Daily Current Affairs Update September-04 2017

1. Narendra Modi Cabinet reshuffle with 9 New Faces as Ministers

Nirmala Sitharaman-She is the first full time independent women defence minister.

Commerce and Industries department which was held by Nirmala sitharaman is now transferred to Suresh Prabhu who exits as railway minister.

Piyush goyal-The railway department which was held by suresh prabhu is now transferred to Piyush Goyal.

Apart from Railways, Piyush Goyal retains the ministry of coal.

Dharmendra Pradhan-Dharmendra Pradhan, now cabinet minister, will continue to have charge of Petroleum and Natural Gas and will also be minister for skill development and entrepreneurship, which Rajiv Pratap Rudy gave up two days ago.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi-  Minority Affairs Minister Muqtar Abbas Naqvi continues in his departments as a Cabinet minister.

1.    Shri Raj Nath Singh    Minister of Home Affairs.
2.    Smt. Sushma Swaraj    Minister of External Affairs.
3.    Shri Arun Jaitley    Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
4.    Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari    Minister of Road Transport and Highways; Minister of Shipping; and Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
5.    Shri Suresh Prabhu    Minister of Commerce and Industry.
6.    Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda    Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
7.    Sushri Uma Bharati    Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
8.    Shri Ramvilas Paswan    Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
9.    Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi    Minister of Women and Child Development.
10.    Shri Ananthkumar    Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers; and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
11.    Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad    Minister of Law and Justice; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
12.    Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda    Minister of Health and Family Welfare.
13.    Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati    Minister of Civil Aviation.
14.    Shri Anant Geete    Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
15.    Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal    Minister of Food Processing Industries.
16.    Shri Narendra Singh Tomar    Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Mines.
17.    Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh    Minister of Steel.
18.    Shri Jual Oram    Minister of Tribal Affairs.
19.    Shri Radha Mohan Singh    Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
20.    Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot    Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
21.    Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani    Minister of Textiles; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
22.    Dr. Harsh Vardhan    Minister of Science and Technology; Minister of Earth Sciences; and Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
23.    Shri Prakash Javadekar    Minister of Human Resource Development.
24.    Shri Dharmendra Pradhan    Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
25.    Shri Piyush Goyal    Minister of Railways; and Minister of Coal.
26.    Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman    Minister of Defence.
27.    Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi    Minister of Minority Affairs.

2. The “artificial quake” in North Korea thought to be its sixth nuclear test was five to six times more powerful than the fifth nuclear test.

3. The Tajikistan government has banned its women from wearing veils and Tajikistan government has introduced a legislation, wherein it has asked the women to “stick to traditional national clothes and culture”.

 Tajikistan
Capital: Dushanbe
President: Emomali Rahmon
PM: Kokhir Rasulzoda

4. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has appointed as the country’s Youth Affairs and Sports Minister

first sportsperson to become the head of the Sports Ministry

He is the first Indian shooter to win an Olympic medal after his silver at the 2004 Athens Games.

5.  Archaeologists in Andhra Pradesh have discovered an ancient Buddhist site that dates back to 1st century AD , in Guntur district, in Putlagudem village of Achampet mandal.

6. Intel has introduced a new vision processing unit (VPU) called Movidius Myriad X. The new Intel VPU is aimed at providing end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to a wide range of product categories such as smart cameras, virtual reality (VR) devices, robotics and even drones.

7. Young Indian shuttler Rahul Bharadwaj is defeated by top seed Thai Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the men’s singles. He finish runners-up at the India Junior International Grand Prix

8. MS Dhoni reached a record of 100 stumpings in One-Day Internationals during his 301st match, as India played Sri Lanka in the fifth ODI of the five-match series at Colombo.

Dhoni surpassed former Sri Lankan wicket-keeper Kumar Sangakkara, who had 99 stumpings in 404 matches.

Dhoni, recently, became the sixth Indian player to play 300 matches in the 50-over format.

9. Nepal has signed a USD 635 million UN assistance package for 2018-2022 to lay out the country’s development strategy for the next five years. The package involves 26 individual UN agencies.

