Current Affairs Update – 30-31st July, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit . Here are the important Current Affairs for 30 and 31 July, 2016.
These are important for the upcoming RBI Grade B Phase I Exam 2016.

• The establishment of the first
  hydro engineering college in Himachal Pradesh will boost regional development
  and provide more job opportunities, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said
  Friday.
• He was speaking at an event where
  an MoU was signed between the Himachal Pradesh government and National Thermal
  Power Corporation (NTPC) and National Hydel Power Corporation (NHPC) for
  setting up of the hydro engineering college in Bilaspur.
• Himachal Pradesh possesses more
  than 20,000 MW hydropower potential and NTPC and NHPC are engaged in operation
  and construction of many projects in the state.

• Storage and data management
  company NetApp announced signing of a MoUs with Varanasi and Karnal Municipal
  Corporation for their Smart City initiatives.
• The company will provide storage,
  surveillance and security infrastructure for the projects. Part of the process
  will be to get the specifications, design elements and architecture right.
• NetApp has partnered with Cisco
  for smart city solutions and is open to more partnerships with other technology
  vendors.

• Haryana Government on 29 July
  2016 launched Pashudhan Bima Yojana in Jhajjar. The Yojna was launched by the
  state’s Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister, O P Dhankar.
• The Yojna was started in
  accordance to the recommendations made in Swaminathan Report.
• Dhankar said that the Animal
  Husbandry and Dairying Department has set a target to cover one lakh cattle
  under Pashudhan Bima Yojana.

• It will provide insurance cover
  to cattle breeders in the state at different premium rates for different
  animals.
• Insurance cover will be provided
  at a premium of 100 rupees for cows, buffaloes, bulls, camels.
• Insurance cover will be provided
  at a premium of 25 rupees for sheep, goat and pig for a period of three years.

• The Indo-Thailand Military
  Exercise Maitree concluded on 29 July 2016 at Krabi, Thailand. The exercise had
  commenced on 15 July 2016 under the aegis of the Royal Thailand Army.
• The aim of the joint exercise was
  to train contingents of both the armies on conduct of counter terrorist operations
  in an urban environment.

• Jharkhand government in July 2016
  decided to form a separate cell for the Primitive Tribes Group (PTG) in the
  Welfare Department. The purpose of the cell is to monitor the benefits to the
  group under various schemes.
• A Consultant and an Assistant
  would be placed in the cell.
• The Union Government provides
  fund for the welfare of the PTG in addition to the state’s own schemes.
• There are nearly three lakh
  people belonging to PTGs in the state.

• Senior IRS officer Rani Singh
  Nair is set to be appointed as the new CBDT Chairperson with incumbent Atulesh
  Jindal retiring today.
• Nair, a 1979-batch Indian Revenue
  Service officer of the Income-Tax cadre, is currently working as Member
  (Legislation and Computerisation) in the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the
  policy-making body of the I-T Department.
• Officials said the government has
  issued orders for her to take over as the “acting” chief of CBDT from Jindal.
  Fresh orders by the Prime Minister headed Appointments Committee of Cabinet are
  expected soon to be out soon for her to take charge in a full capacity.
• Jindal took over as CBDT chief in
  February this year.

• Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari was on
  29 July 2016 sworn in as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court. His oath of
  office was administered by Bihar Governor Ramnath Kovind at Raj Bhawan in
  Patna.
• Justice Ansari had worked twice
  as Acting Chief Justice of Patna High Court since December 2014 before being
  sworn in as its 39th Chief Justice. Justice Ansari retires on 29 October 2016.

• The United Nations World Day
  against Trafficking in Persons 2016 was observed across the world on 30 July
  2016.
• On this day, the United Nations
  Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched the campaign #igivehope to show
  victims of human trafficking.
• The day aims at raising awareness
  of the plight of human trafficking victims, and promoting and protecting their
  rights.

• The International Day of
  Friendship was on 30 July 2016 observed across the world.
• The Day is aimed at supporting
  the goals and objectives of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a
  Culture of Peace and the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and
  Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010).

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