Daily Current Affairs Updates

Azim Premji, 70, chairman of Wipro, is the most generous Indian of the year for the third time in a row with donations worth Rs. 27,514 crore to the education sector, says Hurun India Philanthropy List 2015.

The Supreme Court asked the Centre and public sector banking authorities to consider providing reservation to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes employees in promotion to officers� ranks at all levels.

Urjit Patel, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in-charge of the monetary policy department, has been re-appointed for a term of three years.

A few days after the appointment of Abidali Neemuchwala as CEO of India�s third largest IT services provider, Wipro has made more changes in its senior leadership structure.

The absence of government approval has apparently caused the demolition of a giant gold painted statue of Communist China�s founding father Mao Zedong.

A German historical institute is launching an annotated edition of �Mein Kampf,� the first version of Adolf Hitler�s notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end of World War II.

Renowned telecom engineer and inventor Sam Pitroda has been appointed as Technology Advisor to the Odisha Government.

India and France have started their eight-day counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency bilateral military exercise Shakti-2016 in Rajasthan.

The Global Economic Prospect report published recently by the World Bank (WB) has projected a robust 7.8 per cent growth for the Indian economy in the year 2016.

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette INS Kadmatt has been commission in the Indian Navy by Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan at naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam.

India�s first River Information System (RIS) was launched by Union Government facilitate safe and accurate inland waterway navigation.

Union Government has decided to merge Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).