1) Agaratala (Tripura) third state capital after Guwahati and Itanagar in India’s North-East to be
connected by a direct train to the national capital (New Delhi) Tripura Sundari
Express
47 hours 2,480 kms.
2) Strategic Forces Command (SFC) which part of the National
Command Authority (NCA-chaired by the National
Security Adviser) exempted from Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005,
3) Luke Aikins American daredevil first person to jump from 25,000
ft. without a parachute
4) Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) Patna Pirates won against second
consecutive time to Jaipur Pink Panthers
5) Universal bank licences will now be available on-tap in India
NBFCs that are
controlled by residents and have a successful track record for at least 10
years.
6) HDFC, India’s largest
private sector mortgage lender, world’s
first rupee-denominated bond (Masala Bond) for overseas buyers at the London
Stock Exchange (LSE). equivalent to around US$ 450 million.
7) An iconic 87-year old
factory of the famous Parle-G brands of biscuits was closed recently in Mumbai.
Vile Parle.
8)
CAPART-Council for
Advancement peoples Action & Rural Technology
12) ICICI Lombard private
sector entity overtook state-owned Oriental Insurance to become the
fourth-largest in terms of gross written premium, as disclosed during August
2016
Private Insurance Company
started in 2000
13) National Eligibility cum Entrance Exam (NEET) proposed
all India test for admission to medical and dental courses. NEET is intended to
be introduced from the academic year 2017-18.
14) GST-Good & Service Bill is 122nd
Constitutional Amendment
It will implemented from 1
April 2017. it will subsume various indirect taxes at
the central and the state levels including excise
duty, service tax, value-added tax, entertainment tax and luxury tax.
15) Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar she became the first-ever Indian to
qualify for finals of a gymnastics event.
Dipa is from Tripura and
is the first Indian woman gymnast to win a Commonwealth Games medal (2014)
16) “Mission Bhageeratha”, for rural infrastructure
(Drinking Water) in Telangana
17) 31st Summer Olympics of 2016 were
inaugurated at Maracana Stadium Rio de
Janeiro (Rio’s)
American
Virginia Thrasher won the first Gold medal of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in
women’s 10m air rifle event.
18) Vijay Rupani took oath as the 16th Chief
Minister of Gujarat.
Nitin Patel appointed as first-ever Deputy Chief Minister.
19) ‘Sachet’ portal
launched by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to curb illegal collection of money
by companies
20) Nita Ambani, the founder and chairperson of the
Reliance Foundation, was elected as an individual member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
IPL team Mumbai Indians (cricket)
Indian Super
League (ISL),
professional football league.
21) Motor Vehicle Act
Hit & Run cases from
Rs. 25000 to Rs. 2 lakhs. Rs 10 lakh in road accidents
22) 23rd Rajiv
Gandhi National Sadbhavana/harmony Award received
by Hindustani classical singer Shubha Mudgal.
The award carries a
citation and cash award of Rs 10 lakh.
23) Nepal’s former Maoist rebel chief Prachanda
(Pushpa Kamal Dahal) again appointed 24th PM of Nepal he is 24th
PM in just 26 years
24) Shashi Tharoor
committee advised for Indian Foreign Service (IFS) students should be appear additional
paper in civil service exam.
25) Virgin Galactic
initiative by Richard Branson’s has been
granted for space tourism. One passengers at $250,000
26) Typhoon Nida cyclonic
typhoon entered mainland China .speed is 145 KM/PH
27) WEF India Economic Summit will held in Delhi on
October 2016
28) Rajasthan
becomes first state to approve sewage & waste water policy
For above one lakh
population under policy Waste water will be
used in irrigation and agricultural work. The requirement of next 30 years will
be covered in this policy.
29) These IITs will be
started in Palakkad (Kerala), Goa, Dharwad (Karnataka), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh),
Jammu, and Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh).
30) The BCCI has appointed
former SC judge Markandey Katju as the head of a 4-member legal panel to help
the implications of the Justice Lodha Committee reforms.
31) Every year 5, lakh
road accidents are reported in the country in which 1.5 lakh people lose their
lives. The Government has committed to reducing the accidents and fatalities by
50% in five years.
32) RBI launches new
website ’Sachet’ to curb Illegal Collection of Deposits
33) ‘Grassroots
Innovation’ written by Prof. Anil K. Gupta
34) 32th Summer Olympic will held at
Tokyo-Japan 2020
35) Goa to implement 7th Pay Commission from Nov 1
36) South India's first Doppler weather radar
inaugurated at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram. First
Doppler weather radar in Cherrapunji
Two more Doppler radars to
be set up in Bhuj in Gujarat and Gopalpur.
