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- Former Supreme Court judge Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan has been appointed Chairman of the 21st Law Commission.
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- He is currently heading the Cauvery River Water Disputes Tribunal.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred the King Abdula-ziz Sash honour by Saudi Arabia on April 3, 2016.
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- It is the highest civilian honour of Saudi Arabia.
- Filippo Grandi of Italy is the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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- His tenure is for five years.
- He succeeded Antonio Guterres of Portugal.
- Tsai Ing-wen is the first female President of Taiwan.
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- She belongs to Democratic Progressive Party.
- Dinesh Sharma of India was elected to the 12 member Board of Directors of the China- sponsored Asian Infrastructure Inve-stment Bank (AIIB).
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- This bank is headquartered in Beijing, China.
- It has 57 founding members, including India.
- The Indian Air Force (IAF) test-fired its indigenously built surface to air Akash missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha.
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- Its range is 25 kilometers.
- President Pranab Mukherjee awarded India's highest peacetime gallantry award Ashok Chakra, posthumously to Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami on Janu-ary 26, 2016.
- Padma Awards were announced on January 25, 2016.
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- The list comprises 10 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 83 Padma Shree awardees.
- 19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons in the category of foreigners, NRIs, and PIOs and 4 posthumous awardees.
- Rajinikanth, Ramoji Rao, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, V. Shantha (Medicine), Dhirubhai Ambani (posthumous) were given Padma Vibh-shan.
- Anupam Kher, Udit Nara-yan,Vinod Rai, Saina Nehwal, Sania Mirza and D. Nageshwar Reddy (Medicine) are some of the recipients of Padma Bhushan.
- Ajay Devgan, Priyanka Chopra, Madhur Bhandarkar, Deepika Kumari (sports) are some promi-nent awardees of Padma Shri.
- Indian author Anuradha Roy won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel "Sleeping on Jupiter" at the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka.
- Delhi-based writer Ankita Anand won the European Commission's Lorenzo Natali Media Prize for 2015.
- Kidambi Srikanth of India won the Syed Modi International Grand Prix badminton title in Lucknow.
- P.V. Sindhu won the Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold Badminton women's singles title.
- Novak Djokovic of Serbia clinched his sixth Australian Open tennis men's singles title when he defeated Andy Murray of Britain in the final in Melbourne in January 2016.
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- Women's singles title was won by Angelique Kerber of Germany.
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- She defeated Serena Williams of USA in the final.
- India-Swiss pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the Australian Open women's doubles title.
- French President Francois Hollande was the Chief Guest at India's 67th Republic Day celebrations.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the President of France Francois Hollande laid the foundation stone of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) headquarters in Gurgaon on January 25, 2016.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Start Up India initiative in New Delhi on January 16, 2016.
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- A separate fund will be created with Rs 10,000 crore corpus for the development of innovation-driven enterprises.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Sikkim as the first Organic Farming State of India.
- 12 Pacific Rim countries signed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement in Auckland, New Ze-aland on February 4, 2016.
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- These 12 countries are
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- Singapore,
- Mala-ysia,
- Vietnam,
- Brunei,
- Japan,
- Canada,
- USA,
- Mexico,
- Peru,
- Chile,
- Australia
- New Zealand.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an internati-onal public health emergency over the spread of mosquito-borne Zika virus.
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- Zika virus is linked to birth defects in Americas.
- China's President Xi Jinping formally opened Asian Infrastru-cture Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing on January 16, 2016.
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- China's former Finance Minister Jin Liqun was elected the first AIIB President.
- Veteran actor Manoj Kumar was chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2015.
- Lionel Messi of Argentina won the Ballon d'Or award for the world's best football player for the fifth time.
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- Carli Lloyd of USA won the women's award.
- Former Supreme Court Chief Justice S.H.Kapadia passed away in Mumbai on January 4, 2016.
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- He was the 38th Chief Justice of India.
- Telangana became the first State to make gender education compulsory at the graduate level.
- The 103rd Indian Science Cong-ress was held in Mysore in January 2016.
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- The theme is "Science and Technology for Indigenous Development in India".
- The Union Cabinet approved the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, a crop insurance scheme.
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- There will be a uniform premium of only 2% to be paid by farmers for all Kharif crops and 1.5% for all Rabi crops.
- In case of annual commercial and horticulture crops, the premium to be paid by farmers is 5%.
- India defeated Afghanistan in the final to lift the South Asian Foot-ball Federation (SAFF) Cup in Thiruvananthapuram in January 2016.
- Christine Lagarde of France was re-elected Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to a second five- year term in February 2016.
- Taylor Swift's "1989" won the Album of the Year at this year's Grammys in Los Angeles, USA in February 2016.
- Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn was chosen for the first World Sanskrit Award.
- Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan was awarded Pride of Kerala award.
- Harper Lee, a renowned American author passed away on February 19, 2016.
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- She authored "To Kill a Mockingbird".
- Italian author Umberto Eco, famous for his novel "The Name of the Rose", passed away in Rome on February 19, 2016.
- Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali of Egypt passed away in Cairo on February 16, 2016.
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- He served from 1992 to 1996.
- Former RBI deputy governor S.S.Tarapore passed away on February 2, 2016.
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- He was the Chairman of a committee on capital account convertibility.
- Former Army Chief General K. V. Krishna Rao, who also served as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, passed away on January 30, 2016.
- Mysore in Karnataka ranked the cleanest city in India while Dhanbad in Jharkhand came at the bottom of 73 major cities in the Swachh Survekshan-2016.
- The International Fleet Review (IFR) was conducted in Visakhapatnam from February 4 to 8, 2016.
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- "United through Oceans" was the motto of the IFR.
- West Indies beat India by five wickets to win the ICC Under-19 world Cup title in Mirpur, Bangladesh on February 14, 2016.
- David Warner was named Austr-alia's Test Player of the Year.
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- He was given the Allan Border Medal.
- Veteran West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul retired from international cricket.
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- He scored 11,867 runs in 164 Tests.
- India won 188 gold, 90 silver and 30 bronze medals at the 12th South Asian Games held in Guwahati and Shillong in February 2016.
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- India topped the medals table with 308 medals.
- Former Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu took over as the new Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on February 29, 2016.
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- He will have tenure of five years.
- President Pranab Mukherjee's book "The Turbulent Years: 1980-1996" was released.
- India's first nuclear submarine INS Arihant passed deep sea tests.
- The fifth edition of exercise IBSAMAR (India, Brazil, South Africa Maritime) was conducted in Goa in February 2016.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched "Setu Bharatam" On March 4, 2016.
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- It is a program to build bridges for safe and seaml-ess travel on national highways.
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