• Person who resigned as Managing Director of JM Financial Ltd in August 2016 - Nimesh Kampani
• The Communist
Party of Nepal-Maoist Chairperson who has been elected the 39th Prime Minister
of Nepal is - Pushpa Kamal Dahal
• Sudhanshu Mani
has been appointed as the General Manager of - Integral Coach Factory
• Facility launched
by Union Government in August 2016 that allows people to sign documents
digitally from remote places - eSignDesk
• Union Cabinet on
3 August 2016 gave its approval to Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that
seeks to improve - Road Safety in the country
• Following
Constitutional Article was referred by Delhi High Court to hold that Lt.
Governor is the administrative head of the National Capital Territory - Article
239 & 239AA
• The 7th meeting
of SAARC Interior Minister's Conference has started in - Islamabad
• Person appointed
as the Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) of Kerala - VS
Achuthanandan
• The Olympic
Participant from India who’s named was cleared for participation in Rio
Olympics by United World Wrestling (UWW) – Narsingh Yadav
• Bill passed by
Rajya Sabha in August 2016 to introduce the goods and services tax - The
Constitution (122nd Amendment) (GST) Bill, 2014
• The singer who
will be awarded with the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award is - Shubha
Mudgal
• The 7th SAARC
Immigration Authorities meeting was recently held in - Islamabad, Pakistan
• The Union
Government has decided to raise a CRPF battalion consisting of scheduled tribe
candidates from - Bijapur, Dantewada, Narayanpur and Sukma districts in
Chhattisgarh
• Ahmed Zewail, the
Egyptian-American scientist who died in the United States on 2 August 2016 won
the Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1999 for - his pioneering work in femtochemistry