DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 2 MAY 2016
(Daily News India)
1. UNION
GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA
i. The Union Government launched
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana for providing free of cost LPG connections to
women from BPL Households.
ii. It was launched by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi from Maldepur Morh, Ballia in Uttar Pradesh.
iii. The tagline for the scheme is
Swachh Indhan, Behtar Jeevan.
iv. The beneficiaries will receive
monetary support of about 1,600 rupees to get a connection of cooking gas
2. INDIAN TEAM WIN ONE
SILVER AND TWO BRONZE IN ARCHERY WORLD CUP
i. Indian women’s team has won silver
medal in the recurve team final of Archery World Cup held at the Yuanshen
Stadium in Shanghai, China.
ii. Women’s team included Deepika
Kumari, Bombayla Devi Laishram and Laxmirani Majhi.
iii. Indian men’s recurve team
comprised of Atanu Das, Jayanta Talukdar and Mangal Singh Champia to bag the
bronze medal.
3. MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT
LAUNCHES ADI PRAMAN APP FOR CASTE VALIDITY CERTIFICATE
i. Maharashtra Government has launched
Adi Praman a web based application for state’s tribal population to get the
caste validity certificates online.
ii. The application is first of its
kind for any state in India.
iii. Adi Praman app will help tribal people from the state to obtain caste
validity certificates online using this application.
iv. It will also help the state
government to achieve the goal of the Digital India programme.
4. NABARD
PARTNERS GERMANY FOR FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE
i. National Bank for Agriculture and
Rural Development entered into collaboration with German government for a
special programme on 'Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security'.
ii. The programme is part of the German
government's recently introduced special initiative 'One World, No Hunger'
initiative.
iii. India is the only country in Asia
chosen for this initiative.
iv. Germany’s 'One World, No Hunger'
addresses areas such as food and nutrition security, promotion of innovation,
protection and sustainable use of natural resources in rural areas.
5. INDIAN
NAVY DECOMMISSIONED INS VEER AND INS NIPAT
i. Indian Navy decommissioned Indian Naval
Ships Veer and Nipat in the Naval
Dockyard, Mumbai.
ii. INS Veer was commissioned into
Indian Navy on 26 March 1987.
iii. INS Nipat was brought into Navy on
5 December 1988
iv. Both the ships served as the
guardians of International Maritime Border off west coast of India
6. SOUTH
INDIA’S FIRST UNDERGROUND CORRIDOR OF NAMMA METRO INAUGURATED
i. Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah
Naidu inaugurated the underground corridor of Bengalore Metro Rail.
ii. Bengalore Metro Rail is also known
as Namma Metro.
iii. The Namma Metro or Bengaluru Metro
as the first in South India to have an operational underground section of Metro
Rail.
Chief minister of Karanataka
:Siddaramaiah