Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 01 September 2017
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Daily GK Update 01 September 2017
National
1. President of Swiss Confederation Doris Leuthard is on the three-day visit to India
2. India’s largest autonomous public organization Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has been ranked ninth in the world. The institute has been ranked ninth amongst a total of 1,207 government institutions, according to the Scimago Institutions ranking World Report 2017.
3.Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh were the fastest expanding State economies in 2015-16, according to a new series of gross State domestic product data with 2011-12 as the base year published by the Central Statistics Office.
4. India and Switzerland signed two MoUs in the field of Railways
Appointment
5. Rajiv Kumar Takes Charge as Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman
6. Former bureaucrat Sunil Arora was appointed Election Commissioner by the law Ministry.
7. The outgoing Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi was appointed Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)
Award
8. Prominent Konkani writer Mahabaleshwar Sail was presented with the Saraswati Samman 2016 for his novel ‘Hawthan’.