03 AUGUST 2015 CURRENT AFFAIRS

Dipa Karmakar bags Asian Gymnastics bronze

• Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar won bronze medal at the 6th Senior ART Gymnastics Asian Championships in Hiroshima
• Chinese Yan Wang defended her title with 14.988 points followed by Japanese Sae Miyakawa with 14.812 points
• Dipa, who won a bronze in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, stood third at the podium with 14.725 points

Only 8.15 %  of Indians are graduate Census data shows

• According the new census only one out of every 10 Indians is a graduate
• The Census Commissioner and Registrar-General of India released new data on the level of education in India 
• The data shows 6.8 crore graduates and above more India has more than six times as many illiterates
• Among all the graduate degree or above majority have a non-technical graduate degree