08 April 2016 Current Affairs

Saudi Arabia, Egypt To Build Bridge Across Red Sea

Saudi Arabia and Egypt on 8 April agreed to build a bridge over the Red Sea. The announced bridge will connect the two countries. The planned bridge would help in boosting commerce between the two allied countries. It will also connect the two continents, Africa and Asia, and result in increasing trade between the two continents to unprecedented levels.


Rajasthan Becomes First State To Pass Land Title Bill

Rajasthan has become the first state to pass land title bill on 8 April. State Assembly passed the Rajasthan Urban Land (Certification of Titles) Bills 2016. It means the state residents living in urban areas, which are governed by the municipalities or state development authorities, can seek a certificate of ownership of their lands by paying a nominal fee to the state government. The state government will set up an authority which will be headed by an Indian Administrative Service Officer. It will seek all the documents from the landowners, and will verify it against records held by the state. The authority will first issue a provisional certificate, for which the state will not stand guarantee. If there are no objections or dispute arises, the authority will issue a certificate and a map to the owner with state guarantee.


Mother Teresa Conferred with Founders Award 

The Nobel Peace Prize awardee Mother Teresa now has been conferred with the UK’s prestigious Founders Award 2016. Teresa’s only living relative, her niece, Agi Bojazhiu received the award on 8 April 2016. Teresa, who will be made a saint on 4 September 2016, founded the Missionaries of Charity and spent 45 years serving needy people. She passed away at the age of 87 in Kolkata in 1997.The award is given to recognize and reward exemplary achievements of people within the global Asian community.


Supermassive Black Hole Weighing 17 Billion Suns Discovered

“The astronomers at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) discovered a supermassive Black Hole which weighs about 17 billion times the mass of Sun.
It was discovered in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe and it may indicate that these monster objects may be more common than once thought. The discovery was published on 6 April 2016 in the journal Nature.The lead discoverer is Chung-Pei Ma, a University of California-Berkeley astronomer and head of the MASSIVE Survey, a study of the most massive galaxies and supermassive black holes in the local universe, whereas the lead author is Jens Thomas of the Max Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany.”


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