Current affairs : September 25, 2016 for all competetive exams
Arun Goyal appointed Additional Secretary in GST Council
Arun Goyal , senior IAS officer
has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Goods and Services Tax(GST) Council.
- The GST Council, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, was mandated to decide on tax rate, exempted goods and the threshold limit.
Pak. calls off trade exhibition
Pakistan has cancelled a trade
exhibition in India in October amid tension between the two neighbours
following the Uri terror attack.
- The exhibition was meant to promote bilateral trade between the two countries and bring buyers and sellers on one platform
Five Indian cities in the top
100 Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index
Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi , Kolkata and
Pune are the Indian cities that have made to the list of top 100 cities
in the sixth annual Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index.
- Kolkata ranks 62nd in the index.The study is based on data from IATA, National Tourism Boards, IMF and other organisations.
MP seeks Bill to declare Pak. a terrorist State
Independent Member of Parliament in the
Upper House Rajeev Chandrashekhar has written to Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid
Ansari giving notice to introduce a Bill to declare Pakistan a terrorist state.
- The Bill – titled Declaration of States as Sponsor of Terrorism Bill, 2016 – aims at declaring some States as sponsors of terror and withdrawing economic and trade relations with the said State, creating economic and travel sanctions for citizens of the said State.
Jeremy Corbyn re-elected leader of Britain’s Labour
Party
Veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn has been
re—elected head of Britain’s Labour Party, defeating a challenge to his
year-old leadership of the divided opposition party.
- Mr. Corbyn, a long-time back-bench lawmaker was
elected last year to lead Labour, which governed between 1997 and 2010 but
has lost two successive general elections.
African-American history museum opens in U.S.
Centuries of struggles and strife, decades of planning
and pain, and years of hoping for a place that African-American history can
call home reached an end as U.S. President Barack Obama officially opened the
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- A shining beacon on the National Mall, steps away from a monument dedicated to a slaveholder president, the new Smithsonian will chronicle the complex relationship between the United States and a people it once enslaved, and tells the story of those who worked to make the necessary changes to bring the country to where it is today.
China to deploy drones over S. China Sea
China plans to deploy its indigenously
built drones for surveying and mapping in the disputed South China Sea and
along the contentious islands with Japan.
- China is now capable of deploying
domestically-designed drones in the South China Sea and Senkaku islands
claimed by both Japan and China in the East China Sea for surveying and
mapping.
Maruti Suzuki introduced ‘MS Dhoni inspired’ Alto
spl edition
Country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki
India today launched ‘MS Dhoni inspired’ special edition of the Alto small
cars.
- The special editions of Alto800 and AltoK10 cars are part of the carmaker’s association with the upcoming movie ‘M S Dhoni — The Untold Story’ which is based on the life of limited over cricket skipper M S Dhoni.
Sania Mirza-Barbora Strycova
won women’s doubles championship:
India’s Sania Mirza along
with her partner Barbora Strycova from Czech Republic produced a straight sets
win over China’s Chen Liang and Zhaoxuan Yang in the final to win the
women’s doubles titles at Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on 24 September 2016.
- The current
tournament in Tokyo is Sania’s 40th doubles title win and third in Tokyo
Velavan won Asian junior
squash title:
India’s Squash player
Velavan Senthilkumar defeat Jordan’s Mohammad Al-Sarraj to won the U-19 Asian
Junior Individual squash championship title in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Velavan is the second Indian to win the title after Ravi Dixit, who won it in 2010.
