An overview on national current affairs of 2016. It covers all the important Current affairs of the month of January 2016 to December 2016 which are relevant for any competitive exams. A short description of General world will provide a complete framework to go through all important events on national level. Following are the list of memorable events of 2016 :-
| Months Name | Impotant Dates | Key Events |
| January 2016 | 2nd Jan | Pathankot Air Force base attacked by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists; 7 security personnel and 6 attackers killed |
| 2nd Jan | AB Bardhan (92), veteran Communist Party of India leader passes away | |
| 7th Jan | Jammu and Kashmir CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed (79) passes away | |
| 16th Jan | PM Narendra Modi launches the ‘Start up India, Stand up India’ initiative aimed at boosting entrepreneurship | |
| 23rd Jan | First Set of 100 declassified files on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose released | |
| 24th Jan | Amit Shah re-elected BJP president | |
| February 2016 | 3rd Feb | Balram Jaldhar (92), veteran Congress leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker passes away |
| 6th Feb | Noted cartoonist Sudhir Tailang (56) passes away | |
| 12th Feb | JNU students’ union president kanhaiya Kumar arrested on charges of sedition for holding an anti-national protest; granted bail on March 2 | |
| 19th Feb | Jat reservation agitation in Haryana turns violent | |
| March 2016 | 2nd Mar | Vijay Maliya, accused of defaulting on huge loans with Indian banks, quietly leaves for UK |
| 4th Mar | Former Lok Sabha Speaker and noted politician PS Sangma (68) passes away | |
| 5th Mar | Iconic actor Manoj Kumar chosen for prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award | |
| 11th Mar | A cultural festival organised by Art of Living on the flood plains of river Yamuna opens in Delhi amid protests by environmentalists | |
| 27th Mar | President’s rule impossed in Uttarakhand a day before floor test by Congress-led government | |
| 31st Mar | Kolkata flyover collapse leaves 27 people dead | |
| April 2016 | 1st Apr | Liquor ban impossed in Bihar |
| 4th Apr | Mehbooba Mufti takes oath as first woman CM of Jammu and Kashmir | |
| 8th Apr | Maharashtra’s Shani Shingnapur temple opens its doors to women under court directives | |
| 10th Apr | Fire in a cracker dump at a temple in Kollam district of Kerala kills over 110 people | |
| May 2016 | 12th May | President’s rule lifted in Uttarakhand; Cong-led Harish Rawat govt. comes back to power |
| 15th May | Indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile test-fired successfully | |
| 19th May | Assembly poll outcome-AIASMK and Trnamool voted back to power in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal respectively; Left front defeats Cong-led coalition in Kerala; BJP wins majority in Assam for the first time; Congress-DMK alliance wins in Puducherry | |
| 31st May | 19 men, including two army officers, killed in a fire in Pilgaon ammunition depot in Maharashtra | |
| June 2016 | 22nd June | ISRO places a record 20 satellites into orbit in a single PSLV flight |
| 27th June | India joins elite missile club, the Missile Technology Control Regime, days after it failed to get membership of a Nuclear Suppliers Group due | |
| 29th June | Cabinate approves 7th Pay Commission recommendation | |
| July 2016 | 8th July | Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, engineer of social media driven psychological warfare, killed in an encounter in J&K; unrest in Kashmir valley leaves over 80 dead in the following weeks |
| 21st July | SC restores Congress govt in Arunachal Pradesh, declaring Governor’s decision that led to president’s rule unconditional | |
| 22nd July | IAF transport aircraft with 29 people on board goes missing over the Bay of bengal | |
| August 2016 | 7th Aug | Vijay Rupani replace Anandiben Patel as Gujarat CM |
| 9th Aug | Kalikho Pul, (47), former Arunachal Pradesh CM, found dead at his home | |
| 26th Aug | Bombay High Court reopens Haji Ali Dargah’s doors to women | |
| September 2016 | 2nd Sep | Mother Teresa declared a saint by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican |
| 5th Sep | Urjit Patel succeeds Raghuram Rajan as Governor of RBI | |
| 9th Sep | Cauvery water dispute flares up after SC directs Karnataka to release more water to Tamil Nadu; violent protests erupt in both states | |
| 18th Sep | Terror Attack on an army camp in Uri, J&K leaves 19 soldiers dead; all four attackers killed | |
| 21st Sep | The 92-year-old practiced of presenting a seperate Railway Budget scrapped | |
| 29th Sep | India carries out surgical strikes on Pakistani Terror launch pads across LOC; hostility between the two neighbours escalates in following weeks | |
| October 2016 | 1st Oct | Rs 65,250 crore of untaxed money disclosed by 64,275 declarants under the Centre’s Income Declaration Scheme |
| 15th Oct | Stampede caused by bridge collapse rumour kills 24 people in Varanasi | |
| 20th Oct | Cyrus Mistry sacked as chairman by Tata Sons board | |
| November 2016 | 8th Nov | PM Narendra Modi announces demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000/- notes amounting to about 85% currency in circulation; subsequent weeks witness protests by various political parties in the midst of a cash crunch across the country |
| 20th Nov | Train derailment in Pukhrayan near Kanpur leaves at least 150 people dead | |
| 22nd Nov | Eminent Carnatic vocalist M Balamuralikrishna (86) and acclaimed physicist MGK Menon (88) pass away | |
| December 2016 | 5th Dec | J Jayalalitha (68), Tamil Nadu CM and AIADMK supremo, passes away after a 75-day battle with sickness; loyalist Panneerselvam sworn in as CM; close confidante Sasikala Natarajan chosen AIADMK general secretary, Dec 29 |
| 8th Dec | Allahabad High Court terms instant ‘triple talaq’ among Muslims unconstitutional | |
| 9th Dec | Former IAF chief SP Tyagi arrested for alleged role in AgustaWestland helicopter deal; granted bail on Dec 28 | |
| 16th Dec | Winter Session of Parliament concludes without transacting any significant business due to impasse over the demonetisation issue | |
| 19th Dec | Five Indian Mujahideen operatives given death sentence for the 2013 Hyderabad twin blasts which killed 18 people | |
| 26th Dec | 5,000+ km range ICBM Agni-V test-fired successfully |
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