1) 7th April: World Health Day.
World Health Day observes globally every year on 7th April.
The theme for the year is : Halt the Rise: Beat Diabetes.
The goals of the World Health Day 2016 are:
a) Scale up prevention
b) Strengthen care
c) Enhance surveillance
2) New Chairman of NASSCOM:
The National Association of Software and Services Companies
(NASSCOM) appoint Sh. CP Gurnani as its Chairman. He succeeded Sh. BVR Mohan
Reddy.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies
is a trade association of Indian IT and BPO industry.
3) New P.M. of Iceland : Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson named as
Iceland Prime Minister. He will succeed Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson.
4) Indian Open Badminton Championship:
Men’s singles : Kento Momota of Japan won men’s singles
title at the 2016 India Open badminton championship.
Women singles : Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon won the women’s
singles title by defeating Xuerui Li of China.
5) Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament:
Indian men won the 2016 Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament
with a 3-1 victory over Vietnam in the final round played in Abu Dhabi.
6) RBI cuts Repo rate and increases Reverse Repo rate: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its first
Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement 2016-17. The key announcements of the
policy are as follows:
a)
Repo Rate: Reduced Repo rate by 25 basis points from 6.75
percent to 6.50 percent.
