Current Affairs Update – 6th February, 2016

• Union Labour Ministry on 5
  February 2016 signed agreements with leading organizations engaged in
  employment and career related activities. The agreements were signed to exploit
  the potential of the National Career Service (NCS) project.
• The MoUs signed with Uber, Quikr,
  Monster, Tech Mahindra, Babajobs, India Staffing Federation, Buzzmatic Ventures
  and GoldFish will help in widening the scope and scale of the project.
• This partnership will also
  provide transparent and credible platform and save both employers and job
  seekers from possible fraudulent practices.

• Mahindra Asset Management Company
  (AMC) on 4 February 2016 received Securities and Exchange Board of India’s
  (SEBI’s) approval to manage the Mahindra Mutual Fund.
• Mahindra AMC is a wholly-owned
  subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services (MMFS), a part of the
  Anand Mahindra-led Mahindra group.
• According to reports, Mahindra
  Finance applied for a mutual fund licence on 30 December 2008 and was given an
  in-principle approval on 4 October 2011. 

• India’s naval might was on full
  display off the coast of Visakhapatnam on Saturday as President Pranab Mukherjee
  reviewed the naval fleet.
• A fleet review is a ceremonial
  inspection of naval warships by the supreme commander of the armed forces, the
  President of India.
• President Pranab Mukherjee, onboard
  the presidential yacht INS Sumitra, inspected the fleet of 71 Indian naval ships.
• Also on the yacht were Prime
  Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and three other
  service chiefs.
• The fleet review has 71 of Indian
  Navy’s ships lined up, including both aircraft carriers, INS Vikramaditya and
  INS Virat. However, INS Virat will be retiring soon.
• Around 50 navies and 24 foreign
  ships are participating in the International Fleet Review, the second to be
  held by India and the largest military exercise hosted by the country so far.
• The last IFR was held in Mumbai
  in 2001 which was presided by the late APJ Abdul Kalam. Twenty-nine countries
  had participated in the event.

• The Union Ministry of Agriculture
  and Farmers Welfare on 5 February 2016 decided to set up the National Organic
  Farming Research Institute in Sikkim.
• The decision to this effect was
  taken by the Union Agriculture Minister Radhamohan Singh and Sikkim Agriculture
  Minister Som Nath Paudyal in New Delhi.
• The institute will be established
  by upgrading the existing Regional Centre of the Indian Council of Agricultural
  Research (ICAR) in Gangtok.
• The setting up of the institute
  is of primary importance for Sikkim as it was declared as the first organic
  farming State in the country in January 2016 by the Prime Minister Narendra
  Modi.

• Padma Shri awardee Renana Jhabvala,
  an Ahmedabad-based social worker has been invited to serve as a panelist on a
  UN panel on women’s economic empowerment.
• The United Nations has
  established the panel to provide recommendations on improving economic outcomes
  for women and promoting women’s leadership in driving sustainable, inclusive
  and environmentally-sensitive economic growth in the context of the 2030 Agenda
  for Sustainable Development.
• Daughter of Booker-prize winning
  novelist and screen-writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and well-known architect
  Cyrus S H Jhabvala, Renana has been active for decades in organising women into
  organisations and trade unions in India and is extensively involved in policy
  issues relating to poor women and the informal economy.
• Renana, a Harvard graduate, is
  the Nation Coordinator of the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
  (SEWA), trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in India founded by
  noted Gandhian and civil rights leader Ela Bhatt.

• Eminent cartoonist Sudhir
  Tailang, who chronicled contemporary Indian politics with wit and humour, died
  here today after battling brain cancer for over two years.
• The cartoonist, who had worked in
  a number of newspapers including Hindustan Times, The Indian Express and Times
  of India, was admitted to Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon in December but
  was brought home around a month ago.
• Tailang was awarded Padma Shri in
  2004. As a cartoonist, many politicians including Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi,
  Atal Behari Vajpayee, P V Narasimha Rao, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi bore
  the brunt of his brush.
• In 2009, he had come out with a
  book of cartoons titled “No, Prime Minister”, which carried cartoons
  on Manmohan Singh drawn during first stint of his prime ministership.

• NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell,
  who was the sixth man to walk on the Moon, died on 4 February 2016 in West Palm
  Beach, Florida. The lunar module pilot on Apollo 14 died at the age of 85.
• His death occurred on the eve of
  the 45th anniversary of his lunar landing, which took place on 5 February 1971.
• Mitchell, Alan Shepard and Stuart
  Roosa were the crew of Apollo 14 mission, which launched on the lunar surface
  on 5 February 1971. As part of the Apollo 14 mission, he spent more than nine
  hours on the Moon’s surface collecting rocks, taking measurements and other
  things. Mitchell helped collect 94 pounds of lunar rock and soil samples that
  were distributed across 187 scientific teams in the United States and 14 other
  countries for analysis.

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