Friday, 9 September 2016

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-SEPTEMBER 9TH

1.President Pranab Mukherjee gave assent to the constitution ammendment bill on GST.

2.Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh states have ratified the constitution's amendment on GST bill

3.Sikkim emerged as the most cleanest state in the country and Jharkhand comes last in the list.

4.Former cricketer and commentator Navjyot singh Siddhu launched his new political party Awaaz-e-Punjabi.Punjab state will go to elections in 2017.








5.Uzbekistan's Parliament approved Prime minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev as interim president as the Incumbent Islam Karimov passed away.

6.USA president Barack Obama's Administration has offered Saudi Arabia more than $115 billion in weapons,other military equipment and training the most of any US administration in the 71 year USA Saudi alliance.

7.ICICI bank the country's largest private sector bank announced the introduction of software bots which promise to cut response time to customers by 60% and increase accuracy to 100%.


8.Former IPS officer J satyanarayana has appointed as part time chairperson UIDAI.The post lying vacant since Infosys co-counder Nandan Nilekani quits.

9.According to Fortune's list of world most powerful women,Pepsi co CEO Indra Nooyi was ranked 2nd in the list.The list is topped by Marry Barra CEO and chairman of General motors.




10.Former Indian women Cricket team captain Anjum Chopra has become the country's first female cricketer to be awarded life membership of the Lord's based Marylbone cricket club(MCC).

11.ISRO has successfully placed INSAT 3DR satellite by the GSLV F05, carries a multi spectral Impager, one of the payloads.This satellite generates images of the earth from a Geostationary Attitude of 36000 kilometers every 26 minutes and provide information on parametres such as sea surface temperature,snow cover,cloud motion winds,among others.