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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

04 Oct 2016

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
  • Scientists had been aware of autophagy since around the 1960s, but knew little about how it worked.
  • Yoshinori Ohsumi was born 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan.
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ENVIRONMENT

World's Largest Dinosaur Footprint Discovered

  • A giant dinosaur footprint measuring 106 cm long and 77 cm wide has been found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
  • According to researchers, the fossil, which researchers claim could be the world's biggest dinosaur footprint ever found, belongs to the Titanosaur, a long-necked dinosaur and could have been more than 30 m long and 20 m tall.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

IT Ministry Approves 9,000 Seats for Call Centres

  • IT Ministry has given its in-principal approval for around 9,000 seats in business process outsourcing units across several small cities of the country, including Varanasi, Siliguri and Patna.
  • India holds 38 percent share in the global BPO industry.
  • More than 50 companies will set up BPO operations at 60 locations in 18 states and 2 union territories.

Reliance Group Signs Deal with Rafale

  • In one of the largest offset deals in India`s defence space, potentially valued at some Rs. 30,000 crore (USD 4.5 billion), Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group announced a new venture with Dassault Aviation of France, the makers of Rafale fighters and Falcon business jets.
  • The 50 per cent offsets obligation of the Indo-French deal is touted as the largest ever for India.

SBI Opens Branch in Yangon

  • The State Bank of India announced its entry into Myanmar by opening a branch in the capital city of Yangon, becoming the first domestic lender to do so.
  • The Yangon branch is the 54th foreign branch of the nation's largest lender.
  • India has been a major trading partner of Myanmar for centuries. Since the signing of India and Myanmar trade agreement in 1970, bilateral trade has been growing steadily and rose from USD 328 million in 1997-98 to USD 2.052 billion in 2015-16.
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