The recap of the day covers important current affairs of the day like Ramon Magsaysay Award 2016, Kudankulam Plant Unit-2 and President of Brazil among others.
• Person sworn in as President of Brazil in August 2016- Michel Temer
• Indians who received the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2016- Thodur Madabusi Krishna and Bezwada Wilson
• The Kudankulam Plant Unit-2 was in August 2016 synchronised with Southern Power Grid at- Tamil Nadu
• Person appointed as the CEO of Microsoft Accelerator in India recently- Bala Girisaballa
• Noted poet who wrote Sindur ki Raakh in 1955 and died recently- Kashmiri Lal Zakir
• The famous humanist French photographer who died recently is – Marc Riboud
• Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik recently won the People’s Choice Prize for his sand sculpture titled Mahatma Gandhi – World Peace at the – Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship 2016
• The appointed former Finance Secretary appointed as the Chancellor of TERI University is – Ashok Chawla
• The approximate percentage of 300 Billion Cubic Metre water in River Ganga contaminated by arsenic, as per a latest study, is – 40%
• The Indian-origin software industry veteran recently appointed the CEO of US-based company ANSYS is – Ajei Gopal
• Union Cabinet approved creation of a Project Development Fund (PDF) for catalysing Indian economic presence in the CLMV countries. The countries include – Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam
• The two day “BRICS Convention on Tourism” began at World heritage site – Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh
• The person who was re-elected as President of Gabon – Ali Bongo Ondimba
• Chief Minister of Odisha who decided to share his thoughts on different issues through the radio for 10 minutes every month is – Naveen Patnaik
• Commission set up by the Haryana government that submitted its report to the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal at Chandigarh was heded by – Justice SN Dhingra