24/09/2016
♥ Current Affairs ♥
★ India and France inked the 7.8-billion Euro deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets
★ Delhi will now have its own bravery awards and these awards will be given out on Independence Day and Republic Day every year
★ Afghanistan signed a peace agreement with one of the country's largest militant groups Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
★ Two Indian forest officials, Sanjay Dutta and Ritesh Sarothiya were selected for the 2016 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards
★ Hindustani classical singer Shubha Mudgal will be honoured with the annual 'LalitArpan Samman' this year
★ The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) signed a contract with M/s DST, Germany to design vessels, especially suited to navigate the 1620 km stretch of National Waterway-1 (NW-1)
★ Author of the book "Citizen and Society" that was launched by President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is Vice President Mohd Hamid Ansari
★ China's Yangzhou city is set to host India Week celebrations with a business and investment meeting to be attended by CEOs of top Indian firms
★ Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the 10 per cent reservation given to economically weaker sections in Haryana
★ Winners of the 2016 Right Livelihood Award widely referred as the Alternative Nobel Prize are Syria Civil Defence (The White Helmets), Egypt’s Mozn Hassan and Nazra for Feminist Studies, Russia’s Svetlana Gannushkina and Turkish daily Cumhuriyet
★ In Odisha state about 52000 government primary and upper primary schools functioning under the School and Mass Education Department, have no teacher for each class
★ The country where the Muslim Brotherhood has made a return to parliament after winning 16 seats in the 130-member house is Jordan
★ Government's think-tank Niti Aayog has devised a short-term and medium-to-long term action plan to help India achieve 50 medals in 2024 summer Olympics
★ Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has landed a 99.7-million dollar contract from Vietnam Border Guard to design, construct and supply high-speed patrol vessels
★ The United Planters' Association of Southern India (UPASI) and The China Tea Marketing Association (CTMA) signed an MoU to work jointly towards sustainable development of the tea sector.