Daily GK Updates - 8th May, 2016

NATIONAL UPDATES:

1. Bombay High Court decriminalizes beef possession, upholds ban on slaughter of bulls, bullocks in Maharashtra: It upheld the ban on slaughter of bulls and bullocks in Maharashtra indicating that consumption of beef will remain banned across the state.

2. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabu launched Wi-Fi hotspot at Vijayawada, Kachiguda and Raipur in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh respectively.

3. H R Nagendra Committee on Yoga Education in Universities submitted its recommendations.

4. Indian Railways creates Non-Fare Revenue Directorate to explore advertising in Train Coaches: It will explore getting advertisements on coaches, wagons, locomotives and at stations and commercial exploitation of vacant rail land among others.

5. Radha Binod Barman took over as part-time Chairperson of National Statistical Commission.

INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:

1. US based private space transport Service Company; SpaceX successfully launched Japanese JCSAT-14 communication satellite into the space.

2. Alberta Wildfire: State of Emergency declared by Canada Government: Alberta, a province in Western Canada, came in news as on 5^th May 2016 a state of emergency was declared in the city of Fort McMurray due to a massive wildfire destroyed several of homes.

OTHER UPDATES:

BOOKS AND AUTHORS:

1. Shashi Kapoor’s biography ‘Shashi Kapoor-the Householder, the Star’ authored by Journalist Aseem Chhabra was released.