Current Affairs 16-17 August 2015
National
- Ram nath govind : new governor of Bihar
- Bangladesh asures india to help tackeling fake notes
- Rafale deal: france rejected 50% offset claws, agreed for male in-india
- Government adamant on Rs640 cr suit over misleading ads by maggi
- India and China opertionalised new Border Personal Meeting (BPM) point on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO)
International
- Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people went missing in bad weather
- Pakistan’s ex-spymaster Hamid Gul dies at 78
- Polling started in Srilanka amid tension, 60,000 policemen deployed
- Brazil protester demands Rousseff’s impeachment over corruption and economic slow down
- Iran welcomes India private investment for Chabahar Port project.
Business
- Air India to operate 230 Haj flights to Jeddah
- Housing.com acquires HomeBuy360
- BSNL fights a tough market, loses 2 crore subscribers in one year
- RIL again loses most profitable tag, this time to IOC
- Stock market returns over 3-times more than gold: SEBI chief
Politics
- Parrikar Cites Technical Difficulties in Implementing OROP
- Permission for Taslima to stay on in India expires, likely to be extended
- Assam CM Tarun Gogoi seeks clarification from PM Narendra Modi on Naga accord
- Tamil Nadu tops in organ donation: C Vijaya Bhaskar, Health minister
- PM Narendra Modi launched a new campaign Start-up India, Stand up India during the celebrations of 69th Independence Day
Defense
- Russia to Become Trendsetter in Tank Warfare With New Armata Platform
- Russia supports applications of India, Brazil for permanent membership in UN SC
- India and US prepare for ‘Yudh Abhyas’
- Award institutes in memory of major purushottam, braveheard who saved 3 journalists and a personal in suicide attack in1999
- Pinaka II user trials in Jaisalmer by year end
Sports
- Srilanka wins first test against India
- Stuart Binny added to Test squad
- Top-ranked Djokovic beats Chardy to reach Montreal final
- Ashwin in top-10, Dhawan jumps to 32 in the ICC Test player rankings for bowlers
- Altruist (Imran Chisty up) won the Major Mir Mujtaba Hussain Memorial Cup (Div. I)