37) China launches first
satellite Tiantong for mobile telecommunication
38) IBM partnership with
Apple has launched a new global development hub at Bengaluru.
39) First-ever 'Pizza ATM' opens in the Xavier University (XU)
Ohio, US
40) Horticulture
Production Assessment under the Project CHAMAN
under Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare.
41) Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) has been implementation
in place of National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) and Modified National
Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS).
1.5%, 2% and 5% for all
Rabi, Kharif and annual horticultural/commercial crops,
respectively.
42) Mission Bhagiratha; lays Foundation Stone of key
development projects in Telangana
43) Selfie Danger Zones-declared by Karnataka and
Maharashtra government
44) Edusat (world first Education satellite) satellite was
launched in 2004-work till 2010 other communication satellites like INSAT-3C, INSAT-4CR and GSAT-12.
45) 204 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are functional. Under
SEZs Act, 2005
First Private sector SEZ set up at Sachin-Surat (Apparel
Park)
First Government SEZ set up at Santacruze (Mumbai) (Electronic
Park)
46) BIN- Business
Identification Number (BIN)
47) NICDA-National
Industrial Corridor Development Authority
Proposed for integrated
development of Industrial Corridors across the country. Like Delhi-Mumbai
Industrial Corridor (DMIC)
48) Elaine Thompson
(Jamaica) won the women’s 100m in 10.71 seconds.
49) Havaldar Hangpan Dada was honoured Ashok Chakra, the highest award to an army man
during peace-time operations.
50) Assam became the first state in the country to
ratify the 122nd constitution amendment bill on the Goods and
Services Tax (GST)
51) Maternity leave for
working women increased from 12 to 26 weeks.
52) Amitabh Kant (CEO, NITI Aayog) head of e-commerce
committee
100% FDI in the food processing sector &
E-Commerce .
53) Ikea (Sweden) world’s biggest furniture company set
up first store at Hyderabad
54) Irom Sharmila Chanu (iron lady) of Manipur broke
her 16-year old fast
she started hunger strike
against AFSPA-Armed forces special power
act.
55) Kudankulam Nuclear Plant Unit-I (1000 MW) has
started at TN by RS
pact held between Rajiv
Gandhi and Soviet leader Mikahil Gorbachev in 1988.
56) Takehiko Nakao
Re-elected For Second Term as ADB-Asian
Development Bank President for 5 years- Manila (Philippines) Mariana Trench.
57) Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry join UDAY- Ujwal Discom
Assurance Yojna now 16 state & UT under scheme.
58) RBI transfers Rs 65,876
crore surplus to government
59) Hindustan Copper
Limited inaugurates country's first facility to produce nickel at Ghatshila in
Jharkhand.
60) Google launched its
video calling app, ‘Google Duo’, for Android and iOS
61) Global Innovation
Index, India’s rank is 66th by World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO).
Switzerland, Sweden, the
UK, the US, Finland and Singapore
62) India’s first bio-CNG
(Generation of CNG from agricultural waste) plant was inaugurated at Pune .
63) Sakshi Malik won the first Bronze medal in women’s
58 kg category wrestling event by defeating Aisuluu Tynybekova (Kyrgyzstan)
Weightlifter Karnam
Malleshwari (2000, Sydney), boxer MC Mary Kom (2012, London) and shuttler Saina
Nehwal (2012, London) were the only other women players from India to have won
a medal in Olympics.
64) Antyodaya Express, Humsafar Express, Tejas Express
and UDAY Express
Antyodaya Express
long-distance, fully unreserved, super-fast train
Humsafar fully 3-AC Express
train
Tejas Express will
run at 130 km an hour with Wi-Fi
UDAY- Utkrisht
Double-Decker Air-conditioned Yatri Train.
65) Bihar became the first non- BJP state to ratify GST
Bill
66) Najma Heptullah
appointed Governor of Manipur.
Kiran Bedi appointed Puducherry Governor
67) World No.1 Spain’s Carolina Marin shattered PV
Sindhu’s (Got Silver Medal) in the women’s
badminton singles final. She became first European woman to win Olympic women’s
badminton singles title
68) Airlander-10 world’s longest aircraft (British)
69) Gujarat to implement
7th Pay Commission recommendations from 1st Jan 16
70) World's Longest, Highest Glass Bridge to Open in
China
71) Hindi author Sunita
Jain conferred 25th Vyas Samman award for her poetry collection
"Kshama".
