and parliamentarian Nand Kishore Singh has been selected for prestigious ‘Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver’, Japan’s highest civilian award.

Gujarat Government has decided to provide 10 percent reservation for economically backward classes (EBCs) in general category.

Chinese researchers have developed world̢۪s first graphene electronic paper that will catapult the material to a new level.

• ISRO successfully launches 7th navigation satellite IRNSS-1G
• Parliament passes Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2015
• EC launches mobile app e-voter for Kerala assembly polls

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has successfully launched Indias 7th navigation satellite IRNSS 1G of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS).

Parliament passed Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2016 to include certain communities in the list of Scheduled Castes (SC) from 4 states.

Indian academician Radha Kumar was appointed as United Nation̢۪s University Council along with other 11 people by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.