Current Affairs Update – 27th September, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit . Here are the important Current Affairs of 27th September, 2016. These are important for the upcoming IBPS PO VI Mains, RBI Assistant, NIACL AO and Bank of Maharashtra PO Exams.

• The Pune Smart City Development
  Corporation (PSCDCL) has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding with the
  European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC) to leverage European Smart City
  solutions for the Pune Smart City project.
• The EBTC has been identified as
  the ‘Knowledge and Technical Cooperation Partner for the Pune Smart City Project”.
  The EBTC is a not-for-profit organisation, that promotes and helps customise
  European technologies and solutions through various programs to suit local
  requirements.
• The EBTC is a program initiated
  and constituted by the European Union (EU) and managed by EUROCHAMBRES, the
  Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry, with a company
  incorporated in India.

• Oracle and the Government of
  Maharashtra today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) intended to
  accelerate the state’s digital transformation initiatives.
• Leveraging Oracle Cloud
  solutions, Oracle and the Government of Maharashtra will develop the state’s
  smart city program, with the goal of making the state’s urban landscape more
  livable and inclusive, while driving economic growth.
• According to the MoU, Oracle and
  the Maharashtra Government will create a Center of Excellence (CoE) to help
  accelerate its smart city program and modernize the Government’s technology
  solutions.
• The CoE, housed in Mumbai, will
  serve as a research platform to design, develop and test new capabilities that
  will deliver better government-to-citizen (G2C) and government-to-business
  (G2B) services.
• Benefiting from the power of the
  Cloud, the CoE will enable rapid innovation with minimal capital expenditures.
  In addition, the CoE will offer a flexible and scalable common framework, as
  well as a team of experts, allowing individual cities to scale and replicate
  its solutions.

• Adani Green Energy (Tamil Nadu)
  Ltd on 21 September 2016 dedicated the world’s largest solar power plant of 648
  megawatts to the nation.
• The plant has been set up with an
  investment of around 4550 crore rupees at Kamuthi in Ramanathapuram district of
  Tamil Nadu.

• Puducherry Government on 26
  September 2016 decided to write off all farm loans taken from co-operative
  Banks in the Union Territory. As per the decision, the principal loan amount,
  interest and penal interest of all farmers will be waived off.
• The measure will cost the state
  Exchequer 20 crore rupees and benefit about 7000 farmers of the Union
  Territory.
• The decision was taken during the
  cabinet meet. It is based on the poll promises of the Congress-DMK government.
• The cabinet also approved to
  write off penal interest on Housing loans availed from Co-operative Banks.
  Those who had availed loan from the cooperative housing federation are prepared
  to repay the principal amount as well as the interest, if the penal interest is
  waived.

• Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan
  Singh laid the foundation stone of a Gokul Gram at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh for
  the conservation and development of native cattle breeds. On the occasion, he
  also announced setting up of 14 such Grams across the country as part of the
  Rashtriya Gokul Mission.
• Gokul Gram will work as a centre
  for development of native breed cattle and will also supplement resources of
  cattle farmers in breeding areas.
• Besides, the agriculture minister
  also inaugurated a waste sewage-water treatment plant and four days Pandit Deen
  Dayal Upadhyay Krishi Unnati Mela – 2016, in Mathura. This plant has developed
  a unique indigenous technique facility for treatment & recycle of sewage
  water into irrigation water by Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

• Delhi Government today signed an
  MoU with Thuringia, a state in east-central Germany, for extending cooperation
  between the two in areas of higher education.
• The Memorandum of Understanding
  (MoU) was signed at Delhi Secretariat between Deputy Chief Minister Manish
  Sisodia and Georg Maier, State Secretary, Federal Free State of Thuringia.
• The MoU will facilitate exchange
  of faculty members, academic publications and information and development of
  collaborative research between the two.

• International Day for the Total
  Elimination of Nuclear Weapons was observed on 26 September 2016. The Day
  provides an occasion for the world community to reaffirm its commitment to global
  nuclear disarmament as a high priority.
• It also provides an opportunity
  to educate the public—and their leaders—about the real benefits of eliminating
  such weapons, and the social and economic costs of perpetuating them.

• World Tourism Day 2016 was
  observed across the world on 27 September 2016. The theme of the World Tourism
  Day 2016 is Tourism for All – promoting universal accessibility.
• The theme for the year promotes
  accessible tourism for all to create environments that can cater for the needs
  of all of us, whether we are travelling or staying at home.
• The official World Tourism Day
  2016 celebrations will be held in Bangkok, Thailand.

• Google on 21 September 2016
  launched its latest mobile chat application, Allo, along with Google Assistant
  that can be used in online conversations with friends.
• The messaging app, which is
  available for Android and the iPhone, has similar features to most other
  messaging applications.
• In Allo, messages are not
  encrypted end-to-end by default. However, the messages can be switched to an
  incognito mode to do so and set how long they exist before they are deleted.
• Allo’s ‘Smart reply’ function
  uses Google’s machine learning technology to suggest a reply to the last
  message, which can be selected from a few options.
• The feature also analyses images
  sent to the user in order to suggest responses.
• Similar to the smart reply
  feature seen in Google’s Inbox app, it learns from the user’s behaviour to
  adapt its suggestions over time.
• It supports Google Assistant, a
  conversational virtual assistant.
• A feature ‘Whisper Shout’ allows
  the user to increase or decrease the size of a message to represent volume.

• Senior IFS officer Yashvardhan
  Kumar Sinha was on Tuesday appointed as India’s High Commissioner to the UK
  succeeding Navtej Sarna. Sinha, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the
  1981 batch, is currently serving as India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka.
  Sarna has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to the US.
• Earlier this month, the
  government had appointed 1988- batch IFS officer Taranjit Singh Sandhu as the
  next High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka to replace Sinha.
• Sinha, who is expected to take up
  his assignment shortly, is a seasoned diplomat and in his career spanning 35
  years he has handled several important assignments at the MEA and in Indian
  diplomatic missions in South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South America and
  the Permanent Mission of India at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

• Sathiyan Gnanasekaran on 24
  September 2016 won the men’s singles title of the Belgium Open.
• Sathiyan won his first pro title
  by defeating Nuytinck Cedric 4-0 in the final 15-13, 11-6, 11-2, 17-15 at De
  Haan in Belgium.
• With this, Gnanasekaran became
  the second Indian table tennis player to win an ITTF event. Achanta Sharath
  Kamal is the first Indian to win an ITTF event in 2012.

• Union Agriculture Minister Radha
  Mohan Singh on 25 September 2016 gave away Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Antyodaya
  Krishi Puruskars to 12 farmers for their contribution in the agriculture
  sector.
• They were felicitated during a
  function at the birth place of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay in Mathura.
• National Award for the year 2016:
  Krishna Yadav, an enterprising lady farmer from, Dinpur, Najafgarh, New Delhi
  for her outstanding achievements in the processing and value addition of food
  especially fruits and vegetables.

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