Current Affairs : 2 September 2016

Two-day long 2016 BRICS Convention on Tourism has begun at world heritage site Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh.
State’s Tourism Minister Shri Surendra Patwa and Union Tourism Secretary Vinod Zutshi inaugurated the convention.
Delegations from the BRICS countries India, Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa are participating in the event.
The convention has been organized as a precursor to the BRICS Summit to be held in Goa in October 2016.

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Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has launched an insurance scheme for passengers traveling on e- ticket.
To avail the facility, train passengers have to pay 92 paisa premium.
A person booking a train ticket through the IRCTC website will be eligible for the travel insurance and it is optional.
The facility will be available only for confirmed and RAC ticket passengers.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch Insat 3 D R satellite on 8th of September.
According to ISRO chairman Dr A S Kiran Kumar, on 26th September SCAN SAT satellite will also be launched.
He said the SCAN SAT will be launched along with one Algerian satellite, two university satellite.

Union Ministers for Chemicals & Petrochemicals Anant Kumar has inaugurated 3 day INDIA-CHEM 2016 International Conference in Mumbai.
It includes 23 countries, 282 exhibitors along with partner states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Orissa.
Anant Kumar has announced that Chemical Institute of technology will be launched soon in Mumbai.

India’s gross domestic product (GDP) slowed to 7.1 % in the April to June quarter of the current fiscal.
This is the slowest growth in the last six quarters due to the subdued performance of the mining, construction and farm sectors.
GDP had expanded 7.5 % growth in the year-ago quarter and 7.9% in the January to March 2016 quarter.
Growth in the farm sector 1.8 % and in construction it was 1.5 % during the quarter under review and manufacturing sector growth accelerated to 9.1%.

Anuradha Rao has been appointed as the Managing Director (MD) and chief executive of SBI Mutual Fund.
She has worked as the Chief General Manager (GM) of personal Banking at the bank.
SBI Mutual Fund is a bank-sponsored fund house with its corporate headquarters in Mumbai, India.

Brazil’s former vice president Michel Temer (75-year) has been sworn in as the new president (37th) after the country’s Senate voted to remove Dilma Rousseff from office.
Temer will serve as president until December 31, 2018.

Former Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla (IAS officer of 1973 batch) has been appointed as the new Chancellor of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University.
He is currently serving as the Chairman of TERI since February 2016.
TERI has ended its last association with former Chancellor and Head R.K. Pachauri, who was accused of sexually harassing a female colleague in 2015.