72) Alibaba Group launches
‘million books’ donation drive with Crossword and Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust
73) Airtel, Vodafone and
Idea started the e-KYC (electronic-Know Your
Customer) facility for activation of SIM cards.
74) ‘The Australian’
news Paper had claimed leaked 22,400 Secret information of six French submarines
which built by French Company DCNS for the Indian Navy.
75) Maharashtra became the first in the country to
sign MoU with the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Airports Authority of
India (AAI) for Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)
76) “Akashvani Maitree” – the Bangla radio channel
is an initiative of All India Radio (AIR) that will provide a platform for
blending content both from India and Bangladesh and preserving Bengali culture.
77) Above Rs. 3 lakh cash transactions will ban recommended
by the Special Investigation Team (SIT)
78) Dr. Donald A. Henderson invented vaccination for
Small Pox (caused by the variola virus)
79) Unified Payments
Interface (UPI) its Cashless (Online) transaction
National Payments Corporation
of India’s (NPCI’s) started
80) Singapore started
world’s first self-driving taxis
81) Genetically Modified (GM) mustard its first food
crop of India developed by Delhi University scientists it’s already
incorporated in Canada, the United States and Australia.
82) Italy, European
country was hit by a massive earthquake
83) ‘Sugamya Pustakalaya’ online library initiative
launched for persons with visual and print disabilities by the department of
empowerment of persons with disabilities, (DEPwD)
84) Department of Investment and Public Asset
Management (DIPAM), the nodal agency under the finance ministry that
coordinates government disinvestment programme
85) The Telangana
Government created seventeen district in the
state. (27)
86) According to media
Union Government could present the next Union Budget by the end of January
instead of last day of February.
87) Sports Award
Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna Award for year 2016 (for outstanding performance last four years)
1.Ms. P.V. Sindhu Badminton
2.Ms. Dipa Karmakar Gymnastics
3.Shri Jitu Rai Shooting
4.Ms. Sakshi Malik Wrestling
The Selection Committee
for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and
the Arjuna Award was headed by Justice S.K.
Agarwal, retired Delhi High Court Judge. The Selection Committee for the
Dronacharya Award and the Dhyan Chand Award was headed by former boxer M.C.
Mary Kom.
Arjuna Award
(15)
For consistently
outstanding performance last four years; Dronacharya
Award (06)
For coaches for
won medal in international sports events,
Dhyan Chand
Award (03)
For life
time contribution to sports development
Rashtriya
Khel Protsahan Puruskar (04)
For (both in private and public sector) and
individuals for promotion and development of sports.
Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ranta 2016
Overall
top performing university in inter-university tournaments is given to Punjabi University, Patiala
88) China Railway Rolling
Stock Corporation (CRRC) China’s largest high speed train maker that became the
first foreign company to set up assembly line of rail transportation equipment
in India at Haryana
89) Kamal Haasan will receive French Government’s
prestigious ‘Legion of Honor’ award
Before received award by veteran
musician Balamuralikrishna, and actors like Sivaji Ganesan, Amitabh Bachchan,
Aishwarya Rai, Nandita Das and Shah Rukh Khan.
90) 31st edition of Summer Olympics
culminated at Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro India & Magnolia rank is 67th
Badminton player P.V. Sindhu won the silver medal in women’s
singles while woman wrestler Sakshi Malik gave
India a bronze medal in women’s 58 kg freestyle wrestling event.
2012 London 30th
Olympics
India won six medals – 2 silver and 4 bronze.(Now
3/3 due to Yogeswar Dutt won Silver)
Gold Silver Bronze Total
USA 46 37
38
121
Great Britain 27 23
17 67
China 26 18
26
70
91) Urjit Patel appointed as 24th RBI
Governor
He is the eighth RBI
Deputy Governor to be promoted as the Central Bank chief.
92) Punjab National Bank
(PNB) first public sector bank to make locker visiting facility free for its
customers
Earlier, the customers
were allowed 12 free visits at lockers in a year, PNB used to charge customers
Rs. 50 per visit after the limit of 12 free visits in a year.
93) Bardish Chagger Canada’s
first woman House Speaker
94) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President, N.
Ramachandran was awarded the Olympic Order for his outstanding services to the
Olympic movement.
95) Vistara appoints Deepika Padukone as brand
ambassador
96) Pilgrimage
Rejuvenation and Spirituality Augmentation Drive
(PRASAD).
97) Maharashtra is the first State in the country to
draft its own internal security act.
98) Madhya Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Nagaland ratified GST Amendment Bill.
