Pushpa Kamal Dahal elected as
new Prime Minister of Nepal
§ Former
Maoist rebel chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal (61-year) also known as Prachanda has
been elected as the new Prime Minister (24th) of Nepal.
§ Earlier,
Prime Minister K P Oli resigned on July 24, triggering a political turmoil in
Nepal.
§ According
to Speaker Onsari Gharti, he won 363 votes out of the 573 cast in the
595-member parliament.
Anant Maheshwari appointed as President of
Microsoft India
§ Technocrat
Anant Maheshwari has been appointed as the President of Microsoft India.
§ He
will succeed Bhaskar Pramanik as the head of Microsoft in India.
§ He
will join Microsoft India in September 2016 and will take over operations of
the company from January 2017.
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ahmed Zewail
passes away
§ The
Egyptian- born Nobel-winning scientist Ahmed Zewail (70-year) has passed away
in the United States.
§ He won
the Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1999 for his pioneering work in femtochemistry,
the study of chemical reactions in ultra-short time scales.
§ He was
the first Arab Scientist to win the Nobel Prize.
Swiss tennis star Wawrinka drops out of Rio
Olympics
§ World
number four Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka to quit the Rio Olympic
Game.
§ Double
Grand Slam winner Wawrinka won a gold medal in men’s doubles with Federer at
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Parliament passes Institutes of Technology
(Amendment) Bill, 2016
§ The
Parliament has passed the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill- 2016 to
set up six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
§ The
new IITs will be established in Palakkad (Kerala), Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh),
Goa , Dharwar (Karnataka), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) and Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir).
§ The
Bill seeks to amend the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 to add six new IITs
as institutions of national importance.
Ten ministers sworn in to Arunachal cabinet
§ Ten
Ministers were sworn in to Chief Minister Pema Khandu’s new Council of
Ministers at Raj bhavan in Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh).
§ The
Oath of office and secrecy was administered by Governor Tataghata Roy.
§ The
ten Cabinet Ministers are Tanga Byaling, Nabam Rebia, Wangki Lowang, Rajesh
Tacho, Tapang Taloh, Jomde Kena, Kumar Waii, Kamlung Mossang, Takam Pario and
Hunchun Ngandam.
Mamata govt.decides to rename West Bengal
as ‘Bengal’
§ The
West Bengal Cabinet took up a proposal to rename the state as “Bengal” in
English and “Bango” or “Bangla” in Bengali.
§ A
special session of the Assembly will be convened on 26th August to pass a
resolution to this effect.
§ The
changing of the name will require approval of the Parliament.
Rajasthan becomes first state to approve
sewage & waste water policy
§ Rajasthan
has become the first state to approve sewage and waste water policy.
§ The
policy was approved by the State Cabinet meeting presided by Chief Minister
Vasundhara Raje in Jaipur.
§ All
district head quarters, heritage cities and cities which have more that one
lack population will be included in this policy.
Monthly honorarium of ASHAs doubled from Rs
500 to 1,000 : Haryana
§ Monthly
honorarium of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in Haryana has been
doubled from Rs. 500 to Rs. 1,000.
§ An
additional amount of 41.73 crore rupees has been approved on account of
honorarium for ASHAs and incentives of Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs).
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