Page-16 of Current Affairs - October, 2016
India ranked 97th in 2016 Global Hunger Index
India has been ranked low 97th among the 118 countries surveyed in 2016 Global Hunger Index (GHI). In 2016 GHI, India has scored low 28.5 on a 0-100 point scale of the index. It describes India’s hunger situation as “serious. ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
American singer-songwriter, artist and writer Bob Dylan (75) has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the first American to win the prize since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993. The Swedish Academy has selected Dylan for this prestigious ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
India receives first Iranian oil parcel for emergency reserves
India has received the first parcel of crude oil from Iran to partly fill the strategic storage in southern India as part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPRs) storage. The first parcel of 2 million barrels of Iranian oil was ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
Antonio Guterres elected as new Secretary-General of UN
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has formally elected Antonio Guterres (67) as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations. In this regard, 193 member states of UN adopted by acclamation a resolution for appointing Antonio Guterres. He will have ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
Union Cabinet approves MoU between EXIM bank and NDB
The Union Cabinet has given its approval for signing of a MoU on General Cooperation with New Development Bank (NDB) or BRICS Bank and Export Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank). The MoU will be through the BRICS Interbank Cooperation ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
CCEA approves revision of ethanol price for supply to Public Sector OMCs
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the mechanism for revision of ethanol price for supply to Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs). The revised administered price will facilitate OMCs to carry out the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
IISER researchers use human hair to produce cheaper cathodes for solar cells
Researchers from Kolkata based Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) have produced cost-effective, metal-free cathodes using human hair for use in solar cells. Significance: This is the first instance where a bio-waste-derived electrode (in this case human hair) ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
Draft National Water Framework Bill, 2016 suggests basin-level management
The Central Government has brought final draft of the National Water Framework Bill, 2016 to provide uniform national legal framework to manage water in a better and efficient way The comprehensive draft Bill proposes model law for all states. However, water ..