Current Affairs - May 16, 2017 Current Affairs

The 112 feet tall bust of 'Adiyogi' Lord Shiva has been declared the world's largest bust by the Guinness Book of World Records. Isha Foundation led by Guru Jaggi Vasudev had set up the Adiyogi bust which refers to source of Yoga and symbolises the 112 methods of self-transformation that the first Yogi or Adiyogi.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency meeting on North Korea's latest missile test. The long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) is launched by North Korea.

Following SBI, two leading private lenders ICICI Bank and HDFC Ltd on slashed interest rate by up to 0.3 percent for loans of up to Rs 30 lakh to promote affordable housing. New home loans rates for up to 30 lakh for women will be 8.35 percent and for other others, 8.40 percent.

India finished with 10 medals, including one gold, five silver and four bronze at the Asian Wrestling Championship.

The Indian Railways will install CCTV surveillance systems at more than 900 stations under the Nirbhaya Fund at an approved cost of Rs. 500 crore to strengthen security at rail premises. install about 19,000 high definition CCTV cameras at 983 stations across the country to ensure round-the-clock security to passengers including women.

National Dengue Day has been observed on 16th of May, 2016 by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India. Tha main aim is to control the Dengue through create awareness, initiate preventive actions.

India to be ranked 26th in World Bank's electricity accessibility list in the current year from 99th spot in 2014. Out of the 18,452 villages which lacked electricity, over 13,000 villages has been provided access to electricity.

Deepti Sharma and Poonam Rau are the first pair to put on a 300-run stand in Women's ODIs. They had an opening partnership of 320 before the former fell for 188.

US-based Indian squash player Ramit Tandon has won his Professional Squash Association (PSA) title. This was Tandon's third appearance in a Professional Squash Association final. Tandon, who had come into this event as a qualifier beat third seed Kumar 11-3, 11 -2, 11-3 in the final.

West Bengal State government has made Bengali mandatory in all schools, including private English medium schools. The decision was taken in schools comes at the backdrop of Kerala government's recent promulgation of an ordinance in April making Teaching of Malayalam compulsory in all schools of Kerala.