Current Affairs Update – 29th July, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit . Here are the important Current Affairs for 29th July, 2016. These are important for the upcoming RBI Grade B Phase I Exam 2016.

• Union Government on 28 July 2016
  announced the formation of District Development Coordination and Monitoring
  Committee (DDCMC) that will be known as ‘Disha’. First meeting of Disha will be
  held on 13 August 2016.
• Disha was created for effective
  development and coordination of Central Government’s programme, whether it is
  for infrastructure development or Social and human resource development.
• It will monitor the
  implementation of 28 schemes and programmes of Ministry of Rural Development
  and other Ministries to promote synergy and convergence for greater impact.

• The Union Ministry of Earth
  Sciences (MoES) in the last week of July 2016 announced that India
  Meteorological Department (IMD) will use supercomputer to forecast India’s
  annual summer monsoon.
• The forecast made by a
  supercomputer will be based on a dynamical monsoon model. It will be
  operational from 2017.
• The Indian Institute of Tropical
  Meteorology (IITM), Pune, has been using this model on an experimental basis
  for around 10 years to assist IMD’s annual monsoon forecasts.

• Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and
  Centre for Herpetology came in news in fourth week of July 2016. It came in
  news because it is celebrating its 40 years of opening its gate for the public.
• It is a non government
  environmental organization and was founded in 1976 by Romulus Whitaker.
• The Croc Bank currently consists
  of a large reptile park near Chennai, Southern India and several field projects
  located throughout the subcontinent reaching as far afield as the Nicobar
  Islands.

• T Nanda Kumar resigned from the
  post of Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). Kumar had
  submitted his resignation on 29 June 2016.
• Kumar’s resignation was accepted
  by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet on 27 July 2016.
• Kumar, who had a five-year term
  ending in 2019, will be relieved on 1 August 2016.

• International Tiger Day was
  observed on 29 July 2016. The day is held annually on 29th July to give
  worldwide attention to the reservation of tigers.
• The goal of the day is to promote
  a global system for protecting the natural habitats of tigers and to raise
  public awareness and support for tiger conservation issues.
• It was founded in 2010 at the St.
  Petersburg Tiger Summit, with the aim to double the big cat population by 2022.

• American author James Alan
  McPherson passed away on 27 July 2016 in Iowa City, U.S. He was 72.
• McPherson was the first black
  author to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1978.
• In 1978, he won the Pulitzer
  Prize for fiction for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first
  African-American to win the Pulitzer for fiction.

• Tabla maestro Pandit Lacchu
  Maharaj passed away on 28 July 2016 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. He was 72.
• Lacchu Maharaj has been described
  as one of the frontline tabla players in the world.

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