Current Affairs Shorts 09-01-2016

1. The Union Cabinet approved the conversion of MUDRA Ltd, a non- banking financial company (NBFC), into MUDRA Bank. This bank thus will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SIDBI.


2.Mumbai headquartered Bank of India has allotted 2 crore shares to LIC valued at Rs 264.12 crore.


3.Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral R. K. Dhowan has commissioned INS Kadmatt, India's second Anti- Submarine Warfare Corvette (ASWC) at Visakhapatnam.


4. Government reappoints Urjit Patel as deputy governor of RBI for 3 years .


5. China's country code domain '.cn' has become the world's most commonly used in the internet with 16.36 million users, surpassing Germany's '.de' domain.


6. Wipro Ltd chairman AzimHashim Premji,unsurprisingly, was ranked the most generous Indian of the year for the third time in a row on the Hurun India Philanthropy List.


7.Tata Steel has been declared as the winner of Prime Minister’s Trophy for being the ‘Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant’ in the country for the performance year 2013 – 2014.


8.Additional Secretary of Home Affairs, Sailesh,was appointed as the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.


9.South Korea’s adopted a resolution for fourth nuclear test.


10.Airtel appoints Rakesh Bharti Mittal non executive director.


11.Bhanumurthy new COO of Wipro.

12. For the first time in the history of India, a strong contingent of FrenchArmy will march down the Rajpath on Republic Day along with Indian troops in the presence of President Francois Hollande who is the chief guest for this year’s celebrations.


13.Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the British Government jointly launched a roadmap to make Kolkata ”low- carbon and Climate Resilient”

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