DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 13 APRIL 2016
(Daily News India)
1. INDIA
TO GROW AT 7.5 % GROWTH RATE IN 2016–17 REPORT BY IMF
i. International
Monetary Fund has forecasted the India's
growth at 7.5% in 2016-17.
ii. It also
forecasted India will overtake the China's GDP by more than 1%.
iii. The growth in
India is increasing due to increased industrial activity.
2. INDIA,
AND US 'AGREE IN PRINCIPLE' GREEMENT ON SHARING MILITARY LOGISTICS
i. India and the
United States inked an in-principle logistics exchange agreement.
ii. The agreement
is inked to enable the militarizes of both the countries to use each other’s
assets and bases for repair and replenishment of supplies.
iii.US is going to provide technology for making seaborne
aircraft carriers and shared two new projects for making fighter jets in India
to promote ‘Make in India’ programme in
defence.
3. INDIA RANKS 44TH IN 2016 GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY INDEX
i. The Global
Connectivity Index report is released
in Shenzhen China.
ii. The list is
topped by United States followed by Singapore, sweden etc while Indis is ranked at 44th place.
iii. The report is
based on the progress of 50 nations in investment and deployment of Information
and Communications Technology.
4. INDIA
AND GERMANY SIGNED AGREEMENT ON NAMAMI GANGE PROGRAMME
i. Union Ministry
of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation and German
International Cooperation inked an
agreement for Ganga Rejuvenation under the Namami Gange Programme in New Delhi.
ii. The project
will Support to National Urban Sanitation Policy and Sustainable Environment-friendly
Industrial Production.
iii. The country
will help to clean Ganga.
6.
HARYANA GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO RENAME GURGAON AND MEWAT
i. Haryana
Government has decided to rename Gurgaon as Gurugram and Mewat as Nuh.
ii. The decision to
change the name of Gurgaon was taken as Gurgaon had been a centre of learning
where the princes used to get education and known as Gurugram since the times
of Guru Dronacharya.
iv. Mewat is not a
town,it is a geographical and cultural unit spread beyond Haryana in the
adjoining States of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
v. The Headquarters
of Mewat district is at Nuh town so they had been demanding that the name of
Mewat be changed as Nuh.
7. AISHWARYA RAI WON GLOBAL INDIAN OF THE YEAR
AWARD
i. Actress
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has won the ‘Global Indian of the Year’ award.
ii. She was
honoured at NRI of the Year award function held in Mumbai.
iii. The NRI of the
Year Award recognizes outstanding achievements of the Indian diaspora globally.
iv. Apart from her
tennis player Sania Mirza has also honoured at the NRI of the year award 2016.
8. FORMER
ARMY CHIEF GENERAL JJ SINGH CONFERRED HIGHEST FRENCH CIVILIAN HONOUR
i. Former Army
Chief General Joginder Jaswant Singh has been conferred with the highest French
civilian honour 'Officier de l Ordre national de la Legion d Honneur'.
ii. He is chosen
for modernizing the Indian Army and initiating robust exchanges between the
Indian and French armies.
iii. The Officier
de l Ordre national de la Legion d Honneur' is the highest civilian award given
by the French Republic for outstanding service to France, regardless of the
nationality of the recipients.
9. WOMAN
BIKER VEENU PALIWAL DIED IN A ROAD ACCIDENT
i. Former Indian
woman biker Veenu Paliwal has died in a road accident in Vidisha district,
Madhya Pradesh.
ii. The accident
took place when she was on a national wide tour on her Harley Davidson.
iii. At the time of
accident she was undertaking the trip from Kashmir to Kanyakumari with her
fellow biker and companion Dipesh Tanwar.
v. Veenu Paliwal had
recently been named as the Lady of the Harley 2016.
10. PADMA
SACHDEV SELECTED FOR SARASWATI SAMMAN 2015
i. Author and poet
Padma Sachdev has been selected for the Saraswati Samman for 2015
ii. She will be
honoured for her autobiography titled Chitt-Chete, written in Dogri language.
ii. The book
explains the personal trials and tribulations of the author with issues
concerning society, nation and the world at large.
