Current Affairs Update – 19th October, 2016

• India and Myanmar on 19 October
  2016 signed three agreements to boost the bilateral relations between the two
  nations. Keeping in view the sensitivity of each other’s strategic interests,
  the two nations also agreed for close security coordination in border areas.
• The MoUs were inked in New Delhi
  after delegation level talks with the visiting State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung
  San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi was on a three day visit to India.

1. MoU for designing an academic and
   professional building programme for insurance industry of Myanmar. The MoU was
   signed between Financial Regulatory Department of Myanmar and Insurance
   Institute of India.
2. MoU on Cooperation in the field
   of Power Sector: India has also offered to enhance power supply from Moreh in
   Manipur to Tamu in Myanmar.
3. MoU on Banking Supervision
   between RBI and Central Bank of Myanmar.

• The Telangana Government has
  signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Illinois
  State for collaboration and interaction between the two States in various
  fields in the form of sharing expertise.
• The agreement was signed by
  Principal Secretary (Industries and Commerce) Arvind Kumar on behalf of
  Telangana and Secretary of Innovation & Technology and Chief Information
  Officer Hardik Bhatt on behalf of Illinois at Chicago on Monday.
• Telangana Minister for Industries
  and IT K. Taraka Rama Rao and Consulate General of India in Chicago Dr. Ausaf
  Sayeed were present at the event. The MoU was signed as part of Mr. Rama Rao’s
  second leg of business visit to the USA to promote Telangana and attract
  investments to the State. According to officials, the agreement would
  facilitate cooperation in the areas of Smart State Solutions, e-Governance,
  entrepreneurship, innovation, business incubators, job creation and best
  practices between the two States. Under the Smart State solutions, Illinois
  State would introduce “Array of Things” sensors for air pollution monitoring in
  Telangana.
• The two States would also share
  best practices, tools and processes for disaster/emergency management, data
  management, data analytics, open data and Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• The Union Government in the
  second week of October 2016 has formally granted a licence to BP Plc to set up
  3500 petrol pumps in India.
• The company was granted a formal
  licence on 14 October 2016. It was granted licence to market Motor Spirit
  (petrol) and High Speed Diesel (diesel). With this, BP became the 10th company
  to enter the fuel retailing sector.
• BP plc is a British multinational
  oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

• Water Jet Fast Attack Craft
  (WJFAC) INS Tihayu was commissioned into the Indian Navy by the
  Flag-Officer-Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command Vice-Admiral H.C.S.
  Bisht, here on Wednesday.
• The 315-tonne INS Tahiyu is the
  sixth WJFAC Car Nicobar Class vessel to be commissioned and allotted to the
  Eastern Fleet of the Navy.
• According to Vice-Admiral Bisht,
  four of the vessels are based in Chennai and two, including Tahiyu, will be
  stationed in Visakhapatnam.
• Built by Kolkata-based shipyard
  Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), INS Tahiyu is the 20th vessel
  in this class to be built by the shipyard.
• It is an improved version of the
  earlier vessels and it can achieve a top operating speed of 35 knots per hour,
  said the Chairman and Managing Director of GRSE Rear Admiral (retd) A.K. Verma.

• A health care group based in
  northeast England today said it had signed an MoU with a leading Indian health
  care provider to share expertise in integrated medical care.
• Northumbria Healthcare NHS
  Foundation Trust and Northumberland County Council (Northumbria) signed the MoU
  with Indo-UK Healthcare Pvt Ltd (IUHP) in support of the Indo-UK Institute of
  Health (IUIH) programme.
• The IUIH programme is one of the
  world’s largest health care initiatives currently underway, aimed at transforming
  the provision of quality healthcare and medical education services across
  India.
• It will deliver a staged rollout
  linked to the Indian government’sSmart City programme across 100 cities and
  will involve the setting up of 11 Indo UK Institute of Health Medicities along
  with 89 Indo UK Clinics across the 100 smart cities.

• S P Yadav on 18 October 2016 was
  elected the new President of the North Zone of Urology Society of India
  (NZUSI). His tenure would begin from October 2017 for a period of one year.
• The announcement was made at the
  conclusion of a three-day annual conference held under the auspices of the Agra
  Urology Association from 16 October to 18 October 2016.

• Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, the last
  king of Rwanda, passed away on 16 October 2016 in Virginia, U.S. He was 80.
• King Kigeli V came to power in
  1959 but was only king of Rwanda until 1961, when the monarchy was abolished
  and he was forced into exile.
• King Kigeli V eventually settled
  in the United States where he set up a charity helping Rwandan refugees and
  orphans.

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