Daily GK Updates - 29th May, 2016

NATIONAL UPDATES:

1. Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh bagged India Biodiversity Award 2016.

2. India’s first integrated web portal to promote Net Energy Buildings launched: The portal www.nzeb.in was designed to promote and mainstream Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) in India. The portal is first of its kind and provides complete information about Net Zero Energy Buildings that generate as much energy as they use.

3. Formulate national policy to provide adequate relief to rape survivors: Supreme Court tells Union Government: It said that setting up a separate fund like the Nirbhaya fund is not enough and amounted to just a lip service.

4. Cancer-causing chemical, potassium bromated/iodate, found in bread samples from Delhi as per a study conducted by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

5. India emerges as 5^th largest producer of e-waste in world as per a study conducted by ASSOCHAM-KPMG.

INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:

1. Guinea Bissau President Jose Mario Vaz named BaciroDja as Prime Minister.

OTHER UPDATES:

SPORTS:

1. Real Madrid beat Atletico de Madrid in the penalty shoot out to win the UEFA Champions Trophy for the record 11^th time.

OBITUARIES:

2. Noted Marathi literary critic R G Jadhav passed away at the age of 83.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS:

3. Book titled ‘Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a cover up’ authored by RanaAyyub released.