Yak 16Th April 2017 Of Import Daily Electrical Flow Affairs

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Daily Current Affairs of 16th Apr 2017

International Current Affairs

• In guild to spread awareness most the Sikh identity together with culture, 'Turban Day' was organised at New York's Times Square past times the non-profit grouping The Sikhs of New York. 
• Note : The New York authorities had before declared Apr 15, 2017 equally 'Turban Day'.
• A Russian legislative commission for safety has recommended a nib to the Parliament
  
  banning all people who piece of job for Russian Interior Ministry, including all police, from traveling abroad for recreational together with personal reasons. 
• The bill, which was initially drafted inwards belatedly 2015, besides forbids Russian citizens from entering police line service if they lead hold residence permits issued past times unusual countries.
• North Korea today held a armed forces parade to score the 105th nativity anniversary of its founding President Kim Il-sung and displayed its submarine-based ballistic missiles for the commencement fourth dimension amid other novel types of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
• It besides warned the U.S.A. of toughest counteraction against its "military hysteria" equally it deployed a navy strike grouping towards the region.

National Current Affairs

• The Telangana Cabinet today cleared Telangana State Reservation Bill 2017 that provides 12% reservation to Muslims and 10% reservation to Scheduled Tribes, depending on their population inwards the state. 
• Note : The existing reservation for Muslims is 4% together with for Scheduled Tribes is 6%.
• The Supreme Court collegium has cleared over 48 names for the appointment of judges inwards high courts. 
• The collegium has reportedly recommended 14 names for Mumbai High Court, 9 for Punjab together with Haryana High Court, 6 each for high courts of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh together with Patna. 
• 4 and 3 names lead hold been cleared for Delhi and Jammu together with Kashmir respectively.
• To rectify the pitiful sex balance, the Joint Admissions Board of the IITs has approved additional seats for women candidates from 2018. 
• The "supernumerary" seats would go hiked every twelvemonth until the enrolment of females touched 20%.
• Juvenile Justice Board today ordered the Delhi regime to lawsuit a notification to ban the sale of whiteners, thinners together with vulcanised solutions to children below the historic menstruum of eighteen years to banking concern check drug abuse. 
• The board farther asked the regime to assign 1 de-addiction pump per district, observing that the existing centres inwards the national upper-case missive of the alphabet percentage are overcrowded.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

• Spanish vesture build Zara's Co-founder Amancio Ortega has surpassed Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to go the world's second-richest someone with a internet worth of $77.5 billion. 
• Bezos is instantly the world's third-richest someone with a internet worth of $76 billion.
• Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today flagged off the trial run of the novel 'vistadome' railway coaches between Visakhapatnam together with Araku. 
• The novel coaches are equipped with a drinking glass roof which tin give the axe go made transparent to savor exterior view.

Awards & Honors

• Gurmehar Kaur, a Delhi University student, who was allegedly threatened for protesting against ABVP on social media, has been felicitated with Punjabi Icon award.
• Mahavir Singh Phogat, manful someone raise of wrestler Geeta Phogat was awarded FICCI's sex parity honour for his contribution inwards harnessing his daughters' talent.

Science & Technology

• The Ministry of footing Sciences today announced that 31 novel seismological observatories would go laid inwards Republic of Republic of India past times the year-end to boost earthquake data gathering capability. 
• The destination is to cut down the fourth dimension taken to give details of an earthquake from v to 3-4 minutes, the ministry building added. 
• Note : The National Seismological Network currently comprises 84 laboratories across the country.
• March 2017 was the second warmest March in 137 years of record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures past times NASA. 
• Note : March 2016 was the hottest on record, existence 0.15ºC warmer than this year's March, according to the report.  
• A deep depression inwards Bay of Bengal has intensified into a tropical cyclone named Maarutha. 
• This cyclone is expected to striking Myanmar on 17 Apr 2017 together with convey heavy rains inwards parts of that country. 
• Important Note : Tropical Cyclone Maarutha is the commencement named tempest of 2017 Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season.
• The U.S.A. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced that it along with the U.S.A. Air Force successfully field-tested a modernised gravity nuclear bomb B61-12 on March xiv at the Tonopah Test Range inwards Nevada. 
• The exam was intended to evaluate the weapon's "non-nuclear functions" together with the aircraft's capability to deliver the weapon, NNSA said.

Deaths

• The world's oldest someone Emma Morano (117) has died inwards her habitation inwards Verbania, a town on Lake Maggiore inwards northern Italy. 
• Emma Morano was born on Nov 29th, 1899. 
• She was besides believed to lead hold been the in conclusion surviving someone inwards the world who was born inwards the 1800s.
• Acto Clifton James (96) who was famous for his role equally Sheriff J due west Pepper inwards JamesBond films, passed away.

Sports Current Affairs

• Indian shuttler Sai Praneeth defeated 24-year-old compatriot Kidambi Srikanth to elevator his first Super Series championship at the Singapore Open today. 
• Note : Republic of Republic of India became exclusively the 4th land inwards badminton to lead hold 2 of their shuttlers playing inwards a Super Series final.
• Pullela Gopichand's daughter, Gayatri Gopichand, won the Under-15 women's singles title together with the Under-15 women's doubles championship alongside partner Samiya Farouqui at the Pembangunan Jaya Raya International Junior Grand Prix tournament in Jakarta.

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