Current Affairs 2016

• India won 2015 SAFF football championships
• President Pranab Mukherjee gives assent to 5 key bills.
• Veteran CPI leader AB Bardhan passes away.

India has won the 2015 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) championship for record seventh time. In the final match played at Thiruvanantapuram (Kerala), India defeated defending champion Afghanistan by 2-1 goal score.

Presdent Pranab Mukherjee has given assent to five key bills as per the provisions of Article 111 of the Constitution of India.

India̢۪s star amputee mountaineer Arunima Sinha has successfully scaled Mount Aconcagua in Argentina as part of her Mission 7 Summits. It was her 5th successful summit of the Mission 7 Summits that she had climbed on December 25, 2016 after starting on December 12, 2015.

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hyderabad-based National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) for web-based monitoring of watershed projects.

Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was 92.

The Union Government is going to roll out LPG-like Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme for kerosene from 1st April 2016. The scheme in the initial phase will be implemented in selected 26 districts of eight states.

• The government has formed a one-man committee to examine the wage structure and service conditions of gramin dak sevaks.
• Single helpline number (1906) for gas leaks opened.
• Government to introduce startup blueprint this month on January 16.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the blueprint of ‘Start Up India’ programme which may include a Startups and Entrepreneurship Law to make it easier for setting up new ventures and closing unviable ones, besides clearing regulatory issues that hamper access to finance.

China has created three new military bodies as part of reforms to modernise its military and improve its fighting capacity.

The government has formed a one-man committee to examine the wage structure and service conditions of gramin dak sevaks, who are extra-departmental agents recruited by the postal department to serve in rural areas.

With the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court̢۪s order prescribing a dress code for entry into temples kicking in on January 1, a routine visit gained much more significance as men; women and children were told what they had to wear.