Current Affairs 24th July 2016

1. Kerala Government launches first ever Water Metro project in the country

i. Kerala Government has launched Kochi Water Metro project, the first ever Water Metro project of the country. It was launched by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at Kochi, Kerala.

2. Foundation stone laid for MSME technology center in Visakhapatnam

i. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, along with Union Ministers Kalraj Mishra and Venkaiah Naidu have laid the foundation stone for a Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises technology centre under Technology Centre Systems Programme (TCSP) at Pudi in Visakhapatnam district.

3. First green rail corridor opens in Tamil Nadu

i. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has inaugurated 114-km long Rameswaram-Mana Madurai route as the country's first green rail corridor with zero toilet discharge section.

4. A 3-day meeting between BSF & Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) begins in Agartala

5. Motorcycle rally ‘Ride for Accessibility’ flagged off in Delhi

6. Maharashtra CM launches pilot project of e-complaint system

7. NSE revamps board appoints three new public interest directors

The board of the National Stock Exchange of India has 10 directors with Ashok Chawla, former chief of Competition Commission of India, as its chairman till January. He took charge from S B Mathur as NSE board chairman in May.
iii. Former NSE managing director and chief executive Ravi Narain is the vice chairman of the exchange's board of directors, which also includes Chitra Ramkrishna, the present serving MD and CEO of the exchange.

8. Goutam Ghose, Bappi Lahiri conferred Bengal's 'Mahanayak Award'

9. Neeraj Chopra becomes 1st Indian to set world record in Jr athletics Championship