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Current Affairs Pocket PDF Current Affairs January Pocket PDF 2016 INDIAN AFFAIRS • Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs increase in the budget amount for grid-connected solar rooftop systems to Rs. 5,000 crore from Rs.600 crore for 2019-2020. • Amaravati will get India’s first ever underwater tunnel under the river Krishna -3km long. • Pakistan’s Singer Adnan Sami gets Indian Citizenship • Goa set up Investment Promotion Board (IPB) for fast approvals to industrial proposals - cleared 62 proposals with investment of Rs 5,200 crore. • Government decided to merge the ministry of overseas Indian affairs (MOIA) with the external affairs ministry. • Telangana becomes the first state in the country to legally accept Electronic motor insurance policies e-Vahan Bima -under Motor Vehicle Act 1988 • Alstom the French transportation equipment maker rolled out the first set of railway coaches for the Kochi Metro project - Chennai metro the first. • PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the 103rd Indian Science Congress in Mysore,Karnataka Theme – Science & Technology for Indigenous Development in India • 5 key bills assented by Prez Pranab Mukherjee - Article 111 1. Atomic Energy (Amendment) Act Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015 2. Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015 3. Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 4. Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Act • A friendship bus service between India and Nepal via Champawat in Uttarakhand resumed after a gap of 27 years. • State election commissioner (SEC) Ashok Kumar Chauhan announced that toilets will be mandatory requirement for eligibility to contest panchayat elections in Bihar. • Home Minister Rajnath Singh approved 33% of constable-rank personnel in paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and 15% in the border guarding forces for being filled up by women. • Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari announced the road projects worth Rs 41,000 crore for Telangana. • Union Minister of State for Development of North-Eastern Region (MDoNER), Dr Jitendra Singh released MDoNER Calender-2016. Theme – Rising North East • Odisha gov increased the Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by 3% each. • Minister of State for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Shri. Y. S. Chowdary laid Foundation for the building complex of the International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCO- Ocean) at Hyderabad. • BHEL has commissioned 600 MW unit at Kakatiya Thermal Power Project, Telangana. • Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh approved the allocation of Additional Central Assistance (ACA) of Rs.1000 crores to 7 states. Jharkhand,Chhattisgarh,Bihar,Odisha,Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. • Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the River Information System (RIS) in New Delhi. • Ministry of Road Transport & Highways decided to directly shift from BS-IV to BS-VI Emission norms directly by 01.04.2020 -Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping Shri Nitin Gadkari. • Ministry of Urban Development approved the Atal Mission plans for Punjab(720cr) and Uttarakhand(267cr) for 2015-16. • Kerala Gov implement the “Sampoorna Arogya Keralam” - Families with annual income below Rs.3 lakh - OutlayRs.20 crore • Ministry of Urban Development has commissioned Quality Council of India (QCI) to make Report Card of Swachh Bharat Mission • President promulgated Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Ordinance, 2016 to make 1 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com Current Affairs Pocket PDF amendments to the Enemy Property Act, 1968. • Operation Green Hunt to hunt Maoists in Sukma district of south Chhattisgarh. • Maharashtra CMDevendra Fadnavis unveiled “Laman Diva” as the logo of the first Make in India (MII) Week scheduled to be held in Mumbai between February 13 and 18. • Gove approved the set up of fifth Greenfield electronics manufacturing cluster in Raipur, Chattisgarh worth Rs.89 crore • International Kite Festival began at Surat and Rajkot in Gujarat. • Human Resource Minister Smriti Irani unveiled the 43rd New Delhi World Book Fair • Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas launched an Online Initiative to engage the LPG Consumers and Citizens of India. • Governor’s rule imposed in Jammu & Kashmir under Article 92 (1) after death of Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. • Railway Board chairman AK Mittal inspected first luxury ‘Make in India’ railway coaches at Habibganj railwaystation(Bhopal). • Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated Implementation of E-enabled Track Management System (TMS) & Mobile Application of TMS on Indian