Current Affairs One liners of the Day: 4 October 2016

The Current Affairs One liners cover important current affairs of the day like Nobel Prize in Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physics and Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival among others.

• 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to- David J. Thouless along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz
• CEO of Prasar Bharati Corporation who resigned recently- Jawhar Sircar
• Indian Bank that became the first to open a branch in the capital city of Yangon, Myanmar- State Bank of India
• Person appointed as the CEO of Reliance Nippon Life Insurance Ltd recently- Ashish Vohra
• In a major deal for India's private defence industry, Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group and Rafale maker Dassault Aviation announced - a joint venture
• Number wise India is 62nd nation to ratify - the Paris Agreement on climate change
• The state that became India’s first state to implement Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in Kerosene is – Jharkhand
• World Space Week is being observed from 4-10 October with theme - Remote Sensing: Enabling our Future
• Person elected as president of Indian Newspaper Society (INS) recently- Somesh Sharma
• Short film that won the first prize at the Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival- Murga
• Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for – his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
• Kersti Kaljulaid was recently elected as the first woman President of - Estonia
• The Indian-American who was named as the 2016 class of the Jerger Future Leaders of Audiology by the American Academy of Audiology is - Vinaya Manchaiah
• The National Mission on Bioeconomy was launched in - Shillong, Meghalaya
• The Indian wildlife film-maker who was recently appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (Knight in the National Order of Merit) by the French Government is - Prajna Chowta