DAILY GK UPDATE: 16 MAY 2016

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National affairs

• The chief minister of the state of Bihar on the 15th of may 2016 challenges his counterpart of the state of uttar Pradesh on the topic of ban of the Liquor  as he mentions that the government is using this ban as a POLL issue in uttar Pradesh and also that the government of the state was trying to incur profit from the band of the liquor by increasing number of shops on the borde with the Bihar .
• The amendment made in the FCRA act( foreign contribution regulation act ) in 2010 where in they introduced the Finance bill route can now fund to the NGO’S non government organization’s but can also fund the political parties and this was cleared in the lok sabha- said by Minister of state “ Kiren rijiju”.
• Pradhan mantra Ujjwala Yojna launched by the Bjp president “ Amit shah” which is aiming to offer and provide the poor in the Dahod district  in the state of Gujarat  with the cooking gas .

• A rape case filled in the odisha’s remote district of 3 women  refused to  withdraw the case  , they were raped continuously by a Brick kiln owner of the place known “ Karimnagar” in telangana in the year 2014 and they are still waiting for justice.

• The national investigation agency   NIA   GENERAL Sharad Kumarsays that NIA  has found many draw backs  in the ATS in the Maharashtra anti – terrorism  Squad   in  the case of the  Malegaon blasts .

  International affairs

1)   Barack obama The president of the u.s. ( a noble price winner) who had entered to hold the           office with a commitment of ending all th wars of his predecessor  has now been at war longer         than any other American president .

2)The Islamic state  attacked the IRAQ with a suicide car bomb at the place near the power plant  located in Taji where in the U.S. led coalition was training the army and this attacked killed nearly 11 people including the policemen

3)  The Nepal army insulted by the media as the force was used to receive the actress sonakshi sinha and malaika arora khan at the airpot for a charity event orgnaised by the wife of the amry chief general Rajendra chhetri  for the earthquake victims.

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4)The leader of Colombia’s Revolutionary armed forces ( FARC)  has invited the x president Alvaro Uribe  (president from the year 2002 to the year 2010)

5)Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman warren Buffet   is  preparing a  consortium  Vying for Yahooincorporation  quicken loans Inc. which is one of the  Internet assets of the company and the consortium is in the second round of bidding this auction  for the assets .

Politics

• On the Sunday night Uma bharti’s ( union minister) guard shot himself to death  at his official residence  in Akbar road.
• The Goods and  service tax bill held up by the Congress   inspite of congress ‘s constant pressure to  pass it  and in the monsoon season the BJP government  will add four more members to the rajya sabha and the current tally of the member os the bjp government is 49members.
• Th defence minister Manohar Parrikar  is setting  a target of 2 billion dollar for the defence exports  In the preceeding 2 financial years.

Sports

1 FIFA( international  federation   of association football )elects first female general secretary “ Senegalese Fatma samoura”  and she is also a commitment to  Gender equality .

2)  Mukul mUdgal appointed as the world’s  football body FIFA  as a deputy chairman of the governance team and earlier he was overlooking the matters of the  international cricket  matches and IPL.

3) The Mumbai Indian team of the Indian premier league has to gather all its resources and play too well in case it wishes to  get a top four slot in this IPL 2016 as it has enjoyed  this position earlier this match is gona be held on 15th of may in the Dr y.s. Rajasekhar Reddy stadium .

Business

• India asks U.S. to convince the united kingdom banks to permit one- off deal of  5 billion dollars  so that they can repay to Iran. And attempts are made to sign this deal within this week before the Prime ministers visit to Iran on 22ndmay .
• The start-ups of the country India are looking up to the Chinese investors for investment in their country and  Investors in the China  are keen in the Indian mobile sector  , education sector as well as health care .
• In june 2016 the fourth month window is going to open for declaring Black money held in the country under the Income declaration scheme of the yer 2016  individuals can clean their account by paying a 45 percent  Tax and penalty for  avoiding the tax and for avoiding the enquiry by the tax department.

Science

1) ISRO ( Indian space research organsation ) which an aim to reduce the cost of the “ space shuttle” 10 times  if the technique of theirs of reusable technology succeeds and it is basically a Sleek winged body which has the weight and the size of the same of the SUV( sports utility vehichle )  and this activity Is carried on in Sriharikota.

2)At Massachusetts  the researchers have found  an tiny origami robot that can fold himself from a swoallowed capsule that is steered by the extrernal magnetic in the experiment of involving stimulations of the  Human Oesophagus and stomach.

3) according to a team of researchers  red wine has a component found in it  that could help tp reduce the  Negative impact of the high fat diet.