Railway and Track Inventory Management System on Northern Railway at Rail Bhawan, New Delhi . • Telangana became the first State to make gender education compulsory • Kerala became the first state in the country to achieve the status of 100% primary education declared by Vice-President Hamid Ansari. • Scientists at Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB) in Hisar have successfully produced a cloned buffalo offspring “Cirb Gaurav”. CIRB becomes world’s third and India’s second institute to produce cloned buffalo. • 20th National Youth Festival has commenced in capital city of Chhattisgarh, Naya Raipur. Theme – “India Youth for Skill, Development and Harmony” • BHEL commissions 520 MW thermal power unit in Andhra Pradesh in successful operation at Simhadri Super Thermal Power Station of NTPC. • Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar approved major changes to the Defence Procurement Procedure - modernize defence acquisitions • India Meteorological Department (IMD) changed the languages and also redefined many of its terms. • BSF starts ‘Operation Cold’ along international border Covering Sriganganagar, Bikaner, Barmer and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan • 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas held in New Delhi, Organised by External Affairs Ministry • Nitin Gadkari-led Road Ministry announced Rs 11,000 crore for a plan to reduce the number of road fatalities and to fix 726 black spots . • Supreme Court stayed the Centre’s notification lifting ban on controversial bull taming sport Jallikattu during the festival of Pongal in Tamil Nadu. • Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar launched two initiatives SAMEEP(Safety Alert Messages Exclusively For Passengers) is an effort towards instant communication with railway passengers B-Safe is a prolonged multi-media awareness campaign. • Union Cabinet gave its nod for India becomes a member country of International Energy Agency – Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES) by signing the Implementing Agreement (IA). • Supreme Court suggested Parliament to enact separate law for child rape - rape of infants and children below 10 years of age • Sikkim turned out to be the India’s first fully organic state by implementing organic practices - 75,000 hectares • Union Human Resource Development Minister Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani inaugurated the permanent campus (Phase I) of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) at Vithura • India’s Grid-linked solar generation capacity crosses 5,000 MW mark • Jharkhand to set up fast track courts for trial of witchcraft-related attacks relating to witchcraft incidents. • President Pranab Mukherjee given his assent to the Sugar Cess (Amendment) Bill, 2015 -Rs 25 to Rs 200 per quintal under Sugar Cess Act, 1982 • The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 with special provisions to tackle child offenders in the age group of 16-18 years committing heinous offences. • First ‘Mahila Troop’ inducted for High-Altitude Posts of “IC Border” - 500 women labor force • The country’s first “water tourism” will begin in Madhya Pradesh on February 12 to February 21 in Hanuwantiya at Indra Sagar Dam. • National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) sanctioned 791 crore rupees to the drought 2 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com Current Affairs Pocket PDF affected Telangana. • World’s largest Tricolour hoisted at the Pahari temple in Ranchi - 99 by 66 feet and height of 293 feet. • Pranab Mukherjee launched the Pulse Polio programme for 2016 1st phase six States - Assam, Gujarat, Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. • Union government released draft for the right of transgender person bill, 2015 Issue the certificate for the identification of the transgender persons • Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh inaugurated the “Hall of Nuclear Power” in New Delhi. • For the first time in 10 years, sex ratio in Haryana shown a mounting crossing the 900 mark with 903 girls per 1,000 boys. • BHEL commissioned the second 660 MW supercritical unit of Lalitpur Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) in Uttar Pradesh. • Kalraj Mishra released Laghu Udyog Samachar Magazine on Startup India theme in 13th Meeting of the NBMSME • National Conference on “Sustainable Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare” was chaired in Sikkim – Chief Guest PM Narendra Modi • Central Information Commission has ruled the Universities and examining bodies for not to charge more than Rs 2 per page for providing copies of evaluated answer scripts to students. • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the results from the first phase of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16 Improvements in maternal and child health