Current Affairs 2016

Indian-origin South African Kiara Nirghin (16) has won a $50,000 scholarship at the annual Google Science Fair held in United States.

The Union Urban Development Ministry has declared urban areas of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh open defecation free (ODF).

Yoshinori Ohsumi (71) of Japan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on autophagy. With this he becomes the 23rd Japanese national to win a Nobel prize and overall the sixth Japanese medicine Nobel laureate.

• Rajasthan becomes first state to adopt LED street lights under all ULBs
• National Mission on Bioeconomy launched in Shillong, Meghalaya
• New species of pika named Ochotona sikimaria discovered in Sikkim

India has ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change on the 147th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Scientists have discovered a new species of Pika, a mammal belonging to the rabbit and hare family in the Himalayas in Sikkim. It has been identified as ‘Ochotona sikimaria’.

The crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will be the chief guest for the 68th Republic Day celebrations on 26 January 2017.

The declaration was adopted at fourth Meeting of BRICS Education Ministers Conference held in New Delhi.

The facility was launched by Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung at a function in New Delhi on the occasion of International Day of Older Persons (observed on October 1).

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has received total disclosure of Rs. 65,250 crore black money in the form of cash and other assets under the Income Disclosure Scheme, 2016.

Murga has won the first prize at the Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival (SBSFF).

Rajasthan has become the first state in India to adopt Central Government̢۪s Street Lighting National Programme (SLNP) in all its urban local bodies (ULB).