Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 02 September 2017

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National

1.Gujarat’s commercial capital Ahmedabad was formally accorded the status of India’s first World Heritage City by UNESCO.

2.PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day annual conference, Rajaswa Gyan Sangam, 2017 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

3.Swedish defence major SAAB announced its tie-up with Adani Group to manufacture the Gripen E fighter jets in India under the Defence Ministry’s $10 billion single-engine fighter jet procurement programme.

International

4.The world’s highest sandcastle is now standing 16.68 meters tall in the German city of Duisburg.

Appointment

5.IAS officer Anita Karwal was appointed as the new Chairperson of Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE

6.Indian-origin veteran civil servant JY Pillay took over as Singapore’s acting President until a new head of the state is elected later September.

7.Kenneth I. Juster, deputy director of the National Economic Council at the White House, has been nominated as the next U.S ambassador to India.