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• Malabar Exercise
• It is a joint trilateral naval exercise among India , Japan and the US.
• Australia has requested the observer status for this exercise which scheduled to be held in July 2017.
• Qalbu Maryam Mosque
• It is the second mosque inaugurated in US which is completely led by woman.
• It is located at Berkely in California.
• Robert Taylor
• He is a pioneer in modern computing who passed away recently.
• 171 Million Dollars hacked
• 171 Million US Dollars was hacked from the Union Bank of India in July 2016.
• Chairman of Union Bank of India: Arun Tiwari.
• Abbreviations
• SWIFT - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
• Kamala Awards 2017
• It is awarded by the Crafts Council of India.
• Awardees
• Kabiraj Nayak - Shanta Prasad Award for excellence in craft 
• M R Ranganatha rao - for contributions to crafts
• Arun Pal - for craftmanship
• Ketha Lakshmi
• TN Tops MGNREGS
• Tamil Nadu tops the list in generation of person days (39.59 crore) under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarentee Scheme for the financial year 2016-2017.
• Telangana Reservation
• Telangana Cabinet has recently approved for the increase in reservation for ST and Muslims
• for Muslims from 5% to 12%
• For ST 6% to 10 %.
• Srinagar Byelection
• Farooq Abdullah of  JK National Conference won the election.
• Love Hormone - Oxytocin
• Belle-II
• It is the name of the experiment to be launched by the High energy accelerator research organisation of Japan.
• In this experiment, highly intense electron and positron beams will be made to collide with each other.
• As a result B-meson quarks will be produced.
• Sultan Of Johar Cup 2017
• It is scheduled to be held in Malaysia.
• Dr. Mark Wainberg
• He is a pioneer in AIDS/HIV Drugs, who passed away recently.