Current Affairs 2017

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has launched climate change programme to conduct study to assess the status, distribution and conservation of Pheasants and Finches in Central Himalayas.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in its key recommendations for Union Budget 2017-18, has suggested differential excise duty regime and tax exemptions to be expanded to personal computers and servers.

Union finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Economic Survey 2016-17 in Parliament budget session.

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India first dedicated space observatory, ASTROSAT has captured the rare phenomenon of a small six-billion-year-old vampire star preying on a bigger celestial body.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the constitution of eight members Task Force committee for preparing action plan for next three Olympic Games 2020, 2024 and 2028.

• Karnataka government to amend law for conducting Kambala
• Seven new countries join BEPS agreement
• SC appoints Committee of Administrators headed by Vinod Rai to run BCCI

The Supreme Court has appointed former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai as head of four-member Committee of Administrators to run Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

The Karnataka government has decided to bring an amendment to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA), 1960 for conducting traditional sports of Kambala and bull-cart race in the State.

IndiaPost under Department of Posts (Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology) received final payments bank licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Seven new countries Lithuania, Gabon, Hungary, Indonesia, Malta, Mauritius and Russia � have signed Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement for Country-by-Country Reporting (CbC MCAA).

President Pranab Mukherjee has given Governor of Assam Banwarilal Purohit additional charge of Meghalaya.