Daily Current Affairs Updates

• Haryana Assembly passes bills for mandaotry educational criteria urban local bodies elections
• Union Government releases Indian Intellectual Property Panorama
• Shiva Thapa wins Silver medal at Asian/Oceania Qualifying event in China

The Haryana Legislative Assembly has unanimously passed two bills to make minimum educational qualification criteria mandatory for the urban local bodies election (ULBs).

Union Government has released Indian Intellectual Property (IP) Panorama to increase awareness and build sensitivity towards IP in the SME sector, academia and researchers

The Union Finance Minister has extended the safeguard duty on import of some steel products by two years i.e till March 2018.

Ace Indian boxer Shiva Thapa has won the silver medal at the Asian/Oceania Qualifying Tournament held in Qian̢۪an, China in the 56 Kilogram category final

• India, US ink MoU for setting up LIGO observatory in India
• 4th Nuclear Security Summit begins in Washington
• Union Government launches Startup India portal and mobile app
• Bihar Government partially bans sale of country-made and spiced liquor

India has signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United States for setting up Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in India.

The fourth edition of Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) began in Washington, United States to discuss a gamut of issues pertaining to nuclear security.

Researchers from the Purdue University in Indiana in United States have achieved a breakthrough by revealing the first 3D map of the Zika virus structure

Vietnam̢۪s National Assembly (NA) has elected Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan as the country`s first female house speaker

The Union Government has launched the Startup India portal (http://startupindia.gov.in) and mobile application.

Renowned Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid passed away due to heart attack. She was 65.