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TNPSC Current Affairs August 2016
Miscellaneous

• Important Days
• August 1 to 7 - World Breastfeeding Week
• August 5 - Putlibai Day [Putlibai was the mother of Mahatma Gandhi]
• August 7 - National Handloom Day [PM Modi Declared 7th August as the National Handloom day and the first National Handloom Day was celebrated in 2015]
• August 10 - World Bio fuel Day
• August 12 - International Youth Day
• August 29 - National Sports Day [Birth Day of Dyan Chand, former Indian hockey Player] & International Day against Nuclear Tests
• Quit India Movement 2
• It was launched on 8th August 2016 by the Maharashtra Government.
• This movement was launched against the contemporary social evils like poverty, addiction, farmer suicides, malnutrition, illiteracy and more other social evils.
• Pravasi Bharathiya Divas 2017 [Very Important]
• The 15 edition of Pravasi Bharathiya Divas 2017 will be hosted by Bengaluru.
• Previous Locations
• 2003 - New Delhi (1st Edition)
• 2009 - Chennai (7th Edition) 
• 2016 - New Delhi (14th Edition)
• Iron Lady of Manipur ends Hunger strike
• Irom Sharmila from manipur state ended her 16 year hunger strike against the AFSPA act.
• Awards
• West Bengal - All India Coordinated Rice Improvement Project Award 2015.
• Shubha Mudgal - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award 2016.
• Kamal Hasan - France's Chevaleir Award.
• Sunita Jain - Vyas Samman Award 2015.
• Padma Sachdev - Saraswati Samman Award 2015.
• Global Innovation Index 2016.
• India ranks 66th position in the GII 2016 which is released by World Intellectual Property Organisation.

Polity

• Nagaland
• Nagaland state cabinet has decided to provide 33% reservation for women in the  upcoming Urban local body elections. 
• DISHA
• It is the another name for the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee.
• It was formed for the speedy implementation of the central government schemes.
• Assam - Became the first state to ratify the GST bill, 2014.
• Bihar - Second State to ratify the GST Bill.
• Important Appointments
• Vijay Rupani - appointed as the New Chief Minister of Gujarat succeeding Anandhiben Patel.

Economy

• Urjit Patel
• He was appointed as the new Governor of the RBI. 
• Becoming the 24th RBI Governor succeeding Raghuram rajan.
• Mega Food Park
• President Pranab Mukherjee inaugrated the mega food park at Murshidabad (West Bengal)
• India's First Textile University
• Gujarat Govt has planned to set up India's first textile university in Surat.
• Tripura Sundari Express
• It is the first broad guage service of Tripura state.
• It connects Agartala with Delhi.
• Prapti
• It is the new housing loan scheme announced by TATA Capital Housing which finance houses for the lower income level people with an interest rate of 4 percent per annum.
• Tarun Ramadurai Comittee
• RBI has formed a new committee under the chairmanship of Tarun Ramadurai to study the household finance in India.
• Amitabh Kant Committee
• The Central govt has formed a committee under the chairmanship of Amitabh Kant to formulate policies regarding the e-commerce.
• Schemes
• Baristha Bunakar Sahayata Yojana
• It was a scheme launched by Odisha government to provide monetary assistance to the elderly weavers.
• Appointments
• Takehiko Nakao - was reelected as the president of the Asian Development Bank (HQ: Manila of Phillipines)

Science & Tech

• eSignDesk
• eSign is the new initiative launched by the government of India which uses the aadhaar based electronic signature in the electronic documents as the legally valid document throughout the country.
• Any aadhaar holder can get his e-signature by registering the website 'www.legaldesk.com'.
• The main advantage of the initiative is to eliminate documents forgery and reduce the usage of physical papers to a large extent.
• Kudankulam Nuclear reactor
• It's first unit was dedicated to the nation by PM Narendramodi, Russian President Putin and TN CM Jayalalitha through video conferencing on 10th August 2016.
• It is the highest capacity nuclear reactor in India.
• CCTNS
• The Maharashtra state became the first state in India to launch the CCTNS - Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and system.
• CCTNS is an e governance initiative in which all the police stations in the country will be integrated online and sharing the crime records among them.
• Geofen-3
• It is a satellite recently launched by China.
• It is china's first low orbiting high resolution radar satellite which is capable of taking high definition remote sensing pictures. 
• India's First Bio CNG Plant
• India's first Bio CNG plant which produces from agri residue was opened in Pune (Maharashtra).
• Abbreviations: 
• USSD -  Unstructured Supplementary Service Data

Environment & Health

• Sewage and Waste water Policy
• Rajasthan became the first state in India to approve the sewage and waste water policy.
• Under this policy the waste water will be treated and reused.
• Typhoon Nida
• Typhoon Nida attacked the Philippines and the Guangdong province of china with wind speed upto 150 kmph.

World

• Operation Euphrates Shield
• It is the military operation launched by the Turkey against the ISIS militants and the kurdish miltants.
• World's First Pizza ATM
• The World's first pizza atm was opened at Xavier University in Washington in American.
• It can provide pizza to its users within 3 mins.
• Luke Aikins
• He was an US Skydiver who set a new world record recently after jumping from 25000ft height without the aid of a para-suite.
• Pushpa Kamal Dahal - Nepal's New Prime Minister [Very Important]
• Pushpa Kamal Dahal was appointed as the new Prime Minister of Nepal succeeding Khadga Prasad Oli.
• He belongs to the Communist Party of Nepal.
• International Financial City Project
• China has signed agreement with Srilanka to construct a International Financial centre in Colombo thus making it a financial hub in the Indian Ocean region,
• Airlander 10
• It is the World's longest and Largest Aircraft developed by USA.
• It is 92 m long and having width of 43 m.
• China 
• World's Longest (430 m) and highest (300 m) Glass Bridge was opened in China.

Sports

• F1 Grand Prix Winners
• German Grand Prix 2016 - Lewis Hamilton (UK).
• Nita Ambani
• She became the first Indian Women to be elected as one of the member of the International Olympic Committee which is head quartered (Lausanne) in Switzerland.
• Angela Ruggiero
• She was appointed as the new chairman of International Olympic Committee Athlete's Commission.
• Commonwealth Chess Championship 2016
• Abhijeet Gupta of India has won the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2016 title.
• Pro Kabbadi League 2016
• Patna Pirates team won the title against the Jaipur Pink Panthers in the final match.
• Rio Olympics 2016.

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