Most Interguied Stories Of The Year 2016
As the countdown has already started for 2017 lets make a quick recall for all the stories, events, news and updates of the year 2016. This year when even the pokemon came to the real world running and hiding in every corners of our streets, parks and buildings around. Read on to find out what you were most intrigued by this year. Here are the 10 biggest news stories that ruled this year 2016.
Here we go!
1. Surgical Strike
India will neither forgive nor forget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared less than a week after the Uri outrage. It wasn’t just rhetoric: Modi had already okayed a strike against Pakistani terrorist launchpads across the Line of Control (LoC).However, Pakistan denied that a cross-border strike had taken place, saying that Indian troops had fired small arms across the Line of Control, killing two soldiers and injuring nine. A ‘strike’ on terror, which sends out strong message to the ones who support it, is surely a positive moments. India, in it answer to the repeated terror attacks backed by Pakistan, conducted surgical strikes. As per reports, at least 8 terror launch pads were destroyed in the strikes.
2. Demonetisation
Ever since demonetisation initiative was announced by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 2016, several developments have taken place related to the move. While some have been encouraging, others highlight the flip side of the historic step taken by the Centre. After a month of demonetisation, the country is still reeling under the cash crunch as banks branches and ATMs are still struggling to meet the cash demand from common people.
The demonetisation-resulted cash crunch has hit the economy hard, especially in the rural areas. Narendra Modi-government and opposition parties are still fighting in Parliament over the merits and demerits of the note ban. The stated long-term gains are still unclear, while the immediate challenge for the government is to ensure cash shortage eases in the minimum time.
India’s cash economy has been thrown into turmoil since Modi announced last week that 500 and 1,000 rupee notes would cease to be legal tender and would have to be deposited at banks by year-end, leaving about one-seventh of currency in circulation. Economists say the move will be beneficial in the long-run as it is targeted at weeding out tax evasion and corruption. Unaccounted money makes up nearly a fourth of the economy. In the short-term though, the biggest crackdown on money laundering in.
3. Amma Death
Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the “iron lady” of Tamil Nadu, who riveted and ruled the south Indian state for more than half a century as an actor and then chief minister, has died in hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Jayalalithaa had been a glamorous and prolific Tamil film star for nearly two decades when she entered politics in 1982, joining the party of her mentor, MG Ramachandran, himself a former screen star turned chief minister.
In 1991, she became Tamil Nadu’s first female chief minister to serve a full term, the first of four eventful stints running the south Indian state, including one that ended with her imprisonment on corruption charges in 2014 followed by her release and return to power one year later.
Hundreds of people had lined the streets leading out of the hospital, despite it being long past midnight, to catch a last glimpse of the woman they called “Amma”.
4. Pratyusha Banerjee
Gone too soon! The actress was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her home in the Mumbai suburb of Goregaon. she may have taken her life over turmoil in her relationship with her boyfriend. Pratyusha was best known for her breakthrough role on drama series Balika Vadhu, where she played Anandi Shivraj Shekhar from 2010 to 2013. In 2013 she appeared on Bigg Boss 7, the Indian version of the American and UK TV hit Big Brother, and in 2014 she appeared on the Indian drama Hum Hain Na. It’s such a tragedy that someone with such a bright future ahead would take her life like this.
5. Relationships And Breakups In Bollywood
2016 has got a lot to hear from bollywood it has breakups, divorces and marriages. Sushant Singh Rajput-Ankita Lokhande – The much-in-love couple, Sushant and Ankita, who have been dating for six years, have called it quits. Farhan Akhtar and his wife Adhuna Bhabani decided to end their 16 years marriage. The couple issued a joint statement announcing about their divorce stating, “This is to announce that we, Adhuna and Farhan, have mutually and amicably decided to separate. Hrithik Roshan-Sussanne Khan Hrithik Roshan and Suzanne Khan that used to be considered as one of the most influential Bollywood couple was granted divorce by the family court in Mumbai. The reason behind such a stringent decision by the couple has been stated on the basis of mutual understanding.The hot and sexy wife has been linked with Arjun Kapoor in the past. Now rumours of their separation have been doing the rounds as they no longer stay together, according to sources.
Rangeela girl Urmila Matondkar got hitched to a Kashmiri businessman Mir Mohsin Akhtar in a private ceremony on March 3, 2016. The bubbly Bollywood actress and Kings XI Punjab IPL team owner, Preity Zinta, tied the knot on February 29, 2016 in Los Angeles with her long-time boyfriend, Gene Goodenough.Bollywood’s Bong beauty Bipasha Basu married her Alone co-star Karan Singh Grover on April 30, 2016 as per Bengali rituals.
6. Olympics 2016
As India starved for a medal in Rio Olympics, 2016, three woman – PV Sandhu, Sakshi Malik and Dipa Karmakar, – turned out to be the star performers for India. While PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik bagged Silver and Bronze for India, Dipa ended at an unfortunate 4th place in Gymnastics.
While PV Sindhu, at 21, became the youngest to win an Olympic medal, a silver which was also the first in badminton, Sakshi’s bronze was also a first for women’s wrestling.
7. Zika Virus
In 2016 The World Health Organization has declared the Zika virus a global public health emergency. The infection has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains. It is spread by Aedes mosquitoes. They are the same insects that spread dengue and chikungunya virus.
Some areas have declared a state of emergency, doctors have described it as “a pandemic in progress” and some are even advising women in affected countries to delay getting pregnant.
8. Isro
In its thirty sixth flight (PSLV-C34), ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 727.5 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 19 co-passenger satellites today morning (June 22, 2016) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the thirty fifth consecutively successful mission of PSLV and the fourteenth in its ‘XL’ configuration. The total weight of all the 20 satellites carried on-board PSLV-C34 was 1288 kg.
9. Reliance Jio
When other Indian tycoons were greedy, the richest of all was hesitant, even fearful. But now that most of his rivals have fallen on the swords of their debt-fueled hubris, Mukesh Ambani is preparing to pounce.Ever since the launch of Reliance Jio in September this year, we’ve all been enjoying free calls and free data, something that will now continue up till the end of March 2017, thanks to the Happy New Year Offer. Aside from this, users also have access to a number of Jio services for free, such as its video on demand platform JioCinema; live TV streaming on JioTV; and music on demand platform Jio Music.
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, doing business as Jio, is a LTE mobile network operator in India. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries headquartered in Mumbai, that provides wireless 4G LTE service networkand is the only 100% VoLTE (Voice over LTE) operator in the country, with coverage across all 22 telecom circles in India.
The services were first beta-launched to Jio’s partners and employees on 27 December 2015 on the eve of 83rd birth anniversary of late Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Industries, and later services were commercially launched on 5 September 2016.
10. Donald Trumph And Hillary Clinton
The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine. Trump is expected to take office as the 45th President, and Pence as the 48th Vice President, on January 20, 2017.
More than 120m Americans went to the voting stations to choose their new Commander in Chief to produce a result which sent shockwaves around the world. Trump and Clinton were involved in one of the most vicious elections in history. In the end, Trump passed the magic 270-vote barrier with relative ease.
Welcome 2017