current affairs 2016 february 2nd highlights slideshow

1. Current affairs Today
2nd Feb 2016
By
www.gkcup.com

2. Jai Kumar Garg
On Feb 1st 2016,
Appointed as
Managing director and
Chief executive officer
of Corporation Bank

3. Archana Ramasundram
-IPS
First
woman police officer
to lead a
central police force
that guards the
country’s borders

4. India
and
Afghanistan
inked a pact for
visa-free travel
by their diplomats

5. NASA, India
join hands for
astrobiology mission

6. The W.H.O.on Feb 1st 2016
declared that the clusters of brain-damaged babies born in Brazil –
linked to but not proven to be caused by the Zika virus

7. UK Scientists
have been granted permission to
edit the genomes of human embryos.

8. Saroj Kumar Jha
assumed the position of
Senior Director for the Fragility, Conflict and
Violence Group at
the World Bank

9. Vietnam has lifted ban on import of Indian
groundnut,
resume after nine months

10. Bangladesh cabinet approved
on 1st Feb 2016
the draft of a proposed
citizenship law

11. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
Signs Two Bilateral Advance Pricing
Agreements (APAs)
With United Kingdom