Current Affairs 2016

British mathematician Andrew Wiles (62) was named as the winner of the prestigious 2016 Abel Prize.

ExoMars 2016 spacecraft has been successfully launched by which space agencies?

• Shehnai exponent Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan passes away
• ICICI Bank launches NFC-based contactless mobile payment solution Touch & Pay
• India aviation show 2016 begins in Hyderabad

Parliament passed the controversial Aadhaar Bill, 2016, after acrimonious debates in both Houses. Hours after the Opposition succeeded in pushing through five amendments to the Bill in the Rajya Sabha, they were rejected in the Lok Sabha.

The India Aviation 2016, an international exhibition and conference on civil aviation kicked off in Hyderabad, Telangana.

President Barack Obama has nominated veteran appeals court judge Merrick Garland (63) to be the next US Supreme Court Justice.

Eminent Shehnai exponent Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan passed away following prolonged illness in Kolkatta, West Bengal. He was 77.

India ranked 118th out of 157 countries on the United Nations̢۪ World Happiness Index (WHI) 2016.

India̢۪s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has launched new contactless mobile payment solution Touch & Pay based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.

Haryana̢۪s New Secretariat Building in Chandigarh has become first building in the country to have an early Earthquake Warning and Security system (onsite).

Union Government has imposed anti-dumping duty of up to 44.7 per cent on import of plastic-processing machines from Chinese Taipei, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam for five years.

The United Nations (UN) has suspended Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova as Goodwill Ambassador of the organisation after she was tested positive on doping allegations.