10. Karnataka Bank has bagged the ‘best bank’ award among small banks for the use of technology for financial inclusion at the 13th IDRBT Banking Technology Excellence Awards 2016-17.

• Karnataka Bank Headquarters in Mangaluru.
• Mr.Mahabaleshwara M.S is the MD & CEO of Karnataka Bank.

11. Star India edged out Sony Pictures to secure the Indian Premier League's media rights with a bid of Rs 16,347.50 crore.

The winning bid will allow Star India to air content on their properties for a period of five years (2018-2022)

12. Pulitzer-prize winning poet John Ashbery, a post-modern American trailblazer, has passed away at age of 90 in Hudson, New York.

His 1975 collection "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" made history when he became the lone writer to earn three major accolades the same year for the same wor

13. President Ramnath Kovind laid foundation stone for link-4 of Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation Scheme (SAUNI) Yojana in Rajkot district, Gujarat.

SAUNI Yojana is multipurpose project that aims to solve water problems of parched Saurashtra region of Gujarat

14. The Cell for IPR Promotions & Management (CIPAM) under Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has launched social media campaign to promote Indian Geographical Indications (GIs).

It has been launched under CIPAM’s ongoing campaign #LetsTalkIP to make more people aware about importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). The promotion of GIs is in line with Government’s ambitious ‘Make in India’ campaign.

15. According to international team of astronomers, earth-sized planets orbiting ultracool TRAPPIST-1 dwarf star may have substantial amounts of water and could be habitable.

They had used Hubble Space Telescope (HST), a joint project of European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to estimate whether there is water on seven planets orbiting in TRAPPIST-1 planetary system.

16. Breakthrough Listen project detected 15 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) coming from a dwarf galaxy about 3 million light years away from earth.

17. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in collaboration with Smart-E company will launch 1,000 e-rickshaws at five metro stations across the city. 

18. 25-year-old Tejasvi Duduka from Hyderabad won the women’s singles of U.S. Open Grand Slam Carrom tournament

19. The Jammu and Kashmir Government introduces the electric buses for two cities of Srinagar and Jammu under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme

20. China has initiated a move to persuade India to go slow on the Asia Africa Growth Corridor, which New Delhi has formulated along with Japan

21. Five banks of the BRICS Bank Cooperation Mechanism have agreed to establish credit lines in the national currencies and cooperate on credit ratings.

• Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), Vnesheconombank, Export-Import Bank of India, China Development Bank and Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) have signed an agreement to establish credit lines in the national currencies, as well as a memorandum of cooperation on credit ratings.

22. Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal has been identified for the tiger augmentation programme by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)..

Tigers from the forest reserves of Assam, which have a similar flora and fauna, will be introduced in Buxa. The reserve is located very close to Assam’s Manas Tiger Reserve, and some experts believe that animals from Manas often come to Buxa using Bhutan as a corridor

23. Bihar government has directed the authorities to get all the placement agencies registered in order to prevent fraud

24.   India will collaborate with Switzerland for developing trains which will tilt on approaching a bend, just like a motorbike on a winding road. A memorandum of understanding was signed between the two countries in this regard.

25. Event named ‘Ye India ka time hai’ was organized by this educational institute on 3 September 2017 - National Institute of Technology (NIT), Raipur

26. National Green Tribunal called for a complete ban on “plastic carry bags” smaller than 50 microns in Delhi’s markets.

27. Dating back to 5.7 million years, scientists have managed to discover human-like footprints in Greece that could possibly challenge early human evolution.

28. The BJP-led coalition Cabinet of Goa passed an amendment granting coconut palm the status of “State tree”.

29. City governments in Uttar Pradesh will provide an additional assistance of Rs.12,000 per each individual household toilet to be built in the urban areas of Uttar Pradesh to enable all the 655 statutory cities and towns in the State become ‘Open Defecation Free (ODF)’ by October, 2022, under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014.