Current Affairs Today: 31 May 2016 Latest News and Updates

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National affairs.

• Stating about the Indian – African relationship as good Vice President Mr. Hamid Asari presented the country’s wish to work with the region in various fields which may include Information Technology, Medicine, and Agriculture as well and said that India had a presence in Africa’s automobile as a promising sector.
• App based taxis like ola , uber etc which is just a click away from their customers has now become a threat to the local taxis business and these App based taxis are providing cheaper rates compared to the travel and tours people also and many of the owners of such companies says that their sale is dropped by 50% .
• RTI activists say Blood bank owners or the hospitals are going out of the hand in spite of being wrong in their dealings with the blood transfusion and there are nearly 361 people been infected with HIV and Uttar Pradesh is the highest and Maharashtra holds a count of  276 and in the last 17 months approximately 2,334 persons across the country have been infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) while getting blood transfusion.
• In Recent days , there has been an increase in reports of the police and also the Bihar excise department in the  Bhojpur’s district for abusing the  revised and new prohibition law in the state in order to harass people and extort money from them.

International Affairs.

• The Iraqi forces are now moving towards the city of Fallujah on 30th may 2016 as the Islamic state has taken responsibility for the bombings in which they recently targeted the Baghdad and the Iraqi capital which killed almost 24 people .
• 7 air strikes in the Syria’s rebel-held city Idlib on 30th may 2016 which are assumed to be the Russian planes by the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights which nearly killed 150 people and injured much more.
• The United kingdom Hugo swire says that the Indian ban on the Italian defence conglomerate Finmeccanica and its subsidiaries which might make India military losing out of some cutting-edge military hardware.
• Ex- Zurish Insurance a Switzerland-based company a 144-year-old company  chief executive officer of 59 years old a swiss national  “ Martin senn “committed suicide on the last Friday.

Politics.

• The nationalist congress party had to fight many odds within the party as well as outside in order to get nominated candidates in the upper house of Rajya sabha . and it takes 35 MLA’S support to sign someone for the Rajya sabha in the state of Uttar Pradesh the congress, on the other hand, has only 29 MLA’S.
• Former state minister and party vice president Shiv Pratap Shukla has been declared as the Rajya sabha candidate from the state of Uttar Pradesh, however, political circles in the Uttar Pradesh are at buzz.
• Top IAS officer Neeraj k pawan of the state of Rajasthan after a constant interrogation of Anti-corruption Bureau ACB is arrested for  awarding the National rural health missions tender in return of the bribe.

Sports.

1) Vishnu Vardhan has now got another new title and becomes a winner at the iTF’s men future tennis tournament which was at the harvest academy in Jassowal and he did it only in an hour and 48 minutes.

2)Viva Chennai held Indian bank 2-2 at the Nehru stadium on 25th may 2016 so that they finish 25 points from 11 game matches and they share a top plot in the senior division football league.

3)FIFA has fired it finance director Markus KATTNER  as another fixture of the Sepp blatter presidential era in another round  which is about irregular million dollar payments and this scandal rocked world soccer body and he was been fired after a nternal investigation said the kattner .

Bussiness.

• According to the Switzerland-based IMD world competitiveness centre, WCC India has developed his position in terms of ranking and reached to a position of 41 from a year ago due to the improvement the country has made in exchange rate stability, Fiscal deficit management and efforts to tackle corruption and also the red tape.
• Commerce and industry minister  Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman on 31st may says that the industry is not in favour of  Apple ( mobile company) selling its refurbished second hand phones in India.
• The four laning the Bhavnagar- Somnath  National highway stretch in Gujarat which is at the cost of 2,640 crore  for this project the National highway authority  of India has picked up builders.

Science and Technology .

• The NASA’s new horizons Long Range reconnaissance imager LORRI zones space probe have helped the  Earth to get the new picture and a real close of the planet Pluto from about 15,850 kilometers and it is a resolution from about 80 meters per pixel , the Mosaic scientists and the public can examine.
• Scientists from the Nagoya university institute of Transformative bio – molecules ITBM in japan have discovered the synthesized molecules that can shorten the Circadian period that can modify the sleep/ wake cycle of a person and avoid sleeping disorders of the person and has improved the Jet lag too.
• Directors of the ARC centre of excellence for Coral Reef studies at James cook university in Queensland state Mr  “Terry Hughes “conducted months of aerial and underwater surveys of about 2, 300 kilometre reef off AUSTRALIA’s east coast found  that  around 35% of the Coral in the northern and western sections of the reef are dead or dying.