Current Affairs - 2 & 3 April 2016

FICCI, AIBC signed MoU to strengthen business ties

The agreement was signed in the presence of the visiting Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during the Invest in India Round Table Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

Shiva Thapa won Silver at Asian/Oceania Qualifying event in China

With this win, the 22-year-old Thapa became the first Indian boxer to book a seat in the Rio Olympics.

Flipkart acquired UPI-based payments start-up PhonePe

PhonePe is Flipkart’s third major acquisition in payments, after it bought payments start-up NGPay in 2014, and FX Mart Pvt. Ltd, which owns a prepaid wallet licence, in August 2015.

World Autism Awareness Day 2016 celebrated across the world

The 2016 theme for the day is Autism and the 2030 Agenda: Inclusion and Neurodiversity.

Renowned journalist Babu Bharadwaj died

Bharadwaj had been a part of prominent print and television media in Kerala. Kalapangalkkoru Grihapadam, a novel penned by him, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award in 2006.

Jailed Egyptian Novelist Ahmed Naji to receive PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award

PEN America’s 16 May 2016 Literary Gala will also salute Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling with the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award for engendering a love of literature among children worldwide.

Union Government notified Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016

The objective of the new set of rules is to properly manage the 484 tons per day bio-medical waste from 168869 healthcare facilities (HCFs) across the country.

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