Current Affairs - May 6, 2017 Current Affairs

The Haryana government has decided to open canteens offering meals at affordable rates. Under the "Antyodaya Anna Yojana" scheme the workers at 23 locations in the state can avail their food.

US President Donald Trump repeal and replace the Obamacare the healthcare reform introduced by President Obama, which has helped 11million more Americans afford health insurance. Obamacare, or The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was introduced in 2010 and extended health insurance coverage to some of the 15 per cent estimated who were not covered.

Indian energy giant Adani today signed a 74 million dollar landmark deal with Australian steel group Arrium to buy steel for a 400-km rail line for its controversial Carmichael coal mine project. Arrium's division OneSteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd will supply 54,000 tonnes of steel to build the rail line linking Adani's proposed coal mine in central Queensland with the Abbot Point port.

The 2 crore LPG gas connections are given under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana(PMUY). The scheme implemented across 600 districts in the country and the LPG distribution process has been integrated through digital platforms. 38 per cent beneficiaries of the scheme belong to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes.

A Kashmiri freelance photographer Saqib Majeed has won the 2016 Wisden-MCC Cricket Photograph of the Year competition. Saqib is an engineer by profession and a freelance photographer, he was the first Kashmiri and second Asian after Atul Kamble to receive the prestigious award. Saqib's clicked the award-winning picture at Nishat garden in Srinagar, in October.

Great Britain defeated Australia 4-3 in the final and won the 2017 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. 2017 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup was the 26th edition of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. It was held in Ipoh,Perak, Malaysia from 29 April - 6 May 2017.

The Cabinet panel appointed R A Sankara Narayanan, executive director of Bank of India, as MD and CEO of Vijaya Bank. He was overseeing the International operations of the Bank, covering 59 offices in 22 countries and contributing 29% of the Bank's business. He has worked as Head of Treasury operations, Zonal Manager, General Manager, National Banking Group.

The world's biggest X-ray laser generated its first light in Hamburg, Germany. It was the "last major milestone" for the European X-ray free electron laser (XFEL). The light produced at the European XFEL has a wavelength of about 0.8 nanometers, which is 500 times shorter than visible light wavelength and corresponds to the size of an atom. The repetition rate at first lasing was one pulse a second, but that will eventually go up to 27,000 pulses every second, according to the plan for the facility.

Thirty-four Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) amounting about Rs 2 lakh crores were signed in the three-day India Integrated Transport and Logistics Summit that was concluded in New Delhi. The sessions focused on six major themes that included Multi Modal Logistics Parks, New developments in Urban Transportation, Freight Corridors for Economic Development, Supply Chain Transformation- Storage Innovations, GST and Role of Digitization for Decongestion and Standards and Skills for Logistics.

Executive director of Canara Bank Dinabandhu Mohapatra has been promoted as MD and CEO of Bank of India.

International Firefighter's Day (IFFD) is observed on May 4. It is observed to recognise the firefighters in your community who commit themselves to protecting the safety and welfare of our family, friends and neighbours and often, strangers they have never met.