Daily Current Affairs Updates

India officially became the Associate Member State of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).

A US Senate Armed Services Committee has confirmed the nomination of General John Nicholson to the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Maharashtra Government has rolled out Deradicalisation Programme for the minority community to counter both home-grown extremism and the global Islamic State (IS) threat.

• Instructions on OROP implementation issued.
• Aruna Sethi appointed as first women head of Indian Cost Accounting Service.
• Rahul Dravid in ICC’s Anti-Corruption Oversight Group.

Batting great Rahul Dravid has been named in ICC̢۪s newly appointed Anti-Corruption Oversight Group as part of the recommendation from its Integrity Working Party of the parent body.

Moving a step closer to fulfilling its promise of implementing the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for military personnel, the government released detailed instructions and tables on its implementation. This is a follow-up to the notification on OROP on November 7 last year.

Principal Adviser (Cost) Mrs. Aruna Sethi has been appointed as head of Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS). With this, she becomes first lady ICoAS officer to the topmost post.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Balram Jakhar passed away in New Delhi. He was 92.

Major General Jai Shanker Menon of India has been appointed as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).

• Kerala wins 61st National School Athletics championship.
• Union Government sets up two committees to ensure consistency in tax policies.
• 12 nations sign historic Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has launched the country̢۪s first anti-diabetic ayurvedic drug named BGR-34 for type two Diabetes mellitus.

Maharashtra government has announced Bharatratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Special Collective Incentive Scheme for the economically backward Dalit entrepreneurs.