99) India is 7th wealthiest country
1. US 2. China 3. Japan 4. UK 5. Germany
100) Sakshi Malik will be brand ambassador of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign
101) South India’s first
Children Court was inaugurated in Hyderabad (TS) After Goa and Delhi
Under the Protection of Children from Sexual
Offences (POSCO) Act-2012.
102) DBTL (PAHAL) block 3.34 crore duplicate / fake /
inactive domestic LPG connections. Estimated savings due to blocking of these
connections was Rs. 21, 261 crores.
103) PM interaction
through PRAGATI its ICT-based, multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance
and Timely Implementation.
104) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ambassador Sachin Tendulkar.
105) India’s is fourth country to successfully test
its own scramjet engine at Satish Dhawan
Space Centre in Sriharikota (AP)
Scramjet
engine (also
called air-breathing engine) Russia, The European Space Agency (ESA) & NASA
106) West Bengal Government has been proposed to give
three new names to the state in three languages. Bangla in Bengali, Bengal in
English and Bangal in Hindi under Rule 169 of the Constitution.
107) Avanti Capital new
microfinance institution (MFI) by Vijay Kelkar, Ratan Tata and Nandan Nilekani
Avanti Capital will be a
technology-enabled financial inclusion vehicle and will focus on delivering
affordable and timely credit to under-served and un-served segments in India.
108) IIT Dharwad 23rd IIT in the country.
109) Force India, the first-ever and the only F1 team owned by an Indian
management.
110) now Indian banks will
be able to issue rupee-denominated bonds overseas (or the Masala bonds) for their capital requirements and
for financing infrastructure and affordable housing.
Currently, masala bonds
can be issued only by corporates and non-banking lenders like, HFCs and large
NBFCs.
111) Rail passengers to
get insurance cover worth Rs 10 lacs at a premium of only 92 paisa
Three private firms are
Shriram General Insurance, ICICI Lombard General Insurance and Royal Sundaram
General Insurance.
112) Five Indian companies
ranked among world's 100 most innovative
1. Asian Paints 18th
position
2. Hindustan Unilever -
31st
3. Tata Consultancy
Services - 66th
4. Sun Pharmaceutical
Industries - 73rd
5. Larsen & Toubro
stood at 89th spot.
113) India at 77th,
Pakistan at 72nd and Bangladesh at 5th:
World Risk Report 2016 published
by the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and Bundnis
Entwicklung Hilft
114) 19th SAARC Summit on November 2016 at Islamabad, Pakistan.
South Asian Association of
Regional cooperation-
HO-Kathmandu (Nepal)
115) RBI asks banks to
provide loans to women SHGs in rural areas at 7%
116) Bengaluru to host the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (NRI)
in 2017
117) US Postal Service honors Diwali Festival with a
Forever Stamp
118) India captain MS Dhoni sets world record he captained India in a
record 325th times (Ricky Ponting-324 Aus)
119) PM Modi announces
Task Force to prepare India for next three Olympics 2020 (Tokyo), 2024 and
2028.
120) Broadcasting Content
Complaints Council (BCCC).
121) India's first textile university to come up at Surat
122) August 29 is Sports Day to mark Dhyan Chand's
b'day
Government gives away
awards such as Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dronacharya Awards on this
day.
123) Mehbooba Mufti
launches UJALA scheme in Jammu and Kashmir with the distribution of LED-Light Emitted Diode/Display bulbs.
124) AM Naik names SN Subrahmanyan as next Larsen &
Toubro chief (MD& CEO)
125) Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the
successful conduct of Futuristic Rocket Test –Advanced Technology Vehicle
(ATV).
126) Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran
Irrigation (SAUNI) Project started from
Sanosara (Jamnagar ) in Gujarat. 1126 KM Canal Length,115 Reservoir, 12166
Crore
PM visited the AJI-3 dam
site, and witnessed the release of water from the gates of the dam.
127) 28,69,195 cases under
IPC were investigated in 2015. Out of 1,05,02,256 IPC cases, 13,25,989 cases
were tried by the courts in 2015, showing conviction rate as 46.9% under IPC
crimes.
Out of 46,46,419 cases,
investigation completed in 43,46,003 cases. Cases charge sheet rate was 98.1%
and conviction rate was 92.4% under Special & Local Laws (SLL) cases.
128) Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for all (UJALA) scheme,
Gujarat has become the first state to distribute 2 crore LED bulbs. Gujarat has
reached this milestone in just 96 days and over 42 lakh households have already
benefitted from the scheme.
129) Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT-In) HO-Bengaluru