Current Affairs 02nd and 3rd January 2017 | General Awareness 02nd and 3rd January 2017

Akhilesh camp declares him SP head

Mulayam made mentor, Amar Singh expelled from party

• Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh on Sunday expelled his cousin, general secretary Ramgopal Yadav for the “illegal” act of making Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav the new “national president”.
• This was Mr. Ramgopal’s second expulsion in three days, and his third in the last three months.

Mulayam Singh

who heads the Samajwadi Party from Uttar Pradesh.

Bus-tracking only a click away

KSRTC to share data with app developers and researchers

In a first for a government-run transport corporation, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation has developed an open source real-time updated data sharing platform to be shared with app developers and researchers.

Vehicle tracking and monitoring system

Data on online reservations, users can access data on an intermediate server.

S.P. Singh is new Chief Secretary

Chief Secretary to the Government of Telangana

• A senior IAS officer S.P. Singh has been appointed as the Chief Secretary of Telangana to succeed K. Pradeep Chandra, who retired on attaining the age of superannuation.
• The former was Special Chief Secretary of Panchayat Raj — a post that he will continue to hold as full additional charge till further orders — and has 13 months of service left.

K. Pradeep Chandra

Former Chief Secretary of Telangana.

Veena, Vani shifted to State Home

The conjoined twins had spent 11 years at Niloufer hospital

• Conjoined twins Veena and Vani, who turned 14 last October, were moved to the State Home for children after spending 11 years at Niloufer hospital.

• The twins, who were brought to the State-run hospital in 2006 when they were only three, were born joined at the head. They could not be separated despite several rounds of medical consultations over the last decade.

Mujtaba Hasan Askari

President, Helping Hand Foundation.

Support for protest against move to dereserve Kappatagudda

Samaj Parivartan Samudaya extends help to Tontada Math seer

Samaj Parivartan Samudaya has extended support to the ongoing agitation against the government’s decision to withdraw the status of reserve for the Kappatagudda hill ranges in Gadag district.

Samduaya

It has planned an awareness jatha from Siddaramanahundi.

Modi thanks people for enduring note ban pain

Unveils relief package for farmers, women, senior citizens

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a relief package for farmers, senior citizens, small enterprises, women and the rural poor as a return gift of sorts for enduring the pain caused by the Centre’s decision to scrap the legal tender nature of old Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes.

Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana

• 4 % on loans up to Rs. 9 lakh
• 3 % on loans up to Rs. 12 lakh.

  BJP forms Arunachal govt.

  33 MLAs defect
  

• In a dramatic development, the BJP formed a government in Arunachal Pradesh after 33 MLAs of People’s Party of Arunachal, led by Chief Minister Pema Khandu, joined it.
• Mr. Khandu joined the BJP two days after he was suspended by the PPA, which triggered another round of political manoeuvring.

Kahfa Bengia

PPA party president.

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