Current Affairs 4 August 2015
National
- – Supreme court panel gives clean chit to MP high court judge SK Gangele in sexual harassment case
- – FTII students hold protest at jantar mantar
- – Sonia Gandhi : Congress to continue demanding resignations of Sushma Swaraj, Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- – Agriculture Minister : Centre taking various measures for benefit of farmers
- – Bandaru Dattatreya : Government has taken various steps to remove unemployment in the country
- – Another extension given to Rajan S Katoch as chief of enforcement directorate
- – Flood condition in West Bengal continues to be grim
International
- – U.S. resumes formal security ties with Egypt
- – Rocket attack kills a top Burundian General
- – Pakistan security forces claimed to have killed Al-Quaeda Chief of Balochistan and South Punjab
- – Several former LTTE members enter electoral fray in Sri Lanka
- – Monsoon rain continues batter large part of Asia
Politics
- – 25 Congress Lok Sabha MPs suspended for 5 days for disrupting proceedings in the house
- -Orissa government to launch “Onion Mission” in the state
- – Congress forces adjournment of Rajya Sabha on Lalit Modi controversy
- – All-Party meeting fail to break stalemate in Parliament
- – BJP’s U-turn on land bill ; Parliamentary panel agrees to withdraw key amendments
Business
- – Stock market in Greece plunges nearly 23 percent
- – Assocham : India to produce atleast a dozen billionaires by 2020
- -Foreign investors pump in net Rs. 5,319 cr. In July
- – Growth in non-food credit of commercial banks slows to 7.7 percent in June
- -SEBI cautions small investors against ‘risky’ gains
Defence
- – Pakistani troops violated cease fire along LoC.
- – After Kundakulam’s success, Russia likely to get second site to build nuclear plant
- – 13 years On , desi IJT back to drawing board
- – A MI-28 spun out and crashed during a Russian airshow
- – Delhi police is all set to begin a use of Taser guns
- – Israel to share anti-terror experience , technology with Indian cops
Sports
- – First test between South Africa and Bangladesh ended in a draw
- – World anti- doping agency alarmed by new accusations of mass doping
- – Devvarman fails to reach Washington Open main draw
- – Disire(Dashrath Singh) won Stewards cup
- – Indian hockey team to tour France and Spain to play a total of five matches
