Current Affairs Update – 10th May, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit . Here are the Important Current Affairs of 10th May, 2016. These are important for the upcoming SBI Clerk Mains, SBI PO Mains 2016 and UIIC AO 2016.

• Union Minister for Water
  Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti on 9 May 2016
  launched nine projects for rural sanitation initiatives for conservation of
  River Ganga in Sahibganj, Jharkhand.
• The initiatives were launched
  under Namami Gange Programme of the Ministry.

• The main aim of these projects is
  to improve the health and quality of life of around 45000 households located in
  78 villages of the Ganga River basin in Jharkhand through improved sanitation
  practices.
• It also seeks to improve the
  quality of waste water and storm water runoff flowing from the villages into
  the river Ganga.

• The projects will cover the
  entire 83 kilometer stretch of Ganga in Jharkhand.

• Google on 9 May 2016 announced
  the launch of its free high-speed public WiFi service at railway stations of
  Ujjain, Jaipur, Patna, Guwahati, and Allahabad.
• Google has deployed service over
  RailWire which is an extensive fibre network of Indian Railway’s arm Railtel
  that provides Internet services.
• With this, the free Wi-Fi service
  is now available to users at 15 stations across the country.
• Google had a phenomenal response
  to the service Mumbai Central and hence it is extending the project to cover
  key suburban Mumbai stations working with RailTel.

• Indian Space Research
  Organisation has established Nozzle Testing Laboratories (NTL) at Vikram
  Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, to carry out better research in
  the area of rocket nozzle.
• The NTL that were inaugurated
  recently by ISRO Chairman, are “unique” and established for the first
  time in the country for carrying out advanced research and development in the
  area of rocket nozzle, ISRO said.
• Stating that performance
  improvement in propulsion systems is essential towards achieving cost effective
  launch vehicles, the space agency said apart from propellant energetics, the
  nozzle plays a vital role in improving propulsion system performance.

• The Ministry of Environment and
  Forests on 9 May 2016 launched a web-based application on Integrated Waste
  Management System (IWMS). The system’s web address is www.iwms.nic.in.
• The government launched the
  system for better management of waste. The user-friendly application is capable
  of tracking the movement of hazardous waste.
• Objectives of the Integrated
  Waste Management System to enhance transparency in the working of the Ministry
  and other Centre/State level regulatory bodies.

• Senior advocate of Bombay High
  Court Atma Ram Nadkarni on 9 May 2016 was appointed as Additional Solicitor
  General (ASG).
• The Appointments Committee of the
  Cabinet (ACC) approved the appointment of Nadkarni as Additional Solicitor
  General in Supreme Court for a period of three years.
• Additional Solicitor General of
  India abbreviated is a law officer of India and is the third ranking lawyer of
  the Government of India.

• India’s leading online fashion
  destination Jabong has announced the appointment of Rahul Taneja as the
  company’s Chief Business Officer. This is the fifth top management appointment
  in Jabong under the leadership of CEO, Sanjeev Mohanty.
• Responsible for overseeing
  category management, pricing, creative campaigns and offline/ brand marketing
  at Jabong, Rahul Taneja has been previously associated with Procter and Gamble,
  PepsiCo and Philips.
• Jabong had recently announced the
  appointment of Muralikrishnan B as its Chief Operating Officer and Deepa Chadha
  as its Chief Human Resource Officer.

• After a prolonged delay, the
  state government finally appointed retired bureaucrat Ranglal Jamuda as the
  first chairman of Odisha Food Commission.
• The commission will monitor and
  evaluate the implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA) in the state.
  The 1981 batch IAS officer was the union secretary for ministry of food
  processing industries and was also the state agriculture secretary.
• Retired district Judge Manoj
  Panda and former MLA Sipra Mallick was appointed members of the commission.

• Maverick anti-crime candidate
  Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte has won the Philippine presidential elections,
  following the withdrawal of his opponents.
• Although the official result has
  not yet been declared, main rival Mar Roxas admitted defeat after polls gave Mr.
  Duterte an unassailable lead, BBC reported.
• Mr. Duterte said he accepted the
  mandate with “extreme humility.”
• The 71-year-old stirred
  controversy during campaigning with his incendiary comments.
• He has credited his success to
  his tough stance on law and order.

• Bureaucrat-turned-politician N.K.
  Singh was today honoured with Japan’s second highest national decoration for
  his contribution in strengthening Indo-Japan ties in the field of trade and
  investment over the last few decades.
• ‘The Order of the Rising Sun,
  Gold and Silver Star’ award was conferred on Mr. Singh by Prime Minister Shinzo
  Abe at a glittering ceremony at the Imperial Palace here.
• The award citation hailed Mr.
  Singh’s role in boosting Indo-Japan economic ties, particularly in promoting
  Japanese investments into India over many years.
• Awards were conferred on a total
  of 91 eminent personalities, including eight foreign recipients. The awardees
  also had an audience with Emperor of Japan Akihito.

• Dr Manvendra K Singh, a scientist
  from Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur city, was awarded a grant of SGD 3 million
  (about 14.7 crore rupees) by Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF).
• Dr. Singh in the first week of
  May 2016 announced that he is among the seven young scientists from across the
  world to be endowed with the Singapore NRF fellowship.
• The scientist has been awarded
  the fellowship to pursue research in the field of congenital and adult
  cardiovascular diseases.

• US President Barack Obama on 9
  May 2016 signed National Bison Legacy Act into law officially making the
  American bison the country’s first national mammal.
• With this, Bison, the animal that
  once roamed North America, joins the ranks of the Bald Eagle as the official
  symbol of the country.
• Its designation as national
  mammal do not hampers bald eagle’s position as the national animal because
  eagle that is birthed through eggs in not a mammal.

• World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD)
  was observed across the world on 10 May 2016. The theme for 2016 WMBD 2014 was
  Stop the Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds.
• The day is observed with an aim
  to raise awareness and highlight the need for the protection of migratory birds
  and their habitats.
• Each year, on the second weekend
  in May, people around the world take action and organize public events such as
  bird festivals, education programmes, exhibitions and bird-watching excursions
  to celebrate WMBD.
• World Migratory Bird Day is an
  annual global celebration initiated in 2006 by United Nation.

• Indian boxers on 9 May 2016 won
  four medals at the 7th Asian Youth Championships held in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
  India finished at third in the overall standings with three silver and a bronze
  medal in the tournament.
• The Indian boxers who won silver
  medals are National champion Ankush Dahiya (60kg), Ashish Kulhirya (64kg) and
  Reyal Puri (81kg). Manjeet Singh (+91kg) won the solitary bronze.
• Kazakhstan topped the medal tally
  with 6 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals followed by Uzbekistan at second
  position with 3 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals.

• Shashank Manohar Tuesday stepped
  down as BCCI president barely seven months after being appointed for a second
  term in place of the late Jagmohan Dalmiya and is all set to take over as first
  independent chairman of ICC.
• Manohar leaves at a time when the
  board is being directed to comply with the Supreme Court-appointed Justice
  Lodha panel’s reform recommendations.

• Famous American actor William
  Schallert passed away on 8 May 2016 in California, U.S. He was 93.
• The actor was best known for his
  work as Martin Lane on the hit series The Patty Duke Show, which aired on ABC
  from 1963 until 1966.

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