Today Current Affairs August 30-2016

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1 Today Current Affairs August 30-2016
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Doha Bank – opens branch – Kerala

Doha Bank which was based on Qatar’s has opened its branch in Kerala. This branch has inaugurated by the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. It is one of the largest commercial banks in the state of Qatar.

Mehbooba Mufti – UJALA scheme – Jammu and Kashmir

Mehbooba Mufti who is the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir has launched the Ujala Scheme with the distribution of LED bulbs. Prime Minister launched the National LED programme in January 2015. They kept a target of replacing 77 crore incandescent lamps with LED bulbs.

Amazon launches – online Telugu bookstore

Amazon which was an E-commerce portal has announced to launch the online Telugu bookstore with a wide-range of over 10,000 Telugu titles. People who want to read can get the Telugu translations of English bestsellers in the store. Now Amazon caters to Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali languages.

Amit Chandra – non-executive director – Tata Sons

Tata Sons who was holding the company of Tata Group of companies has appointed private equity firm Bain Capital’s Managing Director Amit Chandra as the non-executive director. With this appointment, the total has increased to nine.

August 30th Latest News

Wipro’s chief – officer Abhijit Bhaduri – quits

Abhijit Bhaduri who was the chief learning officer of Wipro has resigned. He will start his own executive coaching company. He worked for 7 years in Wipro.

Nico Rosberg wins 2016 – Belgian Grand Prix

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany has won the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix of Formula One. It is the Rosberg’s overall tenth championship title of F1 in his career and the sixth win in the 2016 season. Earlier he won the Australian Grand Prix, Bahrain Grand Prix, Chinese Grand Prix and Russian Grand Prix.

Carborundum Universal – R&D centre – Hosur

Murugappa Group firm Carborundum Universal has inaugurated its Research and Development centre at its industrial ceramics division in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. The centre was inaugurated by M M Murugappan, Chairman of CUMI & Vice Chairman of Murugappa Group, along with others.

30th August Updates

West Bengal – passes resolution – rename the state

West Bengal Assembly has passed the resolution to rename the state to ‘Bangla’ in Bengali, ‘Bengal’ in English and ‘Bangal’ in Hindi. Earlier last month, Mamata Banerjee government had approved the change of name to either Bongo or Bangla.

Aug 29 – Sports Day – Dhyan Chand’s birthday

On August 29th, the National Sports Day in India has celebrated to mark hockey legend Dhyan Chand’s birthday. Dhyan Chand is the greatest player in hockey. He played a key role in India’s three consecutive Olympic triumphs in 1928, 1932 and 1936.

GST bill – passed – Maharashtra Assembly

Maharashtra Assembly’s has unanimously passed the Goods and Services Tax Constitutional Amendment Bill. GST s the tax levied when a consumer buys a good or service. It is meant to be the single, comprehensive tax that will subsume all the other smaller indirect taxes on consumption like service tax, excise duty etc.

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